On Dec. 3, the Writers Guild nominated the 69th Annual Tony Awards broadcast and writer Dave Boone with a nomination in the Comedy/Variety – Music, Awards Tributes – Spec…
The Fred Ebb Foundation announced Dec. 3 that it would donate $1.65 million to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, tying last year's donation, which was the largest single contribution in…
David Henry Hwang, whose M. Butterfly won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Play, is recovering after an apparently random slashing attack near his home in Fort Green, Brooklyn.
The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit, a new, original musical sequel to Charles Dickens' perennial holiday favorite "A Christmas Carol," gets its Off-Broadway debut De…
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London is planning to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death with a program of 37 short films inspired by the Bard's 37 plays.
Lupita Nyong'o, who has major Broadway and Hollywood openings in the next few weeks, talked about her tough roles in a Dec. 2 appearance on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show.&quo…
Broadway's smallest theatre, the Helen Hayes on West 44th Street, will get an extensive interior and exterior renovation, according to Newyorkyimby.com.
The rarely-seen Irving Berlin musical Miss Liberty is getting its long-delayed London premiere in a production that will restore four songs cut during the show's tryout.
Ruby Rakos, who appeared in the ensemble of Broadway’s Billy Elliot, plays the role of Judy Garland in what's being billed as the developmental world premiere of the new musica…
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Broadway playwright David Ives said that working with Sondheim on his next musical is like working with Mozart.
The 46-track cast album of the new musical Hamilton, which recently hit #1 on the Billboard chart of rap albums, was named eighth best album of 2015 by Rolling Stone magazine Dec. 1.
With the addition of choreographer Lorin Latarro (Waiting for Godot), the creative team for the forthcoming musical Waitress is poised to make Broadway history. It will be the first Broadway…
News that Hamilton composer and star Lin-Manuel Miranda composed music for the cantina scene in the new film "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" flashed around the galaxy Dec. 1, in…
News that Hamilton composer and star Lin-Manuel Miranda composed music for the cantina scene in the new film "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" flashed around the galaxy Dec. 1, in…
It was revealed Nov. 30 that Lin-Manuel Miranda, author and star of the Broadway phenomenon Hamilton, also had a hand in another upcoming juggernaut, the film "Star Wars: The Force …
It was revealed Nov. 30 that Lin-Manuel Miranda, author and star of the Broadway phenomenon Hamilton, also had a hand in another upcoming juggernaut, the film "Star Wars: The Force …
Jonathan Groff, who took a pre-arranged, one-month leave from his role as King George III in Broadway's Hamilton to appear in the HBO film "Looking," returns to the Lin…
In his new book, "Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way," Broadway producer and author Stewart F. Lane tells how The Wiz became a Tony-winning hit.
Here's a treat for fans of singer Liz Callaway and composer Stephen Sondheim.
Harvey Fierstein, one of Broadway's most versatile talents, having won Tony Awards in four different categories, is having one of the most dynamic weeks of his 33-year Main Stem care…
The complete original cast from the Off-Broadway Public Theater production of Eclipsed will accompany the show's star, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o, when the drama moves …
Ham4Ham — the impromptu performances that occur periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where Hamilton is playing — allowed Andrew Rannells, who f…
Broadway favorite Liz Callaway celebrates her latest album, "The Essential Liz Callaway," with a Nov. 30 concert at The Metropolitan Room in New York, where she recorded several of…
Ham4Ham, the impromptu performances that occur periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where Hamilton is playing, welcomed George Takei and the cast of his Broadway m…
Ruby Rakos, who appeared in the ensemble of Broadway’s Billy Elliot, plays the role of Judy Garland in what's being billed as the developmental world premiere of the new musica…