A sexy duet version of "Defying Gravity" with Aaron Tveit and Rachel Tucker kicks off the new "Out of Oz" series of reimagined versions of songs from the long-running…
"Witch's Night Out," an animated Canadian TV special that debuted in 1978 with the voices of Gilda Radner and Catherine O'Hara, among others, is being adapted as a stage mu…
Christopher Jackson, currently co-starring as George Washington in the Broadway musical Hamilton, sang "The Star Spangled Banner" Oct. 18 before the start of Game 2 of the Nati…
Larry David, star of Broadway's Fish in the Dark, brought down the house on the Oct. 17 "Saturday Night Live" cold open, in which he impersonated presidential candidate Bernie …
PopStar, a new musical set in the contemporary music world, is getting an invitation-only industry reading in New York Oct. 19.
Mary Zimmerman, the bold Chicago-based director who once filled a Broadway stage with a giant pool for an adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (and won a Tony Award for it), is g…
The recent London stage production of The Rocky Horror Show screens in the U.S. at midnight between Oct. 17 and 18 on BBC America to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the show's…
"Men darf akhting geybn." That's "attention must be paid" in Yiddish — just one of the famous Arthur Miller lines ringing out through Nov. 22 as New Yiddish…
Theatres from London to Broadway to Michigan are celebrating the centennial of the birth of Arthur Miller, one of the greatest playwrights produced by the United States, on Oct. 17.
Nominees for the 44th Annual Vivian Robinson/Audelco Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre, for work in New York City, were announced Oct. 15 at a ceremony in Harlem, NY.
Tickets to the serial killer musical American Psycho—from the composer of Spring Awakening—go on sale Oct. 19 to members of the Audience Rewards program only. Tickets go …
The 140-seat Chernuchin Theatre, one of the four theatres housed at the Off-Broadway American Theatre of Actors (314 West 54th Street, near Eighth Avenue in New York), is being renam…
"Bridge of Spies," Steven Spielberg's first film since "Lincoln," arrives in cinemas Oct. 16, starring Oscar winner Tom Hanks as James Donovan, and three-time Ton…
Bill Rauch, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, took to the pages of American Theatre magazine to explain and defend his plans to have contemporary playwrights "tr…
Powerful demand for tickets has prompted Boston's Huntington Theatre Company to add a week to the limited run of its stage adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning novel A Confederacy of D…
Producers Dori Berinstein and Bill Damaschke have announced complete casting for Gotta Dance, a new musical based on the acclaimed 2008 documentary of the same name about profession…
Upcoming and recent cast album releases (and significant theatre-related recordings).
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," source material for the 2005 musical Monty Python's Spamalot, a special 40th Anniversary Edition will be…
Dancer/choreographer Michelle Dorrance, who was recently named winner of a 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Grant, appeared on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Oct. 14 to help…
Mortimer the Indian in The Fantasticks styles himself as The Man Who Dies, but he's gotten some serious competition over the past two years from Jefferson Mays, star of Broadway's A …
The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization has released shortened versions of two classic musicals in its library, the team's own Oklahoma! and Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer's …
Joel and Ethan Coen, creators of the idiosyncratic cult hits "The Big Lebowski" and "Fargo," are planning a sendup of Hollywood itself in their latest film, "Hail, C…
Music Theatre International (MTI) has acquired worldwide licensing rights to Woody Allen's 2014 musical comedy Bullets Over Broadway.
Josh Gad, Tony Award nominee for originating the role of Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon, will co-write a film about charismatic wrestler Gorgeous George, according to Deadline Ho…
PopStar, a new musical set in the contemporary music world, will get an invitation-only industry reading in New York Oct. 19.