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White People, J.T. Rogers' new drama about "the racial issues dividing America today," gets an invitation-only industry reading 4:30 PM Jan. 31 in New York.
Comedian Louis C.K. surprise-released his new web series "Horace and Pete" over the weekend, with a cast of fellow stars and a setting that closely resembles Eugene O'Neill…
FOX-TV jumped into the live television musical business, reimagining the hit Broadway show and film "Grease" for TV with "Grease: Live," with a cast that featured Aar…
Comedienne and Broadway veteran Carol Burnett was given a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the 2016 SAG awards, bestowed Jan. 30 by the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Televi…
Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald was the guest star in the latest Ham4Ham, a series of impromptu concerts that used to take place on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theat…
Have you ever been so immersed in a great drama that you almost felt you were going to faint? It actually happened to one unlucky audience member on Broadway Jan. 29.
Mike Nichols, the late performer, writer and director who left an indelible mark on stage and screen, is remembered in a PBS documentary directed by his one-time writing and performing p…
Pultizer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is working with two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington on a long-delayed film adaptation of the play Fences, by two-time Pulit…
Danielle Brooks, currently on Broadway in The Color Purple, on TV in "Orange Is the New Black" and in video games as the red bird in "Angry Birds," talked about all the c…
A stage adaptation of "A Dream of Red Pavilions," the epic 18th-century Chinese novel about the rise and fall of an aristocratic family as reflected in a romance between two co…
Bertolt Brecht's 1939 classic anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children is getting a second staging in New York this month, but each is very different from the other.
Ezio Petersen, a longtime member of the circle of New York theatre journalists, died Jan. 25. He was one of the small number of African-American reporters whose career was devoted to the…
Two-time Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett will make her long overdue Broadway debut with Richard Roxburgh next season in The Present, Andrew Upton's drama based on Anton Chek…
Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda (well, his voice anyway) made his debut in the Broadway musical Les Misérables
over the weekend. The moment is captured in the latest Ham4H…
Broadway's Eden Espinosa (Wicked, Brooklyn, Rent) will play the central role of Sadie Thompson in Michael John LaChiusa's musical adaptation of the 1921 W. Somerset Maugham play Ra…
Broadway Week ticket discounts, originally scheduled for Jan. 19-Feb. 5, have been extended through Feb. 7 partly due to the dip in attendance owing to winter storm Jonas, and partly to …
What would make a veteran lighting designer, who learned his craft from the great Tharon Musser doing A Little Night Music and A Chorus Line, shuck all that after a successful decade in the …
Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden has been appointed conductor of the New York Philharmonic, one of the premiere posts in the New York cultural world.
Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman for the rock group Green Day and composer of the Broadway musical American Idiot, said it is a "shame" that a Connecticut high school has canceled a …
Demolition and construction around New York City often reveal antique signs painted on the sides of buildings, which disappeared from view when a new building went up next door. They're …
Fans of Broadway dancer Mitzi Hamilton have assembled a video tribute that mashes her life with the opening number from the Broadway hit Hamilton.
Mike Nichols, the late performer, writer and director who left an indelible mark on stage and screen, will be remembered in a PBS documentary directed by his onetime writing and performing p…
Mike Nichols, the late performer, writer and director who left an indelible mark on stage and screen, will be remembered in a PBS documentary directed by his one-time writing and perform…
The Disney musical Aladdin is firing up the magic carpet for its first national tour, set to commence with a 12-week engagement at Chicago's Palace Theatre April 11-July 2, 2017.
Feinstein's/54 Below will present Sondheimas, "the annual quasi-religious celebration of the birth of the savior of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim." The concert will be …
