Actress Rosemary Harris, playwright Terrence McNally and composer Harold Wheeler – Tony Award winners all – each will received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, the Tony administration company announced today. "We are thrilled to recognize Rosemary, Terrence and Harold with the Special Tony…

Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon will star in a Broadway revival this May of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, producers announced today. The production will be directed by Obie Award winner Arin Arbus in her Broadway debut. The 16-week revival, described as a strictly limited engagement…

He was nicknamed “Chinchilla” for the slash of white in his otherwise jet black mane and he was an impresario as enamored of his artists as he was of the art. Sergei Diaghilev dragged ballet out of the too-too tutu 19th-Century world immortalized on the canvases of Edouard Manet and into the 20th-Century defined by…

It’s probably inevitable that Google Maps, or a clever facsimile of Google Maps, would someday star on Broadway. And here it is in Anastasia, a sprawling expansion on the 1997 animated film, that opened tonight following a developmental run at the Hartford Stage. Alexander Dodge’s set is monumental, with towering…

No Broadway theater goes unspoken for very long, especially in the frenzied run-up to the April Tony Awards eligibility deadline. As Deadline reported Monday…

EXCLUSIVE: Terrence McNally’s onstage, backstage, offstage comedy It’s Only A Play will begin performances September 28 on Broadway with about $8 million in the bank, producer Tom Kirdahy told Deadline today. Chalk up the strong advance for the $3.5 million show to one of the starriest marquees in memory, with someone…

Rupert Grint, best known as Ron Weasley — the one who, for better or worse, got to marry Hermione at the end of the 8-part Harry Potter film franchise, will make his Broadway debut this fall in a starry revival of Terrence McNally’s backstage comedy, It’s Only A Play. “I’m thrilled to be making my Broadway debut…

Mothers And Sons, the Tony-nominated Terrence McNally drama starring Tyne Daly as an angry, rigid mother visiting the former lover of her son, who died years earlier of AIDS, became the first victim of post-Tony blues this morning. The show, which also starred Frederick Weller and Bobby Steggert, struggled at the box…