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Days before the May 25 HBO premiere of Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart," the back-and-forth argument continues between playwright Kramer and Academy Award-winning actress Barb…
Tony Award winner James Corden is in negotiations to star in a Broadway revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, according to the New York Times.
In anticipation of the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival — which has provided a platform for over 1,000 artists a year to create new musical theatre and will run this year from Ju…
Producers Bruce Cohen, Robb Nanus, Jessica Leventhal, Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman announced May 22 that Tony and Grammy Award nominee Andrew Lippa's new oratorio I Am Harvey M…
The new Broadway play Mothers and Sons from four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally will continue to offer a series of post-show talkbacks in conjunction with the Huffington Post Gay Vo…
The New York premiere of American Hero, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Leigh Silverman, opens May 22 at Second Stage Theatre's uptown home, the McGinn/Cazale Theatre.
Songwriter and music director Georgia Stitt, producer Ken Davenport and casting director Cesar Rocha judge BroadwaySpotted's Next Big Star competition finalists, who sing live May 22 at …
Miss Saigon, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1989, returns to the West End's Prince Edward Theatre for its 25th anniversary in a new production, opening May 21. Here,…
Roundabout Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Little Children Dream of God, a new play by Roundabout playwright-in-residence Jeff Augustin, as part of the company's Under…
Stage and screen actress Molly Ringwald has been cast in the film adaptation of 1980s cartoon "Jem and the Holograms," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The Tony Award-nominated Beautiful: The Carole King Musical features the music of Barry Mann, Carole King, Cynthia Weil and Gerry Goffin. Here, the actors who embody the show's songwrite…
Grammy and Tony Award nominee Michael McElroy and Broadway Inspirational Voices (BIV) has launched a Kickstarter campaign to gear up for their second holiday album "Great Joy II: Around…
Spring Awakening and "Glee" actress Lea Michele, whose "Brunette Ambition" book hit shelves May 20, released a new music video entitled "On My Way."
Two-time Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell will helm On Your Feet, a new show inspired by the music made famous by Grammy Award winner Gloria Estefan and her husb…
Linda Emond, who stars in the Broadway return of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, recently received a Tony Award nomination (her third) for her portrayal of Fräulein Schneider and caught u…
The New York premiere of American Hero, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Leigh Silverman, has been given a one-week extension at Second Stage Theatre's uptown home, the McGinn/C…
Barrett Wilbert Weed, who was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for her performance in Heathers: The Musical, joins Heathers co-star and producer, Alice Lee and Jamie Bendell, respec…
Spring Awakening and "Glee" actress Lea Michele's "Brunette Ambition," her book that is described as "part memoir, part how-to, and part style-guide," is re…
In celebration of the Lamb's Players Theatre's 20th year in Coronado, CA, the company broke the Guinness World Record for Longest Marathon Theatrical Performance May 12.
Playbill.com caught up with 2014 Tony Award nominee Kenny Leon, who compared his two latest Broadway projects, A Raisin in the Sun and Holler If Ya Hear Me, dished about disappointments, tal…
Undermain Theatre in Dallas, TX, has announced its 2014-15 season, which will include the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning work The Flick, The Testament of Mary and more.
"The Maya Rudolph Show," a variety-show special hosted by "Saturday Night Live" cast member and comedian Maya Rudolph, airs at May 19 at 10 PM ET on NBC.
Godspell's Eric Michael Krop — along with co-songwriters Selda Sahin and Derek Gregor — debuts new material from his upcoming album "Love Lessons" May 19 at 54…
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards May 18 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.
The Awesome 80s Prom, the long-running, immersive theatrical event that invited theatregoers to prom night, returns for five Saturday evening performances beginning May 17 at New York's …