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Theater News: Will & Grace Star Megan Mullally is the Newest Addition to the Star-Studded Broadway @ The Art House Concert Series

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3 PM

Two-time Emmy Award winner Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) is headed to Provincetown, Massachusetts this August. She plans to join the already-packed roster of talented artists scheduled to participate

Theater News: Broadway's Jordan Gelber, Jennifer Cody, and Leenya Rideout Star in Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2 PM

Ithaca, New York's Hangar Theatre opened its 2013 season on June 13 with a production of the Neil Simon comedy Last of the Red Hot Lovers, scheduled to run through June 29. Hangar Associ

Photo Flash: Jane Lynch, Lilla Crawford, and Annie Company Sign New Broadway Cast Recording

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1 PM

Jane Lynch, Lilla Crawford, and cast members from the 2012 Broadway revival of the classic musical Annie celebrated the show's newly released cast recording with a CD signing at Barnes & Noble on Tue

Theater News: New York Musical Theatre Festival Announces Songwriting Workshop, Musicals on Television Series, and More

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12 PM

The New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced the concerts, educational workshops, and a screening series that will complete the programming for its 10th annual festival, which will begin July

Theater News: Independent Shakespeare Company Brings Free Shakespeare to Los Angeles' Griffith Park

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11 AM

On June 27, Los Angeles' Independent Shakespeare Company is heading to the Old Zoo at Griffith Park for another season of free Shakespeare. The largest free Shakespeare festival ever to come to L.A.,

Photo Flash: Paul Rudd and Julianna Margulies of MCC Theater's Reading of Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11 AM

Julianna Margulies and Paul Rudd star in this benefit reading directed by playwright Neil LaBute, who is celebrating a decade of collaboration and new work with MCC Theater. Proceeds from the reading

Theater News: Benoit-Swan Pouffer to Choreograph the Upcoming Broadway Musical Soul Doctor

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10 AM

Benoit-Swan Pouffer, the acclaimed former artistic director of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, is set to choreograph the upcoming Broadway musical Soul Doctor, which will play the Circle in the Squar

Theater News: Maggie Gyllenhaal Will Star in The Village Bike at MCC Theater

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10 AM

Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart) is following up her recent off-Broadway appearances in productions of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (2009) and Three Sisters (2011) at Classic Stage Comp

Photo Flash: Carla Gugino and Peter Grosz Open Off-Broadway in LCT3's A Kid Like Jake

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9 AM

Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 world premiere production of Daniel Pearle's A Kid Like Jake celebrated its opening night at the Claire Tow Theater on Monday, June 17. Evan Cabnet directs the new drama

Photo Flash: Michael Cerveris, Beth Leavel, Leslie Uggams Celebrate Actors' Equity Association at 100th Anniversary Gala

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9 AM

Actors' Equity Association celebrated its 100th birthday with a black-tie gala at the Midtown Hilton Hotel on Monday, June 17. Founded May 26, 1913, the union represents nearly 17,000 professional ac

Interviews: My Name is Asher Lev Star Ari Brand Brings Chaim Potok's Hasidic Hero to Life

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12 AM

Ari Brand plays the title character in Aaron Posner's new adaptation of the classic Chaim Potok novel My Name is Asher Lev, currently playing at Westside Theatre. The play, set in post-war Brooklyn,

Review: A Kid Like Jake

Monday, June 17, 2013 10 PM

Dramas about parents and their children are nothing new to the entertainment canon. On television there's currently a long-running, acclaimed drama called Parenthood that deals with the subject matte

Photo Flash: Tyne Daly Celebrates the Opening of Mothers and Sons at Bucks County Playhouse

Monday, June 17, 2013 5 PM

Four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally (Ragtime) opened the world premiere of his new play, Mothers and Sons, on Friday, June 14 at Bucks County Playhouse. Mothers and Sons follows a mother wh

Theater News: Neil Patrick Harris Will Star in Broadway Premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Monday, June 17, 2013 2 PM

Legendary Tony Awards host Neil Patrick Harris will star in the Broadway premiere production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's cult classic musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, set to hit th

Theater News: Mary Testa Stars in My Brilliant Divorce at Florida's Asolo Rep

Monday, June 17, 2013 2 PM

Two-time Tony Award nominee and 2012 Drama Desk Special Award recipient Mary Testa (Queen of the Mist) is set to star in Geraldine Aron's one-woman comedy My Brilliant Divorce at Sarasota, Florida's

Theater News: Nunsense to Celebrate 30th Anniversary with All New Cast Recording

Monday, June 17, 2013 2 PM

Dan Goggin's musical comedy Nunsense will celebrate its 30th anniversary with the release of a definitive recording of the beloved score with complete orchestrations. The album features musical arran

Theater News: Harris Yulin, Candy Buckley, and More Cast in Chautauqua Theater Company's 30th Anniversary Season

Monday, June 17, 2013 1 PM

Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch has announced principal casting for Chautauqua Theater Company's upcoming 30th anniversary season, which is set to include Tennessee Williams' classic family drama

Theater News: Mandy Patinkin, Elizabeth Olsen, Taylor Mac, and More Set for Classic Stage Company's 2013-2014 Season

Monday, June 17, 2013 1 PM

Classic Stage Company has announced the four productions planned for its upcoming 2013-2014 season which, as previously announced, will kick off with a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet st

Theater News: Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark to Donate to St. Mary's Healthcare System for Children

Monday, June 17, 2013 12 PM

The Broadway hit Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark has announced that throughout the month of June a portion of ticket-sale proceeds will be donated to St. Mary's Healthcare System for Children, the City'

Interviews: Sherie Rene Scott is More Than Just A Piece of Meat

Monday, June 17, 2013 12 AM

10:20am is a little early for a phone interview, and it's not surprising that the answering machine picks up upon the first attempt to reach three-time Tony Award nominee Sherie Rene Scott to talk ab

Review: Roadkill

Sunday, June 16, 2013 10 PM

There are more slaves today than at any other point in history. This startling fact is revealed after 90 minutes of grueling, intense theater that brings us into the life of one such modern-day slave

Review: False Solution

Sunday, June 16, 2013 4 PM

Architects are sexy, arrogant, and easily manipulated. Those are just three of the many lessons in writer/director Oren Safdie's new play, False Solution, now receiving its world premiere at La MaMa.

Theater News: Broadway's Ann, Starring Holland Taylor, to Offer $20 Tickets for Young Adults

Friday, June 14, 2013 1 PM

Broadway tickets are a tad expensive for young people, but over at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, students and young adults ages 14-18 can purchase $20 tickets to Ann, written by and starring Holland T

Theater News: Tony Award-Winning Peter and the Starcatcher Celebrates 100 Performances Off-Broadway

Friday, June 14, 2013 10 AM

The five-time Tony Award-winning Peter and the Starcatcher celebrated 100 performances at its new Off-Broadway home, New World Stages, on June 13. Prior to the performance, the cast, which is led by

Photo Flash: Venice, With Jennifer Damiano, Haaz Sleiman, and Leslie Odom Jr., Opens Off-Broadway

Friday, June 14, 2013 10 AM

Venice, Matt Sax and Eric Rosen's futuristic riff on Shakespeare's Othello, celebrated its opening night at the Public Theater on Thursday, June 13 with a post-performance party in the lobby of the c

Photo Flash: Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana, Victoria Clark, and the Cast of Broadway's Cinderella Sign Cast Albums

Friday, June 14, 2013 9 AM

2013 Tony Award nominees Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana, Victoria Clark, and the cast of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella signed copies of the musical's newly released Original Broadway Cast Recordin

Thinking About Theater: Of Playwrights and Complainers

Friday, June 14, 2013 12 AM

This is the start of a new voyage for me, and the charts for this area of the ocean are somewhat vague, so my route may be a little meandering. I hope my fellow travelers will bear with me. I'm going

Theater News: Flashback Friday: Before Billy Porter Was a Tony Award Winner, He Was a Teen Angel

Friday, June 14, 2013 12 AM

Before Billy Porter graduated from the school of hard knocks and became a Tony Award winner for his role as the fabulous drag queen Lola in Kinky Boots, he played the newly imagined, gospel-infused T

Review: Venice

Thursday, June 13, 2013 10 PM

There is an exhilarating and potentially groundbreaking ninety-minute musical trapped within Venice, Matt Sax and Eric Rosen's lengthy, lumbering, dystopian riff on Shakespeare's Othello. Following a

Review: Occupation

Thursday, June 13, 2013 5 PM

Project:Theater's Occupation, currently playing at TBG Theatre, is a thought experiment, of sorts, that imagines an analogue in the American south to the U.S.'s military involvement in Iraq and Afgha

Theater News: Squeaky Bicycle Productions Presents Alligator Summer

Thursday, June 13, 2013 4 PM

New York City's Squeaky Bicycle Productions will open its newest production, Dylan Lamb's Alligator Summer, at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex on June 20, scheduled to run through July 7. The play

Theater News: Keala Settle, Joshua Henry, Christopher Sieber Join Sutton Foster in Sold-Out Encores! Concert of Violet

Thursday, June 13, 2013 1 PM

Tony Award nominees Joshua Henry (The Scottsboro Boys), Keala Settle (Hands on a Hardbody), and Christopher Sieber (La Cage Aux Folles) will join two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster in the upcoming Ne

Theater News: Ethan Hawke, Laurie Metcalf, and More Set for Lincoln Center Theater's 2013-2014 Season

Thursday, June 13, 2013 1 PM

Ethan Hawke in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Laurie Metcalf in Bruce Norris' new play Domesticated are among the selections on tap for Lincoln Center Theater's 2013-2014 season at the Vivian Beau

Special Reports: Kanye West or Billy Magnussen — Who said it?

Thursday, June 13, 2013 12 PM

Is Billy Magnussen (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) Broadway's Kanye West? He has the same joie de vivre and way with words. They're both incredibly attractive and dating people who are more fam

Theater News: Broadway MetaMusical [title of show] Will Finally Play London

Thursday, June 13, 2013 11 AM

[title of show], the acclaimed, "little musical that could" will make its long-awaited London debut this fall at the Landor Theatre, an intimate, sixty-seat space on the first floor of the Landor Pub

Theater News: The Amoralists' Rantoul and Die is Now Open and They've Released a Cool New Video…

Thursday, June 13, 2013 11 AM

Off-Broadway theater company The Amoralists have just opened their New York premiere production of Rantoul and Die, written by Mark Roberts (creator of CBS' Mike and Molly). The show is set to run th

Theater News: The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Music at North Shore Music Theatre

Thursday, June 13, 2013 10 AM

On Tuesday, June 11, the North Shore Music Theatre opened its production of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Coming to the North Shore stage for the first time since 19

Theater News: New York City-Based Theater Companies Now Eligible for Regional Theatre Tony Awards

Thursday, June 13, 2013 10 AM

Every year, special Tony Awards are presented to a regional theatre on the recommendation of the American Theatre Critics Association. Starting with the 2013-2014 season, New York-based theater compa

Photo Flash: Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, Zachary Quinto, and More at the Public Theater's Pirates of Penzance Gala Concert

Thursday, June 13, 2013 10 AM

Meryl Streep, Zachary Quinto, Steve Martin, and Lily Rabe were among the guests at the Public Theater's benefit gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, held Tuesday, June

Theater News: Tony Award Winner Alice Ripley to Star in Carrie: The Musical at Seattle's Balagan Theatre

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2 PM

Alice Ripley, best known for her 2009 Tony Award-winning performance as mother and wife Diana Goodman in the Broadway musical Next To Normal, plans to star in a production of Carrie: The Musical (a