Oscar winner Tom Hooper will direct Universal and Working Title's big-screen musical adaptation of Les Miserables, according to Variety. The screenplay will be written by playwright Wi…
Darlene Love, Julia Murney, Anthony Rapp, Matt Dengler, Doug Katsaros, and Elise Morris will be the featured vocalists in Free to Dream: New Songs for the American Journey, a concert special…
Project Runway's Christian Siriano will co-host the benefit gala A Night at the Vault, presented by Rosie's Theater Kids (RTKids) Junior Board at The Vault at Pfaff's on Tuesd…
Programming has been announced for the sixth annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, to be held September 22-25. The international festival provides a multi-layered, inspi…
Shirley Alston Reeves, the original lead singer of The Shirelles, will join the Broadway cast of Baby It's You at the Broadhurst Theatre, for post show concerts for five performances on…
The new musical Dear John Mayer, featuring a book by Eydie Faye with music and lyrics by Shoshana Bean, will be presented at Open Fist Theatre Company, July 20-September 3, as part of the th…
The Kennedy Center's starry revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies will transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theatre. Eric Schaffer directs the production with chor…
Roslyn Hart will once again perform as Michelle Hoffman (better known as "Shells"), the famed JPMorgan Chase analyst-cum-cabaret sensation, at Show at Barre in Los Angeles on Wedne…
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced directors for the previously reported musicals that will be developed and presented during the 2011 National Music Theater Conference, to…
The Tony Randall Theatrical Fund has announced recipients of Tony Randall Grants for the 2011-2012 season, which total over $185,000. The awards are administered by Heather Randall, the wid…
Stage and screen star David Arquette visited the Las Vegas production of Absinthe, which performs at Caesar's Palace, on Tuesday, June 14. After taking in the show, Arquette hung out wi…
Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth will host Fire Island Dance Festival 17, an outdoor celebration of dance at Fire Island Pines, to be held July 16-17. The event will feature performances by …
Play Dead, an Off-Broadway comic thriller co-written and directed by Teller and co-written & performed by Todd Robbins, will end its run at the Players Theatre on July 24. The piece, wh…
Playwright David Ives, the author of Studio Theatre's current presentation of Venus in Fur, will participate in a post-show conversation on the evening of Saturday, June 18. In the pla…
Choreographer/dancer/theatre director Donald Saddler was awarded the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts' 1st Annual Duke Ellington "Beyond Category" Award at a special tribut…
This long-delayed Broadway musical based on the classic comic book character is more entertaining than genuinely thrilling.
The recent Broadway comedy smash The 39 Steps will be the final production in George Street Playhouse's upcoming season, and will run April 24-May 20. Cast and creative team will be ann…
Sean Penn presented the 2011 Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement to Hal Holbrook at the Actors Fund's 15th Annual Tony Awards Party in Los Angeles, held at the Skirball Center o…
Musical Theatre West has announced casting for its production of The Wedding Singer, to run July 8-24 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Larry Raben will direct the production, which w…
The Arlington, Virginia-based Signature Theatre will once again hold its Signature Idol competition, during this year's annual Target Open House on July 23. The event will feature a pa…
The Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre, will be undergoing numerous changes to its principal cast in the coming weeks. On Monday, June 20 Chris Sullivan will take ove…
Emmy nominee Steve Burns -- perhaps best known as the original host of the hit children's TV series, Blue's Clues -- will play Dromio of Syracuse in Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festiv…
Updated casting has been announced for the San Francisco engagement of Billy Elliot the Musical, which will play the Orpheum Theatre, June 27-September 17. Based on the 2000 film of the sa…
Actress Liz Robertson unveiled a plaque dedicated to her late husband, theatrical legend Alan Jay Lerner, during a service held at St. Paul's Church Covent Garden in London on June 14. …
Tony Award winner Beth Leavel will sing the original opening number, "Going, Going, Gone," written by Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar, at this year's Broadway Bares XXI: Maste…