John Tiffany’s wildly acclaimed revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” ends its extended run today, Feb. 23, at Broadway’s Booth Theater. The production was first scheduled to end Jan. 5 but stuck around after critics used words like “m …Read more

Cabaret & Concert Artists International has announced that longtime cabaret impresario Erv Raible has died after a long illness. Before becoming the executive director of that organization, Raible co-founded the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and …Read more

More than 50 million people have bought copies of Robert James Waller’s 1992 novel, “The Bridges of Madison County.” How many people will come to see a musical version of the material? Broadway is about to find out with the arrival of composer Jason …Read more

It’s been a tough stretch for the New York Yankees. Last year, for the first time in five years, they didn’t make the playoffs, and now a Broadway play about the team has failed to go the distance. “Bronx Bombers”, a decades-spanning look at Yankee l …Read more

You don’t have to wait till summertime festivals to see a myriad of weird and eclectic shows off-off-Broadway. The FRIGID New York Festival is back with 30 shows in three weeks at two theaters (the Kraine and Under St. Marks). Founded in 2007 by Hors …Read more

Playwright Eric Simonson is becoming a specialist in plays having to do with real-life sports icons. His “Lombardi” played a healthy run at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theater in 2010-11, and “Magic/Bird”, about basketballers Magic Johnson and La …Read more

John Patrick Shanley’s latest play, “Outside Mullingar”, opened last night (Jan. 23) at Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater. The work is something of a “Doubt” homecoming. Shanley’s 2005 Pulitzer and Tony-winning drama was directed by …Read more

Rebecca Hall, a Golden Globe nominee for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, makes her Broadway debut last night, Jan. 16, in “Machinal”, a landmark 1928 drama by Sophie Treadwell. The play, based on the true story of a woman given the electric chair for mur …Read more

Judging by audience reaction and box office tallies before the show even opened, the new Broadway production, “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”, would seem almost critic-proof. Still, the reviewers get to have their say once the premieres, which i …Read more

Once the Christmas lights dim and New Year hangovers have been cured, the real hangover starts for Broadway theaters, which go into overdrive trying to keep box office grosses up during the lean, tourist-fallow months of January and February. Some bi …Read more