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Stage and screen actress Kathleen Turner is returning to Broadway this spring in the new play High -- and you can audition to be her understudy.
Jackie Schram moved to New York just last fall to pursue her acting career, but she's already planning to leave town. She's been cast in the nonunion national tour of "The 39 Steps."
The Tony Award-winning musical has turned profitable after only 21 weeks, which is faster than any new Broadway musical in more than a decade.
Broadway's Patrick Page and Darron L. West are among the recipients of the annual awards, which honor theater, dance, choreography, and film.
New York's independent theater community attempts to sustain itself with a new collective fundraising initiative, which officially launched Aug. 1.
IATSE Local 764 and the Broadway League ratified the first collective bargaining agreement for Child Actor Guardians, who oversee Broadway child actors.
Arts education organization and local musicians union team up to offer Broadway Boot Camp for NYC public school students in August.
The arts education organization and local musicians' union are teaming up to offer "Broadway Boot Camp" for NYC public school students in August.
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Josh Groban, Lin Arison, Paul G. Allen, and James Rosenquist will be honored at a benefit in New York City this fall.
Holmes will star as Lorna in playwright Theresa Rebeck's new comedy, which will open on Broadway this fall directed by Jack O'Brien.
"The Hunger Games" director is in talks to direct a film based on Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Peter Pan prequel, which was also adapted for Broadway.
Artistic Director Christopher Ashley will host a public forum to discuss the casting process for its new musical.
Now through August 19, "Evita" percussionist Dave Roth asks for donations of used iPods, to give Alzheimer's patients the healing power of music.
Productions of "Miss Saigon" and Cathy Rigby's "Peter Pan" combined to generate record-setting revenue, with the 2012-13 season poised to be even bigger.
Actors' Equity Association selects "Tennessee Williams' Streetcar" for its Extraordinary Excellence in Diversity on Broadway Award for the 2011-12 season.
Dozens of films and TV series, from "Boardwalk Empire" and "Blue Bloods" to "The Good Wife" and "White Collar," shoot in New York City.
New York Women in Film & Television's board of directors announces the election of Alexis Alexanian as its president; five new board members also elected.
With the annual SketchFest NYC on hiatus until 2013, the Peoples Improv Theater introduces its first annual New York City Sketch Festival this fall.
The late writer-director, who died on Tuesday at age 71, explained how she worked with actors in a 2010 Back Stage interview.
Martin Platt, co-director of Perry Street Theatricals and founder of Alabama Shakespeare Festival, takes charge at Olney Theatre Center in Maryland.
The Harlem cultural institution has been relieved of over $10 million in debt and will remain in its current location rent-free "indefinitely."
The Broadway League reports that as an industry, Broadway generated over $11 billion in revenue for New York City and supported more than 86,000 jobs.
Nina Arianda, Diane Paulus, Katori Hall, and Estelle Parsons were among the winners at the Lilly Awards, which honor women working in the theater.
Study shows that winning a Tony Award can extend a show's run by 50 percent; New York Times reviews less influential than Daily News.
Joy Dewing Casting will take over all clients and projects from Clemmons/Dewing Casting, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tour, and regional productions.
