Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) just announced Bailey Hanks of Broadway's Legally Blonde will star as ‘Sharpay' in Paper Mill's upcoming production of Disney's High School Musical. The rest of the cast will be announced later this week. (read story...)

Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) just announced Bailey Hanks of Broadway's Legally Blonde will star as ‘Sharpay' in Paper Mill's upcoming production of Disney's High School Musical. The rest of the cast will be announced later this week. (read story...)

Westchester Broadway Theatre (WBT) in Elmsford, New York, will be holding non-union children's auditions for their upcoming production of A Wonderful Life, a musical adapted from the Frank Capra film It's A Wonderful Life. (read story...)

Westchester Broadway Theatre (WBT) in Elmsford, New York, will be holding non-union children's auditions for their upcoming production of A Wonderful Life, a musical adapted from the Frank Capra film It's A Wonderful Life. (read story...)

Westchester Broadway Theatre (WBT) in Elmsford, New York, will be holding non-union children's auditions for their upcoming production of A Wonderful Life, a musical adapted from the Frank Capra film It's A Wonderful Life. (read story...)

Presented by Shstrng Producions, the 2nd Annual One-Minute Play Festival features 90 plays, 40 actors and nine directors. Each play will be one minute in length. Curated by Dominic D'Andrea, the festival displays the talents of over forty emerging American playwrights and will be mounted at Barrow Group Arts Center in New York on Saturday October 25th at 8PM and Sunday, October 26th at 2PM and 8PM. The 2008 One-Minute Play Directors include Carlos Armesto, Dylan McCullough, Kim Weild, Claire Lundberg, Dominic D'Andrea, Lou Moreno, Shelley Butler, Jacob Krueger, & Michael Gardner. (read story...)

Irene Dailey, a Broadway, film and television actress, died on September 24 at the age of 88 from colon cancer in Santa Rosa, California. (read story...)

Irene Dailey, a Broadway, film and television actress, died on September 24 at the age of 88 from colon cancer in Santa Rosa, California. (read story...)

Polish playwright Michal Walczak receives US premiere with his two comedies SANDBOX/THE FIRST TIME at 59E59 Theaters in New York, produced by Immigrants' Theatre Project, part of MADE IN POLAND: A Festival of New Polish Plays. (read story...)

The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum takes Social Science and World History "Off-the-Page" with Fremont High School students this fall as part of two long-term arts-education residency programs, Americana off the Page: Viva La Raza! and Americana off the Page: African-American History. (read story...)

On Monday, October 6 at 8:00 p.m. in Zankel Hall, The Carnegie Hall Notables hosted REVIVAL: Broadway’s Next Act, a panel discussion focusing on the fresh approach that composers have recently introduced to Broadway, attracting audiences through a new range of media, from YouTube to MTV. (read story...)

The New York Musical Theater Festival may be spawning something extraordinarily special with their production of PLAY IT COOL. The show, with a book by Martin Casella and Larry Dean Harris, features music by Philip Swan and lyrics by Mark Winkler. Is set in a 1920’s Hollywood jazz club catering to a gay clientele and is owned my Mary (Sally Mayes), who has put all her life’s savings into it. (read story...)

On October 6th, 2008 theater, television, and film celebrities Polly Draper, S. Epatha Merkerson, Talia Balsam and Cybill Shepherd attended the second annual "Reinvention Convention", hosted by More Magazine. (read story...)

Next month, Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman returns to Berkeley Repertory Theatre with an alluring adaptation of The Arabian Nights. This is Zimmerman’s sixth trip to Berkeley Rep, and for the first time she works her magic on the intimate Thrust Stage. The Arabian Nights runs from November 13 through January 4 with the official press night on November 19. (read story...)

For years, the public's number one request for improved service at Theatre Development Fund's TKTS Discount Booths has been the addition of credit cards as a method of payment. When TDF's new booth opens "under the red glass steps" in the newly revitalized Father Duffy Square (Broadway and 47th Street, Manhattan) on Thursday, October 16 at 3pm, ticket buyers will be able to make their purchases using major credit cards, in addition to cash and travelers checks, for same-day tickets to Broadway, Off Broadway, music and dance productions. (read story...)

On Sunday October 5, 2008 Gypsy star and Tony Award winner Laura Benanti and her husband, stage and screen star Steven Pasquale caught a performance of [title of show]. Also visiting that night was actress Katie Finneran, a Tony Winner herself for 'Noises Off' as well as cast members from the new musical 'A Tale of Two Cities', after the performance the whole gang stopped by backstage to visit the cast and crew. (read story...)

Jamie McGonnigal will present "Broadway Loves Joe’s Pub” a concert featuring the best of the best from the Broadway concerts at Joe’s Pub over the last ten years. (read story...)

Wait Until Dark, the sixth production of the Covina Center for the Performing Arts’ premiere season, opens Thursday, October 30, for a three-week run, closing on Sunday, November 16. Directed by Mack Gilliland, Wait Until Dark is presented by the Covina Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA) with all new design in a completely original production. (read story...)

Dancers Over 40 kicks off the second season of its popular series of panels and performances saluting Broadway and film director/choreographer Jack Cole with "Jack Cole: Alive and Kicking" on Monday, October 13th at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space in New York. It will be hosted by legendary television talk show host Dick Cavett. There will be clips of Cole's television and film work, with special guests DO40 advisory board members Chita Rivera and Marge Champion. (read story...)

The Broadway cast of 13 will be featured on MTV News, Monday, October 6th & Tuesday, October 7th. The show, which opened on Sunday, October 5th, 2008, began preview performances on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th Street) on September 16th, 2008. (read story...)

'All My Sons' stars John Lithgow and Katie Holmes spoke to Scott Simon on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday following a performance last week at Broadway's Schoenfeld Theatre. (read story...)

Returning after a three year hiatus, Author Services Inc, located one block west of Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd, is once again hosting live music and story-readings of L. Ron Hubbard's "Stories from the Golden Age," with some of the world's most talented musicians and Hollywood's most recognized actors, including Chick Corea, Edgar Winter, Karen Black and David Carradine. (read story...)

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-wining Mint Theater Company kicks off their 2008-2009 season with the American Premiere of J. B. Priestley’s The Glass Cage, and announced that performances will continue through November 8th. (read story...)

The Los Angeles production of ‘Wicked’ announced today that as part of the national celebration of Wicked Day, ‘Wicked’ fans will be encouraged to commit to a green environment with a Wickedly green, Wickedly fun Scavenger Hunt through Hollywood on Sunday, October 26. Wicked Day is celebrated around the world in the cities where the hit musical is performing. (read story...)

The Los Angeles production of ‘Wicked’ announced today that as part of the national celebration of Wicked Day, ‘Wicked’ fans will be encouraged to commit to a green environment with a Wickedly green, Wickedly fun Scavenger Hunt through Hollywood on Sunday, October 26. Wicked Day is celebrated around the world in the cities where the hit musical is performing. (read story...)