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Soho Theatre has announced their upcoming November programming featuring MUM, SESSIONS, MAKROOH and more. 

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts Producing Artistic Director BT McNicholl will welcome you home to a very special return season of truly exhilarating events at the newly renovated theatre! Won’t it be amazing to once again laugh together at the unmistakable comedy of the one-and-only JAY LENO and the always hilarious MARGARET CHO?

Last night, comedian Bill Maher received the Key to the Las Vegas Strip.  Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom presented him with the key following his show at the Terry Fator Theater at The Mirage Hotel and Casino.  Bill first performed in Las Vegas, opening for Diana Ross, in 1982 and has had a residency in the city for over a decade. 

Banes was on her way to meet her wife for a dinner party at a friend's home near Lincoln Center when someone on a scooter or motor bike hit her and then fled. Police say that Banes was in the crosswalk and had the right of way.

Stage and screen actress Lisa Banes is currently in critical condition after a hit-and-run accident in New York City this week. Banes, 65, was on her way to meet her wife for a dinner party at a friend's home near Lincoln Center on Friday evening when someone on a scooter or motor bike hit her and then fled.

Un 3 de febrero de 1956 nacía el actor Nathan Lane en Nueva Jersey. Para celebrar el 64 cumpleaños del cantante y actor repasamos sus mejores momentos sobre el escenario en la pantalla.

Just eighteen hours after the end of the UK’s current lockdown, Bill Kenwright presented MARTIN SHAW and JENNY SEAGROVE in A.R. GURNEY’s Love Letters, directed by ROY MARSDEN, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. The play opened on 3 December 2020, the first day after the Prime Minister decreed that lockdown would end.

BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the 101 greatest scenes in cinema from 1901 to 2020. See if your favorite movie moments made the list!

Nathan Lane was profiled today on CBS Sunday Morning, to chat about his role on the television series Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.

BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the greatest theatrical works (non-musical) from 1920-2020; see if your favorites made the list!

The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director; Evans Haile, Executive Director), dedicated to the development of new musicals and rediscovery of musical gems from the past, will present the return engagement of Gerard Alessandrini's hilarious musical spoof of all things theatre Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation.

Stockton Civic Theatre is pleased to present its first production of the New Year. 2020 is rolling in with a hysterical comedy by renowned American playwright Terrance McNally. It's Only a Play is set in the posh Manhattan apartment of wealthy Broadway producer Julia Budder during the opening night party of her latest play, The Golden Egg. As the celebrity guests arrive downstairs, the hostess, playwright, director, lead actress, and friends gather upstairs and anxiously await the late-night reviews. The banter is hilarious as they boast about their theatre experiences and engage in shameless, and often harsh, celebrity name dropping.

The York Theatre Company will present the return engagement of the hit Off-Broadway production of Gerard Alessandrini's hilarious musical spoof of all things theatre Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation. Performances are set to resume Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. for a limited engagement through Sunday afternoon, February 9, 2020 at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue).

Miami's newest live stage performance attraction is welcoming all comedians.

When Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre (FMCT) first staged Noises Off in 1997, then-high school student Adam Pankow went back to see it three times.

Do not anger the theatre gods, for their vengeance is swift and mighty. On press night of Michael Frayn's peerless portrait of backstage disasters, the Lyric suffered its own "technical difficulties", adding a distinctly meta frisson to this already gloriously layered comedy.

London is never short of temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals to riotous comedy, here are some of this month's most eye-catching openings. Don't forget to check back for BroadwayWorld's reviews, interviews and features!

Nathan Lane has returned to Broadway this season in the new play Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. Lane has had an extremely diverse career, spanning over 30 years. From comedic musicals, to heart-wrenching plays, to screen work, voiceovers, and much more, Lane has become a household name.

On Monday, April 22 at 7:30pm, please join us in celebrating the new show from Emmy Award-winning Actor & Comedian LESLIE JORDAN in EXPOSED - live at The Triple Door (216 Union St.).

The Drama League's 2019 Spring Charity Auction has launched, featuring more than twenty once-in-a-lifetime prize packages.

Carolines on Broadway, New York City's premier comedy venue, kicks off 2019 with its talented line-up for the month of January, highlighted by headliners Sinbad, from FOX's Rel, January 3 - 5; Jaboukie Young-White, from Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, December 10 - 12; Lil Rel Howery, star of FOX's Rel, Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend, December 18 -20; DeRay Davis, from FOX's Empire, January 24 - 27; and Nick Thune, as seen on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, January 31 - February 2.

The 2017 Tony Award nominee for Best Play and the most-produced play of the 2018-2019 season, A Doll's House, Part 2 makes its Boston debut at the Huntington Theatre Company at the Avenue of the Arts / Huntington Avenue Theatre (264 Huntington Avenue, Boston) in a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Written by Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath and directed by Obie Award winner Les Waters, performances will run January 4 through February 3. The press opening will be Wednesday, January 9 at 7pm. 

On Thursday, December 13 leading NYC arts education nonprofit Inside Broadway and the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of The Band's Visit will present a special Creating the Magicprogram offering an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at Broadway featuring The Band's Visit cast & production crew.

For the Guthrie Theater's  final hurrah on the McGuire Proscenium Stage in 2019, the company presents a hilarious tribute to plates of sardines and humor in the farcical 'Noises Off.' English playwright' Michael Frayn's award winning 1982 play presents an alternative perspective to the theatrical process and everyone who participates in a production's success. Produced for the first time at the Guthrie, the farce features multiple doors, opening and closing, swinging axes, hurdling down steps and fanciful love triangles along with the iconic plate of sardines through this play within a play format.

Carolines on Broadway, New York City's premier comedy venue, presents its talented line-up for the month of November, highlighted by headliners D.L. Hughley, host of Radio 103.9 FM's 'The D.L. Hughley Show,' November 1 - 4; Yvonne Orji, from HBO's Insecure, as part of the 2018 New York Comedy Festival, October 8 - 11; Iliza Shlesinger, from her Netflix special 'Iliza Shlesinger: Elder Millennial,' November 15 - 18; Jim Norton, host of SiriusXM Radio's 'The Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Show,' Thanksgiving Weekend, November 22, 24 and 25; and Mo Amer, from his Netflix special 'The Vagabond,' November 29 - December 2.