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The new Broadway musical ''Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson '' has cancelled its November 14 matinee performance at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre as star Carolee Car…
Tony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (Present Laughter), former Law
Tony Award and Academy Award winner Liza Minnelli (Cabaret) will guest-star as herself on the second season of NBC's musical drama Smash, which returns to the air on February 5.In the episod…
As any savvy theatergoer will figure out before entering Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, a working knowledge of the plays of Anton Chekhov will come in handy to get the myriad in-jo…
Preliminary casting has been announced for the New York Philharmonic's staged production of Rodgers
Those foolish Russians. Swilling vodka. Worrying over rubles. Contemplating suicide. If you haven't guessed, we're back in Chekhovland. And, if you're a dedicated theatergoer in New York, yo…
Updted cast and creative team have been announced for the world premiere of The Second City's A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens! to run at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre, No…
Academy Award winner and stage star Holly Hunter will star alongside Zach Grenier and Noah Robbins in the Flea Theater production of Hamish Linklater's The Vandal , which is set to begin pe…
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has already succeeding in banning supersized soft drinks in theaters, but if he ever proposes a similar restriction to what's happening on the theatrical stage, I sus…
Broadway star Matt Doyle will take over the role of Elder Price in the Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon from current portrayer Nic Ricoleau. No date has been set for Doyle's…
There may indeed be no place like home, but Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters was happily hundreds of miles away from New York just days ago in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. "It was my dream cr…
Broadway critic's Terry Teachout's solo piece Satchmo at the Waldorf has broken all box office records at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre Stage II, according to the theater.The show, which st…
Smash star Megan Hilty and Broadway veteran Ryan Silverman will be the guest artists for the New York Pops' concert Come Fly with Me: The Songs of Sammy Cahn , to be held at Carnegie Hall on…
Anthony Warlow has long been one of Australia's most popular leading men, in both the worlds of opera and musical theater, and is now making his long-awaited Broadway debut as Oliver "Daddy"…
Cast members from the ill-fated Broadway musical Rebecca will perform Keep The Home Fires Burning: A Very Manderley Holiday, a concert of holiday songs to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Figh…
"Life, so they say, is but a game and we let it slip away," goes a line from Seals
Virginia's Signature Theatre will honor Tony Award-winning producer and director Harold Prince with the company's fourth Stephen Sondheim Award at a black-tie Gala Benefit at the Embassy of…
Additional casting has been announced for the Culture Project's tenth anniversary revival of The Exonerated, which will run at 45 Bleecker through December 2. The production is directed by …
Due to rehearsals that were cancelled because of Hurricane Sandy, the star-studded Broadway production of Glengarry Glen Ross, originally set to open on Sunday, November 11 at the Gerald Sch…
Broadway stars Stephanie J. Block and husband Sebastian Arcelus will provide financial aid to Covenant House by matching every $10 donation to the charity texted before and during the Wednes…
David Cromer will play the Stage Manager through December 30 in his own production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town at The Huntington Theatre Company's Roberts Studio Theatre. Joel Cololdner wi…
[Editor's note: The Exonerated will resume performances on Sunday, November 4 at 3pm and 7pm.)Marg Helgenberger in Macbeth. Marg Helgenberger in August: Osage County. Marg Helgenberger in Ba…
With power restored to Manhattan, all Broadway shows and most Off-Broadway shows have resumed regular performance schedules as of Saturday, November 3.Many shows around town had to postpone …
Stage and screen star Jane Seymour and PBS composer Tim Janis will team up to perform The Christmas Rose, an evening of music, dance and drama, at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, November 29.The…
Theater by its nature requires "suspension of disbelief," but sometimes a little extra help is required. (Just ask Douglas Hodge!) And since Jessica Chastain's cheekbones could probably cut …