Theatergoers are worried the lights may go out on Broadway a threat of a theater strike looms. Two powerful labor unions representing Broadway performers, musicians and stage managers have authorized a walkout in a contract dispute with theater owners, and theater patrons aren’t too thrilled. "New York is nothing without Broadway: you can't get this...

Written by Chicagoan Levi Holloway, the play is based on the award-winning film series of the same name, which was notable in its era for trailers showing test audiences watching the movie, visibly horrified.

Local playwright Zayd Dohrn said he began writing “Revolution(s)” after the police killing of Ferguson resident Michael Brown led to an uprising.

As a master of the movie musical, Bill Condon knows a certain truth about theatergoers. “Secretly, people love it. They love musicals, but they have to be permitted,” says Condon, who has brought to screen such titles as Dreamgirls and Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast. The writer and director has become one of the go-tos of the musical movie genre, having also written the screenplay for the acclaimed musical Chicago. But his work spans categories, with dramas including Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, and the Ian McKellen starrer…

A new study suggests Gen Z and Millennial theatergoers are willing to spend far more on Broadway than they currently do.

No, theatergoers do not have the Constitutional right to shout “Fire” in a crowded theater. But theater artists can still present queer characters on stage without losing their government grants. That’s what a federal judge ruled this week, on behalf of National Queer Theater and three other arts organizations, declaring unconstitutional a new policy by the National Endowment for the Arts that rejected grant applicants who “promote gender ideology,” whatever that means. The new policy “violates the First Amendment,” Judge William E. Smith wrote, because it “promises to penalize artists based on their speech.”

Editor's Note:  The celebration is on at Carmine's, a theatergoers favorite restaurant, and all of their locations are presenting menu specials through the

The verdict on the Broadway revival of "Art" starring Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannvale and James Corden as three friends who argue about art ranges from "clever and engaging" to "boring beyond belief" from regular theatergoers in the chat rooms. With the play opening tonight, what do the invited professional critics have to say? The story of Yasmina Reza's 1994 play is "slender but amusing," one of them says below. Neil Patrick Harris as Serge buys an expensive all-white painting, which outrages Bobby Cannavale as his friend Marc, while James Corden as Yvan tries to serve as peacemaker to his two friends, which irritates both of them.

(FOX 5/KUSI) — A stage musical adaptation of the 1998 animated film, “The Prince of Egypt,” is bringing the biblical story of the Book of Exodus to California

In my Broadway Poll about the Fall show theatergoers are most looking forward to, I added a second question: What's the biggest reason for your choice? Forty percent answered: "The cast" -- far more than any other reason. (Second choice, with just 15 percent: "I saw it before.") The cast is the chief (but not the only) reason for the poll's two top choices, "Chess" and "Ragtime," each getting about a quarter of the vote. A new starry cast is what keeps some shows going (See "Chicago"), although it doesn't always work.