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The results are in! The winners and nominated finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize awards have been announced. Established in 1917, the Pulitzer Prize has become one of the most revered pri…
To celebrate the arrival of Tony Awards season, New York City's Paley Center for Media will be hosting the 3rd Annual Tony Awards Film Series. Slightly less than a month prior to Radio City …
After tonight, Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer and Motown founder Berry Gordy will have officially conquered the final frontier: Broadway. Motown: The Musical, with a book written by Gordy hims…
The theatrical rendering of author Tucker Max's alcohol-soaked adventures has plans for a limited engagement run at The Cabaret at Roy Arias Studios and Theatres. Performances are scheduled …
Kerry Butler is officially more than just a Broadway beltress. It turns out that if you strip away her roller skates, hairspray, and eleven o'clock number, you find an honest-to-goodness act…
The West End smash hit Billy Elliot The Musical will welcome four new cast members to the Victoria Palace Theatre beginning May 13. Anna-Jane Casey (Spamalot) will join in the role of Billy…
Ike Holter's new off-Broadway play, Hit the Wall, has scheduled its final performance at Greenwich Village's Barrow Street Theatre for April 28. Directed by Eric Hoff and featuring original …
MCC has announced the first two productions slated for its 2013/14 season. As was previously reported, its first production, jointly produced with Manhattan Theatre Club, will be the world p…
Off-Broadway's Mint Theater has announced the complete cast for its upcoming American premiere of English dramatist N.C. Hunter's A Picture of Autumn. The play will run from May 23-July 14 w…
John Doyle, best known for his minimalist direction of Stephen Sondheim musicals including the Broadway productions of Company and Sweeney Todd (for which he won a Tony Award), as well as Cl…
UPDATED: The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) has announced its complete list of Elliot Norton Award nominees, as well two additional special honorees who will join the previous Lif…
The long-awaited opening of the critically acclaimed across-the-pond musical has finally arrived. Matilda The Musical, will celebrate its opening this evening at the Shubert Theatre before i…
UPDATED: The world premiere the Boston production of Chris Miller, Nathan Tysen, and Claudia Shear's Tuck Everlasting has been postponed "due to a lack of theatre availability for its planne…
The International Order of Sodomites (IOS) will host its next monthly variety show, The Meeting, on Thursday, April 18 " never has such a formal sentence described a tribute to the film Show…
And you can't lower an audience's expectations much more than using the title of your work to warn your audience: "You're Gonna Hate This." Lindsay Mendez and Michael Holland, who worked to…
For those of us who have longed for the soothing voice of Laura Osnes to sweeten our morning commutes with the classic tunes of Rodgers and Hammerstein, the wait is almost over. Ghostlight R…
I smell witchcraft. After leaving New York's Little Shubert Theatre in September 2012 for a North American tour, Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience has boomeranged its way back…
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher passed away from a stroke on Monday, April 8. Nicknamed the "Iron Lady" for her rigid style of leadership, Thatcher was the Leader of the Cons…
Marin Ireland, successful stage, film, and television actress, has traded one Homeland for another. After inducing several water-cooler moments as the suicidal terrorist Aileen Morgan on the…
Yes, that School of Rock. The one starring Jack Black and that girl from Nickelodeon. In an era when every film with a remotely musical theme eventually finds itself on Broadway, all we can …
The Geffen Playhouse has announced plans for a nine-production season, including three world premieres/adaptations, three West Coast premieres, and two works by Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-win…
UPDATED: The four actors joining the previously announced Broadway veteran and Drama Desk Award nominee Bryce Ryness (Hair) for The New Theatre at 45th Street's production of Around the Worl…
UPDATED: Rob McClure, who recently shot to Broadway stardom in the title role of Broadway's Chaplin, will be joining the previously announced Tony Danza in Honeymoon in Vegas, the latest mus…
Berkeley Repertory Theatre has announced plans to conclude its 45th season with a reunion of Broadway talent. Tony Award-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters, who have col…
Something smells funky…and it's heading towards Broadway. An Equity casting notice broke news of plans for another workshop for the new soul-funk musical, Super Fly, based on the 1972 fil…