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Signed playbills are seen backstage ahead of The Phantom of the Opera's final performance on April 16 after 35 years on Broadway in New York City, April 12, 2023.Andrew Kelly | ReutersAfter more than three decades, Broadway's…

Legendary actor Nicole Kidman was present at Hugh Jackman’s “The Music Man” revival on Broadway on Saturday evening. The audience realised her presence when she made a huge bid of $100,000 for a hat signed by Jackman during the charity…

It was a typical July evening in New York — overcast, somewhat dank,…

The Phantom of the Opera - Broadway's longest-running show in history - is scheduled to close its doors after 35 years.The musical, which has been an iconic fixture since 1988, will play its final performance on 18 February…

The Phantom of the Opera — Broadway's longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic softening in theatre attendance in New York.The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988,…

Jesse Williams was nominated for a Tony Award last month for his work in “Take Me Out,” an acclaimed play about baseball and homophobia. But when his name trended on Twitter the next day, it was not because of the accolade: it was because…

Something wicked—and very special—came to Broadway last week, as a starry new production of Macbeth finally opened at the Longacre Theatre. Led by Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga and directed by Sam Gold, this latest iteration of the Scottish…

While it became an early pandemic cliché to remind at-home would-be artists that Shakespeare wrote King Lear during a plague year (You can put this time to good use, too!), it’s often forgotten that he wrote Macbeth that very same year (as…

During the industry’s best fall stretch — Thanksgiving week — “Hamilton” grossed over $3 million, and “The Lion King,” “Wicked” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” each grossed over $2 million.The effect of the Tony Awards, which were…

It felt sort of like old times, the other night at Sardi’s.Joe Petrsoric, back in his familiar red jacket, was lining up martini glasses at the second floor bar where he has worked since arriving from Yugoslavia in 1972. Manning the front…