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Fox has ordered two more seasons of the hit musical series "Glee," it was announced April 19 by Kevin Reilly, chairman of entertainment of Fox Broadcasting Company.
Composers Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk offer a star-studded American Songbook Series concert April 19 at Lincoln Center. Here's a glimpse into rehearsals, including performances fr…
Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway openings of Jekyll & Hyde and Orphans. Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster, Tom Sturridge, Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox were there — and so was…
The Commercial Theater Institute, the New York City-based program committed to the development and training of emerging producers, offers its 32nd annual "3-Day Weekend Producing Intens…
Tony Award winners Nikki M. James and Sutton Foster and Tony Award nominees Jeremy Jordan and Josh Young are among the performers taking part in composers Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk&…
The world premiere of the new musical Big Fish, based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, officially opens in a pre-Broadway …
Tony Award winners Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Christine Ebersole and Joanna Gleason as well as "Smash" star Megan Hilty have joined the lineup for t…
Tony Award recipient Carol Burnett is honored April 18 with the naming of Carol Burnett Square at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Selma Avenue in Hollywood, CA.
Exposed: Zoe Sarnak in Concert, featuring the music of singer-songwriter Zoe Sarnak, will be presented April 26 at the Time Out Lounge at New World Stages.
Spring Awakening actress Phoebe Strole debuts "Good Friends" in "Hot Off the Ivories," a new music video series screening on Playbill Video that features the work of cont…
The Story of Jo-Beth will be presented in a New York City staged reading — as part of the First Look/Deeper Look Musical Theater Series — April 22 at the JCC in Manhattan. Derek …
"Here For You - Ballads for Broadway Impact," a new album of musical theatre composer Jonathan Reid Gealt's music to benefit Broadway Impact, will be released April 30. In anti…
James Ponsoldt, the writer-director of "The Spectacular Now" and "Smashed," will pen a film adaptation of the Roger O. Hirson-Stephen Schwartz musical Pippin, according t…
Barrington Stage Company announced April 17 additional titles and concert events for the company's 2013 season. Tony Award winners Tonya Pinkins and Linda Lavin are among the artists who…
You're Gonna Hate This, a new musical from Godspell's Lindsay Mendez and Michael Holland, will debut at Joe's Pub April 21. In anticipation of the concert event, the duo share th…
Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan and Ben Fankhauser, original cast members of the Disney musical Newsies, are among the performers set for Write Now: The Music of Michael Mott May 12 at the …
Daniel Quadrino (Bye Bye Birdie), Andrea Ross (Whistle Down The Wind) and Lindsey Carothers (Bring It On) are among the cast of Pace University students who will take part in a one-night-onl…
Goodspeed Musicals will present The Fabulous Lipitones, a new musical about a not-so-traditional barbershop quartet, beginning May 9 at The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT, Goodspeed'…
The Gallery Players, Brooklyn's award-winning Off Off-Broadway theatre, will continue its 46th season with Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger's Dreamgirls, beginning April 27.
Andrew Kober, who appeared on Broadway in Hair, will host Carner & Gregor's Barely Legal Showtune Extravaganza, which will return to NYC Aug. 5 at (le) Poisson Rouge.
National Asian Artists Project will present a Rediscover Series production of the Tony Award-winning musical Hello, Dolly! for two performances only on April 29 and May 6 at The Pershing Squ…
The BBC Two series "The Many Faces of…" will trace the career of Tony Award-winning Phantom of the Opera star Michael Crawford April 20 on the U.K. network.
Tony Award-winning set designer Derek McLane's 30th Broadway production, Breakfast at Tiffany's, transports audiences into the smoky haze of 1940s New York City. McLane shared insigh…
Epic Theatre Ensemble presents Richard III: Born With Teeth, a contemporary take on William Shakespeare's Richard III, beginning April 16, prior to an official opening April 21, at …
"The Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree," a collection of songs performed by musical theatre songwriter Joe Iconis ("Smash") and his "merry band of musical theatre mi…