Award-winning musicals and plays from New York and London including Matilda, Motown, Disgraced and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder are among highlights announced for the…
Two-time Tony nominee Glenn Slater, lyricist with composer Alan Menken on such hits as Sister Act and “Tangled,” will workshop a new musical, Beatsville, set in the w…
Cirque du Soleil, the Canada-based circus-style entertainment company, is looking to take over Broadway's Lyric Theatre after the current tenant, On the Town, completes its run there…
Cirque du Soleil, the Canada-based circus-style entertainment company, is looking to take over Broadway's Lyric Theatre after the current tenant, On the Town, completes its run there…
The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University have named judges for the Theatre Education Award, which will recognize outstanding K-12 theatre teachers. The inaugural award will be give…
Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the Broadway in Chicago series announced that its 2015-16 season will include visits from the national tours of recent Broadway hits A Gentleman&rsq…
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey has canceled plans to star in a Broadway revival of ’night, Mother, saying Marsha Norman’s Tony- and Pulitzer-winning drama is &ldqu…
Jess Goldstein, Tony Award-winning designer for Jersey Boys and On the Town, and Douglas W. Schmidt (42nd Street), will be honored at the 2015 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards, which will be pre…
The composing team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Rocky) and librettist Terrence McNally are preparing a streamlined “concert version” of their 2002 musica…
Nancy Anderson, who created the role of Mona in the Broadway musical A Class Act, will play “the well-known fiancé” Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, kickin…
Nick Offerman, best known as the super-macho Ron Swanson the NBC-TV sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” is taking a major stage role, starring in the Huntington Theatr…
Four stars of Broadway’s Jersey Boys, who have been touring as the group The Midtown Men, will walk, talk and sing like men in a June 20 reunion concert at the Beacon Theatre in Ne…
Four stars of Broadway’s Jersey Boys, who have been touring as the group The Midtown Men, will walk, talk and sing like men in a June 20 homecoming concert at the Beacon Theatre in…
Stark Sands, who earned Tony nominations in Kinky Boots and Journey’s End, has been cast in the dual role of clairvoyant “Precog” twins in the pilot TV adaptati…
Tiler Peck, principal dancer with New York City Ballet, will leap into the balletic role of “Miss Subways,” Ivy Smith, for six performances March 3-4 and 13-15.
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC will commemorate the 400th anniversary of its namesake’s death by sending out rare original copies of the First Folio of his plays, …
In recent years New York has seen a one-man Macbeth, several traditional Macbeths, a deconstructed Macbeth (Sleep No More) and even a drunken Macbeth. But Chicago Shakespeare Theater is …
Tony-winner Julie White (Little Dog Laughed) has joined the cast of the Chicago hit Airline Highway for its Broadway transfer this spring.
Donna McKechnie, who earned a Tony Award and Broadway immortality as Cassie in the original 1975 cast of A Chorus Line, has been announced as standby for another legend, Chita Rivera, in the…
Perennial Nickelodeon cartoon favorite SpongeBob SquarePants has conquered TV and film, and may now be getting ready for his Broadway debut, according to Entertainment Weekly.
TV Land'’s new series "Younger," starring two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, isn’t scheduled to premiere until March 31, but you can watch it onl…
Piece of My Heart, the Off-Broadway musical about rock pioneer Bert Berns, will get Feb. 26 and 27 New York industry readings that are aimed at preparing the show for a Broadway transfer.
Songwriter Carole King appears to have gotten over her shyness about the musical Beautiful, which tells the story of her life. King, who famously avoided the Broadway opening night, appeared…
U.S. Presidents may be sequestered in Washington D.C., far from the lights of Broadway, but history tells us that many of them had a closer connection with the stage than their job descripti…
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