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A starry lineup has been announced for the 3rd annual The 24 Hour Plays, to be held on June 22 at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. This one-night-only performance of short plays that are wri…
Let the vaudevillian reunion begin! Taxi co-stars and film favorites Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch are joining forces to play a retired comedy duo in Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys. Hir…
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced its upcoming 2013-14 season, which will feature plays by Tony-nominated playwright Craig Lucas (The Dying Gaul), Pulitzer Prize winner Charles F…
With Pixar’s Monsters University (the prequel to Monsters Inc.) ruling the box office and scaring up $82 million in weekend ticket sales, Broadway.com asked readers which of the famed …
The hit family musical Wanda's Monster will receive an off-Broadway engagement beginning July 13 and running through September 8 at The Vineyard’s Dimson Theatre. The Making Books …
The monster is out of the closet! The hit family musical Wanda's Monster will receive a commercial off-Broadway run at The Vineyard's Dimson Theatre, beginning July 13 and running th…
Nell Benjamin’s comedy The Explorers Club, about London's prestigious Explorers Club in the midst of a dual crisis—their acting coach wants to admit a female, officially open…
Tony-winning Broadway and West End star Lea Salonga takes on "Still Hurting," a first-rate ballad from Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years in a new live performanc…
Pixar's latest animation marvel, Monsters University, roars into theaters on June 21, and with 13 films under their belt, the Pixar formula is one that’s proven itself to leave a l…
Veteran stage and screen actor Frank Langella is set to play King Lear for the Chichester Festival Theatre. The three-time Tony winner will star in Williams Shakespeare's tragedy at the …
The cast of the Tony-winning revival of Chicago is being extra good to their new mama! Amy Spanger (Roxie Hart), Amra-Faye Wright (Velma Kelly) and Christine Pedi (Matron"Mama" Mor…
Oom-Pah-Pah indeed! All eyes are on producer Cameron Mackintosh, who is looking ahead to his next musical endeavor: a Broadway revival of the musical Oliver!
According to the New York Pos…
Don't want to hear the final school bell ring at Crunchem Hall in Matilda? No problem! Audiences will be able to catch Tony nominees Bertie Carvel, Lauren Ward, Tony winner Gabriel Ebert…
Unconstitutional, a new comedy written by and starring popular comedian and SNL vet Colin Quinn, will extend and transfer to off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre for a three-week run begin…
The long-running, Tony Award-winning revival of Chicago welcomes Broadway favorite Alexander Gemignani to the razzling and dazzling company beginning June 18 at the Ambassador Theatre.
Ge…
The American premiere of Manhattan Theatre Club's gospel-infused show Choir Boy, directed by Trip Cullman and written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, begins previews on June 18 as part of The …
Buon appetito! Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark celebrated its second year on Broadway on June 14 with a special marinara sauce handprint ceremony at Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant in Times S…
Classic Stage Company has announced plans for its 2013-14 season. The lineup will include Finn Wittrock and Elizabeth Olsen as the star-crossed lovers in Romeo and Juliet, a new musical star…
Across the country this past weekend, families celebrated Father’s Day. To honor the patriarchs of the Great White Way, Broadway.com asked readers which current Broadway dad is their f…
A tune to fill all of your days! Tony and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Alice Ripley performed "When There's No One" at Balagan Theatre’s season preview event…
Almeida Theatre and Headlong’s co-production of Chimerica is set to transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London this summer. The drama, written by Lucy Kirkwood, will play a strict…
As families across the country fire up the grill this weekend for Father's Day barbecue celebrations, Broadway's own dads are headed to work to entertain New York theater audiences. …
"This is Broadway. This is huge!" Talk show queen Wendy Williams told her studio audience on June 12. The stage-bound Williams is getting ready to make her Broadway debut as Matron…
Film and sitcom stars and, more importantly, theater enthusiasts Carol Kane, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman hitched a ride over to the Classic Stage Company to catch up with old friend and Ta…
The revolting children are taking over! The gloriously rambunctious cast of Broadway's Matilda performed on The Late Show with David Letterman on June 11. Bertie Carvel, as the terrifyin…