Posts under ‘Broadway news’

Imagine A. R. Gurney thoroughly rewriting “August: Osage County” and you have some sense of what Elizabeth Diggs is aiming for in “Close Ties.”

The coming revival of “West Side Story” will open at the Palace Theater on March 19.

A performer who was injured in the Broadway production of “The Little Mermaid” has filed suit against Disney and the companies that built the sets and motion-control systems.

Paper Mill Playhouse’s season opened with “Oklahoma!” The 65-year-old work is still producing whoops of delight from its audiences.

Daniel Radcliffe steps into a mothball-preserved, off-the-rack part and wears it like a tailor’s delight in Thea Sharrock’s oddly arid revival of “Equus.”

Kristin Scott Thomas is making her Broadway debut in the role of the stage diva Arkadina in Chekhov’s “The Seagull.”

The WaMu name on the 5,000-seat theater at Madison Square Garden is likely to change because of the seizure of Washington Mutual by federal regulators on Thursday.

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

“Irena’s Vow” is the dramatization of the true story of Irena Gut, a Polish Roman Catholic who managed to hide 12 Jews in the cellar of a house occupied by a German major.

J. B. Priestley’s “Glass Cage” has the feel of a play stitched together with bits and pieces of the playwright’s pet peeves, though in this smooth staging the seams rarely show.

“Legally Blonde,” the Broadway musical adaptation of the hit 2001 Reese Witherspoon film comedy, will be closing Oct. 19, its producers said.