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Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Harry Connick, Jr. performed a special concert at Broadway’s Neil Simon Theatre this past summer, which was released on Blu-ray March 1 and w…
Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, set to return to his original role of Usnavi for the closing weeks of his musical In the Heights on Broadway, will first bring his popular hip-hop impro…
The New York-based theatre company Naked Angels and Pasadena's Furious Theatre Company are teaming up for "Mondays LA: Naked and Furious," a forum for presenting new work in theatre, film an…
Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong finished his stint in American Idiot, the musical based on the Green Day punk-rock album, Feb. 27. The performance also marked the last for John Ga…
The Oct. 12 “Glee” episode, entitled “Duets,” will feature plenty of them, plus one knockout solo.Kurt (Chris Colfer) gets to belt out Victor/Victoria’s “…
Broadway and video-blogging vet Andrew Keenan-Bolger gives us a peek at rehearsals for the upcoming New York Theatre Workshop production of Peter and the Starcatcher, a new play that examine…
Tony Award-nominated playwright-director Moises Kaufman, Tony Award-nominated actor Zach Grenier and musicologist Dr. William Kinderman talk about 33 Variations, the play that casts Academy …
Anne Hathaway got to show off her singing chops when she co-hosted the 83rd Annual Academy Awards Feb. 27 - and her co-host, James Franco, got to sing, too, albeit not ultimately at the cere…
Actor-playwright Charles Busch recently hosted a conversation with his friend, entertainment veteran (and gay icon) Liza Minnelli, for the gay-themed PBS series “In the Life.”The…
Broadway's Megan Hilty has joined the cast of "Smash," the NBC pilot for a series charting the creation of a Broadway musical, according to deadline.com.
Marla Mindelle, who will be playing Sister Mary Robert in the Broadway production of Sister Act, performed with the musical’s cast on “The View” Feb. 9. A backstage video…
Original cast and creative team members of the original production and HBO miniseries adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America appear in this video to discuss the play. The vide…
Stage and screen star John Stamos visited "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" Sept. 28 to chat about his recurring guest role on TV's "Glee."Stamos mentions in this clip that he first…
“Glee” Emmy winner and stage vet Jane Lynch hosted the Oct. 9 episode of “Saturday Night Live” and, for her opening monologue, revealed that she had written the theme…
Full music tracks from “The Sue Sylvester Bowl Shuffle,” the Feb. 6 episode of “Glee” that will kick off the hit series' spring season following the Super Bowl, have …
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Feb. 14-20, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.MUSICALSThe Lion King (Minskoff Theatre), $1,534,779Wicked (Gerswhin Theat…
Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is planning to play disillusioned salesman Willy Loman in a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman set for next year…
A preliminary lineup of performers for MCC Theater's "Miscast 2011" gala, which will take place March 14 at the Hammerstein Ballroom, has been announced.
Tony Award nominee Eddie Izzard and Academy and Obie Award winner Morgan Freeman will be seen this summer at the Hollywood Bowl, the venerable outdoor California concert hall announced March…
The late director Arthur Penn sat down with moderator Steve Lawson for a career-retrospective interview in 2002, when his production of Ivan Turgenev’s Fortune’s Fool had just op…
Composer-lyricist Bobby Cronin will present his work in a special concert, The Roads I’m Taking, at Birdland Nov. 29.A trailer for the concert, which will feature the talents of Tituss…
Casting has been announced for CAP21's production of Shaina Taub's The Daughters, a "folk-funk opera" based on the story of the Trojan War, which will run March 2-20.
A teaser for the upcoming New World Stages revival of Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award-winning musical Rent has been released.The production will be directed by Michael Grief, who directed…
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Oct. 25-31, 2010, as reported by The Broadway League.MUSICALSWicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,541,013The Lion King (Minskoff Theat…
"Dreamgirls" and pop star Beyonce Knowles recently shot some photographs for the March issue of the French magazine L’Offciel Paris that were meant to pay homage to the Nigeria…