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NY Artists Unlimited, creator of the International Cringe Festival, is now accepting submissions for the 2nd annual Bad Plays Festival. (more...)

The hit film version of Dreamgirls has dropped out of the weekend box office top ten (more...)

TV and theatre star Charlotte Rae will perform as part of the Any Wednesday series at Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble on Wendesday, February 21st. (more...)

Frank Gehry will design the new Carrie Hamilton Theatre for the Pasadena Playhouse (more...)

Meryl Streep to Star in 'Doubt' Film as Sister Aloysius?

Meryl Streep may be playing the stern Sister Aloysius in the upcoming big screen adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt. (more...)

Blind Lemon Blues: How Many Blues Can One Musical Have?

A misical biography of Blind Lemon Jefferson features 65 songs and very little story (more...)

Photo Flash: Carol Channing and Debbie Reynolds Show

A concert show starring two legends - Carol Channing and Debbie Reynolds - is set to play Suprise (Sun City), AZ at the Maricopa Performing Arts Center on February 25th before moving into Florida (more...)

The producers of Hairspray, winner of eight 2003 Tony Awards including best musical, have announced that Leslie Goshko of Tulsa, Oklahoma, winner of the Hairspray 'Big Bopper Dance Topper' dance contest, which is presented by Ladies Home Journal and its website LHJ.com, will make her Broadway debut, performing with the company, on Saturday, February 24, at 8pm. (more...)

The third season of 'Monday Nights, New Voices' will continue February 19th at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre. (more...)

BWW TV: Broadway Beat - Follies, Drama League and Bears!

You won't want to miss this week's show - highlights from Encore's recent Follies; BC/EFA's Broadway Bears X and performances & interviews from The Drama League's Benefit Gala. Click to watch Mimi Hines, Donna Murphy, Christine Baranski, Roz Ryan, Ashley Brown, Josh Strickland & the cast of Spring Awakening! (more...)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf SF Tickets On Sale Feb.25

Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,' starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, will play April 11 - May 12 at the Golden Gate Theatre as a part of the 2006-2007 Best of Broadway season. Opening night is April 13. Tickets go on sale February 25. (more...)

Pregones Theater, INTAR, Teatro Circulo and Teatro IATI (more...)

Today, the League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc., the national trade organization for the commercial theatre industry, announced the recipients for the 2007 'League Educator Apple Award.' (more...)

Idle Reteams with DuPrez for Life of Brian-Based Oratorio

Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) - a 'light-hearted oratorio' by Monty Python star and Spamalot co-creator Eric Idle - will premiere in Toronto this June. (more...)

Photo Flash: Jessica Lange in The Glass Menagerie

Oscar-winner Jessica Lange, as well as Ed Stoppard, Amanda Hale, and Mark Umbers, star in Rupert Goold's production of The Glass Menagerie, which opened on Feburary 13th at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End. (more...)

Photo Flash: Lookingglass Theatre Press Party

On Monday, February 12th, Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company headed to New York's Magen H. Gallery for a cocktail party featuring Ensemble Members David Schwimmer and Joey Slotnick, Artistic Director David Catlin, and Executive Director Rachel Kraft. (more...)

British comedian, Jimmy Hogg, will present his one-man show 'Cirriculum Vitae' as part of the NY FRIGID Festival. (more...)

New York Harbor's Globe Theatre in Jeopardy; You Can Help

A theatre in New York Harbor, modelled after the legendary Globe of Shakespeare's time, is in jeopardy. (more...)

Acclaimed theatre stars Kathleen Chalfant and Laila Robins will star in a reading of Kristof Bathory's Garbo's Last Walk at the Arthur Seelan Theatre (250 W. 40th St.), located below the Drama Book Shop, on March 5 (more...)

NBC's 'Grease: You're the One That I Want' continues to rank in the top five of the Sunday night ratings. (more...)

Every second year, The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. undertakes a new chapter in its longitudinal tracking study of the audiences at nationally touring Broadway productions (more...)

The hit film version of Dreamgirls has remained in the weekend box office top ten, and will soon break the $100 million mark (more...)

BWW TV: Broadway Beat - Reams, Rockers and Utopia!

Catch the latest episode of Broadway Beat featuring Lee Roy Reams (currently in The Producers), highlights from Rockers on Broadway and the cast and crew of Coast of Utopia - right here on BroadwayWorld.com! (more...)

The California State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will receive the Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Marriage Equality Award at Equality California's (EQCA) 2007 San Francisco Equality Awards event on February 10. (more...)

Haunted High School Musical to Reach Big Screen in '08

A big screen film, entitled Haunted High School Musical, will be the next entry in Disney's wildly successful 'High School Musical' franchise (more...)