Broadway newcomers Gbenga Akinnagbe, Sophia Anne Caruso, Jeremy Pope and Paddy Considine are among this year’s Theatre World Award winners. A New York theater tradition since 1945, the awards go to a dozen performers making their Broadway or Off Broadway debuts. Also announced today by the organization’s president…

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Mac’s Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus opened on Broadway April 21, and to say it divided critics would be to employ an understatement neither Mac nor Gary would tolerate. “Weird,” “tragic” and “bloody awful” said one side (the wrong side, I think: read my review here). “A defiant and beautiful…

Atrocities happen. Shakespearean-level atrocities, dismembered-and-baked-in-a-pie atrocities. Humanity’s responses – tears, mockery, more atrocity – are ludicrously inadequate, but really, aren’t you just glad we have Nathan Lane on our side? And while we’re on the subject of inadequacy, put me down for singling out…

The world premiere of Taylor Mac's new comedy Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus has moved back its opening night. The new opening night will be April 21 at Broadway's Booth Theatre. Preview performances began on Monday, March 11. As previously announced, original co-star Andrea Martin departed the company on March 4…

Tony winner Nathan Lane has been tapped for a lead role opposite Daniel Zovatto and Natalie Dormer in Showtime's upcoming series Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, a follow-up to Penny Dreadful from the original series' creator, writer and executive producer John Logan. A spiritual descendant of the story set in…

Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin are heading back to Broadway next spring in the world premiere of Taylor Mac’s Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. George C. Wolfe will direct, with previews beginning March 5, 2019, at the Booth Theatre. The production and casting were announced today by producer Scott Rudin. The comedy…

Angels in America, that winged masterwork of Tony Kushner and the 20th Century, is back on Broadway in a revival weighed with expectations as heavy as the angel Bethesda in Central Park. With marquee-name stars – Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Lee Pace – and the halo of approval from London audiences, the two-part…

The National Theatre’s acclaimed revival of Tony Kushner’s landmark 1993 play Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes has booked a limited Broadway run early next year. Reprising their London performances will be Nathan Lane (F. Lee Bailey in American Crime Story‘s The People v. O.J. Simpson) as lawyer…

Producer Scott Rudin announced today that The Front Page recouped its entire $4.875 million capitalization during the week ending New Year’s Day. Having recouped in under 15 weeks, it is the first Broadway production of the 2016-17 theater season to reach this milestone. The Front Page is now in the final weeks of its…

No Pay, Nudity starts with bad news for “between projects” actor and dog owner Lester Rosenthal getting terrible news, and then it gets depressing. Also, however: warm, deeply funny, sensitive and, in its way, essential. Intimate in scope but expansive in feeling, this charmer stars Gabriel Byrne and — in one of the…

There are a couple of ways to go in reviewing a new revival of The Front Page. One could bemoan the demise of hard copy and the glory days of tabloid journalism, not to mention of Broadway itself. One could wax Wiki about the celluloid spawn of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway hit, beginning with the…

Not since Terrence McNally’s It’s Only Play stunned the Fabulous Invalid cult with blockbuster sales has a Broadway revival sprung to life as The Front Page is doing this young season. The 1929 beat-the-press dramedy burst through the $1 million mark last week through seven previews at the Shubert Organization’s…