This Week In Theater

By Bennett Liebman

Our Town  Brings in Huge Box Office in Closing Week

‘Our Town’ becomes first Thornton Wilder play to gross over $1 million in a week

All In with a Large Box Office Gross

Broadway Box Office: John Mulaney's ‘All In: A Comedy About Love' Brings In Close to $1.7M

Erika Henningsen to Paly Sandra Dee

Erika Henningsen will play Sandra Dee in Bobby Darin bio-musical ‘Just in Time’

Taran Killam out of Urinetown

Taran Killam Out Of New York's 'Urinetown' After Losing Home To Fires

Full Off-Broadway Cast to Star  in Dead Outlaw

Broadway transfer of ‘Dead Outlaw’ will include full Off-Broadway cast

Advertising Smash on Broadway

Smash on Broadway birthed theater's most meta ad campaign- Fast Company

Reopening the Palace Theater

Stewart F. Lane recalls an earlier renovation and reopening of Broadway’s Palace Theatre

Washington Post Review of English

‘English’ Broadway review: A timely and brilliant must-see - The Washington Post

NY Times Review of English

Review: In ‘English,’ Looking for a Language to Live In - The New York Times

New Orchestrations for Last Five Years

Broadway bow of ‘The Last Five Years’ will feature new orchestrations by Jason Robert Brown

Great Gatsby to Tour

Exclusive: ‘The Great Gatsby’ musical to embark on national tour

Stranger Things Completes Casting

Stranger Things: The First Shadow Completes Casting for Broadway | Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com

Obit for Jules Feiffer

Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95 - The New York Times

New Leads for Wicked

Lencia Kebede and Allie Trimm to Lead Wicked on Broadway | Playbill

Danny Burstein in Gypsy

Danny Burstein on Going Toe to Toe with Audra McDonald in Gypsy and Honoring His Late Wife Backstage | Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com

Idina Menzel Returns to Broadway

Watch Now: Idina Menzel on Her Return to Broadway in Redwood | Broadway Direct

Why Swept Away Failed

Why Avett Brothers Musical 'Swept Away' Failed on Broadway

The Vegas Theater Scene

Against All Odds, a Vegas Theater Scene With a ‘Sense of the Wild West’ - The New York Times

Jewish Theater in Washington

Washington’s Theater J serves as a national hub for Jewish theater - Washington Business Journal

An Environmental Justice Muscal

Indigenous traditions meet musical theater in new production exploring environmental justice

The Fires This Time

AMERICAN THEATRE | The Fires This Time

Mobilizing the Arts for LA

Artists are mobilizing for fire victims and first responders - Los Angeles Times

Fires Halt Play about Wildfires

L.A. fires halt Bay Area theater's work on musical about wildfires

Racism in Food?

‘I wanted to theatricalize the taste of MSG’: How an S.F. play explores racism in food | Datebook

Brie Larson in Elektra

Electra-fying! Captain Marvel’s Brie Larson brings back an ancient avenger | Sophocles | The Guardian

UK’s Theatre of the Year

South London theatre that began in a pub named as UK’s ‘theatre of the year’

Joshua Malina Returns to the West End

Interview: After Leopoldstadt on Broadway, Joshua Malina Returns to a New Favorite in London - TheaterMania.com