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Long-beloved and recent debuts are leaving Broadway this month. Catch them before they’re gone.

You can see the show through December 24th at The Bushnell.

December is typically a boon for Broadway. The familiar sight of theaters packed to the brim and tourists clutching their playbills and keepsake mementos from the Big Apple are telltale signs of the holiday season. Instead, this season a pair of exciting new productions are lowering their stage curtains for the final time, only weeks after premiering on “The Great…

The sudden closures have fans and many in the Broadway community worried about the future of diversity in theater.

An audience member for ‘Hadestown’ said she was using a sanctioned closed captioning device to help her understand and enjoy the show, and it was provided by the theater — but an actor onstage mistakenly thought she was using it to record.

“Phantom of the Opera,” a Broadway fixture for so long that it feels like part of the fabric of New York City, will close after a 35-year run.

The newly restored Cort Theatre on Broadway has been renamed after James Earl Jones, becoming the second theater on the Great White Way named after a Black artist.

NYC Broadway Week is back, making its return Tuesday for the first time since 2019 with a splash of 2-for-1 deals to some of the Great White Way’s biggest shows.  The popular biannual program, now in its 11th year, runs from Sept. 6 through Sept. 25 and 21 Broadway shows are participating. Blackout dates may apply. Some shows are newcomers. Learn more...

Broadway has a new Fanny Brice. Producers behind Broadway’s revival of “Funny Girl” announced the newest additions to join the cast later this year: Lea Michele and Tovah Feldshuh. The “Glee” actress and star of the Tony winning musical “Spring Awakening” will take over for Beanie Feldstein, who opened the production back in April coinciding with Barbra Streisand’s 80th...

A new exhibit is making the connection between the Broadway hit “Hamilton” and Hartford. “When the Bushnell shared that ‘Hamilton’ was coming to town, we immediately thought of works from the collection dating to the American revolution,” Erin Monroe, curator of American art, said. The connection to Connecticut extends beyond the stage. “When the ‘Hamilton’ costume designer Paul Tazewell was…

The Broadway revival of “Take Me Out” shines a spotlight on LGBTQ+ inclusion in major league sports.

It’s the on-stage outburst that has Broadway buzzing, from a stage legend known for not holding back her feelings about theater etiquette.

Nominations for the 75th Tony Awards were announced Monday, with 34 shows vying for 26 categories. See the full list of nominees here.

“A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson’s critically cheered theater meta-journey earned a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Monday as Broadway joined the national discussion of race by embracing an envelope-pushing Black-written and Black-led musical. Jackson’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize drama winner about a Black gay man writing a show about a Black gay man earned nods for best musical, best leading...

Some Broadway theaters are ending the policy of requiring customers to show proof of vaccination. In a statement, the Broadway League said that beginning Sunday, the owners and operators of all 41 Broadway theaters are extending the mask requirement at least through the end of May but many will no longer check for vaccination status. The announcement recommended that theatergoers…

A man suffered fatal injuries when his arm became stuck in an MBTA Red Line train door and he was dragged into a tunnel at the Broadway Station in Boston, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office. Red Line trains are operating as normal despite the horrific incident that took place around 12:50 a.m. ‘It’s pretty unthinkable,” said...

Could it be the curse of the Scottish play?

Dear Evan Hansen is playing March 29 – April 3.

The EGOT winner played his first show at the Cort in 1958, and over his career has been in 21 Broadway shows.

The actor playing Harry Potter has been fired from the Broadway production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” following a complaint by a co-star about his conduct