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A New Maria in West Side Story

Broadway newbie Sarah Amengual takes over for Josefina Scaglione

Kelsey Grammer to Host Broadway on Broadway

Free performances by 19 different Broadway shows
Lynn Nottage and Will Eno Win Inaugural Horton Foote Prizes

She for Ruined, he for Middletown, both for excellence.
Casting Announced for The Pee-wee Herman Show

Including three cast members from the original production

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Tickets On-Sale for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

The musical opens in previews in October
Never Enough Sondheim for Bernadette Peters

She will appear in the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts production of Follies
Katie Finneran to Depart Promises, Promises

The actress is expecting a child this winter
National Tour of West Side Story Announces Casting

Jets and Sharks will fight across America beginning Sept. 30
Justin Guarini to Make Broadway Debut in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

And the post-American Idol theater careers of other contestants
Extra Four Weeks for The Pee-wee Herman Show

The Broadway performance will now run until 2011
A New Mrs. Wilkinson

Theater-vet Emily Skinner joins the Broadway cast of Billy Elliot
Broadway Invades the Emmys

Award presenters with a theater past
Jerry Lee Lewis to Perform with Million Dollar Quartet Cast

The rock legend will join the cast for a one-night-only concert on September 10
Paul Dano to Star in A Free Man of Color

With Mos Def and Jeffrey Wright
The Break of Noon

Amanda Peet joins the cast of upcoming play with David Duchovny
New York International Fringe Festival

Nearly 200 performances over 16 days
The Capeman Returns

And five other musicals written by musicians
Daniel Radcliffe and His Love of Broadway

The actor talks to Out about the theater community
Final “Broadway in Bryant Park” Today

Free performances from the casts of Mamma Mia!, West Side Story and more
Elf: The Musical

Partial casting announced for the Broadway show
Turn On the Lights

The Spider-Man musical gets a premiere date
Angels in America

At the Peter Norton Space from September 14-January 30
Alice in Broadway’land

Wonderland premieres in March 2011
Ticket to The Ride

A new way of experiencing NYC…on a $1.3 million vehicle
Rock of Ages Leaves Broadway

But not before throwing a party at B.B. Kings
Broadway. Bryant Park. Free.

The Million Dollar Quartet, Freestyle Love Supreme, The Fantasticks, Avenue Q and Fela! perform today
Zach Braff, Theater Star

And five other thespians better known for their TV work
Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party

Preview of the former-FringeNYC play and other depictions of Lincoln throughout history
Back in Our Town

Michael McKean returns to Off-Broadway play until August 22
Broadway in Bryant Park

The Lion King, The Addams Family, Next to Normal and Wicked for free
Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood

Influential theater festival begins its fifth installment
The Merchant to Venice Coming to Broadway

Al Pacino, yes. Free, no.
Broadway Stands Up for Freedom

A star-studded concert with proceeds going to the NYCLU
On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever

Playing at Powerhouse Theater from July 29-August 1
Interview with Constantine Maroulis

And other happenings from today’s “Broadway in Bryant Park”
Give ‘Em That Razzle Dazzle, Mr. Peterman

John O’Hurley returns to the role of Billy Flynn in Chicago
Intentionally Awful Theater

International Cringefest 2010 runs until August 8
A Streetcar Named Smith

Will and Jada-Pinkett Smith to star in Streetcar revival?
Broadway Takes Over Bryant Park

Including an interview with Tony Award-nominee Chad Kimball, star of the hit musical Memphis
The Songwriter/Actress Returns to the Big City

Amanda Green to perform at Birdland
Light Will Never Go Out

The NY Neo-Futurist’s Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Broadway in Bryant Park

Performances by the casts of Memphis, Billy Elliot and others
The Winner of Oz

Compete for the role of Dorothy in WiZaRD
The Night Smiles, Once Again

Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch breathe new life into A Little Night Music
Lincoln Center Festival 2010

What to see and hear from July 7-25
The Director Series

Lear deBessonet, On the Levee
Southern Fried and Sanctified Fun

The hilarious Sister Myotis’s Bible Camp
Broadway’s Biggest Night

And the Tony goes to…
Slapstick Sisters

Nunsense at Cherry Lane Theatre
The Family That Brays Together, Stays Together

That Face Theater review
Michael Golamco’s “Year Zero” at the Uptown Second Stage Theatre
This Wide Night

Edie Falco and Alison Pill explore the unique bond formed by prison inmates
Creating Franklin

Encore exclusive interview with director of new play
The Kid Comes to Life

Dan Savage’s weekly column begins anew as a musical
Little Big Time

UCB Theatre proves fertile ground for comedy’s major leagues
Ring Them Bells

Preview of Stephen Belber’s Dusk Rings a Bell
The Playwright’s Process

A chat with Sheila Callaghan
A Fresh Look at Parenthood

Winter Miller’s play Paternity
Welcome to Family Week

Henley’s tale of psychoanalysis now at Lucille Lortel
Greek Tragedy, Wine-Making and Politics Collide

A preview of Lascivious Something
A New “To Be or Not to Be”?

New Perspectives Theatre Company presents Hamlet
Resonance Ensemble to Construct a Glass House and Depict a Master Builder

Two plays using architecture as metaphor come to the stage
Affluence and Deterioration: A Family Portrait

That Face at the Manhattan Theater Club
Like, Totally Awesome!

The Awesome 80’s Prom makes retro rad
Snap! Snap!

Charles Addams is finally festering on Broadway
The Screwtape Letters

Belief and spectacle merge in the adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ work
Singing, Reading, Flashing Multimedia

Zipperhead review
Enron: A True Story About False Profits

Innovative musical retells modern history
A Trip to Next Fall

Naufft’s romantic opus now on Broadway
Emotional Debt Dramatized

August Strindberg’s Creditors, a revenge tragicomedy
Reality and Performance Collide at The Kitchen

An interview with The Juvenal Players director Pablo Helguera
Enjoy

Encore Exclusive interview with Enjoy director Dan Rothenberg
Girl Growing Up

Review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Theater Breaking Through Barriers Cooks Up Bass for Picasso

Kate Moira Ryan’s play set for its world premiere
What Lies Beneath

The Players Theatre gives insight to the Man in the Mask in The Phantom of the Opera
“Rhoda” Rocks as Tallulah

Looped theater review
An “Engaging” Battle of Wits

Engaging Shaw at the Abingdon Theatre Company
Dr Knock, Or the Triumph of Medicine

Encore exclusive interview with Mint Theater Artistic Director Jonathan Bank
All About Me: Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein Are Ready For Broadway!
What Was Old is New Again

Handel’s Partenope revitalized at the New York City Opera
In the Heat of the Night:

Encore exclusive interview with director Joe Tantalo
Bubbles Might Burst, But Memories Won’t

The Gazillion Bubble Show delights children of all ages in New York
Long Live The Duchess

Review of The Duchess of Malfi
TACT throws A Cocktail Party

T.S. Eliot play makes comeback

A Verdict

Review of The Scottsboro Boys
Directorial Diligence

Review of Sam Mendes’ The Tempest at BAM
Variety Goes Ape

Cirque du Soleil presents Banana Shpeel at the Beacon
Acting Duo Paint the Town RED

New drama proves gripping, provocative
Use Your Delusion

A Lie of the Mind review
From the Stage and Beyond!

Love, Loss, and What I Wore: A review
A Walk Through Clybourne Park

An Interview With Pam Mackinnon
Encore Exclusive interview with Madame White Snake creator Cerise Lim Jacobs
Time Stands Still

The more people change, the more pictures stay the same
Theater for the Video Game Age

Mabou Mines’ FINN breaks boundaries at Skirball
Smudge: A Thing of Beauty
Forbidden Broadway

Classic comes to SOPAC
Finding Fela! in the Fabric

Costume and set designer Marina Draghici
MCC Theater Presents The Pride

Hit play makes U.S. debut with Brit stars
Il mondo della luna

Gotham Chamber Opera, Diane Paulus stage classic at Hayden Planetarium
Carrie on My Wayward Princess

Wishful Drinking
Mamet’s Race Stirs Audiences

All-Star cast joins writer/director legend
A Brilliant Study in The Understudy

Roundabout Extends Run
Yip Yip Hooray!

Revival of Flahooley comes to off-Broadway
Fascinating Aïda Is ‘Absolutely Miraculous’
Health Takes Center Stage

Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy extended
The South Via Scandinavia

Liv Ullmann directs Cate Blanchett in Tennessee Williams’ classic
An Enjoyable Misunderstanding
No Love Lost on Love, Loss…
Fresh-Water Pearl

Pearl Theatre glows in a new home
Superior Pedigree

New play has all the right ingredients
FELA! Coming to Broadway

Smash hit makes big move
Esther Returns to NYC Opera

Soprano Lauren Flanigan is back in the role she originated more than fifteen years ago
Not Your Mother’s Circus

Swedish troupe Cirkus Cirkör debut Inside Out at BAM
The Mint Theater Unearths So Help Me God!

The celebrated company gives life to a 1920s work by Chicago writer Maurine Dallas Watkins
Still Life Comes to Stage

Director Will Frears examines paralyzing fear in Alexander Dinelaris’ funny and heartbreaking play
Cultural Synergy

Japan Society presents internationally relevant arts season
Theater’s Best, Right Now

The annual Dublin gathering of the international stage’s brightest
War and Remembrance

Aftermath explores Iraqi experience of invasion
The Dutch are Coming

New Island Festival invades Governors Island
LAByrinth Stages a 21st-Century Othello

Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz in a bold new interpretation
An Opera Gala for Everyone to Attend

The Metropolitan Opera is courting new fans this season, starting with a new production of Tosca
20at20 Offers Big Theater at Low Cost

Promotion gives fans tickets without expense
Altar Boyz is Heavenly

Musical parody leaves audience laughing out loud
Primary Stages Turns 25

The off-Broadway company marks its twenty-fifth year by celebrating women playwrights
FringeNYC Draws Theatrical Adventurers

The largest multi-arts festival in North America is back this August
39 Steps Big on Humor

Broadway comedy-thriller proves that acting is imagination
Cosmic Clashes

The Bacchae plays this August at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater
Festivities in the Shadow of a Castle

Immerse yourself in Edinburgh’s annual performing arts festival
Marvelous and Wonderful

The Marvelous Wonderettes takes audience down memory lane
Annual Festival Displays Fresh Talent

Samuel French Short Play Festival to award six winners
Shakespeare in the Parking Lot

This space reserved for Shakespeare
Q&A With the Stars of The Tempermentals

Michael Urie and Thomas Jay Ryan answer a few burning (and silly) questions
Apply Liberally

The unique annual festival presents the work of eight new playwrights at the Public Theater
Irish Rep’s Play Requires No Rebuttal

The Rivalry tells story of Lincoln/Douglas debates
A Cocktail of Weird and Wonderful

Classic graphic novel Coraline brought to life at MCC Theater
Play Illuminates Piece of History

The Temperamentals gives glimpse into lives of early gay rights activists
Anything Goes at FIGMENT 2009

New York’s annual free participatory art and cultural festival is back
Angels Take Flight on Stage

This month Naked Angels will present the world premiere of Next Fall, a new play by Geoffrey Nauffts
Etch-a-Sketch: Festival Draws Comedy to Big Apple

Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre hosts this cornucopia of sketch comedy offerings
Baryshnikov Arts Center’s New Theater

Renovations begin this spring on an inventive space
Making Hits

Leslie Ayvazian makes her Atlantic Theater Company debut with Make Me
The Success of Failure

Cynthia Hopkins delivers the third installment of her Accidental Trilogy at St. Ann’s Warehouse
Edward Hall and Propeller Spin Another Shakespeare Favorite

Award-winning troupe Propeller back at BAM with a compelling interpretation of The Merchant of Venice
Quench Your Thirst

First Light Theater Group marries gothic terror and ecological apocalypse
La Didone meets Planet of the Vampires

The Wooster Group’s Elizabeth LeCompte has a vision
West Side Story Back on Broadway

Love—and a classic soundtrack—are in the air this spring
New Group Stages O’Neill

Lili Taylor stars in auteur’s unedited, four-and-a-half-hour Mourning Becomes Electra
Heroes

Three elderly World War I veterans plot a new assault—a trip to a stand of trees in the distance
Dubya Gets His Own Hollywood Tribute

Will Ferrell’s Broadway debut remembers our former president
Women’s Project Dives Into Freshwater

See Virginia Woolf’s sole contribution to theater, an autobiographical play
Bridge to Everywhere

BAM’s new “Bridge Project” offers the best and brightest in British and American theater
Women Beware Women

NYC’s Red Bull Theater Company specializes in bloody, bawdy Jacobean plays
Shogun Macbeth

The Bard finds Buddhism in latest from Pan Asian Rep
Historic New Home for Brooklyn-based Activist Troupe

Irondale Ensemble performs Peter Pan at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
Epic Lessons in Operatic Verse

Douglas Cuomo brings the Bhagavad Gita to BAM
Taking Over Williamsburg

Founder of annual Hip-Hop Theater Festival dons the faces of gentrification in one-man show
Local Art Livin’ Just Enough for the City

Galapagos, like so much of NYC’s creative lifeblood, moves to Brooklyn
Literature and Culture Journal A Public Space Hosts Three Nights at BAM

New series is a modern salon for artists and art lovers alike
Jordan Roth’s Givenik.com Expands Charitable Efforts

Site that marries Broadway and philanthropy increases participating theaters and nonprofits
West Meets East: Meeting with Bodhisattva

Taiwan’s U Theatre uses martial arts, drums and Chinese operatic dance to explore Buddhist philosophy
Desir at Spiegelworld

Burlesque, nightclub lounge and traditional sideshow combine in this guilty pleasure
A TKTS Booth Grows in Brooklyn
Penguin Rep: Devotion to New Plays
Negro Ensemble Gives Leslie Lee Reason to Reminisce