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‘The Bodyguard’ Musical Ends Show Early Due to Rowdy Audience Singalong of ‘I Will Always Love You’ (Video)
Lead actress Melody Thornton apologized online to theatergoers who attended the Manchester performance
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‘The Wife of Willesden’ Off Broadway Review: Zadie Smith Updates Chaucer and Makes It Twerk
Clare Perkins delivers a raunchy spin on the Wife of Bath in a verse adaptation of “The Canterbury Tales”
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‘Life of Pi’ Broadway Review: Making Cannibalism Palatable for Kids
Unfortunately, the puppets look like “The Lion King” on a budget
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‘Sweeney Todd’ Broadway Review: Josh Groban Delivers a Kinder Serial Killer
And he sings very sweetly while slitting all those throats
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Nick Lloyd Webber, Son of Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dies at 43
Nick had been fighting gastric cancer for the last 18 months
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‘Bad Cinderella’ Broadway Review: Frankly, She’s Also a Real Brat
Andrew Lloyd Webber struggles with the Disney formula
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‘Smash’ Musical From Producer Steven Spielberg Headed to Broadway
Based on the cult-favorite NBC musical drama, Susan Stroman will direct for the 2024–2025 season
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Streaming Could Help Broadway Bounce Back – but There Are Obstacles in the Great White Way
High production costs, complex rights and hidebound business models are slowing the embrace of digital captures and livestreamed performances
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‘Bob Fosse’s Dancin” Broadway Review: The Legend’s Back – but How Much of Him Do We Get?
Wayne Cilento, an original cast member, reshapes this 1978 dance show
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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Son ‘Critically Ill,’ Composer to Miss ‘Bad Cinderella’ Broadway Opening
“He has been fighting gastric cancer for the last 18 months,” the award-winning musical theater icon said of his hospitalized child, Nick
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‘Parade’ Broadway Review: Ben Platt Leads a Great Revival of a Modern Classic
Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s musical marches to a different, softer beat
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‘The Harder They Come’ Off Broadway Review: How to Cut Jimmy Cliff Down to Size
Suzan-Lori Parks radically bowdlerizes the classic movie for the musical stage
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‘The Coast Starlight’ Off Broadway Review: We’re Not Traveling in the Quiet Car
Kevin Bunin’s play follows six strangers on a train from Los Angeles to Seattle
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‘How to Defend Yourself’ Off Broadway Review: Rape Culture Meets Consent Culture on Campus
Liliana Padilla’s astonishing new play examines the fallout from a violent frat-house assault
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‘A Doll’s House’ Broadway Review: Jessica Chastain Plays Ibsen’s Nora Sitting Down
Jamie Lloyd’s staging of the classic takes minimalism to the extreme