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Tony Award-nominated Broadway veteran Jane Connell, best known for her performance in the original production of Jerry Herman's classic musical Mame, died September 23 at the age of 87. Bor…
Dave Malloy's downtown hit Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, which was slated to begin its 14-week limited run in the Times Square area this evening, has rescheduled its first perfo…
Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group is now accepting applications for the 2013-14 August Wilson Program. The twofold program includes the August Wilson Monologue Competition for students in gr…
Producers announced today that Soul Doctor, the new Broadway musical about the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and his unlikely friendship with jazz singer Nina Simone, has formed a…
Continuing the trend from this year's Academy Awards ceremony, theaterfolk dominated at last night's 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, racking up some of the evening's top prizes while Tony…
Thirteen years ago, Richard Eric Weigle was working at the Museum of Television and Radio (now the Paley Center) when a PBS filmmaker named Rick McKay came in digging for archival footage. H…
On Wednesday, September 18, Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons (Nice Work If You Can Get It) and two-time Tony winner Stephen Spinella (Angels in America: Perestroika) celebrated the openi…
On Wednesday evening, Sept. 18, Tony Award-winning playwright and director Mary Zimmerman's new stage adaptation of The Jungle Book celebrated its second opening night at Boston's Huntington…
If you saw Sutton Foster's 2011 Tony acceptance speech, then you've heard the name Julien Havard. Havard met Foster in 2002 when he was hired as her backstage dresser during Thoroughly Mode…
Sixteen-time Grammy Award winner Sting's Broadway-bound musical, The Last Ship, has announced plans to sail onto the Great White Way in fall 2014. Before its New York arrival, the production…
Here We Come, a new show parodying the 1960s rock band/sitcom gang The Monkees, is coming to the C.O.W. Theater on the Lower East Side for two performances, on September 27 and 28. The produ…
The Roy Rogers Family Entertainment Corporation, Happy Trails, LLC, and the Spangler Group have announced plans to mount a new Broadway musical inspired by the life and music of American sin…
Eric Simonson has found his niche turning some of pop culture's most legendary sports figures into characters for the stage. In 2011 he brought the story of Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lom…
Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company has announced plans to extend the run of its upcoming production of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet for one additional week, through Sunday, November 10. T…
Tracy Letts, Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Tony Award-winning actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (August: Osage County), will host the fifth annual …
Actors' Shakespeare Project will open its 10th season with a production of Shakespeare's tragic love story Romeo & Juliet. Performances are set to begin on October 2 at Boston's Strand Theat…
After two years of weekend performances off-Broadway at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, producer Matt Murphy announced that The Berenstain Bears LIVE! in Family Matters, the Musical ha…
Broadway veterans ventured into TV Land on Monday evening to attend NBC's 2013 Fall Launch Party held at New York City's exclusive lounge Top of the Standard. Tony nominee Raúl Esparza (…
All the Way, Robert Schenkkan's theatricalized account of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's first year in office, is now in previews at the world-renowned American Repertory Theater at Harva…
Seven years ago, Irina Brook was struck by what she self-mockingly labels a "strange puritanical desire to be true to myself." Daughter of the legendary director Peter Brook, her own directo…
The complete cast of the hit downtown production of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 will continue performances in the Times Square area beginning Tuesday, September 24. The show's …
From Times Square to the Empire State Building, Broadway's favorite sirs are making their way through New York City's most popular tourist attractions, and taking a moment to plug their upco…
On Monday, October 7, the August Wilson Theatre (home of Jersey Boys) will host a special one-night-only benefit concert, Chita: A Legendary Celebration, honoring the career of two-time Tony…
The sixth annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival brings the bar to the theater and the theater to the bar in Ronan Noone's two-person time-jumping play, The Compass Rose. Now playing at the smal…
Primary Stages has announced that Joe Pantoliano a.k.a. "Joey Pants" (The Sopranos), who was cast in the role of Yogi Berra in its upcoming production of Bronx Bombers, has left the play bec…
