Flashdance, a musical adaptation of the 1983 film, is aiming to arrive on Broadway in spring of 2013 rather than the previously reported Fall 2012, according to The New York Times. The Time…
The new Broadway musical Chaplin will play the Barrymore Theatre beginning August 21, with an opening on September 10, 2012. As previously reported, Warren Carlyle will direct and choreograp…
The dance musical Top Hat, based on the movie starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, opened at the West End's Aldwych Theatre on Wednesday, May 9. Matthew White directs, with choreogr…
TV star and stage veteran David Hasselhoff has joined the cast of Keith Lemon:The Movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Written by British comedian Leigh Francis, who will star in the…
Full casting has been announced for Shakespeare on the Sound's production of Romeo and Juliet, to be performed June 26-July 8 in Greenwich, CT and July 18-July 29 in Rowayton, CT. The …
Tony Award winner Shuler Hensley will star as Hannibal Lecter in the Off-Broadway engagement of Silence! The Musical, currently running at The 9th Space Theatre at PS 122. He will fill in fo…
The Off-Broadway production of Voca People, at New World Stages, welcomed Police Academy star and "the man of 10,000 sound effects" Michael Winslow for his first performance with t…
Lucas Papaelias, who is featured in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Once, has joined the line-up for the 17th annual Lower East Side (LES) Festival of the Arts, to run Friday May 25 thro…
Nominations for the 30th Fred & Adele Astaire Awards were announced on Monday, May 7 by New York Post Theater columnist Michael Riedel at a reception at the historic Lamb's Club. Th…
Dominic Chianese will star in a reading of Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are (if you think you are), to be presented by Theatre East at O'Lunney's on Tuesday, May 29 at 6pm. T…
Second Stage Theatre has extended the world premiere production of Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm Not through June 3. Directed by Trip Cullman, the production features Topher Grace, Oli…
Additional honorees have been announced for Career Transition for Dancers' 27th Anniversary Jubilee, entitled JUMP FOR JOY A Dance Variety Spectacular. The event will be held at New Yor…
Lucie Arnaz, Penny Fuller, Larry Moss, and Tony Roberts will participate in a discussion related to the DVD release of David Craig's nine-hour video series On Singing Onstage from Appla…
PBS will broadcast The Metropolitan Opera's production of The Enchanted Island as part of THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met series on Friday, May 18 at 9pm (check local list…
The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival will present Tennessee Williams and Music, a gala fundraising dinner to be held at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (460 Comme…
Broadway veterans Gina Gershon and Peter Stormare have joined the cast of the currently filming Mall, according to Variety. They have replaced Chelsea Handler and Eric Bogosian, who have wit…
Christopher Sutton will star in the title role of Walnut Street Theatre's production of Buddy-The Buddy Holly Story, to perform on the WST Mainstage, May 15-July 15, with an opening on …
Leslie Ayvazian, Kyle Beltran, Aya Cash, William Jackson Harper and Chip Zien will be featured in a reading of Sharyn Rothstein's Queen Bee, to be presented on Monday, May 12 at 7pm. Ad…
Andrew Garfield, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for his performance in the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, will be among the presenters at the 21st annual MTV Movie Awards. The event wil…
Stage veteran Logan Marshall-Green will take on the role of playwright Tennessee Williams in the upcoming film, Lonely Hunter, according to Deadline.com. Based on the life of novelist Carso…
The Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, has officially been extended and will now play through Sunday, July 22. Michael Wilson directs th…
Lincoln Center Theater will present the New York premiere of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced as part of its LCT3 initiative in the brand new Claire Tow Theater, October 15-November 18, with an …
The Nominees Reception for the 57th annual Drama Desk Awards was held on Tuesday, May 8 at Oceana, an elegant mid-town restaurant specializing in seafood. The restaurant provided an array o…
Manhattan Theatre Club has announced a second extension of its world premiere of David Auburn's The Columnist. Daniel Sullivan directs the production at MTC's Broadway house, the S…
John Lloyd Young -- who won a Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World awards for his performance as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys -- will return to the role for a limited eng…