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The opening of VS. Theater Company's first production in its new home has been pushed back as the ensemble cast four outside actors for its world premiere of "Cops and Friends of Cops."
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The final image in Kneehigh Theatre’s new “The Wild Bride” is a dim light bulb glowing stubbornly on a stage covered with dirt and darkness. The play, adapted from the Brot…
The opening of Barbara Blatner’s three-act “Years of Sky” begins promisingly enough. A young couple, David (Sheldon Best) and Stace (Auden Thornton), are scheming to sleep …
Quvenzhane Wallis—the youngest Oscar nominee ever for “Beasts of the Southern Wild”—just landed one of the most iconic roles for young girls: Annie.
The title role in…
Have you ever found yourself wondering in idle moments, “I wonder how much it would cost to have living legend Elaine Stritch record a personalized outgoing message on my voicemail?&rd…
Naked Angels will soon have a new outpost in Manhattan. The downtown theater company is partnering with the New School for Drama and will be housed in the schools’ facilities on Bank S…
It only took 100 years, but Actors’ Equity Association is now a direct member of the AFL-CIO. The actors and stage managers’ union received a direct charter from the national lab…
It’s hard to fathom how Manhattan Theatre Club allowed Liz Flahive’s undercooked comedy-drama “The Madrid” to get all the way to the stage at New York City Center&rsq…
David Henry Hwang’s 1981 play “The Dance and the Railroad” is an unlikely but fascinating mixture of Chinese opera staging techniques and a naturalistic drama about two Chi…
“I’m done with humble. I was meant to be proud.” So says the titular heroine of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy’s 1936 comedy-drama “Katie Roche,” upon disc…
In addition to promoting TLC reality shows or Donald Trump, the world of beauty pageants can actually do some good. Case in point, the seventh annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, which benefits …
Diana LaMar is giving a strong, at times touching central performance as Marie Curie in Shirley Lauro’s “The Radiant,” about seven years in the Nobel laureate’s life,…
Frank Winters, a new and zealous playwright, is possibly too talented for his own good. For the world premiere of “On the Head of a Pin,” he is both author and director; what he …
Twenty-six-year-old author-actor Lucas Brooks is also a professional sex educator, so it’s no wonder that his first one-man show, “VGL 5’4” Top,” would survey t…
Talie Melnyk begins her one-woman show with a bang. Why beat around the bush when there’s a war on women going on? Did you know that people are just as judgmental and sexist today as t…
Theater Reconstruction Ensemble’s challenging but ultimately rewarding production of “Set in the Living Room of a Small Town American Play” does more than deconstruct the s…
Columbia University and former ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith announced today the inaugural winners of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, otherwise…
“Wait—was there something I was supposed to do right now?” This question, which is posed by an 18-year-old, pot-smoking Jesus of Nazareth to his punk-rock band in first-cen…
There’s a fine line between raunchy sick humor and just plain bad taste. You would think a musical about murdered toddler beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey would cross that line. But Medium…
The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival will debut a men’s program and youth performances when it opens for the 20th time this March.
The annual exhibition of performance artist…
The Peoples Improv Theater has announced the full lineup for its second annual NYC Improv Festival, presenting more than 80 improv comedy teams on two stages at the PIT for four nights, Marc…
For proof that online series are the future of television production just look at the names attached to the Amazon Studios pilots slated to go into production: Jeffrey Tambor and Cheyenne Ja…
New York’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is readying its first Los Angeles production, and if the “experiment” pays off, it could lead to a permanent West Coast home.
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Shia LaBeouf (“Transformers”) has dropped out of the Broadway revival of “Orphans,” producers announced on Wednesday, and the show is to begin previews on March 19. T…
Co-hosted by Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins, CUNY TV’s “Theater Talk” will host a conversation with leading casting directors James Calleri, Tara Rubin, and Bernie Telsey…
