Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo, who produced the Broadway sports dramas Lombardi, Magic/Bird and Bronx Bombers, have acquired stage and film rights to the life story of African American heavy…
The Public Theater will present "Shakespeare in America," a free, one-night-only performance and discussion at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park June 30 at 8 PM. Actresses Jess…
Before he was a Tony Award-winning director-choreographer, Jerry Mitchell was a Broadway chorus kid who turned his art into activism during the height of Broadway's AIDS crisis with the …
The pre-Broadway premiere of The Last Ship, the new musical with music and lyrics by 17-time Grammy winner Sting — inspired by the songwriter's own childhood — officiall…
A private industry reading of the Broadway-aimed production of Gigi, featuring a fresh book by British playwright and Emmy-nominated screenwriter Heidi Thomas ("Upstairs Downstairs,&quo…
Tony Award nominee Annaleigh Ashford (Kinky Boots, "Masters of Sex") and Golden Globe nominee Rose Byrne ("Damages," "Bridesmaids") have joined the cast of the Broadway revival of Moss Hart …
Max Crumm, who has appeared on the New York stage in Grease, Disaster! and on television in "You're the One That I Want!," will step into the role of Matt in the long-running O…
Heather Matarazzo, Barrett Foa and Krysta Rodriguez are among the stars who will strip with The Skivvies for their July 1 show at 54 Below.
The Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma launches its summer season June 24 with the international hit musical Les Misérables, featuring Broadway Les Miz veteran Chuck Wagner as Jean Valjean.
"Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," the acclaimed documentary film that captures the vivid onstage and offstage life of the Tony Award-winning theatre icon, is released June 24 on DVD and …
The Broadway production of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan's Tony Award-winning political drama All The Way, which recouped its $3.9 million investment in early June, …
Award-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim has issued a statement in response to an article in The New Yorker, in which he spoke about alterations made to the plot of the Disney film a…
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder writers Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak are again collaborating with their Tony-winning director Darko Tresnjak on a new musical based on the …
Not even the 1990's grunge band Pearl Jam is immune to the power of the catchy Academy Award-winning Robert Lopez-Kristin Anderson-Lopez song "Let It Go."
The Public Theater celebrates the life and work of late composer Marvin Hamlisch during One Thrilling Combination, a gala event held June 23 at the Delacorte Theater.
Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch, who is making her New York City cabaret debut at 54 Below this week, recently spoke with Playbill.com about the Broadway roles she'd love to play.
Boston's SpeakEasy Stage Company will produce Terrence McNally's new Broadway drama Mothers and Sons as the final production of its 2014-15 season.
The Skivvies welcome Alice Ripley, Justin Guarini and Patrick Page as special guests for their late-night June 20 show at 54 Below.
Tickets are now on sale for the theatrical concert version of the Stephen King-John Mellencamp musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, which will hit the road again this fall, launching N…
Gerry Goffin, who, along with collaborator and first wife, Carole King, penned such enduring hits as "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Some Kind of Wonderful," "Natural Woman"…
Frankie James Grande, seen on the New York stage in Mamma Mia! and Pageant, has been selected by CBS to compete on the 16th cycle of the reality competition series "Big Brother."
Davis Gaines, best known for his lengthy run in the title role of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, will play Javert in the Orlando Shakespeare Theater production of Les Mi…
Complete casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway return of the Bill Russell-Frank Kelly-Albert Evans musical Pageant, which will begin performances June 29 at the Davenport Theatre.
The Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced that Tony Award winner Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell have replaced Chris Pine and Lauren Ambrose in the summer production of Sam Shepard's…
Despite a short-lived Broadway run and cool critical response, Soul Doctor, the musical about the life of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, will return Off-Broadway in November.