Longtime Bristol Township Harry S. Truman High School teacher Lou Volpe is being honored with the first-ever "MTI Lifetime Achievement Award for Theatre Education" by Music Theatre Internati…
A newly revised version of A.R. Gurney’s The Old Boy opens off-Broadway on March 5 at the Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row. The Keen Company production has already announced a one week e…
The arts aren’t merely for entertainment; they can also be a powerful healing tool. Just ask the organization Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY), which for 30 years has been help…
Tickets are now available for Scott Rudin's forthcoming Broadway production of The Testament of Mary. Directed by Tony nominee Deborah Warner and starring Tony nominee Fiona Shaw, …
Amy Herzog's emotional thriller Belleville, starring Tony Award nominee Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller as a fractured American couple living in Paris, officially opens Off-Broadway March 3…
Metropolitan Playhouse, which is in the inestimable business of excavating America’s theatrical past, is devoting its 21st season to that evergreen theme, the American Dream. Owen Davi…
One of the most powerful and beloved American plays ever written, A Raisin In the Sun tells the story of the Younger family's struggle for dignity and a better life " and the backlash …
Paper Mill theater teacher Mickey McNany first remembers Anne Hathaway as a bright, ambitious 10-year-old who was eager to make her mark on the stage. The 30-year teaching veteran spoke excl…
R&B music superstars Brian McKnight and Angie Stone have signed on to lead the national tour of the new play Love Lies. The tour is set to kick off at the Warner Theatre in Washington D.…
Five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald is heading to court. McDonald has signed on to play a litigator in the CBS pilot The Ordained, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The pilot, penned …
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Audra McDonald has signed on to co-star in the new CBS drama pilot ORDAINED. The five-time Tony Award winner will join previously announced cast members …
In the world premiere production of Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ‘67, Tony nominee De’Adre Aziza stars as a young woman whose family business comes under fire just as the …
Tony winner John Benjamin Hickey is set to star in the upcoming CW pilot Blink, according to Deadline.com. Hickey will take on the leading role of Greg, a father who suffers from a…
Guillermo Calderon’s haunting drama Neva begins its English language premiere at the Public Theater on March 1, with opening night set for March 11. The production is scheduled to run …
I went to check out Conservatory Theatre Ensemble, the drama program at Tam High, and holy gosh, what's going on there had my head spinning.
Peter Cameron will star as the Bard in Robert Brustein's The Last Will, the final installment in his trilogy of plays examining the life of Shakespeare, which will begin Off-Broadway pre…
In Doris Baizley's new play "SexSting," a West Coast premiere by the Katselas Theatre Company, a 14-year-old girl shows up in a chat room. JohnnyD (JD Cullum), a 46-year-old regular, salacio…
Collectively, our theater critics were in a very good mood this week, offering recommendations to the majority of shows reviewed: Complete at the Matrix, Echo Theatre Company's A Family Thin…
The Mound Builders will keep on digging! The Signature Theatre Company has extended its revival of Lanford Wilson’s archaeological drama before opening off-Broadway. The production, or…
Deadline reports that two-time Tony award winner James Naughton has joined the cast of the upcoming CBS drama pilot HOSTAGES. The actor joins previously announced cast member Toni Collette o…
A new higher education performing arts school that will teach its courses in English is set to open in Barcelona this summer, claiming to be the first in continental Europe to offer both tec…
Thanks to the Mint Theater Company I've had a lovely time getting acquainted with Irish playwright Teresa Deevy over the last three seasons. Their current offering, Katie Roche, isn't my fav…
Originally published here 23 March 2011. If I had known about the Frankfurt School in time, I would have been saved a great deal of work. I would not have said a certain amount of nonsense a…
There’s one word that’s indisputably synonymous with NBC’s soapy musical Smash: drama. This week's episode was chock full of it, so we asked readers (and anyone who is …
The Goodman Theatre announced its 2013-14 season Wednesday, a slate that includes a new play by Rebecca Gilman, a blues-infused Cheryl L. West drama about Pullman porters, Mary Zimmerman's "…