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New York Stage and Film and Vassar College have announced that the 2013 Powerhouse Season will now include a concert reading of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's work-in-progress musical Brig…
Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue Presents 'The Brontës'
by Bethany Rickwald Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue Presents 'The Brontës' is a American rock' 'n' roll/Victorian English …
20th Century Fox is on its way to start producing Broadway plays. The film-making corporation has assembled a team including Broadway producer and Tony Award winner Kevin McCollum (Motown), …
Lincoln Center Theater has announced the productions set for the 2013-2014 season of LCT3, the theater's programming initiative devoted to producing the work of new artists and developing ne…
The New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced that two of this year's musicals have received extensions due to popular demand. The all-American dark comedy Julian Po, which features a…
The American Theatre Wing has announced the new appointees to their Board of Trustees and Advisory Committee. Joining the Board of Trustees are longtime American Theatre Wing Advisory Commi…
The Tony Award-winning Titanic, a musical by Maury Yeston and Peter Stone, will receive a concert staging at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall on February 17, 2014, presented by Manhattan C…
Television favorite Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock) will is set to join the cast of Shakespeare in the Park's upcoming production of Love's Labour's Lost. The previously announc…
MCC Theater has announced that its Youth Company's FreshPlay Festival will run July 12-24 at Telsey + Company and will feature the work of five young playwrights. All performances are free a…
World-renowned English musician Sting will present ten concerts to benefit The Public Theater. He will be performing songs from his new album, The Last Ship, September 25-October 9 in The Pu…
Mo Brady (Smash) and Nikka Graff Lanzarone (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) have announced the release of the second episode of their new Broadway-themed podcast The Ensemblist. T…
The Tony-nominated production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, currently playing the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, has extended its run through October 9. Michael Wilson (Gore Vidal's Th…
Obie-winning arts organization HERE has announced plans for its 2013-2014 season, which will kick off with Kristin Marting and David Evans Morris' site-specific interactive theater work Trad…
President Barack Obama will present the National Medal of Arts on July 10 in conjunction with the National Humanities Medals. The awards will be presented during an East Room ceremony at the…
After a two-year run off-Broadway, Silence! The Musical is bleating its final farewell this Sunday, July 7. The show, an unauthorized musical parody of the 1991 Academy Award-winning thrille…
Last week, child star Mara Wilson reunited with her co-stars from the 1996 blockbuster film Matilda. Earlier this year, Wilson wrote a piece for TheaterMania, "Being Matilda," in honor of Ma…
Williamstown Theatre Festival is currently presenting its Mark Brothers musical, Animal Crackers, set to run until July 13. Featuring a score by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and a book by Geor…
M.A.D Playhouse is presenting Indian playwright Vijay Tendulkar's Sakharam Binder, a play first presented in 1972 and subsequently banned in India in 1974. M.A.D's production in running thro…
Vassar and New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Theater has announced casting highlights for its second mainstage production, Mozhan Marnò's When The Lights Went Out, the Martel Musical wor…
Bucks County Playhouse will present a free screening of the 1972 Academy Award-winning film Summer of '42 on July 8. The event will whet the audience's taste for the story in advance of Buck…
How I Learned to Drive original cast members Johanna Day, David Morse, Mary-Louise Parker, and Kerry O'Malley reunited with director Mark Brokaw and playwright Paula Vogel at last night's st…
Wendy Williams, of The Wendy Williams Show fame, made her official Broadway debut last night in the long-running musical Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre. She will remain in the production,…
Summer Shorts 2013, the seventh annual festival of new American short plays from established and emerging writers, has announced the works that will be part of the July 19-August 31 festival…
Manhattan Theatre Club has announced plans to present the world premiere of Tales From Red Vienna, a play by David Grimm (Measure for Pleasure), as part of its 2013-2014 theatrical season. K…
Christopher Durang's new Tony-winning comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, has recouped its investment after just 17 weeks on Broadway. The production is currently playing at the Gol…