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Women on the hunt for their latest artistic endeavor should look no further than the Big Apple. The Mayor’s Office of New York City is planning to implement a series of initiatives cre…
Find your place on the path unwinding and make your Broadway debut in the long-running hit musical “The Lion King.”
Based on the Disney film of the same name, “The Lion Kin…
The 84th annual Drama League Awards will herald in a particularly distinguished group of theatermakers, judging by the list of nominees announced this morning.
Presented by Harriet Harris, J…
Martyna Majoks just became the recipient of one of the theater’s highest honors: the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Recognizing a superlative theatrical work staged in the previous calendar…
New York is the city that never sleeps, and with so many events and activities each week across all five boroughs, it can be hard to know what’s actually worthwhile. Here are the event…
Actors’ Equity, the nation’s union for live theater actors and stage managers, has launched a campaign petitioning the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League to offer a ne…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has approved extending the Empire State Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit program for four more years, according to Forbes. The tax credit demonstrates …
Celebrating the best of British theater April 8 at London’s Royal Albert Hall, the 2018 Laurence Olivier Awards gave top honors to the West End production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s…
New York is the city that never sleeps, and with so many events and activities each week across all five boroughs, it can be hard to know what’s actually worthwhile. Here are the event…
On Broadway and beyond, a curtain can rise as quickly as it can fall; a star can be swapped as easily as Bernie Telsey can say, “That’s enough.” Theater is the beating hear…
Off-Broadway is getting its much-deserved moment in the spotlight with the April 4 announcement of the 2018 Lucille Lortel Award nominees. Celebrating some of the best theatermakers working …
Carrie Bradshaw is Team Miranda. Sarah Jessica Parker took to Instagram to endorse her “Sex and the City” co-star Cynthia Nixon in her run for governor of New York. Ni…
Welcome to Rumorville! Here you can learn about casting news that’s about to break in Hollywood. These speculations might be only rumors, but that doesn’t mean you can’t fo…
Spring is the most wonderful time of the year—for New York City thespians, that is. As a final wave of Broadway and Off-Broadway productions open in time to qualify for prestigious acc…
On Broadway and beyond, a curtain can rise as quickly as it can fall; a star can be swapped as easily as Bernie Telsey can say, “That’s enough.” Theater is the beating hear…
As has come to be expected from Miscast, MCC’s annual gala featuring gender-bending and otherwise against-type performances, surprises ran aplenty at the 2018 installment on March 26.
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New York is the city that never sleeps, and with so many events and activities each week across all five boroughs, it can be hard to know what’s actually worthwhile. Here are the event…
Welcome to Rumorville! Here you can learn about casting news that’s about to break in Hollywood. These speculations might be only rumors, but that doesn’t mean you can’t fo…
As the New York City theater community gears up for another Tony Awards season honoring Broadway’s best, The League of Professional Theatre Women got a head start handing out accolades…
After some years in the doldrums, TV has caught back on to New York as one large studio - a boon for New York actors, of course, and perhaps largely the result of an expansion of tax breaks …
Before he was Evan, Ben Platt was Tony—or at least he wanted to be.
The Tony Award-winning former star of “Dear Evan Hansen” took to Twitter to share a self-taped video he …
New York is the city that never sleeps, and with so many events and activities each week across all five boroughs, it can be hard to know what’s actually worthwhile. Here are the event…
Welcome to Rumorville! Here you can learn about casting news that’s about to break in Hollywood. These speculations might be only rumors, but that doesn’t mean you can’t fo…
On Broadway and beyond, a curtain can rise as quickly as it can fall; a star can be swapped as easily as Bernie Telsey can say, “That’s enough.” Theater is the beating hear…
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