Stage and screen actress Kathleen Turner is returning to Broadway this spring in the new play High -- and you can audition to be her understudy.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMJackie Schram moved to New York just last fall to pursue her acting career, but she's already planning to leave town. She's been cast in the nonunion national tour of "The 39 Steps."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe Tony Award-winning musical has turned profitable after only 21 weeks, which is faster than any new Broadway musical in more than a decade.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:26AMBroadway's Patrick Page and Darron L. West are among the recipients of the annual awards, which honor theater, dance, choreography, and film.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:30PMNew York's independent theater community attempts to sustain itself with a new collective fundraising initiative, which officially launched Aug. 1.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:29AMIATSE Local 764 and the Broadway League ratified the first collective bargaining agreement for Child Actor Guardians, who oversee Broadway child actors.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:51AMArts education organization and local musicians union team up to offer Broadway Boot Camp for NYC public school students in August.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:15AMThe arts education organization and local musicians' union are teaming up to offer "Broadway Boot Camp" for NYC public school students in August.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:54AMBrian Stokes Mitchell, Josh Groban, Lin Arison, Paul G. Allen, and James Rosenquist will be honored at a benefit in New York City this fall.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:54AMHolmes will star as Lorna in playwright Theresa Rebeck's new comedy, which will open on Broadway this fall directed by Jack O'Brien.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:26AM"The Hunger Games" director is in talks to direct a film based on Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Peter Pan prequel, which was also adapted for Broadway.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:43AMArtistic Director Christopher Ashley will host a public forum to discuss the casting process for its new musical.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:05AMNow through August 19, "Evita" percussionist Dave Roth asks for donations of used iPods, to give Alzheimer's patients the healing power of music.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:31AMProductions of "Miss Saigon" and Cathy Rigby's "Peter Pan" combined to generate record-setting revenue, with the 2012-13 season poised to be even bigger.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:29AMActors' Equity Association selects "Tennessee Williams' Streetcar" for its Extraordinary Excellence in Diversity on Broadway Award for the 2011-12 season.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:43AMDozens of films and TV series, from "Boardwalk Empire" and "Blue Bloods" to "The Good Wife" and "White Collar," shoot in New York City.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:59AMNew York Women in Film & Television's board of directors announces the election of Alexis Alexanian as its president; five new board members also elected.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:42AMWith the annual SketchFest NYC on hiatus until 2013, the Peoples Improv Theater introduces its first annual New York City Sketch Festival this fall.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:28AMThe late writer-director, who died on Tuesday at age 71, explained how she worked with actors in a 2010 Back Stage interview.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:01AMMartin Platt, co-director of Perry Street Theatricals and founder of Alabama Shakespeare Festival, takes charge at Olney Theatre Center in Maryland.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:54AMThe Harlem cultural institution has been relieved of over $10 million in debt and will remain in its current location rent-free "indefinitely."
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:28AMThe Broadway League reports that as an industry, Broadway generated over $11 billion in revenue for New York City and supported more than 86,000 jobs.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:34AMNina Arianda, Diane Paulus, Katori Hall, and Estelle Parsons were among the winners at the Lilly Awards, which honor women working in the theater.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:57PMStudy shows that winning a Tony Award can extend a show's run by 50 percent; New York Times reviews less influential than Daily News.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:03AMJoy Dewing Casting will take over all clients and projects from Clemmons/Dewing Casting, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tour, and regional productions.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:09AMIATSE, AGVA, and other local unions reach agreement with Foster Mollison Entertainment to hire union stagehands for its "Empire New York" tent show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:34PMTara Rubin is casting the upcoming Broadway revival of "The Heiress," directed by Moises Kaufman and starring Jessica Chastain and David Strathairn.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:55PMForty new shows opened on Broadway during the 2011-12 season, which took in $1.14 billion for the highest-grossing year on record.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:15AMCasting director Seth Yanklewitz explains how Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, and the rest of the "Rock of Ages" cast ended up rocking out.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PMNick Wyman, Paige Price, Rebecca Kim Jordan, Ira Mont, and Sandra Karas take top national positions, while regional officers and principals are also chosen.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:43AMUnion stagehands from New York's Local One of IATSE protest Speigelword's nonunion labor force for its "Empire New York" tent show.
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