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Tarell Alvin McCraney's drama inspired by the Book of Job ends with a thrilling acting performance.

CBS has announced that Benjamin Walker and the cast of Broadway's AMERICAN PSYCHO will perform on 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert' on Friday, April 1st.

Randy Harrison has had an impressive career and has enjoyed performing in many different shows. Currently playing the role of Emcee in CABARET on Tour, Randy chatted with BWW about some of the experiences that lead him to be part of such an iconic classic show.

The Public Theater presents the New York premiere of HEAD OF PASSES, part of Oskar Eustis' 10th anniversary season. Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by Tina Landau, Head of Passes officially opens tonight, Monday, March 28. Let's see what the critics had to say...

THE FATHER, a new play by Moliere Award winner Florian Zeller, in a translation by two-time Tony Award winner Christopher Hampton (Sunset Boulevard, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, God of Carnage), is currently in previews for an opening on Thursday, April 14, 2016 on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below! 

The Public Theater  has announcedd a one-week extension today for the New York premiere of HEAD OF PASSES, part of Oskar Eustis' 10th anniversary season. Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by Tina Landau, HEAD OF PASSES officially opens tonight, Monday, March 28 and was originally scheduled to close on Sunday, April 17. It will now run an additional week through Sunday, April 24.

Winner of 4 Tony Awards in 2014, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is a devilishly clever musical sendup of the British aristocracy circa 1909. Production-wise it's a class act all the way, and for its adult audiences, it's a delicious odyssey of. nonstop laughter. Now at the Ahmanson through May 1, the infectiously broad satire will have you on the edge of your seat throughout its two and a half hours. Skillfully executed by director Darko Tresnjak and his awe-inspiring cast, it's a surefire knock 'em dead hit.

The Public Theater presents the New York premiere of HEAD OF PASSES, written by TarellAlvin McCraney and directed by Tina Landau. Part of Oskar Eustis' 10th anniversary season, HEAD OF PASSES officially opens tonight, March 28, in the Newman Theater and runs through Sunday, April 17, 2016.

Anxiously waiting for WAITRESS to begin previews tonight? Didn't have time to check in on your favorite Broadway stars? Well don't worry BroadwayWorld has rounded up some of the biggest stories from this week from Broadway and beyond with BroadwayWorld's 'This Week in Pictures.'

Sound problems mar an otherwise spectacular tour.

As BroadwayWrld previously reported, Sir Cameron Mackintosh (producer of OLIVER!, LES MISERABLES, PHANTOM, MARY POPPINS, MISS SAIGON and CATS) plans to bring Broadway's box-office blockbuster HAMILTON to the West End in 2017. Now the Daily Mail now writes that Mackintosh is eyeing the Victoria Palace Theatre, where BILLY ELLIOT will give its final performance on April 9.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? This weekend's big news: WAITRESS bakes on Broadway, DEAR EVAN HANSEN begins and more!

AMERICAN PSYCHO, the American premiere of a new musical based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis -- which celebrates the 25th anniversary of its publication this month -- begins performances on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45thStreet) tonight, March 24, 2016. The Opening Night is scheduled for Wednesday, April 21, 2016.

Randy Harrison has had an impressive career and has enjoyed performing in many different shows. Currently playing the role of Emcee in CABARET on Tour, Randy chatted with BWW about some of the experiences that lead him to be part of such an iconic classic show.

The Public Theater presents the New York premiere of HEAD OF PASSES, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by Tina Landau. Part of Oskar Eustis' 10th anniversary season, HEAD OF PASSES began previews on March 17, in the Newman Theater and runs through Sunday, April 17, with an official press opening on Monday, March 28. Check out a first look at the production below!

The national tour of the Broadway musical HAMILTON will play in Las Vegas as part of the 2017-2018 season, it was announced today by producer Jeffrey Seller and The Smith Center. 

Known for both her contemporary and Shakespearean work, Taichman will go straight from one off-Bway show to another this year.

Thomas Kail's bracing production matches the playwright's vicious verbal chess match with plenty of pop and vibrancy.

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER, directed by Darko Tresnjak, featuring book & lyrics by Robert L. Freedman, music & lyrics by Steven Lutvak, and choreography by Peggy Hickey, comes to the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles this spring.

Just in, the National Tour of FUN HOME, the groundbreaking and Tony Award-winning Best Musical, will officially launch this fall at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, running October 2-22, 2016.