It’s been a long time coming, but Netflix, after penning the deal in 2012, has finally announced that their purchase of the rights to the entire Disney archive will finally be made ava…
The National YoungArts Foundation is accepting applications now through Oct. 14 from performing, visual, literary, and design students ages 15–18. The 2017 winners will receive mentors…
If there was ever any doubt that this was a great year for American theater, consider it snuffed: After 46 years away from the Tony Awards’ stage, Barbra Streisand is scheduled to retu…
Everybody has a dream role, a once-in-a-lifetime—or possibly never-in-a-lifetime—character that fulfills an actor’s wildest impulses. We asked a handful of this year’…
The 2015–16 season saw several newcomers and veterans alike working at the top of their game—and on Broadway, the highest platform a theater star can reach. Get to know the 20 br…
Sure, the Tony Awards’ musical categories are always competitive. But for the 2015–16 season, the four acting categories seem more crowded with brilliant contenders than usual. G…
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway phenomenon “Hamilton,” the hip-hop retelling of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton’s life, became the most nominated production in Tony …
It was Off-Broadway’s night on May 23 as the Obie Awards dished out recognition for some of the season’s top productions. The Danai Gurira–penned, Tony-nominated “Ecl…
Just when you thought “Hamilton” and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda couldn’t ride into this year’s Tony Awards with more promising prospects, they go ahead and take two t…
Results for Actors’ Equity Association’s 2016 National Council election were announced May 19; 14 open seats across three regions and three categories (principal actor, chorus ac…
Sure, he may make a fabulous Tony Awards host this year, but a choreographer on “Dancing With the Stars”? Not so much. In a “Late Late Night With James Corden” bit la…
The 6th annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards were announced May 18. Ike Holter’s “Exit Strategy,” which ran at Primary Stages this spring, and César Alvarez’s &…
“Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed” came out on top at the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards held Monday, May 16, with three wins. T…
What do Tony-winning “Waitress” star Jessie Mueller and Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o have in common with feminist icon Gloria Steinem? They’ll all be on hand a…
Alana Arenas, Ben Platt, Bill Camp, and Lois Smith are positioned for 2016 Actors’ Equity Foundation honors. The Actors’ Equity Foundation named Arenas and Platt this year’…
Recognizing 25 categories in Broadway and Off-Broadway, the 66th annual New York Outer Critics Circle Awards saluted the best theater of the 2015–16 season May 9. The organization of w…
“The Humans” continued its impressive theater awards season streak last night with a big win at the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. Stephen Karam’s chilling family dr…
Check out four of the best acting opportunities now featured in today’s casting notices, including a certain revolutionary musical that recently received more Tony Award nominations th…
In honor of the late, legendary playwright Lorraine Hansberry, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre is throwing a citywide celebration April 30–June 5. Curated by resident director Chuck Sm…
When casting director Julia Flores starts casting a project, she says her priority is always finding the heart of the show. Flores was looking for strong singers who could emotionally connec…
Fresh off a record-breaking 16 Tony nominations, “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail visited "Late Night With Seth Meyers" to chat about the achievement, his relationship with musica…
Hosted by True Colors Theatre Company artistic director and Tony winner Kenny Leon, the National August Wilson Monologue Competition anointed three deserving young winners May 2. High …
Honoring Broadway, Off-Broadway, and film’s most outstanding dancers and choreographers, the 2016 Fred and Adele Astaire Award nominees were announced by New York Post columnist Michae…
Just after Nikki M. James and Andrew Rannells announced this year’s Tony nominations, Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner’s newsletter, Lenny Letter, published a new essay by Academy Aw…
Nikki M. James and Andrew Rannells announced the impressive nominees for this year’s Tony Awards on May 3. As expected, Lin-Manuel Miranda and his Broadway sensation “Hamilton&rd…