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Last night “Stars In The House” co-hosts, Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley celebrated raising $1 MILLION for The Actors Fund with a very special IN PERSON “Stars In The House” show at the Asylum NYC.

Stars in the House, and its hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, are celebrating raising $1 million for The Actors Fund in the past 15 months since the start of the Broadway shutdown. Rudetsky and Wesley will mark this accomplishment with a special in person 'Stars In The House' show tonight, June 30 at 8pm ET at Asylum NYC. Watch live right here!

This week (June 28- July 4) in live streaming: Emma Kingston and Josh Gad visit Backstage Live, Tovah Feldshuh in Becoming Dr. Ruth, a Jenn Colella Masterclass, and so much more!

The Public Theater will begin performances of the 2021 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of MERRY WIVES on Tuesday, July 6 at The Delacorte Theater. The all-Black staging of the delightful comedy will officially open on Tuesday, July 27 and was recently extended by three weeks to now end on Saturday, September 18.

Learn more about the concert, the lineup, and how to watch here!

The show, based on Dean Grossi’s real life experience, is an hour-long dramedy about Izzy, a “not deaf enough” millennial, who is navigating adulthood and a chaotic love life, all while learning to embrace her disability in 2007 Los Angeles.

The Public Theater announced today that Free Shakespeare in the Park will return this summer with the delightful comedy MERRY WIVES, adapted by award-winning Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Associate Artistic Director and Resident Director Saheem Ali.

Musicals at Richter, celebrating its 37th season as the longest-running outdoor theater in Connecticut, has announced auditions for its 2021 season under the stars, featuring a main stage run of Stephen Schwartz's iconic musical 'Godspell,' playing July 23 through August 7.

Prepare ye, for a Godspell mega-reunion! Fifty years ago, on May 17, 1971, a musical phenomenon opened off-Broadway. What began as a master's thesis project for Carnegie Mellon student John-Michael Tebelak, would go on to entertain the masses on Broadway and off, in Toronto, multiple national tours, on the big screen and of course, eventually at regional and amateur theatres all over the world.

Broadway Teachers Workshop, in association with the Broadway Podcast Network, has announced the release of the Broadway Teachers Podcast, a series of conversations recorded live over the past twenty-one years at the Broadway Teachers Workshop in Manhattan.

Historian, author, visual artist, and MacDowell Board Chair Nell Painter will lead the second in a series of free virtual discussions about the arts and creativity on Thursday, May 6, at 7 p.m. ET with memoirist and theatre artist P. Carl and novelists Michael Chabon and Chang-rae Lee. 

This year's Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC) presents Tony nominee Jenifer Lewis with its 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 35th Annual MAC Awards. Additionally, James Wesley and Seth Rudetsky will be honored for their creation of Stars in the House.

The one-hour event is hosted by Lewis Black and features readings by Brooke Adams, Ato Blankson-Wood, Rachel Brosnahan, Juliana Canfield, Kemiyondo Coutinho, Melissa Fumero, Kathryn Hahn, Sunita Mani, Andrea Martin, Denis O’Hare, Matthew Rhys, Tony Shalhoub, Haaz Sleiman, Lois Smith, and Meryl Streep.

Today's Theater Stories features the Lyric Theatre! Learn about the history of the Lyric Theatre, and the shows to have graced its stage including Jesus Christ Superstar, The Pirate Queen, Young Frankenstein, Spiderman: Turn off the Dark, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and more.

Liza Minnelli recently celebrated her 75th birthday! Michael Feinstein has shared a video from Liza's birthday celebration of Liza and Joan Collins performing an impromptu duet of 'Just in Time' from the musical Bells Are Ringing.

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, March 13-14, 2021.

Today (March 12) in live streaming: Broadway celebrates Liza Minnelli, Women of Broadway unite, and more!

The 2021 George Street Playhouse streaming season kicks off February 23rd with the comedy BAD DATES by Theresa Rebeck, the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time, starring Drama Desk winner Andréa Burns. The inaugural virtual production garnered unanimous rave reviews.

Even more celebrity guests have joined the celebration in honor of the legendary Liza Minnelli on her 75th Birthday, Love Letter to Liza: A 75th Birthday Tribute Celebration, on Friday, March 12 at 8:00 PM EST on the streaming platform Stellar.

Today's Theater Stories features the Gershwin Theatre! Learn about the theatre's longest running show, Wicked; the extravagant production of Starlight Express; the Theater Hall of fame featuring theater's biggest names, and more!