Mark Wing-Davey will direct a special one-time-only benefit concert staging of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner's The Henry Box Brown Play: Political-Historical-Doggerel-…
Kevin Mambo will host The Play Company's Cabaret Gourmet 2011, to be held at American Airlines Theatre Penthouse on Monday, May 2 at 7pm. Saycon Sengbloh, who co-starred with Mambo in …
Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, playing at The Barrow Street Theater, has extended its run with tickets now being sold through June 25. Seth Barrish has directed the pr…
Stage and screen stars Audra McDonald and Liev Schreiber announced the nominations for the 56th annual Drama Desk Awards at the New York Friars Club, on Friday, April 29. The Drama Desk is…
Nominations for the 2011 Drama Desk Awards -- honoring outstanding work on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway -- were announced this morning by Audra McDonald and Liev Schreiber. T…
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has announced casting for the world premiere production of writer/director Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy, to run May 30 - June 26. Inspired by a serie…
Daniel Sullivan's production of All's Well That Ends Well, to be presented this summer as part of the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park offerings at the Delacorte Theat…
Broadway veterans Harvey Evans and Lee Roy Reams will play tribute to four-time Tony Award winner Gwen Verdon at an event to be presented by Dancers Over 40 at St. Luke's Theater, on Mo…
Tyne Daly, James Ludwig, Tyler Maynard, Lisa McCormick, Seth Rudetsky, Peter Scolari, and Mary Testa will perform at George Street Playhouse's annual gala, to be held at The Heldrich in…
Tony Award winner Tammy Grimes, cabaret star KT Sullivan, and performance art legend Penny Arcade will be among the participants in the 16th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, to b…
The Off Broadway Alliance has announced the winners for the first annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit Off Broadway productions that opened during the…
Jazz at Lincoln Center has announced the guest artists that will be participating in Michael Feinstein's Jazz & Popular Song Series, to be presented in The Allen Room, May 3-June 8.…
Isaac Mizrahi hosted the inaugural Good Shepherd Services Spring Party at the newly opened Highline Stages in New York, on Wednesday April 27. Among the guests were Mariska Hargitay, Kelly …
Tony-nominated playwright Sidney Michaels died in Westport, Connecticut on Friday, April 22, according to The New York Times. He was 83. Michaels received Tony nominations for his plays Tch…
Baby It's You opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on Wednesday, April 27. The new musical tells the story of Florence Greenberg, the woman who discovered The Shirelles and cr…
The new film version of Athol Fugard's "MASTER HAROLD" and the boys, directed by Lonny Price, will be featured as part of the New York International Independent Film and Video…
The 26th annual Bistro Awards ceremony was held on Tuesday, April 26 at Gotham Comedy Club. Jim David hosted the event, which was directed by Edie Cowan. Dionne Warwick accepted the Bob Ha…
Eight time Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken will receive the Frank Carrington Excellence in the Arts Award at Paper Mill Playhouse's Center Stage Celebration, to be held on Fr…
The law firm Baker Hostetler has filed a complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New York seeking damages on behalf of performers Beverly Lee of The Shirelles, Dionne Warwick and Chuc…
Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas received the National Meningitis Association's Nancy Ford Springer Inspiration Award at a gala benefit held at the New York Athletic Club, on Monday, Ap…
Second Stage Theatre has announced a one-week extension for its world premiere of Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Jo Bonney directs the currently performing production, whic…
Barry Williams will make a special cameo appearance in the Off-Broadway production of Ken Davenport and Sarah Saltzberg's Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage, at t…
Stage and screen star Al Pacino will come to Seattle's Paramount Theatre for Pacino: One Night Only, presented by Seattle Theatre Group and the 37th Seattle International Film Festival …
Seven new short plays will be presented as part of The Old Vic's 2011 TS Eliot US/UK Exchange program, at the Vineyard Theatre on Friday, May 6 at 3pm. From Royal Weddings, to rural lo…
The Las Vegas company of Peepshow celebrated its second anniversary at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Monday, April 25 with a one-of-a-kind Peepshow cake and champagne toast. …