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Broadway and "X Factor" star Rachel Potter will release her full-length debut album "Not So Black and White" March 3, 2015. Listen to the track "Zero To Sixty&qu…
Ghost Quartet by Dave Malloy — whose critically acclaimed electro-pop opera Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 ran Off-Broadway last year — will tr…
The band Reserved For Rondee, featuring "Into the Woods" star and Tony Award nominee Billy Magnussen, will play Slake/Midtown Live Dec. 18 at 7 PM.
The Pace School of Performing Arts (PPA) announced Dec. 11 that a three-week intensive course in Los Angeles for undergraduate students in acting, dance and choreography for film will be…
Liz Callaway, a Tony Award nominee for her performance in Baby, is "Merry and Bright" on her Christmas album. Here, she chooses her favorite merry holiday tunes as part of this wee…
Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan (Newsies, "Smash") and Spring Awakening actress Lauren Pritchard (LOLO) have joined the lineup for ASTEP/Artists Striving to End Poverty's sixt…
Stephen Sondheim, the award-winning composer of Into the Woods, will pick the winner of the "Sing Your Way Into the Woods" contest, in which fans can receive access to an advan…
Creatives behind the New York Spring Spectacular, including Tony Award winners Warren Carlyle and Diane Paulus, Drama Desk winner Randy Weiner and Emmy Award winner Mia Michaels, spoke to th…
George Stevens Jr., who has produced the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors and CBS telecast since its inception in 1978, announced at the Dec. 7 ceremony that this would be his last year wit…
Barrington Stage Company will present an industry reading of the new musical Presto Change-O, a story of three illusionists, Dec. 19 at 11 AM at Manhattan Theatre Club.
The Pasadena Playhouse and Lythgoe Family Productions present the Panto at the Playhouse production of Sleeping Beauty and Her Winter Knight beginning Dec. 10.
Mo Brady (The Addams Family, "Smash") and Nikka Graff Lanzarone (Chicago, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) have released new episodes of "The Ensemblist&quo…
Ariana DeBose, Hannah Elless, Donna Lynne Champlin and Jason Tam are among the performers joining composer-lyricist Daniel Maté for three goodbye concerts entitled Before I Go…
Two-time Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes (Cinderella, Bonnie & Clyde) will lead the cast of workshop presentations of the new Broadway-aimed musical Somewhere in Time Feb. 13,…
The Summit Playhouse and its Kaleidoscope Theatre for Youth will present the New Jersey premiere of The Hundred Dresses, based on the Newbery Honor book of the same name by Eleanor Estes, be…
The stars of Broadway's Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, about the early life and career of the legendary and groundbreaking singer-songwriter Carole King, will discuss their Gram…
The 4th Wall Theatre will present a Composer's Showcase, featuring Liz McCartney (Annie), Pippin actor Mike Schwitter and more, Dec. 15 at the Westminster Arts Center in New Jersey.
The broadcast of NBC's Peter Pan Live!, starring Allison Williams, flew to the top of Nielsen's Twitter TV ratings, garnering nearly half-a-million tweets across the social m…
The film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods, which will debut Christmas Day, is among the American Film Institute's top 11 films of the year.
Seth Andrew Bridges, Stephen D'Ambrose, Samuel Ray Gates, Greta Lambert, Kate Middleton and William Parry have been cast in the world premiere of Kenneth Jones' Alabama Story, which …
Beaches, the new musical adapted from the 1985 novel by Iris Rainer Dart — which premiered earlier this year at Virginia's Signature Theatre starring Mara Davi and Alysha Umphr…
Klea Blackhurst (Radio Gals), Janet Dacal (Wonderland, In the Heights) and Tony Award nominee Tony Sheldon (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) have joined the cast of Mr. Magoo's Christmas C…
Morgan James, Taylor Louderman, Derek Klena, Will Blum, Alysha Umphress, Tony Sheldon and many more Broadway stars give life to a Broadway-bound "Frozen" sequel in a first-…
Logo TV's 2014 New Now Next Awards, hosted by Darren Criss, were held Dec. 7 and will air on MTV Dec. 12 at 7 PM ET. Watch highlights from the evening here.
Following a recent article published by Wall Street Journal critic and culture writer Joanne Kaufman, entitled "Confessions of a Broadway Bolter," theatrical press agent and presid…