Elizabeth Taylor News

Billy Porter will receive the 2024 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. Learn more about the Tony Awards!

The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF) announced that model, actress, and author Dominique Jackson will serve as the MC at its second annual New York Dinner on May 8, 2024 at the legendary Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Plaza. Academy Award-nominated actress Rosie Perez will appear as a special guest with a performance by Glassnote Records recording artist Talia Rae. Arthur Fogel, President – Global Touring and Chairman – Concerts, Live Nation Entertainment will accept The Elizabeth Taylor Commitment to End AIDS Award at the event. 

Lily Allen will star as Hedda Gabler, one of theatre’s most irresistible heroines, in a thrilling new version of Ibsen’s masterpiece which will open at Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio from Friday 25 July – Saturday 23 August 2025. 

The Dramatists Guild previously announced that playwright Christopher Durang will receive a Lifetime Achievement award at this year’s ceremony. He will be joined by two additional recipients, George C. Wolfe and Emily Mann.

The legendary Mary Testa is coming to the Westport Country Playhouse on April 15 for one night only.

Westport Country Playhouse will present a cabaret evening, “Ann Talman: Elizabeth Taylor and the Shadow of Her Smile,” as part of the new Barnstormer Series in the Lucille Lortel White Barn Center, on Sunday, April 21, at 7 p.m. 

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Billy Rose Theatre Division has acquired the archive of Novella Nelson. Learn more about Nelson!

The Al Hirschfeld Foundation as opened its latest online exhibition, 'Men About Town: Al Hirschfeld Draws Noël Coward.'

Need a great book to spring into the new season? This spring, Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 24 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's spring reading list.

Thinking Cap Theatre will officially kick off 2024 this March with a main stage production of The Taming Of The Shrew by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by TCT’s Founding Artistic Director Nicole Stodard.

The Company Theatre will present Tennessee Williams' CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF from April 12-21, directed by Artistic Director Carl Del Buono.

According to Deadline, the Mike Nichols biography 'Mike Nichols: A Life,' written by Mark Harris, has been optioned by producer Peter Spears, with plans for a feature film.

Ann Talman will celebrate Elizabeth Taylor's 92nd Birthday on Sunday, February 25 at 2:00PM at Laurie Beechman Theatre, with an encore of her award-winning show: Elizabeth Taylor and the Shadow of Her Smile.

Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre has revealed the cast and production team for Porchlight in Concert: Sunday in the Park with George.

Light the candles! Get the ice out! The Laurie Beechman Theatre will present a special brunch matinee performance on Sunday, February 25 at 2pm of Ann Talman: Elizabeth Taylor and The Shadow of Her Smile. 

Beverly Johnson: IN VOGUE has been extended for one week at 59E59 Theaters. Learn how to purchase tickets!

The stars of a newly preserved Andy Warhol film shot in 1965, may have been the inspiration behind Edward Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’?. 

The Motive and the Cue is headed to cinemas in the UK beginning in March! The production, which closes in the West End on 23 March, will be showing on the big screen beginning just days before on 21 March.

Every month, we take a moment to honor someone among those having a birthday that month who has made a real mark in the entertainment world .  January's birthday salute goes to a sensation on the stages of theatres and cabaret. With a click, you can see who it is and then see how much you know about their by taking our multiple-choice quiz.

Private Lives by Nöel Coward comes to Marco Island Center For the Arts in January 2024. Performances run January 3-21, 2024. Learn more about the production here!