Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, struggling with bronchitis, cancelled the Jan. 23 performance of Manilow On Broadway, the concert event boasting "the songs that make the whole world si…
Friends and colleagues of late composer Marvin Hamlisch performed his pop, film and stage hits in a Jan. 21 concert at the McCallum Theater in Palm Desert, CA. David Zippel, Hamlisch's c…
The world premiere of Liz Flahive's The Madrid — featuring Seth Clayton, Brooke Ashley Laine, Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Edie Falco ("Nurse Jackie"), Tony n…
Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, struggling with bronchitis, cancelled the 7 PM Jan. 22 performance of Manilow On Broadway, the concert event boasting "the songs that make the whole wor…
The York Theatre Company is dusting off and giving voice to two short operas, Mardi Gras and The Last Word, with book, lyrics and music by Mildred Kayden, best known for Ionescopade, in a wi…
Love Makes the World Go 'Round, a new book musical created from the song catalog of Broadway composer-lyricist Bob Merrill, of Funny Girl, Carnival!, Take Me Along and Sugar fame, gets i…
The world premiere of Marriott Theatre's Now and Forever, a theatrical exploration of the lush songs of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — featuring Linda Balgord, a veteran of Cats, S…
Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, struggling with bronchitis, cancelled the 7 PM Jan. 22 performance of Manilow On Broadway, the concert event boasting "the songs that make the whole wor…
Tony Award-nominated director Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) will direct actress Mickey Sumner in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony …
Jordan Roth, president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns and operates five theatres — including those housing The Book of Mormon and Jersey Boys — is now majority shareholder in t…
The New York City premiere of Rolin Jones' The Jammer — his 1950s-set play about roller derby — opens Jan. 22 following previews from Jan. 9 at Atlantic Theater Company's…
Sierra Boggess, who originated the role of Christine in London's Love Never Dies, the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, joins the Broadway company of Pha…
Stephen Wallem, the 6-foot-3-inch actor who plays the sweet-natured nurse Thor on TV's "Nurse Jackie," moonlights as a cabaret singer on Jan. 21 at Birdland, singing the songs …
The TV musical soap opera "Smash" returns for a second season Feb. 5 with a two-hour episode that features new characters and twists, under the guidance of new "showrunner" and executive pro…
Women's Project Theater's world premiere of Laura Marks' dark comedy Bethany, starring America Ferrera, Emily Ackerman, Kristin Griffith, Ken Marks, Tobias Segal and Myra Lucreti…
Goodspeed Musicals will present Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook, an intimate six-character musical that borrows from the catalog of Stephen Schwartz songs, this fall at the Norma Terris Theat…
Despite an ongoing strike by the IATSE stagehands union Local 8, the first preview performances of Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's drama a…
The Gish Prize Trust announced on Jan. 18 that playwright, actress, author and educator Anna Deavere Smith has been selected to receive the 19th annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, given …
The Protagonists, the new musical about former super-heroes reuniting in middle-age, will get a starry industry reading in Manhattan Jan. 24-25.
Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, the man who writes the songs that make the whole world sing, as his lyric goes, moves to Broadway starting Jan. 18, when Manilow On Broadway — his…
Stephen Barker Turner and Babak Tafti will appear in the New York City premiere of Rajiv Joseph's The North Pool, a drama about tension between a high school principal and a Middle-Easte…
Philadelphia Theatre Company's union stagehands — members of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 8 — are on strike at the not-for-profit reside…
A new Canadian company of the 25th-anniversary production of Les Misérables — reflecting scenic and musical changes already seen in a U.K. and U.S. tour — is expected to s…
Manhattan Theatre Club's acclaimed Broadway premiere of Sharr White's The Other Place, starring Laurie Metcalf as a medical professional struck with an ailment, will get one extra we…
Stephen Wallem, the 6-foot-3-inch actor who plays the sweet-natured nurse Thor on TV's "Nurse Jackie," will moonlight as a cabaret singer on Jan. 21 at Birdland, singing the songs of Broadwa…