Legendary comedian, actress, and author Carol Burnett will be honored by the City of Los Angeles with the naming of Carol Burnett Square at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Selma Aven…
UPDATED: Drama Desk Award nominee Lisa Emery (Relatively Speaking) and Mad Men star Rich Sommer (Broadway's Harvey) will complete the cast of Steven Levinson's The Unavoidable Disappearance …
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, playwright Christopher Durang's currently running Broadway hit, will play Berkeley Repertory Theatre this fall. The production, which will be helmed by d…
The Broadway Beauty Pageant has announced that four-time Tony Award-nominated and Drama Desk Award-winning actress Tovah Feldshuh will serve as the host of this year's show, which will take …
British-born singer Mika didn't need any help selling out Manhattan's (le) poisson rouge on Tuesday, April 9, but the packed venue got an added bonus when Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth…
For those of us who first became aware of actor Bertie Carvel when he won an Olivier Award for his performance as Miss Trunchbull, a hulking, hunching raging bull of a headmistress in the We…
The Tony Awards have announced a sweepstakes, the winners of which will have the New York theater experience of a lifetime, receiving two passes to the 2013 Tony Award nominations announceme…
The 29th annual Helen Hayes Awards were held Monday, April 8 at the JW Marriot Hotel. Notable winners were actors Bobby Smith and Natascia Diaz for their leading roles in Jacques Brel is Al…
The Public Theater has announced a new community-based theater initiative, which they are calling Public Works. In this, its first year, the initiative will create a free, community-driven, …
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a panel discussion including fashion consultant and TV personality Tim Gunn (Project Runway) as well as some of theater's most respected costume d…
Beau Bridges (How to Succeed in Business…), Michael McKean (The Best Man), Jean Smart (Fit to be Tied), and Cecily Strong (Saturday Night Live) will participate in a one-night-only benefit…
Heidi Armbruster (Time Stands Still), Chris Henry Coffey (Water by the Spoonful), Keira Naughton (The Rivals), Jake Robards (Our Town), Charles Socarides (Awake and Sing!), and Jennifer Van …
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center will honor iconic actor and Tony Award winner Christopher Plummer (Inherit the Wind) with the 13th annual Monte Cristo Award at a gala event on April 15. To…
New York theater company Waterwell has announced plans, as well as master class artists, for its first annual Summer Theater Lab. Actress Megan Hilty (Smash), Tony Award-winning creator and …
The cast members who will fill out the company of the upcoming national tour of Flashdance " The Musical, led by Jillian Mueller (Bye Bye Birdie) and Matthew Hydzik (West Side Story), have b…
New Chicago cast members Tony Award nominee Adam Pascal (Memphis) and Christine Pedi (Talk Radio) enjoyed their first night in the long-running production on Monday, April 8 at the Ambas
Quebec's Hudson Village Theatre has announced the productions planned for its 2013 summer season of fun Canadian plays. Calgary playwright Ken Cameron's Harvest will get the fun-filled seaso…
Cindy McCain, best known as the wife of Senator John McCain, will be starring in a Phoenix production of 8, a play dramatizing the arguments against California's Proposition 8, according to …
The American Theatre Critics Association has named All the Way, Robert Schenkkan's drama about Lyndon Johnson's campaign to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as the recipient of the Harold …
An Evening with Pacino, with famed stage and screen actor Al Pacino, will play the London Palladium for one night only on June 2. The show promises to be a unique evening in which Pacino ex…
Helena Carroll, an Irish actress born in Glasgow, Scotland, has died at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 84. The daughter of Irish dramatist Paul Vincent Carroll and designer Helena Re…
Kandis Chappell (Rumors), Robert Foxworth (Ivanov), Robin Pearson Rose (Holiday), Dana Green, and Andy Bean have been selected to star in The Old Globe's upcoming production of Jon Robin Bai…
It turns out Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Durang are not the only Broadway stars that socialist playwriting duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill creatively inspired. Before the Grammy Award…
The 40th Chaplin Gala Awards have announced that president Bill Clinton has agreed to present movie star and musician Barbra Streisand with her award at the April 22 event. Other notables pl…
Veterans of the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Alicia Hall Moran and Nathaniel Stampley have been selected to star in the show's national tour when it kicks off this fa…