Deadline has confirmed that Empire actor Jussie Smollett read for a leading role in next year’s Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg’s 2003 Tony-winning play Take Me Out but is no longer in the running.

Britain’s Daily Mail has reported that Smollett was “cut” from the 2020 Second Stage Theater revival of the play…

The New York premiere of Linda Vista, the latest work from Pulitzer and Tony winning August: Osage County playwright Tracy Letts, will begin previews Sept. 19 in a Second Stage Theater production at the Hayes Theatre, the company’s Broadway home. Steppenwolf’s Dexter Bullard will direct, with an opening night set for…

Christopher Burney, whose tenure at New York’s Second Stage Theater included such hits as Dear Evan Hansen, Next to Normal and Lobby Hero, will be the new artistic director of the New York Stage and Film, the not-for-profit company that’s helped develop Hamilton, The Humans and Taylor Mac’s Pulitzer finalist A 24-Decad…

A new play by Dear Evan Hansen playwright Steven Levenson, a new musical from the creators of Red, Next to Normal and Avenue Q and a production of Christopher Shinn's Pulitzer Prize finalist Dying City have been announced for the 2018-19 season of New York’s Second Stage Theater.

The trio of new productions join the pr…

After 10 months of renovations and upgrading, the house lights came up Monday morning inside the Helen Hayes Theatre, at 589 seats Broadway’s smallest and newest landmark venue.

The stage was filled with board members and staff from the latest owner, the nonprofit Second Stage theater company, as well as local…

Bel Powley (Diary of a Teenage Girl) will join the previously announced Michael Cera, Chris Evans, and Brian Tyree Henry, to complete the cast of Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero, directed by Trip Cullman. The revival will mark the re-opening of Second Stage Theater’s Broadway flagship, the refurbished Helen Hayes…

Tony and Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl has signed on for Second Stage Theatre’s fall revival of Harvey Fierstein’s landmark dramedy Torch Song. Michael Urie will star as looking-for-love gay drag artist Arnold Beckoff, the role originated by Fierstein, which ran more than 1,200 performances in the 1980s and earned…

Kevin Brockman, EVP Global Communications, Disney/ABC Television Group, has joined the Second Stage Theater’s Board of Directors.

Brockman has been with Disney/ABC Television Group since 2005, serving in his EVP role since 2008. In his position, he oversees all corporate, news and entertainment communication efforts wo…

Off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theater today unveiled plans for the inaugural productions at its Broadway flagship, the Helen Hayes Theatre, as well as co-commissions of new work in collaboration with several of the country’s best-known non-profit companies.

The Hayes, the smallest of Broadway’s 41 designated houses, is u…

That remarkable actor Reed Birney, a Tony winner last season for his haunted portrayal of a dad in crisis in The Humans, plays a related role in Tracy Letts‘ Man From Nebraska, which opened last night at off-Broadway’s Second Stage. One night that has been much like any other in the life of this comfortably secure…

It’s boom time for ’50s mistress of intrigue Patricia Highsmith: Her roman à clef The Price Of Salt was most recently filmed as the acclaimed Cate Blanchett vehicle Carol, as The Talented Mr Ripley was, earlier, for Matt Damon. Now her Dostoevskian novel Strangers On A Train, concerned with the moral and practical…

The game of life is hard to play
I’m gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I’ll some day lay
So this is all I have to say:

      That suicide is painless…