Tony winner Betty Buckley recently turned American Idol’s Randy Jackson into a human punching bag on Twitter after the judge stated on an episode of Idol that contestant Angie Zeiderman's singing was “too Broadway.” After Buckley posted a ranting monologue about Jackson’s disrespect for Broadway, the “dawg” has decided to fight back.

“Yo Betty, the dawg ain ...

Tony winner Ellen Parkin will join The Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells as a star of the previously announced NBC TV pilot The New Normal, according to Deadline.com. Created by Glee showrunner Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler, the series will follow a gay couple trying to start a family. No further casting has been announced. 

Rannells will play ...

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for a second time during the 2011-2012 theater season to consider the eligibility of 13 Broadway shows: Man and Boy, The Mountaintop, Relatively Speaking, Chinglish, Other Desert Cities, Godspell, Venus in Fur, Private Lives, Seminar, Bonnie & Clyde, Stick Fly, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever and Lysistrata Jones. The following decisions were ...

Plans for the previously announced film adaptation of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost has been scrapped, according to Deadline.com. Production on the Legendary Pictures movie, which was to star Broadway veterans Bradley Cooper and Benjamin Walker, as well as Rock of Ages film star Diego Boneta, was set to begin in January, but was later postponed until ...

Lydia R. Diamond’s dark family comedy Stick Fly will play its final performance on February 26 at the Cort Theatre. Starring Tracie Thoms, Mekhi Phifer and Dulé Hill, the production will have played 24 previews and 92 regular performances at the date of closing.

Directed by Tony nominee Kenny Leon, Stick Fly is the story of the LeVays, a ...

Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre has announced two world premiere plays as part of the company’s tenth annual Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre on the Upper West Side.

Kicking off the season will be Alena Smith’s The Bad Guys, which will begin performances on May 17, open on June 4 and run through ...

Tony nominee Matthew Morrison will release his second solo album, this time on Adam Levine’s new label 222 Records, according to Billboard. Best known as Will Scheuster on TV’s Glee, Morrison is the first artist signed to the new label of the Maroon 5 frontman and judge of TV's The Voice. A release date for the album ...

The Broadway revival of Porgy and Bess will extend its run through September 30 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, according to the New York Times. Directed by Diane Paulus and starring Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, the production had originally been scheduled to close July 8. 

Set in Charleston’s fabled Catfish Row, Porgy and Bess follows beautiful Bess (McDonald ...

Tony winner Laura Benanti is capping off Lincoln Center’s annual American Songbook series with two concerts on February 11, and she recently gave Broadway.com some insider information on her upcoming gig.

“There are two shows back to back, one at 8:30 and one at 10:30—which sounds like a nightmare,” she exclaimed, before adding a tongue-in-cheek ...

Zarkana, the acrobatic spectacle from Cirque du Soleil that debuted at Radio City Music Hall in the summer of 2011, will return to the storied venue on June 6. The show was originally written and directed by François Girard. The limited engagement is scheduled to run through September 2.

Zarkana (a fusion of the words “bizarre” and “arcana”) is ...