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Tom Hanks is cool, so cool that when he does something awesome like pose with an apparently drunk idiot in a bar we all enjoy it once right after it happens. And then again, about seven mont…
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, a new tuner about the life and career of singer/songwriter Carole King, has announced that it will begin performances on Broadway in spring 2014. The prod…
Movie star and Broadway veteran Val Kilmer (Top Gun) is taking his solo show, in which he plays crotchety writer Mark Twain, on tour. The show, entitled Citizen Twain, will visit venues in C…
The new Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella will have its magic preserved with a cast recording. On March 18, the original Broadway cast will enter the studio to crea…
Renowned conductor and arranger John Wilson and his The John Wilson Orchestra will release their second album, Rodgers
NBC's Smash, an ambitions drama about the making of a Broadway show, has been bumped from its Tuesday slot, creating space for the network's hopeful new dating show Ready for Love. What's le…
Center Theatre Group's 2013-2014 Ahmanson Theatre season will feature Broadway hits and theater favorites. Kicking off the season will be (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Tony Award …
For the last three years Phoenix Theatre Ensemble has produced an ongoing series featuring productions of ancient Greek tragedies " one each year " featuring largely the same cast and creati…
Sybil Christopher, founder of Bay Street Theatre as well as mother of Kate Burton and former wife of Richard Burton, has passed away at the age of 83 in Manhattan. Christopher was born Sybi…
Jenna Fischer, best known for playing the role of Pam for nine seasons of NBC's The Office, is set to make her professional stage debut in MCC Theater's production as of Neil LaBute's Reason…
Popular entertainer Hedda Lettuce will host New York's Next Top Drag Queen, a six-week competition to run April 1-May 6 at the Metropolitan Room. The event will also feature special guests a…
Broadway director and actor Arthur Storch has died at the age of 87. The youngest of three brothers, Storch was born in Brooklyn on June 29, 1925 to Sam Storch, a baker, and his wife, Bess…
UPDATED: The final list of panelists for the Drama Desk luncheon and panel discussion has been released. The March 22 discussion will bring together an impressive group of five Broadway vete…
The four charming girls who have been selected to share the part of Matilda in the new Broadway show Matilda The Musical (Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon, and Milly Shapiro) took …
Rita Wilson, an actress, singer, and producer, as well as the wife of actor Tom Hanks, has announced that she will be performing seven concerts at 54 Below, April 14-20. The concert appeara…
Broadway's big names are people too. They do silly things with Photoshop. They Instagram their food. They even take selfies! If you spent your weekend fantasizing about what your life would…
Robert Sean Leonard (Born Yesterday), Tony Award winner and former House star, is set to star in an upcoming Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's production of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird…
What a Glorious Feeling, an homage to one of the greatest movie musicals of all time, will have its Chicago premiere at Theatre at the Center beginning April 25 and running through June 2. A…
Cirque du Soleil's touring production of TOTEM is settling down in New York's Citi Field for a month this spring. Though performances don't begin until March 15, the Cirque du Soleil village…
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First NBC went Broadway with Smash, then the Oscars went Broadway with a Daniel Radcliffe/Joseph Gordon-Levitt soft shoe. Now highbrow, arty films are going Broadway with Alejandro Gonzalez …
It's an epidemic! Suddenly everyone you've ever heard of seems to be coming down with the Broadway itch. Movie musical veteran Amanda Seyfried (Les Miserables, Mamma Mia!) wants to try her …
Every show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. Jessie Mueller made her Tony Award-nominated Broadway deb…
Broadway darling Kelli O'Hara (Nice Work if You Can Get It) and her husband, musician Greg Naughton, are expecting a baby. The tiny musical genius will be the couple's second. Their first ch…
Britain's Olivier Awards are planning to implement some sizable changes to their voting protocol, according to Variety. Like the Tony Awards in the U.S., the Olivier Awards recognize excelle…