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Brandon Victor Dixon may not have a long Broadway résumé, but he certainly has an auspicious one. After his Tony-nominated performance in the Oprah Winfrey-produced musical The Color Purpl…
Tony Award winner Christian Borle (NBC's Smash, Peter and the Starcatcher) will open New York City Center's 2014 Encores! season, starring in Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's Little Me, direct…
Abby Rosebrock is diving headfirst into the shark tank of New York theater with her new comedy, Different Animals, now playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Rosebrock began her career in comed…
The Amoralists, a seven-year-old downtown off-Broadway theater company, has set the dates for its New York premiere of Rantoul and Die, the opening production of its summer season called "Th…
The 58th Annual Obie Awards ceremony, presented by the Village Voice, was held last evening at Webster Hall. Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos, current costars in Broadway's The Assembled Part…
Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Josie Rourke announced the five productions that will make up the company's 2013 autumn season. "This year, the Donmar is a champion of British and Irish …
Hopefully June 10 will be a warm spring night, because the Skivvies are coming to 54 Below in nothing but their…skivvies. Broadway veteran Lauren Molina (Rock of Ages, Sweeney Todd) and N…
On Sunday, May 19, the best of this season's Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway talent will come together in a celebration of New York theater at the 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards.…
In a showing of mermaid camaraderie, the cast of off-Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher is lending a fin (and some pointy mermaid bras) to the Coney Island Mermaid Parade's Kickstarter cam…
Actors' Equity has released the names of this year's recipients of both the Clarence Derwent and Richard Seff Awards. Annaleigh Ashford and Michael Urie are the two recipients of the Derwen…
Denver Center Theatre Company, New York City's Primary Stages, and South Coast Repertory will bring three new works to Steamboat Springs, Colorado to participate in the 16th annual Perry-Man…
This evening, Long Wharf Theatre celebrates the opening night of its production of Bruce Norris' Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park. The production began previews on…
It's a brand-new week with a brand-new musical sampling of Shakespeare in the Park's Love's Labour's Lost. This week, the good people at The Public Theater (and songwriter Michael Friedman)…
Tony Award-nominated Peter and the Starcatcher playwright Rick Elice is coming to New World Stages to participate in a talkback with audience members following the May 15 evening performance…
As part of its 30th anniversary celebration, the Vineyard Theatre is presenting a one-night-only benefit concert on June 17: Vineyard Celebrates the Songs of Dory Previn. Dory Previn, who p…
Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Managing Director Joshua Borenstein have announced the productions slated for its 49th season. The Underpants, a play based on Carl…
As a breed, New Yorkers operate under the assumption that Broadway lies in the center of the theater universe, with all other theater outlets merely orbiting around it. As one of the world's…
They may not be "revolting" children but they certainly are taking over Broadway. It takes just a quick scan of the Broadway lineup to discover that talented youngsters are everywhere you t…
If you're looking for a theatrical experience that's as accessible as the bottom-shelf sugar cereals in a grocery store, you should probably turn around and go home to your TiVo'd episode of…
On Monday, May 20, the York Theatre Company will host its 9th annual NEO benefit concert. The event will feature the works of "new," "emerging," and "outstanding" musical theater writers inc…
Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, best known as the mastermind behind the rap musical In The Heights, is packing up his rhymes and bringing them downtown. In an 8 Mile-meets-Whose Line …
Bucks County Playhouse has announced complete casting for its upcoming world premiere production of Mothers and Sons, written by four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Rag…
Artistic Director of the Naked Angels Theater Company Liz Carlson is directing a production of Sydney Michaels' Dylan at the City College of Technology's Voorhees Theater. Based on Dylan Tho…
The second installment of the five-week Love's Labour's Lost sneak preview is in. Continuing our anticipation of the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park production, Michael Friedman is offerin…
Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera has been announced as this year's Grand Marshal of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, set to take place on Sunday, June 9. With over 80,000 people marching…