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The Tony Awards Administration Committee met Thursday to rule on eligibility for five Broadway productions, confirming where several shows and artists will compete at the 79th annual Tony Aw…
Audra McDonald and Joy Reid are among the 2026 New York Women in Film & Television Muse Award honorees. Dedicated to celebrating women in film, television, music, and media, the awards c…
Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell will star on Broadway in this fall's revival of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing." This marks a reunion for the "Avengers" actors; Hiddleston is best kn…
Robert Duvall, who won an Oscar for "Tender Mercies" and was nominated for his roles in films including "The Godfather," "Apocalypse Now," and "The Great Santini," has died. He was 95.…
Jennifer Hudson is telling you, she is going to produce the Broadway revival of "Dreamgirls," which will open in the fall. Hudson won the Oscar for portraying Effie White in the 2006 movie v…
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is set to star as Truman Capote, the brilliant and troubled literary legend, in the first New York revival of "Tru." The solo show by Jay Presson Allen was a triumph for…
"Moulin Rouge! The Musical" is closing after seven years on Broadway. The upbeat jukebox musical will play its final performance on July 26 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. By then, "Moulin Rou…
Anthony Rapp will star in "Touch," a new solo play about a middle-aged gay man, failed writer and burned-out fifth-grade teacher whose life is thrown into chaos after an unexpected encounter…
Baby is making her way across the United States. "Dirty Dancing: The Musical," a stage adaptation of the beloved 1987 romantic drama, is embarking on a North American tour. It will launch th…
Tony Award-winning producers Hal Luftig, Cathy Dantchik and Kevin Connor are teaming up to launch Halcyon Theatricals, a new producing and consulting theatrical company. The Halcyon team has…
President Donald Trump, after affixing his name to Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and prompting multiple artists to cancel engagements at the famed arts center, said he has decided that t…
Kevin Couch, a veteran live entertainment exec and musician, was announced as the head of artistic programming at the newly rechristened Trump Kennedy Center on Jan. 16. Less than two weeks …
Back in the fall of 2019, on the night of the first performance of "& Juliet" in Manchester, England, director Luke Sheppard was sweating. "Nobody had bought a ticket," he recalls.…
Stephanie Hsu, Juliette Lewis, Rachel Dratch and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez have joined the cast of "The Rocky Horror Show." The upcoming Broadway revival, which will be directed by Tony Award …
The 2026 Tony Awards will take place June 7. The 79th edition of Broadway's biggest night of the year will return to Radio City Music Hall and will be broadcast live on both coasts on the CB…
Lesley Manville is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut in "Oedipus," but there are a few quirks of New York theatergoing she could do without. For starters, there's the applause that gr…
Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson will make their Broadway debuts in "The Fear of 13," a searing play about a wrongly convinced death row prisoner. "The Fear of 13" tells the true story of Nic…
Thirty years after it initially debuted in London, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts' "Bug" is finally getting its Broadway bow. Directed by Obie Award winner David Cormer, the d…
Ambassador Richard Grenell, the Trump-appointed president of the Kennedy Center, said the organization will seek $1 million in damages from noted jazz musician Chuck Redd after Redd abruptly…
Imani Smith, a former child actor who starred in "The Lion King" on Broadway, was found dead on Dec. 21, according to a press release from Middlesex County, N.J., Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone …
The Kennedy Center, which first opened its doors more than 50 years ago, on Friday got a new addition: Donald Trump's name, which is being added above the name of John F. Kennedy on the buil…
The Kennedy Center is being renamed the "Trump-Kennedy Center," after President Donald Trump ousted the previous Democratic board members and management team and installed himself as chairma…
Simu Liu is moving from the MCU to a very wacky White House. The on-screen superhero, best known for his starring role in Marvel's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," will make his …
"Titanique," a campy Off Broadway hit, will open on Broadway in the spring. The show is a low-fi musical parody of James Cameron's disaster epic "Titanic" that uses Céline Dion's music to r…
"Little Bear Ridge Road," an acclaimed drama with Laurie Metcalf that marked Scott Rudin's first Broadway production since controversy erupted over his alleged bullying behavior, will close …