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Chicago Shakespeare Theater has announced casting for its upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, to run October 4-November 6 at the Navy Pier, according to…
The Media Theatre has announced the selections and preliminary casting for its 2011-2012 Broadway Series.
>Broadway veteran and American Idol finalist Justin Guarini will star as Billy F…
Three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella is writing a memoir, Dropped Names, which will be released next year by Harper Collins, according to The New York Times.
The book will include st…
Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris will be a guest judge on the July 20 edition of FOX's hit series So You Think Can You Dance.
The two-hour, live-performance show, to be hosted by…
UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. will present a special reading of a revised version of the 1969 musical comedy, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, on Friday, July 29 at 3pm at Manhattan Theatre Club's …
Stage and screen star Giancarlo Esposito has joined the new ABC drama series Once Upon a Time in the recurring roles of Sidney/The Magic Mirror, according to Deadline.com
The series focuses…
Timothy John Smith, Francisco Solorzano, and Therese Plaehn will star in Gloucester Stage Company's world premiere of Richard Vetere's Last Day, July 21-August 7. Eric C. Engel wil…
Ralph Lee's Mettawee River Theater Company's The Old Boat Goddess - Songs of the Ainu will run September 9-18 at the Outdoor Garden of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
The wo…
Tony Award winner Joe Mantello will direct a benefit reading of 8, a new play based on the Proposition 8 trial over same-sex marriage in California, written by Academy Award winner Dustin La…
Sam Troughton, who plays Romeo in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Romeo and Juliet is recovering from arthroscopic surgery on his knee and will miss Sunday night's pe…
Metropolis Opera Project will present The M.O.P. Bucket - 2nd Annual New Music Party at 8pm on Monday July at Medicine Show Theatre (549 West 52nd Street).
This free event will feature new …
Tony Award nominee Matthew Morrison has joined the cast of the upcoming film What To Expect When You're Expecting, which will be released on May 11, 2012. Kirk Jones is directing the f…
The Irish Repertory Theatre has been named the 2011 recipient of the Eugene O'Neill Lifetime Achievement Award, given annually by the Irish American Writers & Artists, Inc.
Irish …
Performers have been announced for the 22nd Annual New York Cabaret Convention, to be held October 20-22 at the Rose Theatre at Jazz at Lincoln Center. All shows are at 6pm.
The October 20 …
The San Francisco engagement of Billy Elliot the Musical at the Orpheum Theatre will now conclude its run on Sunday, August 21, instead of the previously announced September 17.
Based on t…
Theater critic Donald Lyons has died at age 73, according to The New York Post.
Lyons was a reviewer at The New Criterion and The Wall Street Journal, before joining the Post, where he wor…
Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard will perform with the Terence Blanchard Quintet at Birdland, August 2-6.
Blanchard composed original music for the Broadwa…
Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy will star in the Goodman Theatre's production of Eugene O"Neill's The Iceman Cometh, to run April 22-June 10, according to pub…
The Off-Broadway show, My Big Gay Italian Wedding, will play its final performance at St. Luke's Theatre on August 20. A London production is planned for Fall 2011.
The show focuses on…
Patrick Page and members of the cast of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark will perform "A Freak Like Me" on CBS's The Late Show With David Letterman on Monday, Jul…
Bailey Hanks will play Elle Woods in the Diablo Theatre Company's production of the Broadway musical Legally Blonde, to play the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California,…
Cyril Ornadel, who composed the musical Pickwick, has died at age 86, according to The Guardian.
Ornadel first gained prominence as the musical director for many West End shows in the 1950s…
Karen Finley will reprise her critically acclaimed show Make Love, at the West Bank Café's Laurie Beechman Theartre, September 3-17.
In the piece, Finley channels Liza Minne…
Tony Award winner Len Cariou and Sarah Rice, who co-starred in the original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, will be the special guesst at he latest installment of Sondheim Unplugged, to…
Nominations for the 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards have been announced. The ceremony, to be hosted by Jane Lynch, will air on FOX-TV on September 18.
Shows which received multiple nomina…