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William Friedkin will be the guest artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs June 14 through June 24,and will screen more than 200 features, shorts, and music videos fr…
Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall will direct and choreograph the Broadway musical Ever After featuring a book and lyrics by Marcy Heisler and music by Zina Goldrich.
The show, which al…
ABC has announced its 2012-2013 primetime schedule, which includes 10 new shows set for either fall or midseason.
The new series include the comedy Malibu Country, about a music legend who…
The talented actor discusses his role in Mike Bartlett's provocative Off-Broadway play.
The Outer Critics Circle -- the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway -- has a…
Broadway star and singer Clay Aiken and comedian Arsenio Hall are the finalists on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice, with the winner to be revealed on Sunday, May 20. The winner will receive …
NBC has announced its 2012-2013 schedule.
The network has ordered 12 new series, include The New Norma, Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler's comedy, which centers on a gay couple, to be pla…
Academy Award nominee and legendary stage star Joyce Redman died on May 9 in Kent, England at age 96, according to published reports.
Redman worked regularly on the stage around the world, …
Stage and film star Julianne Moore will play Margaret White in MGM's remake of the iconic horror film Carrie, according to Deadline.com.
The movie, to be directed by Kimberly Peirce an…
Academy Award winner Olympia Dukais and her husband, Louis Zorich, wil star in a free staged reading of Rest in Pices, by playwright Steve Bluestein, to be held at 7pm on Wednesday, May 30 a…
FOX has released a video from the season 3 finale of Glee, to air on Tuesday, May 15, featuring Lea Michele singing "Flashdance, What a Feeling" with co-star Jenna Ushkowitz.
The …
On Sunday, May 20, nearly 50,000 people from all walks of life (including many of us at TheaterMania.com) will gather in Central Park for the 27th Annual AIDS Walk New York, which will rais…
The Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced updated casting for its 2012 season.
Te Festival will open the season by presenting a workshop of Here Lies Love, a new theatrical event cre…
Tony Award and Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones will join returning cast members Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker and Helen Mirren in Red 2, the sequel to the thrill…
Actress and playwright Eisa Davis has been awarded the 18th annual Alpert Award in the Arts by The Herb Alpert Foundation and California Institute of the Arts.
The award, a prize of $75,00…
Film and television star Zooey Deschanel will play country music legend Loretta Lynn in the stage musical, Coal Miner's Daughter. The announcement was made from the stage of the histori…
The multi-talented actresss discuss her role in Cy Coleman: Bringing Jazz to Broadway, her new film with Denzel Washington, and her career wish list.
NBC has given a series order to Do No Harm, a medical drama starring stage veteran Steven Pasquale.
The project, written by David Schulner, centers on Jeffrey Kohn (to be played by Pasquale…
NBC has released a video clip from the May 14 season finale of its hit series, Smash, featuring Broadway star Nick Jonas and series regular Anjelica Huston.
Jonas -- who is currently appear…
Megan Hilty gives an incandescent performance as Lorelei Lee in John Rando's sparkling City Center Encores! production of the 1949 musical comedy.
NBC's Today has a released a video clip of a segment in which stars Ann Curry, Matt Lauer, Natalie Morales, and Al Roker went behind the scenes of the long-running Off-Broadway show Fue…
Stage veterans Ellen Burstyn, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise, and Russell Watson will be among the artists participating in PBS' National Memorial Day Concert, to take place at 8pm on Sunday…
The finals of the 4th Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition were held on Monday, May 7 at the August Wilson Theatre.
For the finals, 15 high school students from around the country com…
Laila Robins and Patrick Page will receive the annual Richard Seff Award presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation.
The award, which was established in 2003, honors a veteran female…
Actors' Equity has announced that the Clarence Derwent Award for most promising female and male performers on the New York metropolitan scene will be given to actors Susan Pourfar and F…