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Don't Tell Mama will present its first annual Mama's Next BIG Act!, a 12-week competition that mixes styles and genres, this summer. The contest's winner will receive a fully…
Cast members from the rock musical The Toxic Avenger will reunite this summer in concert at 54 Below. Constantine Maroulis, who played the title role in the 2012 production at Texas' All…
The Spice Kids — The Audience and Annie's Sadie Sink and Matilda and Christmas Story's Alexa Niziak, Beatrice Tulchin, Analise Scarpaci and Grace Capeless — reall…
When a high school production of Sweeney Todd was canceled due to the nature of the story one year before it was planned to bow at Timberlane Regional High School, the controversy in New Ham…
Three-time Tony Award nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger, who was last seen on the New York stage in Lincoln Center Theater's The Oldest Boy — a story about motherhood&nbs…
Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming previews his new one-man show at Galavant In The Garden, a spring garden party benefiting Bucks County Playhouse, May 9 at Dark Hollow Farm, a p…
Carol Burnett, who was last seen on Broadway in the revival of Love Letters, heads to the St. George Theatre on New York's Staten Island May 9 for an evening of "off-the-cuf…
The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance will present a free workshop performance of the newly developed musical Helldrivers of Daytona — from composer Ber…
Author and musical theatre historian Jennifer Ashley Tepper will be joined by Jay Armstrong Johnson (On The Town), Tony-nominated lyricist Amanda Green (Hands on a Hardbody) and Jim Walt…
The first post-Broadway production of Rock of Ages will be presented at the Gateway Playhouse in Long Island beginning May 20. Genson Blimline and Amma Osei, who played Lonny and Justice…
The University of Oklahoma Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre Class of 2015 will star in a concert version of Drama Desk Award nominees Neil Bartram and Brian Hill's The Theory of R…
Tony Award nominee Terrence Mann will direct Connecticut Repertory Theatre's Les Misérables and star in the production as Inspector Javert, a role he originated on Broadway an…
Tony Award nominee Terrence Mann will direct Connecticut Repertory Theatre's Les Misérables and star in the production as Inspector Javert, a role he originated on Broadway an…
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel (Wicked, Rent, "Frozen," "Glee") will launch the national tour of If/Then, reprising her critically acclaimed, Tony-nominated performan…
Hamilton's Christopher Jackson and Wicked actress Shoshana Bean will join Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, conductor and director Jason Robert Brown for his May 15 concert at N…
The Fiasco Theater production of Into the Woods, stripped down to a ten-person cast with a new sound and feel — which recently concluded its acclaimed Off-Broadway…
Stuart Thompson and Tim Levy for NT America, producers of the acclaimed Broadway production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, have announced that a U.S. national tour…
Before Into the Woods was a major movie musical, the iconic fairytale premiered on Broadway in 1987 and took home three 1988 Tony Awards. For the first time, the acceptance speeches (in high…
The new Broadway comedy An Act of God, starring Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Jim Parsons in the role of God, begins performances May 7 at Studio 54.
The City Center Encores! production of the classic Kander and Ebb musical Zorba! plays the famed Manhattan venue through May 10. Members of the cast pick their favorite Kander and Ebb songs …
Idina Menzel, who recently concluded her yearlong run in Broadway's If/Then, sat down with Ellen DeGeneres to talk about her upcoming world tour…and practiced singing "Le…
Following multiple sold out engagements, Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band will return to 54 Below May 18 to continue an official residence for 2015.
Kristin Chenoweth, currently starring in her Tony-nominated turn in On the Twentieth Century, has announced her lineup of 2015-16 concert tour dates and cities.
Pittsburgh Public Theater's 40th anniversary season will conclude with the Pittsburgh premiere of Jonathan Tolins' one-man comedy Buyer & Cellar, starring "Buffy the…
Before Skylar Astin was breaking it down a cappella-style as heartthrob Jesse Swanson in "Pitch Perfect," he was belting about "The Bitch of Living" in Broadway's…