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Krysta Rodriguez, who recently starred in the Broadway musical First Date, has landed a lead role in CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" spinoff, "How I Met Your Dad," accor…
Claybourne Elder and Sean Hudock star in fully staged workshop performances of Room at the End of the Hall, a new two-hander from playwright Rocco Natale — presented by The Wild R…
Jonathan Freeman, a Tony Award nominee for his performance in She Loves Me, was the voice behind the villainous Jafar in the 1992 movie musical "Aladdin." He's back for more an…
Mothers and Sons, a new drama by four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally that stars Tony winner Tyne Daly, will offer a special ticket price of $30 for theatregoers under th…
54 Below will present concert versions of Funny Girl, Applause and Time and Again as part of the venue's 54 Sings… series. Mimi Hines, who succeeded Barbra Streisand as Fanny Bric…
Goodspeed Musicals will kick off its 2014 season with Damn Yankees, adapted by Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro to set the classic in 1955 Boston and pit the Yankees against the Boston Re…
Howard Sackler's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Great White Hope was recently given an industry reading starring rapper Common, according to the New York Post.
The upcoming film remake of the 1982 movie musical "Annie" will star 2013 Academy Award nominee Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"). Here is a first look at…
Rory O'Malley, a Tony nominee for his performance in The Book of Mormon, will debut his autobiographical show, Pub Crawl, March 10 at Joe's Pub. In anticipation of his solo show, O&…
Elizabeth Swados, who received four Tony nominations for Broadway's Runaways, directs GUNS, A Cabaret — a project she also conceived that began at NYU Tisch School of the Arts…
Randi Zuckerberg — an early executive at Facebook, which was co-founded by her brother and Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg — will make her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-nominate…
The Town Hall's 2014 Broadway by the Year series will continue with The Broadway Musicals of 1940-1964 March 31 at 8 PM.
Prior to her performance of the Oscar-winning song "Let It Go," Tony Award winner Idina Menzel's name was mispronounced by John Travolta. In celebration of Menzel's new alt…
Spring Awakening and "Glee" actress Lea Michele, who released her solo album "Louder" March 3, sits down with Jimmy Fallon March 4 on "The Tonight Show."
Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash's rock opera Murder Ballad and Austin Winsberg
and Alan Zachary's First Date are among the titles in Actors' Playhouse's 2014-15 season.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present the solo performance Rodney King by Roger Guenveur Smith and the return of Stupid F##king Bird by Aaron Posner as part of the company's summer…
Sh-K-Boom Records will release the new album from Tony Award nominee Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture), "All Will Be Well – The Piece of Meat Studio Sessions," as a digita…
Musicals Tonight!, under the leadership of Mel Miller, presents the Obie-winning musical Little Mary Sunshine beginning March 4 at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row.
Following her performance at the 86th Academy Awards, Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, who stars in the upcoming Broadway musical If/Then, performed the Oscar-winning, hit song "Let It G…
A trio of Rent originals — Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp and director Michael Greif — reunite for a new musical endeavor, Broadway's If/Then by Pulitzer Prize win…
Leigh Ann Larkin and Shayne Kennon, who starred in the 2013 Atlanta production of Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's Harmony, reprise their performances in that musical beginning March 4 …
Virginia's Signature Theatre presents the world premiere of Beaches, adapted from the 1985 novel by Iris Rainer Dart, which officially opens March 4 at Signature's MAX Theatre. Mara …
Glory|struck Productions will present the world premiere of its new music-driven series The Album Project March 30 at 7 PM at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal Bar in North Hollywood.
The Oscar-winning movie "Frozen," Disney's 3-D animated film that features the voices of Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, Tony nominee Jonathan Groff and stage and screen actres…
Film plans for Off-Broadway's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 — Dave Malloy's electropop opera, based on a slice of the epic novel "War and Peace,&…
