Matthew Lombardo’s new play Looped brings the deliciously bawdy Tallulah Bankhead back to life. The show, starring Valerie Harper (in a character far from the lovably spunky Rhoda Morgenstern from The Mary Tyler Moore Show for which she is famous), Brian Hutchison and Michael Mulheren, opened at the Lyceum Theatre on March 14. After the opening night performance, the ...

Two terrific actresses are about to butt heads on Broadway. We’re talking about Tony Award winner Linda Lavin and Sarah Paulson, who will co-star in Manhattan Theatre Club’s new production of Collected Stories, one of Donald Margulies’ most popular plays. Lavin plays a celebrated fiction writer who mentors a grad student played by Paulson; over the course of ...

New Broadway play Next Fall continued its fairy-tale journey to Broadway on March 11, 2010, following its March 10 VIP bash (hosted by producer Sir Elton John) with an even bigger event: its official Broadway opening at the Helen Hayes Theatre. Next Fall already moved audiences off-Broadway during an acclaimed run in summer 2009, and opening night on-Broadway was no ...

Broadway fans know two-time Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth as the consummate triple threat, but millions know her for playing the hilariously serious Dr. Lilith Sternin, ex-wife of Dr. Frasier Crane, on hit sitcom Cheers and its successful spin-off Frasier. Neuwirth’s Broadway and television worlds came together on March 11, when her former TV co-star Kelsey Grammer took in the ...

Broadway.com’s already given you a glimpse at what the Roundabout Theatre Company’s upcoming off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie looked like in rehearsal. Starring Judith Ivey, Keira Keeley, Patch Darragh and Michael Mosely, the four-person memory play began previews at the Laura Pels Theater on March 5. Now we have a look at the cast (and ...

The eagerly awaited new musical The Scottsboro Boys made its off-Broadway debut at the Vineyard Theatre on March 10 before an enthusiastic, appropriately starry crowd. Emotions were high not only because of the subject matter (the prosecution of nine young African-Americans wrongfully accused of raping two white women in 1930s Alabama) but because the show is the final collaboration between ...

The new cast of Hair welcomed its first celebrity guests on March 10: superstar Richard Gere, his lovely wife, actress Carey Lowell, and their adorable 10-year-old son, Homer. Our favorite officer and gentleman brought the family to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre especially to support incoming Tribe member Larkin Bogan. Why? While studying at N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of ...

Next Fall, the new play about the role of faith in one gay relationship, has had a dream journey to Broadway. What began as a five-week run off-Broadway in the summer 2009 quickly became a three-time extended hit, which propelled the intimate ensemble piece to a Broadway transfer. Then, as the show revamped for the Great White Way, even greater ...

We love the original Hair cast as much as anybody, but it’s also exciting to welcome a fresh young Tribe to Broadway. In what’s being billed as the biggest cast changeover ever, a new company took the stage at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on March 9 led by Ace Young, Kyle Riabko and Diana DeGarmo. With producers and ...

It was the event the London theater scene has waited 24 years for: Opening night of Love Never Dies, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to 1986's The Phantom of the Opera. No wonder so many of the biggest stars on the scene came out to cheer on Ramin Karimloo (as The Phantom) and Broadway's Sierra Boggess (as ...