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The 2014 Tony-Award winning hit "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" has a new star, a face known both on Broadway and on screen.
The Great White Way will dim its lights at 7:45 p.m. Thursday in memory of stage and screen actress Lauren Bacall who died this week at the age of 89.
Broadway theaters dimmed their lights Wednesday evening to honor Robin Williams.
Some say Roundabout Theatre's revival of "Cabaret" is drumming up the ghosts of Studio 54-specifically, the Kit Kat Klub boys of the present.
Summer in the city means Shakespeare in the Park. The Public Theater's latest offering at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park is a new staging of "King Lear" starring John Lithgo…
Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis is known for works like "Our Lady Of 121st Street," "Jesus Hopped the A Train," and the Tony nominated play with an explicit title-we'll j…
Keke Palmer will soon be the first African-American to play Cinderella on Broadway, making her Broadway debut in "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella."
Stand-up comics make us laugh with everything from jokes, and impersonations to story-telling and one liners. Now, the life of a stand-up comedian is part of the punchline in a new musical a…
"The Sound of Music" has been a musical favorite here for decades, but Salzburg, Austria, where the story was set, took some time before it embraced the beloved show. NY1's Frank D…
David Schwimmer, best known for his role as Ross on the hit series "Friends," is currently working behind the scenes, directing the Second Stage Theatre's production of a new play …
Shakespeare plays are usually categorized as comedies or tragedies, and it's quite rare for them to switch, but a new off-Broadway production turns everything upside down with the help of a …
The Metropolitan Opera is pushing for a federal mediator to help settle a contract dispute that could result in a lockout as early as Friday.
What do actors Michael Douglas, Meryl Streep, and Judith Light have in common? They all got their start at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. NY1's Frank DiLella filed the following report f…
Union officials with the Met say contract talks show little hope for a deal and that a lockout could begin as soon as Friday.
One unusual celebration of Shakespeare lets fans mix and match their favorite Shakespearean insults.
Film star and Broadway regular James Earl Jones is on his way back to the Great White Way.
Film star James Franco is at the helm of the new off-Broadway play "The Long Shrift."
Broadway theaters dimmed their lights Friday in honor of Elaine Stritch, who died Thursday at the age of 89.
A new historically based musical called "Atomic" is about a project that changed the world forever.
Five-time Tony award nominee Elaine Stritch, who performed well into her 80s at a cabaret show in the Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side, died Thursday at the age of 89.
It's a knock out punch for the Broadway musical "Rocky," as it sets to close on August 17.
The music of the late Bert Berns lives on again in the new jukebox musical "Piece of My Heart."
The third installment in a trilogy of theatrical spectacles from Argentina that first arrived off Broadway in 1998 with a show called "De La Guarda" is called "Wayra."
It was recently announced that Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize winning play "Disgraced" will be heading to Broadway this fall. Now, Lincoln Center Theatre is presenting another work f…
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