3,239 stories by "Bethany Rickwald"
Irish Repertory Theatre has announced that retired professional boxer John Duddy (Kid Shamrock), Laoisa Sexton (Gaslight), Jo Kinsella (Dancing at Lughnasa), and Georgina McKevitt (Waiting f…
Yesterday, a tiny dog named after a fruit appeared in a Broadway show and it dominated the news cycle. Which certainly seems reasonable. It's not as though our President had just suggested w…
He came. He partied. He killed. So reads the cover of James St. James' Disco Bloodbath (now titled Party Monster), a memoir about his life as a Manhattan Club Kid in the early 90s, and the…
The Ride, a mobile theater and touring experience that turns the streets of New York into a stage featuring curated live performances, is partnering with Couture Fashion Week to launch the C…
Broadway and film actor John Kerr, known for his portrayal of Tom Lee in the 1953-1955 production of Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, as well as Lieutenant Joseph Cable in the 1951 film v…
Drag entertainer Jackie Beat has been strutting her stuff since 1989, but it looks like her hips couldn't take all that action. Beat needs to have both hip joints replaced, and faces a hospi…
Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent's Old Jews Telling Jokes, which has been playing off-Broadway since May 1, 2012, has announced that it will play a limited engagement at Chicago's Royal Georg…
Last night, at the 29th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway honoring five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald (The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), The Drama League announced the founding of…
The film musical Les Misérables had many wins at The British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) last night at the historic Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. The movie received BAFTAs in severa…
John Glover (Death of a Salesman), Michael Cerveris (Evita), Alvin Epstein (The Threepenny Opera), Betsy Aidem (Nurse Jackie, The West Wing), Blair Brown (Copenhagen), Anthony Cochrane (War …
Sure, you could spend Valentine's Day with your old standby: Celine Dion's All the Way... A Decade of Song. But that never seems to take the edge off, does it? Instead, we've compiled our fa…
The Public Theater has announced that is has lined up ?uestlove (The Roots) and David Byrne (co-founder of the Talking Heads) as well as Broadway playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-L…
At 42, Dick Van Dyke stole the hearts of children and adults alike with his delightful performance in the cinema classic, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Now, 45 years later, at the age of 87, the …
The two year off-Broadway run of Elan Wolf Farbiarz and Cory Terry's Channeling Kevin Spacey will come to a close on February 17 at the Roy Arias Theatre at the Times Square Art Center, the …
It might not be winning in the ratings, but NBC's Smash is winning iTunes, with the song "Broadway Here I Come" (currently at #50) beating out Glee's most recent hit and three Justin Bieber …
The Manhattan Theatre Club has announced that Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos (Glengarry Glen Ross), Mark Blum (Gore Vidal's The Best Man), Tony nominee Sam Robards (The 39 Steps), Lauren Blumenf…
Tony Award Winner Mark Rylance (Jerusalem) will star in the world premiere of Nice Fish, which will begin previews on April 6, in advance of an April 12 opening at the Guthrie Theater. Rylan…
Multi Grammy Award winner Gloria Estefan and her husband, Cuban-American musician and producer Emilio Estefan (Miami Sound Machine), will turn their beat around to Broadway. They have announ…
Broadway favorites and Tony nominees Celia Keenan-Bolger (Peter and the Starcatcher), Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins), and Tony Award winner Adriane Lenox (Chicago) are set to participate in Th…
The arts community of Columbus, Ohio is celebrating acclaimed American expressionist painter Mark Rothko this month with both a museum exhibition and a semi-biographical play. First, the Col…
Tony Award winner Jason Alexander (Jerome Robbins' Broadway) and Broadway favorite Tovah Feldshuh (Irena's Vow) will star in The York Theatre Company's production of the Richard Rodgers musi…
Matthew James Thomas (Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark), Tony Award winner Andrea Martin, Patina Miller (Sister Act), Terrence Mann (Les Miserables), Charlotte d'Amboise (A Chorus Line), and Rac…
Sticklers for Shakespearean accuracy and amateur historians everywhere can let out a collective breath. The skeleton of 15th century English royal Richard III has been found beneath a parkin…
Kerry Butler (Gore Vidal's The Best Man), Julia Murney (Lennon), Bryce Ryness (Leap of Faith), Kate Shindle (Wonderland), Etai BenShlomo (Wicked), Jason Danieley (Next to Normal), Kevin Earl…
In this YouTube clip, appropriately titled "Carol Channing Is Better Than You," Tony and Golden Globe winner Channing (Hello, Dolly!) gives the made-for-TV performance of her lifetime. The m…