EXCLUSIVE: The non-prof organization Musicians United for Social Equity, or Muse, announced today a set of scholarships supporting BIPOC musicians pursuing a career in theater, an initiative…
New York theater is tiptoeing its way through the dark with tonight's Off Broadway opening of the actor-free technological and storytelling marvel Blindness, a sound-and-light excursion into…
A Beautiful Noise, the new name for the previously untitled Broadway-bound musical about the life and songs of Neil Diamond, will stage its world premiere at Boston's Emerson Colonial Theatr…
NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang released a sweeping "arts revival" proposal today that would include the use of city funds and corporate commitments to purchase "hundreds of thousands" of …
The L.A. Stage Alliance, the 46-year-old nonprofit service organization behind the Los Angeles-area's annual Ovation theater awards, has ceased operations following the mass resignation of m…
Arthur Kopit, whose 1969 Broadway play Indians was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and later adapted as the film Buffalo Bill and the Indians starring Paul Newman, died Friday in New York. He w…
Armie Hammer has withdrawn from the planned 2022 Broadway production of Tracy Letts' The Minutes, producers confirmed today. The news is the latest hit to Hammer's career in the wake of sexu…
More than 25 Los Angeles area theater companies, including the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse and the Deaf West Theatre, have revoked their memberships in the L.A. Stage Alliance a…
Monday, March 22, was Stephen Sondheim's birthday, his 91st, and it came and went without one of the star-packed concert extravaganzas that marked previous milestones in the composer's life,…
A Wolverine jacket donated by Hugh Jackman, a pair of Elton John's eyeglasses, boots and jeans from Bruce Springsteen and Bette Midler's glittery black Halloween 2014 gown are just a few of …
A most unusual year in theater will be recognized by a most unusual Drama League Awards: This year, the traditionally New York-centric honors will be expanded to include theatrical artists a…
A Game of Thrones stage production is in the early stages of development from producers Simon Painter and Tim Lawson, with the play being written and adapted Duncan MacMillan working alongsi…
Diana: The Musical will return to Broadway in December, two months after a special presentation of the production premieres on Netflix, producers announced today. Pending government approval…
EXCLUSIVE: The Mystic Pizza stage musical announced last year will get delivered this summer in a first production at the Playhouse in Ogunquit, ME, and the show will have some unexpected in…
EXCLUSIVE: Grammy-winning country music star, actress and longtime Sugarland vocalist Jennifer Nettles has made no secret of her passion for Broadway " she once said her dream gig would be p…
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that a Broadway Covid-19 vaccination site reserved for theater industry workers will be included in the city's drive to get the industry back on…
Meryl Streep, Mary-Louise Parker and Carla Gugino have joined the line-up of actors taking part in this year's virtual Spotlight on Plays series benefitting The Actors Fund, with Streep reun…
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Hartmere, writer of the Broadway-bound Britney Spears musical Once Upon a One More Time and the 2017 film The Upside, has signed with Verve. The Spears jukebox musical, with a…
Dramatists Play Service, the theatrical licensing and publishing agency formed in 1936 that represents scores the stage's most prominent playwrights, has been acquired by Broadway Licensing …
Melvin Van Peebles' groundbreaking 1971 musical Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death will return to Broadway next year with the playwright's son Mario Van Peebles onboard as Creative Produc…
Three of the nation's great regional theaters will change ownership this month, with the Ambassador Theatre Group acquiring San Francisco's Golden Gate and Orpheum theatres and Detroit's Fis…
Actors' Equity Association will hold a town hall event to address issues about safety protocols and get-back-to-work efforts raised in a petition from more than 2,000 union members last week…
The early weeks of spring 2020 and Broadway's pandemic shutdown already seemed like a distant, bygone era by summertime. Initial hopes for a two- or three-week hiatus had morphed into talk o…
Broadway's Roundabout Theatre Company, with a planned 2021-22 season opener of Black playwright Alice Childress' rarely produced 1955 play Trouble in Mind, announced today the launch of a we…
New York City's annual symbol of summertime " Free Shakespeare in the Park " will return from its Covid hiatus in July, the Public Theater has announced. "We have spent the last year getting…