Sir Tim Rice has written lyrics for some of the most beloved and successful musicals of the past century, from Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to Ches…
UPDATE, with video message Amanda Kloots, the former actress who chronicled her late husband Nick Cordero's painful decline from COVID-19, has responded to Donald Trump's Don't let COVID dom…
Armelia McQueen, who rose to Broadway stardom with her debut in 1978's Ain't Misbehavin' and played the sister of Whoopi Goldberg's haunted character in 1990's Ghost, died Saturday. She was …
Murray Schisgal, whose writing brought a 1964 Tony Award nomination for the Broadway play Luv and a 1982 Oscar nomination for the hit Dustin Hoffman comedy Tootsie, died Oct. 1 at a nursing …
EXCLUSIVE: Great Performances has set its fourth annual "Broadway's Best" November line-up on PBS, including the world premiere of Lea Salonga in Concert featuring the Tony Award-winner sing…
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS provided a record $18.1 million in grants to a pandemic-slammed industry during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, the most ever awarded in the orga…
Laura Esquivel's 1989 novel Like Water For Chocolate, adapted for the screen in 1993, is now headed to the stage: A musical version to be directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer with ori…
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains crucial plot details about Netflix's The Boys in the Band film Much has changed in the two years since director Joe Mantello was readying his revival o…
EXCLUSIVE: Disney Junior's Emmy and BAFTA Award-nominated animated series Vampirina has lined up a roster of season 3 guest stars from both Broadway and television, including Audra McDonald …
An all-star digital performance of scenes from Tony Kushner's Angels in America, benefiting amFAR's COVID-19 fund, will feature Glenn Close as Roy Cohn, with other roles from the Pulitzer Pr…
Off Broadway's Signature Theatre will take its acclaimed production of Lauren Yee's play with music Cambodian Rock Band on the road, marking the theater company's first production to tour. T…
EXCLUSIVE: Robert Horn, the Tony Award-winning book writer of the Broadway musical Tootsie, has signed with Verve for representation in all areas. Horn, who began his career as a writer for …
Tommy DeVito, a founding member and lead guitarist of the 1960s chart-topping vocal group The Four Seasons and the inspiration for a key character in the 2005 jukebox musical Jersey Boys and…
The Emmys' In Memoriam segment Sunday left out a number of actors we lost in 2020, but the Television Academy hasn't entirely overlooked them. Nick Cordero, Chi Chi DeVayne, Kobe Bryant, She…
Nick Cordero was not included in the Emmy Award's In Memoriam segment Sunday night, and Zach Braff, the late actor's friend and former Broadway co-star, says it wasn't for supporters' lack o…
For only the second time in its century-plus history, Actors' Equity Association, the union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theater, has endorsed…
The upcoming season of Encores! at New York's City Center will include an adaptation by Pose's Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997. Porter's adaptat…
U.S. Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Broadway League renewed the call for dedicated federal funding for Broadway and other New York live venues today, reiterating the push for the…
Nick Cordero's album Live Your Life: Live at Feinstein's/54 Below, released posthumously yesterday on what would have been the Broadway star's 42nd birthday, hit #1 on iTunes album chart las…
A filmed version of Heidi Schreck's acclaimed, Tony-nominated Broadway play What the Constitution Means to Me will premiere Oct. 16 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, the streamer said today…
Tony Tanner, the Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer of Broadway's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1982, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88. His d…
EXCLUSIVE: Bob Martin, co-writer of the Tony Award-nominated book for Broadway's The Prom and the upcoming Netflix film adaptation, has signed with Verve for representation in all areas. Mar…
A coronavirus relief fund for New York City's small theaters was launched today by The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, the arts service organization dedicated to supporting nonpro…
Broadway's Roundabout Theatre Company has named Miranda Haymon as Resident Director, making the company's resources available to develop their own work and to contribute to the overall artis…
Al Kasha, the Academy Award-winning composer who, along with songwriting partner Joel Hirschhorn, won Oscars for the soft rock disaster movie classics "The Morning After" and "We May Never L…