Worrying enhances creativity, some new studies suggest, which is surely a cause for celebration in the back stages, posh offices, warren holes, wait stations and (at least in one case) polic…
Shia LaBeouf was handcuffed and removed by police during intermission of a performance of Cabaret,and charged with one count of criminal trespassing and two counts of disorderly conduct. He …
This American Life’s “The Radio Drama Episode” a the Brooklyn Academy of Music in June, 2014 included a performance from “21 Chump Street: The Musical,” perform…
“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for 4,000 years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”-John Stein…
Eighteen years after his murder at the age of 25, Tupac Shakur has made it to Broadway, in a show that has taken on the awesome challenge of weaving 21 songs and poems by the charismatic rap…
In a Master Class at Sardi's with a group of drama teachers, Stephen Sondheim revealed some of the changes that Disney is making to its film adaptation of the stage musical "Into The Woods."…
This is the “Kilroy” list: “Each play is either unproduced or has had one professional production.” Authors include Theresa Rebeck, Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vog…
1st half – Act 1 2nd half – Act 2 Offside – Upstaging Extra time – mega mix Penalties – curtain call Half time – intermission Coach – dance captain …
Neil Patrick Harris and the rest of the cast from the Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch perform the song “Sugar Daddy.” Hedwig won four Tonys in 2014: Best Revival of a …
Old soldiers never die and neither do old Tony winners " at least judging from the omission of the In Memoriam video from the Tony broadcast last week. Complaints against this snub were drow…
"The sometimes ugly rhetoric that people use about older audience members is in part fueled by resentment over their dominance and power. It is also, let us be frank, because there is a high…
Randy Harrison is winning a new generation of fans thanks to Netflix, which is streaming all five seasons of Queer As Folk, a television series that ran on Showtime from 2000 to 2005,…
Jersey Boys opened on Broadway on November 6, 2005, a surprise hit musical telling the true story about four young men from New Jersey with promising careers as juvenile delinquents who form…
This is the video that was not shown at the 2014 Tony Awards that shows the people who died since the last Tony awards show. Here’s the full list: Jack Aaron Lamar Alford Cosmo Allegre…
The winners of the 68th annual Tony Awards as they are announced. (An asterisk besides the winners) Best Play Act One by James Lapine All The Way by Robert Schenkkan Casa Valentina …
Will Audra McDonald win her record-breaking sixth Tony? Will Bryan Cranston's Broadway debut performance, as LBJ, break good for him? Â Will more people watch Neil Patrick Harris perform a…
Warren Carlyle, the Tony Award-nominated director-choreographer of After Midnight, won the Astaire Award for Outstanding Choreographer for a Broadway show, while After Midnight c…
Outstanding Play Nell Benjamin, The Explorers Club Steven Levenson, Core Values Conor McPherson, The Night Alive Richard Nelson, Regular Singing Bruce Norris, Domesticated Robert Schenkkan, …
Tyne Daly (nominated for Mothers and Sons), Sutton Foster (Violet), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the Sun), Idina Menzel (If/Then), Jessie Mueller (Beautiful – The Carole Kin…
How well were you paying attention to the theater in May? Answer these 10 questions to see.
Somebody should launch the New York Dramamine Awards — for shows that put us to sleep? That’s about the only *theater award that hasn’t been thought up yet — most …
At this year's TED Conference in Vancouver, Sting performed songs from his Broadway-bound musical The Last Ship, which tells the story of the songwriter’s experiences growing up in the…
Here are the winners of the fourth annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards: Best New Musical Disaster! * Fun Home Heathers: The Musical Murder for Two What's It All About? Bacharach Re…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won the best new American play Obie for both “Appropriate” and “An Octoroon”, and Sydney Lucas became the youngest recipient ever of a perfo…
Actress Kelli O’Hara, songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Jeanine Tesori and “Wicked” book writer Winnie Holzman are among the women in the theater being honored at the …