Backstage was hopping at Broadway’s Cort Theatre on November 1. TV and stage stars Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, Celia Weston and Arija Bareikis came out to see the dark comedy Grace. After the curtain, the ladies made their way backstage to fawn over stars Paul Rudd and Ed Asner. Rudd was only too happy to see his former Last ...

What's hot on stages across the USA? Broadway.com's new weekly feature pinpoints five new shows you ought to know, plus national tours headed to a city near you. This week's lineup includes the L.A. premiere of one of Broadway.com's top shows of 2011, a heart-melting benefit reading by a pair of 2012 Tony ...

Tony winner Tyne Daly will host the 2012 Theater Hall of Fame ceremony, having been inducted to the esteemed establishment herself in 2011. As previously announced, the 2012 inductees will include Betty Buckley, Sam Waterston, director Trevor Nunn, late costume designer Martin Pakledinaz, playwright Christopher Durang, director/producer Andre Bishop, director Michael Kahn and playwright Paula Vogel. The ceremony will ...

A new batch of Broadway and TV stars have joined the roster of celebrities appearing on the Tony Awards telecast. Evita headliner Ricky Martin, Glee’s Matthew Morrison and Memphis’ Adam Pascal will appear at the June 10 ceremony on CBS.

Also scheduled to appear are Beth Behrs (2 Broke Girls), Corbin Bleu (Godspell), Matthew Broderick (Nice Work If You ...

Tyne Daly, Suzie Essman, Lily Taylor, Alison Fraser, Amy Spanger, Becky Ann Baker, Jeremy Strong, Marylouise Burke, Brandon Victor Dixon and more have been tapped to star in the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s upcoming 2012 season. The complete season runs from June 26 through August 19 in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and includes The Importance of Being Earnest, Far From Heaven, A ...

Nominations for the 78th annual Drama League Awards have been announced. The awards ceremony will take place May 18 at the Marriot Marquis, hosted by Stockard Channing and John Larroquette. The Drama League Awards recognize distinguished productions, performances and exemplary career achievements in musical theatre and directing. As previously announced the Drama League's 2012 Distinguished Contributions and Achievements in ...

Nominations for the 62nd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced on April 23, with the new Gershwin tuner Nice Work If You Can Get It leading the group with nine nominations. Newsies and Once, both new musicals, received seven nods each. Winners of the Outer Critics Circle Awards will be announced on May 14, with the annual awards ceremony ...

Tyne Daly, who is currently reprising her Broadway role as opera diva Maria Callas in Master Class on London’s West End, recently paid a visit the site of a real-life Callas scandal. On April, 1 Daly and her Master Class co-stars headed to London's South Quay Wharf to visit the mega-yacht “Christina O,” once owned by shipping magnate ...

Tyne Daly has won a Tony Award and multiple Emmys and interspersed her TV renown with stage work in the classics (The Seagull), musicals (Gypsy), and new plays (Rabbit Hole). Now she has added a West End run to her list of credits, courtesy of Terrence McNally’s Master Class, reprising a performance as Maria Callas that was previously acclaimed ...

After wowing critics and audiences in the summer 2011 Broadway revival of Master Class, Tyne Daly is reprising her performance as opera diva Maria Callas at London’s Vaudeville Theatre. Daly began a 14-week limited engagement in Terrence McNally’s Tony-winning play on January 21 alongside Broadway vets Garrett Sorenson (as aspiring singer Anthony Candolino) and Jeremy Cohen (as accompanist ...