The 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards will celebrate the life and legacy of American theater producer and director Harold "Hal" Prince (Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, among many others) with the …
Some Like It Hot, a planned stage musical based on the great 1959 Billy Wilder comedy, has set its sights on a Fall 2021 Broadway opening, producers announced today. The staging would mark t…
Bette Midler will personally match donations to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund up to $100,000, the charitable organization announced today. "Between he…
Disney's Frozen has become Broadway's first long-running casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and industrywide shutdown. The production, which opened March 22, 2018 at the St. James Theatre, an…
The Actors Fund has distributed a record-breaking $10.5 million over the past eight weeks to provide emergency financial assistance for performing arts and entertainment workers in need due …
MJ, the Michael Jackson stage musical headed for Broadway, will begin previews next March, an eight-month postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. The new dates were announced …
Christopher Jackson originated the role of President George Washington for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway smash Hamilton " a role he'll reprise in the film version, set to debut on Apple+ Jul…
Debra Messing, Katharine McPhee, Christian Borle, Megan Hilty and other cast members of NBC's 2012-13 series Smash will virtually reunite May 20 for a one-night-only Actors Fund benefit stre…
The Broadway revival of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite, starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker and directed by John Benjamin Hickey, will postpone its opening more than a year due to …
Actors' Equity Association says it agrees with the Broadway League's decision to refund Broadway tickets through September 6, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Today the Broadway League took a …
Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Grand Horizons, Mary-Louise Parker and Jonathan Groff are among this year's Outer Critics Circle Awards recipients, a collec…
Noma Dumezweni picks up where Daniel Radcliffe left off: The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child actress reads Chapter Two of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the latest installment of…
On the day her new Off Broadway production Between the Lines was set to open, producer Daryl Roth has announced the musical based on the novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer will inst…
The Neil LaBute play The Shape of Things will be given a livestream reading Friday night to benefit The Actors Fund, with LaBute himself taking part in an after-show Q&A to tell "a few w…
Berkeley Rep's world premiere of Swept Away, a stage production featuring the music of The Avett Brothers, written by Moulin Rouge!'s John Logan and reteaming Spring Awakening director Micha…
A virtual concert event to benefit the Covenant House charity for homeless and trafficked youth has lined up a 50-plus roster of stars to perform or appear for the May 18 fundraiser, includi…
Roger Horchow, a Cincinnati-born entrepreneur who parlayed a luxury mail-order fortune into a Tony Award-winning streak as a producer on Broadway, died Saturday in Dallas of cancer. He was 9…
Michael Keenan, an actor who played Mayor Bill Pugen on CBS 1990s series Picket Fences and Baron van Swieten in the 1999 Broadway revival of Amadeus, died April 30 at the Motion Picture &…
A reading of David Mamet's play November, starring John Malkovich, Patti LuPone, Dylan Baker, Ethan Phillips and Michael Nichols, will kick off a new weekly livestream series of readings Thu…
Rosalind Elias, a mezzo-soprano who at 24 began a 42-year association with the Metropolitan Opera but didn't make her Broadway debut until she'd turned 81, died Sunday, May 3, in New York. S…
Cast members from Broadway's Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Jagged Little Pill, Company, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Chicago, Diana, Mean Girls, Girl from the North Country, Six, and Mrs. Dou…
EXCLUSIVE: Despite recent, scattered press reports suggesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was snubbing Broadway by shutting the industry out of his New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board,…
The Inheritance, Sea Wall/A Life, Slave Play and Girl From The North Country are among the Broadway nominees of this year's Drama League Awards, along with a significant shows of Off Broadwa…
What will theater look like after the pandemic? How will stage artists address the societal upheavals wreaked by COVID-19? Everyone's asking, no one knows, but Tony Award-winning playwright …
Jun Maeda, the Obie Award-winning designer and resident set designer at New York's acclaimed La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club since 1970, died April 6 from COVID-19 at Mt. Sinai West Hospit…