Waitress composer Sara Bareilles and Pulitzer finalist playwright Sarah Ruhl are teaming up on a stage musical adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling 2013 novel The Interestings. Bareilles is composing the music and lyrics, while Ruhl writes the book. Matt Ross (Dana H., Is This A Room) is…

The Fawlty Towers revival continues apace. Not content with rebooting the TV series with Rob Reiner, John Cleese has now penned a stage adaptation of three episodes of the 40-year-old BBC series, which is widely considered one of the best British shows of all time. Fawlty Towers: The Play is…

The Roundabout Theatre Company tonight renamed its Broadway venue – a 104-year-old building that began as the Selwyn and most recently went by the prosaic American Airlines Theatre – to honor its late artistic director Todd Haimes. The 42nd Street venue officially became the Todd Haimes Theatre in…

Hinton Battle, a three-time Tony Award winning actor who originated the role of Scarecrow in Broadway’s The Wiz, died yesterday. He was 67. His death was confirmed by his friend, the actor and choreographer Debbie Allen. A cause was not disclosed. Related…

Chita Rivera, the beloved Broadway star of West Side Story, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman, died today in New York following a brief illness. She was 91. Her death was announced by her daughter, Lisa Mordente, who said that Rivera died peacefully. One of America’s foremost Latina artists…

Broadway box office held fairly steady last week, with Sweeney Todd‘s post-Groban slide at least partially offset by gains from most other shows. In all, the 25 productions grossed $24,615,726 for the week ending January 28, about 4% greater than the previous week. Attendance was up about 5% to 217,84…

EXCLUSIVE: British award-winning writer and director Robert Icke has signed with CAA. Icke, who has worked in theater, television, and film, won the Olivier Award in 2016 for his production and adaptation of Oresteia, making him the youngest person to ever win the award. He also won the Evening…

Gutenberg! The Musical! ended its Broadway run last night, but not before recouping its initial $6.75 million investment, producers have announced. The musical starring Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, written by Scott Brown and Anthony King, and directed by Alex Timbers, Gutenberg! recouped its…

It’s easy to feel a bit smug early on in Days of Wine and Roses, as we know so much more – or at least have so much greater vocabularies – when it comes to things like toxic relationships and the role of abstinence in maintaining sobriety and all the other tenets of Bill W that have passed into common…

The Obie Awards, the venerable honors for outstanding Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions, is doing away with its annual ceremony and will instead use the funds to provide winners with grants ranging from $1,000-$5,000. Heather Hitchens, the president and CEO of the American Theatre Wing…

Sarah Snook has said she was “too young and naive” to challenge a producer who chastised her several years ago on set for eating a piece of chocolate cake. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today program, the 36-year-old Succession star said she now takes a totally different attitude – “I eat whatever I…