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19-year-old Madeline Schlichter and 21-year-old Rachel O'Day are the lead actors in an upcoming micro-budget feature film, "The Haunting of Prince Dom Pedro," produced in Western Pennsylv…
Adapting stage to screen poses many problems. There's usually something leaden and, uh, stagey about making a movie of a play; witness how few watchable Shakespeare films there are. They're …
Director Lear deBessonet's Broadway revival leans into the family-friendly joviality of the musical comedy staple, led by a reliably wacky Sutton Foster.
Since 2013, a local dance company has gathered individuals on top of Mount Washington for hours of bachata.
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson, Samer Al-Saber. Dr. Samer Al-Saber joins hosts Marina Johnson and Nabra Nelson for a conversation around resistant ventriloquism and postcolonial courtesy. D…
Pittsburgh's Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson's 'Radio Golf' will open in the Hill District on Aug. 10
Playwright Max Wolf Friedlich warns about the horrors of being chronically online in this intense, intimate two-hander.
The actor Ryan Spahn makes his Off Broadway playwriting debut with an immersive, psychologically shallow dark comedy.
The company moves in unison while maintaining their individuality.
The runaway First Family spoof continues its agenda of delirious, deranged and undeniable fun on Broadway.
Samuel Dunsiger has a speech disability, but the hardest part about talking to others isn't his stuttering; it's the assumptions people make.
They say everyone can be an actor. Any location can transform into a theatre stage. Yet finding a theatre, or the Miangaly theatre company, is equivalent to meeting a president in a nightclu…
After Jodie Comer's star turn on Broadway, Forrest is taking on Miller's electrifying one-person show. They talk about outdated consent laws and navigating the industry as a non-binary actor…
Wai (Wai Yim) is the flamboyant, brash host of a YouTube show called Hornyscope; David (Hansel Tan) is his buttoned-up friend, who works as a teacher but wants to be an actor. Both men are f…
He turned "an insignificant trade house" into a powerhouse, publishing best sellers like "The Silence of the Lambs" and "All Creatures Great and Small."
It's a hit! A palpable hit! "Merrily We Roll Along" cleaned up at the 2024 Tony Awards, winning the coveted Best Revival of a Musical trophy. "Merrily" is now the fifth musical from composer…
"Illinoise" is something of an anomaly for a Broadway show. It is competing in the Best Musical race at the 2024 Tony Awards, but the story is told entirely through modern dance as a trio of…
When David Buchanan and I convened to debate our final predictions for the musical races at the 2024 Tony Awards, we were in clear agreement that the revival of "Merrily We Roll Along" would…
The 2023 Tony Awards stand out as a different beast from any other Tony ceremony in history. Instead of its usual home at Radio City Music Hall, the CBS telecast moved to the United Palace, …
Jeannette Charles, who transformed a portrait rejected by a royal art show into a career as a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike in movies and on television, died on Tuesday in Great Baddow, Engl…
The hit revival of "Merrily We Roll Along" and Off-Broadway sensation "Oh, Mary!" won over the LGBTQ journalists of GALECA and dominated the group's 2nd Annual Dorian Theater Awards. Winners…
The day before the 2024 Tony Awards, June 15th, will mark 40 years to the day since Kecia Lewis made her Broadway debut in "Dreamgirls." After four decades in the industry, the actress will …
"I still don't know that I have the words for it," admits Sarah Paulson as she gathers her thoughts surrounding her recent Tony nomination, "it just was and has been the most special experie…