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Original A Chorus Line cast member Baayork Lee is hosting Past, Present & Future, an Oct. 5 benefit gala celebrating five years since the founding of her organization, the National A…
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel can add a new feather to her cap. In addition to her Tony Award (for Wicked) her performance of the Oscar-winning song "Let It Go" from the anima…
The Broadway comedy Hand to God is offering a special ticket discount to coincide with the New York visit of Pope Francis this week.
The Tony Awards have been told by Radio City Music Hall that the 6,200-seat theatre will not be available for the annual ceremony next year, according to a report in The New York Times.
Pope Francis will be visiting New York City Sept. 24-26, and police are planning what they call an "unprecedented level of security"— which includes street closings t…
Pop novelist Jackie Collins, who died Sept. 19 at age 77, left behind the unproduced script for a play, according to The New York Post.
Lin-Manuel Miranda quotes from the 1969 Tony-winning musical 1776 in his current hit Hamilton, and has acknowledged being inspired by the earlier musical. Now the influence appears r…
Lin-Manuel Miranda quotes from the 1969 Tony-winning musical 1776 in his current hit Hamilton, and has acknowledged being inspired by the earlier musical. Now the influence appears r…
The Shubert Organization, Broadway's largest theatre owner, has announced that it has partnered with Accent Media to create a new website, www.broadway.tickets, to give theatregoers a si…
The musical Jersey Boys plays its 4,093rd performance Sept. 22, surpassing the run of Miss Saigon to become the 12th longest-running show in Broadway history.
Pope Francis will be visiting New York City Sept. 24-26, and police are planning what they call an "unprecedented level of security"— which includes street closings t…
An idea for a lighthearted news item about a funny coincidence turned into a touching story about the legacy of a young man who loved theatre and died too soon.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, will help the next generation of musical theatre writers…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, will help the next generation of musical theatre writers…
The complete cast has been announced for the new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical School of Rock, which opens on Broadway Dec. 6 at the Winter Garden Theatre. The musical is based on the popular …
Taran Killam, who recently appeared as the sadistic dentist Orin opposite Ellen Greene in the recent City Center Encores! revival of Little Shop of Horrors, has been tapped to play president…
Four-time Grammy-nominated singer/keyboardist Karrin Allyson rolls out her new CD of Rodgers & Hammerstein hits, titled "Many a New Day (Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers &am…
Duke Lafoon plays the role of George Bailey in A Wonderful Life, a stage musical adaptation of the holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life," with book and lyrics by S…
Cry-Baby, the 2008 Broadway musical that managed only 68 performances despite a high-power creative team, is getting a long-delayed original cast album — and an origina…
Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) stars in a new hour-long TV variety show, "Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris," premiering Sept. 15 at 10…
Stokes is stoked.
Tony-winning Broadway leading man Brian Stokes Mitchell is back in the New York limelight in a big way this season, debuting his first club gig at the tony Caf&ea…
In honor of its 30th season, Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company will offer $30 tickets to every preview performance of all seven shows being offered during 2015-16. The seas…
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival, plays its final performance at the Belasco Theatre Sept. 13 at 3 PM. Taye Diggs is the show's final star.…
Ham4Ham, the impromptu concerts that happen periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is playing, showed "Love for the Techies" Sept. 11, and sh…
Two longtime associates of late TV talk-show legend Joe Franklin are asking the public's help in their campaign to "co-name" a stretch of New York's West 43rd Stree…