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Lots of crossover news with a Brit hit coming to new york, an American musical heading across the Atlantic, and a TV star headed for Broadway. Critics raved across the board...

Tony-winners In the Heights and August: Osage County are headed from Broadway to Hollywood, according to Variety. The Weinstein Company has optioned August: Osage County and plans a 2011 release date...

Economy be damned. Seattle's newest company believes crisis begets good theater.

Production of "boom" at Seattle Rep mirrors the theater's own need to look to the younger generation.

"Having already destroyed one art form - alternative pop music - Morrissey's grandchildren, the shock troops of self-obsessed and willfully underachieving middle-class miserabilism, are setting out to destroy another, the musical. They must be stopped."...

Never content to rest on its laurels, this year's splendid "Radio City Christmas Spectacular" builds on last year's reimagined and reinvigorated 75th-anniversary model.

Much of the power of "Billy Elliot" as an honest tear-jerker lies in its ability to give equal weight to the sweet dreams of terpsichorean flight and the sourness of a dream-denying reality.

Broadway's Cheyenne Jackson is not only on the cover, but has been named OUT Magazine's Entertainer of the Year. Cheyenne is featured in Out Magazine's annual "Out 100" list of notable gay and lesbian newsmakers of 2008.

As rumored a number of months ago by the new york Post's Michael Riedel, it looks like Hugh Jackman might indeed be planning to make his return to both New York City and the Broadway stage. Over the years the film and stage superstar rented various homes for he and his family, until now...

In his new show, "Taking Over," Danny Hoch addresses a subject bound to make some New Yorkers more than a little uncomfortable.