Ben Brantley News

Broadway legend Andrew Lloyd Webber's high-octane Broadway and West End hit School of Rock - The Musical is coming to Seattle's Paramount Theatre from May 14 - 19.

Hillary and Clinton opens tonight, March 16, 2019, at the John Golden Theatre, where it plays through July 21, 2019. The new play by Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath, stars award-winning actors Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow. Completing the cast are Zak Orth and Peter Francis James.

It's definitely not just another day because this week, the Tony Award-winning musical Next to Normal celebrates the tenth anniversary of opening at Broadway's Booth Theatre! In honor of the occasion, we're looking back at the show's Off-Broadway opening at Second Stage Theater with Alice Ripley, Brian D'Arcy James, Aaron Tveit, Jenn Damiano, and more! Check out all the footage below to see why Next to Normal is perfect for you!

Following record-breaking runs at New York Theatre Workshop and Canada's Citadel Theatre, and the National Theatre, the new musical Hadestown opens on Broadway tonight.

The first revival of Pulitzer Prize Winner Lanford Wilson's Burn This starring Academy Award Nominee and three-time Emmy Award Nominee Adam Driver (Pale), Golden Globe Award Winner and Emmy Award Nominee Keri Russell (Anna), Tony Award Nominee David Furr (Burton) and Tony Award Nominee Brandon Uranowitz (Larry), opens on Broadway tonight!

Villanova Theatre and the American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) are thrilled to announce the 13th Annual Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium (PTRS), featuring a keynote address by John Collins, Artistic Director of the award-winning ensemble theatre company Elevator Repair Service.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! officially opened tonight, April 7, at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre. It will play a limited engagement through Sunday, September 1, 2019.

In response to popular demand, Target Margin Theater (Founding Artistic Director David Herskovits, Associate Artistic Director Moe Yousuf) extends the world premiere of Marjana and the Forty Thieves to April 28. Directed by Founding Artistic Director David Herskovits, Marjana and the Forty Thieves, which opened on April 1, delves into a new section of The One Thousand and One Nights: the tale of Ali Baba.

This season's new Broadway production of William Shakespeare's King Lear, starring two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Emmy Award winner, and 2018 Tony Award winner Glenda Jackson and directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold, opens tonight at the Cort Theatre. The production will play a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, July 7, 2019.

ANGELS IN AMERICA opened on March 22 at Atlantis Theatrical in Philippines and is running through April 7, 2019.

State Theatre New Jersey presents the Tony-nominated hit Broadway show seen by tens of thousands, Tony Award-winner John Leguizamo's one-man play Latin History for Morons on Saturday, June 22 at 8pm. Tickets for Latin History for Morons go on sale on Friday, April 5 at 10am. Tickets range from $29-$119.

Following its Tony-nominated hit Broadway run seen by tens of thousands, Tony Award winner John Leguizamo's one-man play LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS will play the Majestic Theatre (224 E. Houston St.) in San Antonio, TX on July 27, 2019 at 8PM. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 5 at 10AM.

West End hit The Lehman Trilogy is currently making its North American debut at the Park Avenue Armory. 

New Conservatory Theatre Center Founder & Artistic Director Ed Decker announced the line-up for NCTC's 2019-20 subscription season last night at NCTC's annual Season Announcement Party for subscribers, donors and artists.

Third Rail Projects' award-winning production of THEN SHE FELL, currently in its seventh year and playing over 3,500 performances, announces the release of a new block of tickets through September 29, 2019. This immersive theater event is inspired by the life and writings of Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). THEN SHE FELL takes place at The Kingsland Ward at St. Johns, a century-old institutional building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where the action plays out on 3 floors.

The imprisoned Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and her rival Queen Elizabeth I, face off in a battle for the throne in Peter Oswald's Tony-nominated adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's German verse play "Mary Stuart."

Yesterday, BroadwayWorld exclusively broke the news that the two-time Tony Award, Grammy Award, and Emmy Award-winning star Hugh Jackman will make his highly anticipated return to Broadway in one of the most iconic roles in the musical theater canon, Professor Harold Hill, in Meredith Willson's beloved classic, THE MUSIC MAN.

Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of The Temptations opens tonight, March 21, at Broadway's legendary Imperial Theatre (249 West 45th Street). 

The Public Theater's White Noise, written by Public Theater Master Writer Chair and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, and directed by Oskar Eustis, officially opened last night, March 20. The show just recently announced an extension through Sunday, May 5.

Susan Haskins and co-host Jesse Green welcome Ben Brantley, Adam Feldman, Michael Musto, Jan Simpson, Elisabeth Vincentelli, Jason Zinoman to evaluate the 2018-2019 theater season and discuss the Tony Awards race at a special taping in front of a live audience.