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The best of Broadway took Radio City Music Hall by storm on June 7 to celebrate the 69th annual Tony Awards. Co-hosted by Tony winners Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth, the ceremony g…
Before the Tony Awards this Sunday, June 7, get to know your nominees and the stellar performances they delivered this season! Here are the nominated actors in this year’s plays.
And b…
Before the Tony Awards this Sunday, June 7, get to know your nominees and the stellar performances they delivered this season! Here are the nominated actors in this year’s musicals.
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The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University announced today the recipient of the first-ever Excellence in Theatre Education Award. Corey Mitchell, theater arts teacher at Northwest School…
Passengers with delayed flights at LaGuardia Airport in New York City got an unexpected show earlier this week. Also waiting out the heavy rainfall were the Broadway casts of “Aladdin&…
For theater artists on the search for grants, check out the Center Theatre Group’s Richard E. Sherwood Award, aimed at emerging creators based in Los Angeles.
“The goal of the Sh…
Last year, the Tony Awards decided to eliminate the award for best sound design, and their reason was literally something like, “A lot of our voters don’t get it.” Well, I …
Are you ready for this year’s Tony Awards? This celebration of Broadway excellence airs Sunday, June 7 on CBS, and will feature live performances, emotional speeches, and (witty) comme…
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” continued its domination of New York theater awards May 31 at the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards, becoming the first Off-Broadway musical to …
In this exclusive video, Andrew Rannells (“Girls,” “The Book of Mormon”) counts down his seven favorite TV episodes, films, and documentaries streaming on HBO’s…
The entertainment industry is constantly changing, and it's important to stay aware of what’s going on. Want to find out who’s casting? What projects are happening? What’s …
New York City’s hotbed for original musical theater will be back in action July 7–27.
Since 2004, the New York Musical Theatre Festival has staged over 350 groundbreaking p…
For its 100th birthday, the nation’s first professional regional theater is getting quite the present—a Tony Award.
Cleveland Play House, founded in 1915, will receive this year&…
Elaine Stritch credits her acting career to Stella Adler.
“Thank God I got her as a teacher,” Stritch said at a panel at the Stella Adler Studio
With “Motherboard,” a dynamic post-apocalyptic thriller from Antimatter Collective, writer and fight choreographer Adam Scott Mazer seems to
It's not easy to stay in the spotlight. While some have made failed attempts at comebacks, others have returned to establish a better career than the one they
Kevin Brewer is almost too clever for his own good. Luckily, though, the playwright’s relentless plundering of the Bard of Avon’s
Is abortion murder? Should the rights of the mother supersede those of the unborn? Would you take an acting job to pay the rent though you disagreed with the
I’m surprised that theater companies across the country aren’t jumping at the chance to produce “Both Your Houses,” Maxwell
As a tribute concert, “Ella” is unbeatable. The musical biography of jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald at the Queens Theatre faithfully recreates the
Playwrights, get out your history books! Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith and Columbia University have teamed up to create The Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama
Non-profit theater company Page 73 Productions announced the 2013 semi-finalists for their developmental programs and an increase in their annual
Audiences are dropped into a war zone from the moment they enter the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater for Adam Rapp’s “Through the Yellow
Rebecca Lenkiewicz has transformed Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play “An Enemy of the People,” an insightful work about the cost of free expression,
In "Lovers," as in life, there are winners and losers. Brian Friel’s play gives nods to both; the first part is called "Winners," and the second called
