Douglas Turner Ward, the director, actor and playwright who co-founded the landmark, influential Off Broadway Black theater group the Negro Ensemble Company, died Saturday, Feb. 20, at his h…
Gary Gunas, executive producer of such Broadway musicals as The Who's Tommy, Jekyll & Hyde and Ragtime, died today of pancreatic cancer at his home in London. He was 73. His death was an…
Martha Stewart, an actress whose run of 1940s and '50s era Hollywood hits included costarring roles in Daisy Kenyon opposite Joan Crawford and In a Lonely Place with Humphrey Bogart, died Fe…
Christopher Pennock, whose long career in daytime drama is best remembered for his portrayal of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde character on ABC's supernatural soap Dark Shadows, died Feb. 12 foll…
Whoopi Goldberg won't be falling back into the old habit after all: The View moderator has canceled plans to appear in an upcoming London revival of Sister Act The Musical due to the product…
Amber Ruffin has joined the Broadway-bound team of Some Like It Hot as a co-writer of the film-to-stage adaptation. The host of Peacock's The Amber Ruffin Show will partner with Tony nominee…
Joe Allen, whose self-named restaurant on W. 46th Street in Manhattan's theater district has been a sort of commissary-slash-clubhouse for Broadway folks " and that fans who love them " sinc…
Stars in the House, the popular YouTube series known for reuniting classic TV and Broadway casts, will be hosted every Tuesday in February by prominent members of the Black theatre community…
In yet another sign that Broadway is taking its pandemic shutdown pause to re-evaluate itself, Jujamcyn Theaters announced today that it had entered into a multi-year partnership with ticket…
The curtain's inching up on the Tony Awards: A ceremony will be held on an as-yet-undetermined date in coordination with Broadway's eventual reopening, but voters will finally be able to mak…
Editors note: Earlier this week, IATSE president Matthew Loeb informed President Joe Biden that the union's members "stand ready to help build vaccination sites across the country, or to con…
Bob Avian, the dancer-turned-choreographer who played an integral role in such pivotal Broadway musicals as A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, Company, Follies and Miss Saigon, died of cardiac ar…
There's at least one thing everyone should agree will be missed after tomorrow: Laura Benanti's recurring appearances as Melania Trump on CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Fortunately…
Philip J. Smith, who as the longtime chairman of Broadway's Shubert Organization was one of the most influential and powerful forces in American theater, died today in New York City of compl…
Stars of ABC's classic daytime dramas All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital will reunite next month to present a streaming concert of their past musical performances benefit…
More than 200 theater writers " playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists " have joined a nationwide letter writing campaign urging the incoming Biden-Harris Administration to prioritiz…
Nationwide Covid surges and a disappointingly slow vaccine rollout notwithstanding, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci reiterated over the weekend his belief that live theater venues could reopen during f…
Martin Markinson, a producer and theater owner who took Torch Song Trilogy to Broadway and returned the venue now known as the Hayes Theatre to theatrical use, died Thursday, January 7 at hi…
The Broadway premiere of Skeleton Crew, written by Tony Award nominee Dominique Morisseau (Ain't Too Proud) and directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (August Wilson's Jitney) will be…
The Mean Girls musical won't be back when Broadway reopens, producers announced today. The musical, based on Tina Fey's 2004 film, suspended production when Broadway went dark due to the Cov…
EXCLUSIVE: David Henry Hwang, the Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly playwright currently writing the script for a live-action musical film adaptation of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, h…
Marion Ramsey, an actress and singer who appeared in the 1978 hit Broadway show Eubie! but is best known for her portrayal of the sweet, squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Ac…
EXCLUSIVE: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has a warrant out, in a manner of speaking, for Broadway actors. Next week's episode features Tony-nominated Hadestown actor Eva Noblezada an…
The filmed London production of the David Bowie musical Lazarus starring Michael C. Hall will stream for three performances this weekend to mark both the late singer's Jan. 8 birthday and th…
Lee Breuer, a cofounder of New York's groundbreaking experimental theater company Mabou Mines and writer of Broadway's Pulitzer Prize finalist The Gospel at Colonus, died Sunday at his home …