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Producers Howard and Janet Kagan confirmed Sept. 17 that the complete final cast from the downtown production of Dave Malloy's critically praised musical Natasha, Pierre & The G…
"Five Dances," a new film from writer-director Alan Brown ("Private Romeo") that stars Matilda and Newsies dancer Ryan Steele, will open in New York City Oct. 4 at Cinema…
"Backstage Pass to Broadway: True Tales of a Theatre Press Agent," a memoir by theatrical press agent Susan L. Schulman, was released by Heliotrope Books Sept. 16.
The high-flying Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark is giving school children who attend a performance during the "back-to-school" period a free limited-edition Spider-Ma…
Tony Award nominee Tom Sturridge and Drama Desk Award nominee Carey Mulligan are among the cast of Fox Searchlight Pictures' upcoming film "Far From the Madding Crowd."
The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be hosted by Broadway star and Emmy-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris Sept. 22 on CBS, will include an expanded "In Memoriam" segment, fe…
Kathy Voytko, Scott Logsdon, Kris Koop Ouellette and Bart Shatto will headline a concert version of the musical Chess Dec. 8 at 2 PM at the Richland Performing Arts Center in Johnstown, PA.
Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed, who co-starred as Aladdin and Jasmine in the Seattle premiere of Disney's Aladdin, will reprise their performances in Toronto. Producers announced the comp…
Four-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara — who will return to Broadway in 2014 in Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman's The Bridges of Madison County — and husband Greg …
Producers Howard Panter and John Frost have announced that the 40th anniversary production of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show will play a limited engagement at Melbourne'…
Paul Barnes, co-founder and former producing and artistic director of Minnesota's Great River Shakespeare Festival, will direct a free reading of Michael Raver's new play Fire on Bab…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association will honor Woody Allen with the 2014 Cecil B. De Mille Award for his outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment during the 71st Annual Go…
Lilla Crawford, who originated the title role in the 2012 Broadway revival of Annie, will play Little Red Riding Hood in the Disney feature film adaptation of Into the Woods, Walt Disney Stu…
A new block of tickets for Pippin, which received the 2013 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, has gone on sale. Tickets are now available through Aug. 31, 2014, producers for the musi…
The 66th Annual Tony Awards and the HBO film "Behind the Candelabra" were among the winners at the 2013 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which were held Sept. 15 at the NOKIA Theater L.A…
The Awesome 80s Prom, the immersive theatrical event that invites theatregoers to prom night, will end its nine-year Off-Broadway run this November at The Wall, producers announced Sept. 16.
The trials and tribulations of life in the world of theatre are being materialized on computer screens. In the three-part series "Broadway on the Web," Playbill.com profiles the th…
Tony Award nominee Valerie Harper, "Glee" actress Amber Riley and Godspell actor Corbin Bleu are among the cast of Season 17 of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," which …
Justin Matthew Sargent, who recently joined the company of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark as the Peter Parker/Spider-Man Alternate, has graduated to the production's full-ti…
Reeve Carney, who originated the dual roles of Peter Parker and Spider-Man in Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, takes his final flight with the musical Sept. 15. Following a coas…
Harmony – A New Musical, a co-production between Atlanta's Tony-winning Alliance Theatre and Center Theatre Group that features music by Barry Manilow and book and lyrics by Bruce …
"Stage Blood," a new memoir by Tony Award-winning director Michael Blakemore about his time at the National Theatre, will be released by Faber & Faber Plays Sept. 19.
Rachel Potter, who played the Mistress in the Broadway revival of Evita, auditioned on the Sept. 12 broadcast of "The X Factor," which made its season premiere earlier this week on…
Tony Award winner Steve Kazee, who starred in the Tony-winning musical Once, will guest star on the CBS drama "Elementary," according to EW.com.
Second Stage Theatre is celebrating its upcoming 35th anniversary season with special retro prices and audience perks throughout the season. Tickets priced $19.79 (the year in which the comp…