When the Irish Potato Blight " caused by an infectious fungus that spread throughout Europe " struck in 1845, it decimated the country's staple crop, leading to food shortages and the Great …
The Broadway premiere of Paradise Square, an epic new musical ten-years in the making by the team of Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas, and Larry Kirwan (book), Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare (ly…
Adapted from the original 1992 film (which received mixed reviews and didn't fare well at the box office when it opened 30 years ago), Mr. Saturday Night is now surprisingly a Broadway music…
Recipients of the 2022 Drama League Awards, the oldest theatrical honors in America, first presented in 1922, and formalized in 1935, were announced beginning at noon today (Friday, May 20) …
In the 1961 Paramount Pictures film adaptation of Truman Capote's 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, Hollywood icon and big-name draw Mickey Rooney was cast in the small and significantly …
Tap dancing his way to fame since the tender age of five in his hometown of Reading, PA, actor/dancer/choreographer Danny Gardner made his Broadway debut as Lucky in Dames at Sea in 2015, af…
It was announced today by the Theatre World Awards and The Dorothy Loudon Foundation that four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein will receive the 9th Annual John Willis Award for Lifet…
In 2016, a group of eight Chinese dissidents filed a class-action lawsuit against an American-based IT corporation for personal damages resulting from its collusion with the Chinese governme…
Named for of one of the great dance icons in American musical theater, the mission of the Chita Rivera Awards is to celebrate and to promote dance and choreographic excellence. As the only a…
The winners of the 71st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards for outstanding achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway for the 2021-22 season were announced today (Tuesday, May 17). Origi…
Amas Musical Theatre's hilarious musical comedy Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn made its critically acclaimed Off-Broadway debut at A.R.T./NY in January 2020, w…
Nominations for the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards, voted on and presented by theater critics, journalists, editors, and publishers covering the theater, were announced this afternoon, Monday…
Now celebrating its 43rd season, Theater Breaking Through Barriers " the only professional Off-Broadway theater company dedicated to advancing artists and developing audiences of people with…
Ever since the attacks of 9/11, the young Tony Valdovinos, living with his family in Phoenix and working with his father in demolition and construction from the age of seven, dreamed of beco…
Winners of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards 2022 were announced this evening (Thursday, May 12), immediately following the organization's 86th annual voting meeting. The second-olde…
After a two-year pandemic delay, the highly anticipated revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo is back on Broadway with a multi-award-winning all-star cast for a strictly limited engageme…
Now through Sunday, May 29, The Off-Broadway Alliance (OBA) is offering its bi-annual celebration of Off-Broadway theater with its popular promotion 20at20, making $20 tickets available to b…
Nominations for the 75th Annual Tony Awards, honoring theater professionals of the 2021-2022 season for distinguished achievement on Broadway, were announced this morning (Monday, May 9, at …
In addition to running, for more than 20 years, Keith Sherman & Associates " a public relations and marketing communications firm with its roots on Broadway " the founder and namesake of…
In 1944, three young theater-lovers, Daniel Blum, Norman McDonald, and John Willis, had the idea of creating a yearly celebration that would acknowledge "Promising Personalities" " twelve pr…
Playing an extended world-premiere Off-Broadway engagement at The Public Theater, the ambitious sung-through musical Suffs, with book, music, and lyrics by Shaina Taub, who also leads a larg…
Critically acclaimed multiple award-winning Philadelphia-based playwright, director, actor, and educator James Ijames, an Associate Professor of Theatre at Villanova University, a Co-Artisti…
In December 2012, at the age of 95, Margot Wölk revealed a secret she had kept hidden for seven decades: her involuntary role in WWII as one of fifteen young Aryan women conscripted to serv…
Following its multi-award-winning Off-Broadway world-premiere engagement at Playwright's Horizons in 2019, a pandemic-delayed critically-acclaimed regional production at DC's Woolly Mammoth …
In June 2020, Alyssa May Gold " NYC-based actress of the stage and screen and founder of the theater and film production company Pocket Universe " shared her insights and excitement about he…