ArtsBeat: A 'Midsummer' Is Headed for China
Tim Robbins and the Actors' Gang, a Los Angeles ensemble theater troupe, will bring their production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to audiences in China this summer.
Tim Robbins and the Actors' Gang, a Los Angeles ensemble theater troupe, will bring their production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to audiences in China this summer.
City Center has announced the lineup for its second "Encores! Off-Center" series, which is intended to showcase new interpretations by contemporary artists of older Off Broadway musicals.&nb…
"Jacuzzi" is set in a Colorado ski resort.
The pop singer will make her Broadway debut in the title role of "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella."
Tony Shalhoub and Santino Fontana are to portray the playwright and theater director Moss Hart in a stage adaptation of "Act One," based on Mr. Hart's 1959 autobiography. &n…
Eric Simonson's play about the Yankees is to move to Broadway in January at Circle in the Square.
A new production of "Stars of David," which transforms interviews with Jewish figures into songs, will begin a New York run next month.
Justin Matthew Sargent will be the next actor to don Spider-Man's costume in the musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
E L James, the author of the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy, raked in an estimated $95 million in the past year
Jessie Mueller will star in "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" on Broadway.
Mr. Carney's last performance in "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" will be on Sept. 15.
The Theater for a New Audience has announced the full schedule for its inaugural season at the Center for Shakespeare and Classical Drama.
Theatergoers who bring their TKTS stub to the booth within seven days of that ticket's date can walk up to Window #1 for their next purchase and avoid the other lines.
The NBC show "Smash" was canceled earlier this month.
The Outer Critics Circle and the New York Drama Critics' Circle named Christopher Durang's comedy "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" as the best play of the 2012-13 season. &nb…
Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley will join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart for the repertory run of Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land" and Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" this fall. &…
Helen Mirren, during intermission, appears in her costume as Queen Elizabeth to berate a group of marching drummers who disrupted a performance of "The Audience."
The Broadway revival is the latest in a long line of flops with music by Frank Wildhorn.
"Lucky Guy," starring Tom Hanks, has recouped its capitalization costs after eight weeks of performances.
The actress Christine Baranski; Irina Dvorovenko, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater; and Joaquin De Luz, a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, will be among the cast.&n…
The MacDowell Colony, the prestigious artists' retreat in New Hampshire, has announced that the composer Stephen Sondheim will be awarded the 54th annual Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime …
The Menier Chocolate Factory, a 150-seat performance space in a former factory, will host the engagement from July 5 to Sept. 14.
Will Eno, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Sam Marks will all have works in next year's Humana Festival of New American Plays.
With power returning to much of Lower Manhattan, some Off Broadway theaters and playhouses in the area are offering discounted tickets to entice audiences to return as well.
Hurricane Sandy's impending arrival has prompted entertainment producers in the New York City region to change schedules and offer plans for refunds.