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The Minskoff Theatre is typically home to the mega-Broadway hit The Lion King. However, on Monday, June 1, 62 talented young performers took over the theater, making their Broadway debuts as…
On January 28, Broadway producer Van Dean (Cinderella) gathered over 150 Broadway actors and musicians in Waterbury, CT's Palace Theater to perform in From Broadway With Love: A Benefit for …
Charles Ludlam's satirical style, lovingly referred to as "theater of the ridiculous," has been inspiring Kenneth Elliott's directorial career for decades, as can be seen through his many co…
Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten has announced the complete cast and creative team for Pygmalion, its fourth 2013 season production to be presented on the main s…
All ten of August Wilson's American Century Cycle plays, set to receive staged readings in front of live studio audiences at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR this fall…
Center Theatre Group has announced the seven productions (including three world premieres) slated for its 10th anniversary season at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. The Black Suits, a world premi…
On Monday, July 1, the Tony-nominated stars of Broadway's Cinderella, Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, will host the 2013 High School Musical Theater Awards at the Minskoff Theatre. The even…
Since Wednesday morning, the theater community has been rejoicing in the Supreme Court's decision to strike down DOMA and Proposition 8 in support of marriage equality. To cap off this week …
The National Bureau of Economic Research determined that the recent economic recession ended in June 2009. Of course, Robin Leach didn't show up on every American's doorstep with an oversize…
Prospect Theater Company's new musical comedy, Unlock'd, opens this evening at the Duke on 42nd Street. Featuring a book and lyrics by Sam Carner and music by Derek Gregor, the show received…
Diane Paulus, recent Tony Award-winning director of this year's Best Revival Pippin, has tasted success on the Great White Way. However, many may have forgotten that she is a member of Great…
Manhattan Theatre Club announced today that Remy Auberjonois will replace Tony Award nominee Jeremy Shamos in the role of Jeff in Broadway's The Assembled Parties, now running at the Samuel …
The Amoralists, a fierce downtown theater company, celebrated the New York premiere of their newest comedy, Rantoul and Die, on Monday night at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Written by Mark Robe…
On Wednesday, June 26 at 8pm, Broadway houses will dim their lights for one minute in honor of the late film, stage, and television actor James Gandolfini, who passed away on June 19 at the …
George Street Playhouse Artistic Director David Saint has announced four of the five plays that will fill the slate for the theater's 40th season. The season will open with a world premiere…
On Sunday night, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS raised a record-breaking $1,430,241 (compared to last year's total of $1,254,176) through the 23rd edition of its annual star-studded burle…
Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch, the Emmy Award-winning costars of the landmark television series Taxi, will reunite at Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles for a production o…
London's West End revival of Marvin Hamlisch's 1975 musical A Chorus Line has announced that it will be closing at the London Palladium on August 31, despite plans to run through January 201…
In an act of parental desperation, Joan Parker and her husband signed their son Dan up for an audition at Boston Children's Theatre after noticing a sudden change in his demeanor: "Dan, who …
The Dramatists Guild of America has invited a star-studded lineup of artists to join the conversation at its second national conference, entitled Having Our Say: Our History, Our Future. The…
Following a successful reading at 92Y Tribeca in May 2012, Handbook for an American Revolutionary, both written and performed by Matthew-Lee Erlbach (Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower), will rec…
Nell Benjamin knows a thing or two about making heroines out of tall blondes. Back in 2007 she and her husband, Laurence O'Keefe, cowrote the music and lyrics for Legally Blonde The Musical,…
Playwrights Horizons has announced complete casting for its New York premiere productions of Anne Washburn's new play Mr. Burns, a Post Electric Play. The production will launch the company'…
Norma Desmond is finally getting close to Hollywood.
Musical Theatre West will conclude its 60th season with a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, set to run from July 12-J…
Multiple Tony Award-winning producer Cameron Mackintosh plans to bring Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's iconic musical Miss Saigon to the West End's Prince Edward Theatre in May …