After a career that managed to encompass Star Trek, two Emmys, a CBS sitcom based on a Twitter feed and an unlikely music career, William Shatner’s going to make it on Broadway. (We can’t exactly call an 80-year-old an up-and-comer, can we?) Shatner’s Wo

Theatreworks USA, the nation's leading not-for-profit professional theatre for family audiences, presented its 50th Anniversary Celebration gala Feb. 12 at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Hosted by Charles Busch and Julie Halston, and co-cha

Theatreworks USA celebrated its 50th anniversary with a gala at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, February 12. Charles Busch and Julie Halston served as hosts. The event honored director Jerry Zaks, Lucille Lortel Foundation exec

Avalon Theatre and R-S Theatrics (formerly Soundstage Productions) are bringing down their Crestwood Court curtains with a pair of plays about love and cars. ArtSpace tenants have until Feb. 28 to move out and make room for the mall’s renovation. Beginni

The gala is honoring five individuals "whose longtime professional contributions to Theatreworks USA have helped to shape the organization's impressive five-decades-long history of producing top-quality professional theatre for young audiences," accordin

Elaine Stritch was thrown a surprise 87th birthday party at Doubles by Arlene Dahl and Marc Rosen. When the topic turned to who was most deserving of an Oscar, the favorite among the Hollywood crowd wasn’t a human, but Uggie, the dog from “The Artist.”

New York City - Guild Hall, the visual and performing arts center on eastern Long Island, has named the recipients of the 27th Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards. The honorees are Laurie Anderson for Performing Arts; Bruce Weber for Visual A

Proceeds from the book go to the Stella Adler Studio of Acting’s outreach division, a program dedicated to providing inner city youth with free actor training. Established in 1949 by Stella Adler, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting was founded upon Adler’

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Updated casting has been announced for Theatreworks USA's 50th Anniversary Celebration will take place on Sunday, February 12 at 6pm at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. This special benefit gala will be co-hosted by Charles Busch and Julie Ha

Less than two weeks after Bernadette Peters finished assaying the role of Sally Durant Plummer in a revival of Stephen Sondheims Follies, she will do the only logical thing a person celebrating a successful run at the Kennedy Center could do. She will vi

Unstoppable showbiz icon Elaine Stritch, the Tony-winning leading lady with a singular voice and demeanor who has become synonymous with Stephen Sondheim's "The Ladies Who Lunch," celebrates her 87th birthday Feb. 2. Today, Playbill.com takes a look at s

Two divas—one of the stage, one of the kitchen—celebrate birthdays today. My menagerie of divas is quite diverse, if you ask me, and today two of my idols are toasting to another year of bringing me unmitigated pleasure. First, there's Broadway legend El

Today is Thursday, Feb. 2, the 33rd day of 2012 with 333 to follow. This is Groundhog Day in the United States. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Jupiter, Uranus, Venus and Neptune. Those born on th

The No. 1 dish at Joe Allen is the sauteed calf’s liver — yes, liver! The eatery on West 46th Street’s Restaurant Row is less a hash house than it is a hangout for show folks and the people who like to watch t

After more than a decade Downtown, Austin Cabaret Theatre is moving uptown ... or at least north. That's right: You'll no longer be able to get your steady diet of Broadway belters and standards-slingers in the heart of the city the way you have since Ar

Musical director and accompanist Paul Trueblood passed away on Jan. 16 in his hometown of Evansville, Ind. , at the age of 76 after an illness of several months. Upon arriving in New York City, where he spent most of his life, the Northwestern University

And more from our Liz: Elaine Stritch’s run in with “Dracula” … can Alexei Navalyn save Russia? “Why would I make any more when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?” This is the great movie maker George Lucas, who

The 6:30 PM evening will celebrate the life of teacher and "Up the Down Staircase" author Bel Kaufman. Proceeds will benefit the Emerging Playwrights' Program at Theater for the New City. Phoebe Legere and Matt Morillo will host the benefit that promises