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Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, Nick Blaemire and Zak Resnick are among the performers who are set for the 54 Below return of Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band. In anticipation of …
Barrington Stage Company presents the American premiere of Bashir Lazhar, beginning May 22 prior to an official opening May 26 in Pittsfield, MA.
Louis Ozawa Changchien, Matt Dellapina, Aubrey Dollar, Keith Nobbs and Chris Perfetti star in the world premiere of Erica Lipez's The Tutors, which kicks off Second Stage Theatre's 2…
Musical theatre composer Joe Iconis, whose music has been heard on the NBC musical series "Smash," hosts 22@54, featuring original songs by emerging writers from NYU's Gra…
Tony Award recipient Barbra Streisand will receive an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem June 17 during the 76th Hebrew University International Boa…
"Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Live," featuring the music of musical theatre songwriters Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk, is released digitally May 21 on Yellow Sound Label. The artists s…
Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan and Ben Fankhauser, original cast members of the Disney musical Newsies, were among the performers who took part in Write Now: The Music of Michael Mott…
Let's Make Noise: The Music & Lyrics of Janine McGuire, featuring the original music of composer-lyricist Janine McGuire, is presented May 21 in NYC. Janet Krupin and Jarrod Spector …
Amanda Green, who received her first Tony Award nomination this season for the Best Original Score of Hands on a Hardbody, fused the worlds of Hardbody and her Tony-nominated Best Musical Br…
Ambassador Theatre Group, the largest owner-operator of theatres in the U.K. (with 39 venues) has, through its subsidiary, Lyric Theatre LLC, acquired The Foxwoods Theatre — which curr…
Zachary Levi, star of TV's "Chuck," Disney's "Tangled" and the upcoming "Thor: The Dark World," will make his Broadway debut opposite "Smash" …
Ambassador Theatre Group, the largest owner-operator of theatres in the U.K. — with 39 venues — will purchase Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre, which currently houses Spider-Man: …
The Tony Award-nominated Best Musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will make its Australian debut at Sydney's Theatre Royal in October for a limited engagement. Roger Hodgman (Australian prod…
The York Theatre Company presents NEO 9, a benefit concert celebrating rising musical theatre writers, May 20 in New York City. Performers for the evening include Lisa Brescia, Tituss B…
Dogfight co-stars Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena and The Last Five Years star Betsy Wolfe are among the performers at Second Stage Theatre's annual spring gala, held May 20 in Manha…
Will Chase and Jenn Colella, original cast members of the short-lived Broadway musical High Fidelity, reunite for a concert staging of the Tom Kitt-Amanda Green-scored musical at Manhattan n…
The Nederlander Organization and the Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, present the second annual Jerry Herman Awards, celebrating achievement and excellence in high school musical theatre in Los …
Entertainment Events presents the Off-Broadway premiere of Cuff Me: The Fifty Shades of Grey Musical Parody, officially opening May 19, following previews that began March 27, at the Actors …
Shaping Sound, a new contemporary dance company that features Emmy nominee and Bare choreographer Travis Wall ("So You Think You Can Dance"), launches a 13-city tour May 18 in Los …
Lindsay Mendez, who will fly into Broadway's Wicked later this month, and music director and jazz pianist Marco Paguia celebrate their upcoming debut jazz vocal album, "This Time,&q…
The acclaimed Second Stage Theatre production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, which stars Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe as a couple who falls in an…
National Review roving correspondent and theatre critic Kevin Williamson, who attended the final preview of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 on May 15, was ejected from the audi…
The Broadway Dreams Foundation has announced three educational initiatives, including a sophomore album by musical theatre songwriter Joey Contreras, the development of a new musical and a s…
Patti Murin, who starred in the Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones, will lead the concert version of Popesical, a new musical comedy by Adam Overett, May 27 at Joe's Pub in New York City.
Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett will star in the upcoming David Mamet film "Blackbird," which exposes a secret explanation for the assassination of U.S. President John…