The pop star of the 1970s and ’80s crosses over to musical theater with a dark story about pop stars of the 1920s and ’30s.

Joey is still a heel in this major revision of the 1940 antihero musical, but he’s now a Black artist trying to find his true...

David Adjmi’s riveting new play, with songs by Will Butler, is about a ’70s band that nearly destroys itself making an epochal album.

This inventive, beguiling and not quite fully solved puzzle of a show is a worthy and loving farewell to the great musical dramatist.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater, a play about the making of Hollywood’s first summer blockbuster bobs up...

The addition of 17 songs turns the 1985 sci-fi classic into a big “why?” musical with a big wow factor.

A new Broadway musical tells the disturbing story of Imelda Marcos by putting her, and the audience, in a disco.

In lyrics of rare humor, elegance and compassion, the man who put words to “Fiddler on the Roof” and “She Loves Me” explored the complex...

Mira Nair’s 2001 movie about a couple brought together by their families becomes a song-filled pageant, with mixed results.

The Encores! production, directed by Lear deBessonet, looks to deepen and darken a musical that resists the change. But it’s still delightful.