Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' The Book of Grace, starring Elizabeth Marvel, John Doman and Amari Cheatom, celebrated its March 17 opening at the Public Theater a day early. This searing new drama is the story of one Texas family’s ill-fated reunion set on the edge of the of the US/Mexico border. Directed by James Macdonald, the relentlessly ...

When Terrence McNally’s searing comedy Lips Together, Teeth Apart first hit New York in 1991, it was a Manhattan Theatre Club hit, drawing raves for stars Christine Baranski, Swoosie Kurtz, Nathan Lane and Anthony Heald. Almost 20 years later, the show is back in a Joe Mantello-helmed Roundabout Theatre Company revival starring Megan Mullally, Patton Oswalt, Lili Taylor and ...

The Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker continued spreading its message of inspiration with an educational venture to Barnes & Noble at New York’s Lincoln Triangle on March 12, where  fans alike were treated to an audience with the stars, Abigail Breslin (who plays Helen Keller) and Alison Pill (who plays Annie Sullivan). The two leading ladies, along with director ...

David Duchovny, who won a huge following as FBI Special Agent Mulder on The X-Files and a Golden Globe for his current role as Hank Moody on Californication, kicked off his weekend with a Miracle. The actor caught the Friday, March 12 performance of The Miracle Worker on Broadway. After the show, Duchovny headed backstage at Circle in the Square ...

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 ...