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Members of the first North American touring company of Wicked host A Wicked Night Before Christmas, a staged holiday performance at The Laugh Factory — with net proceeds benefitin…
Motown Tony Award nominee Charl Brown and Saycon Sengbloh are among the performers joining fellow Motown cast member N'Kenge for Holiday Magic, an encore presentation of last year's …
Composer Ryan Scott Oliver's series The Rehearsal Room: New Writers Premiering New Work, featuring the work of new composers and writers of contemporary musical theatre, continues Dec. 7…
The Gallery Players, the award-winning Brooklyn theatre company now in its 47th season, presents Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play Equus beginning Dec. 7.
On Stage at Kingsborough, in association with Merkin Concert Hall's Broadway Close Up series, presents Sing For Your Supper, hosted by Sean Hartley, Dec. 7 at Kingsborough Community…
One Woman Show: A Work in Progress, written by and starring theatre director, producer and transgender performance artist Shakina Nayfack, is offered Dec. 7 at Joe's Pub.
Stage and screen actor Dustin Hoffman, who was Tony-nominated for his performance in The Merchant of Venice, will be part of the cast of Stephen Frears' untitled Lance Armstrong biopic, …
Stage and screen star Debra Monk, who received a Tony Award for her performance in Redwood Curtain, will celebrate her 65th birthday Feb. 24, 2014, with a "free-wheeling rock 'n'…
Daniel Maté and Friends, featuring the work of songwriter Daniel Maté in an evening of "eclectic, insightful and thoroughly contagious theatre songs," is held Dec. 6 …
Larissa Mark, a senior at Trumbull High School in Trumbull, CT, and the president of the school's Thespian Society, speaks with Playbill.com on the canceled production of Rent: School Ed…
The Gallery Players, the award-winning Brooklyn theatre company now in its 47th season, will present Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play Equus beginning Dec. 7.
The 100th episode of the hit Fox musical series "Glee" will air March 18, 2014, and co-creator Ryan Murphy is lining up a star-studded list of guest stars, according to his officia…
The theatre department of talent agency WME Entertainment has signed the estates of Tony Award winners and theatrical legends Jerome Robbins and August Wilson, according to Deadline.com.
Stage and screen actor Jeremy Irons, who took home the 1984 Tony Award for his performance in The Real Thing, will star opposite Dev Patel in "The Man Who Knew Infinity," a biopic …
Fate, Fury, and Musical Theatre, written by and starring actress Liz Wasser, is offered Dec. 5 at 54 Below.
Stage and screen actor Chip Zien, known for creating the role of the Baker in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods, makes his "swinging cabaret" debut Dec. 5 at 5…
Trumbull High School, located in Trumbull, CT — approximately 66 miles from where the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical Rent premiered on Broadway — has put a stop to…
YouTube sensation Team StarKid presented Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, an original musical comedy parody from the creative team behind A Very Potter Musical, this summer …
Stage and screen actor Chip Zien, who was last seen on Broadway in Roundabout Theatre Company's The Big Knife, will play 54 Below Dec. 5 and Dec. 11.
Bucks County Playhouse, under the producing direction of Jed Bernstein, presents Meet Me in St. Louis: A Live Radio Play as the company's 2013 holiday show — set in a similar …
The New York premiere of Becoming Dr. Ruth, starring Debra Jo Rupp ("That 70's Show"), will play its final performance at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre Dec. 22 at 3 …
Legendary Pictures will develop a film based on the life of Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi and has assembled a rights package with the Lombardi estate, Eric Simonson's Broad…
Colm Wilkinson, the Tony Award-nominated original star of Les Misérables, will join Ramin Karimloo and the Toronto company of that musical for a special charity performance Jan. 11, 2…
Original Broadway cast members from Spring Awakening, the Tony Award-winning musical about teenagers coming of age in 19th-century Germany set to a pulsating rock score, reunited Dec. 2 at N…
Remy Zaken, who was seen on Broadway in Spring Awakening, and F. Michael Haynie, recently of Broadway's Wicked, join composer Xander Green Dec. 3 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.