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What happens when two funny women get together for an online chat? Check out VIRTUAL HALSTON on New Year's Day to find out!

Birdland has been presenting virtual concerts that have captured everyone's attention and heart. Now they have a New Year's Eve special - a compilation of the best of those shows.

Read what theatre stars from across social media are saying about the passing of Rebecca Luker.

Check out the newest theater names that are now available for video shoutouts and more on Stage Door!

Mint Theater Company Artistic Director Jonathan Bank today announced the line-up for Mint’s popular Streaming Series for 2021, featuring HD recordings of past productions: Days To Come by Lillian Hellman, directed by J.R. Sullivan (will begin airing January 4th and continue through February 21st); plus much more!

Julie Halston welcomes two of the all-time great singers to her show and they just happen to be related.

Quarantine Cabaret and Cocktails, produced and hosted by entertainer and LML Music founder, Lee Lessack, and actor and frequent SNL regular, Robert Bannon, made its debut during isolation on YouTube, and they have had nothing but star studded shows every week in the approximately hour long show, and the humor quotient has been very high, along with the music.

We're all missing the excitement of meeting our favorite theater stars at the Stage Door while Broadway remains shut down..Introducing Stage Door! Book your favorite stars from around the theater community from Broadway, West End, National Tours, Viral Stars, and more for video shout-outs, classes, and more. It's the perfect holiday gift for Broadway loving family, friends, or yourself! Unlike other virtual experience platforms, 100% of BroadwayWorld Stage Door's prices go to the artists, with a small added service fee for the platform.

This new category at the Broadway World Awards is one of a handful created to acknowledge the efforts made by the cabaret and club community to keep creativity flowing and fans connected.

Broadway actress/comedienne Julie Halston has come to a laptop near you! After ranting and raving on stages and cocktail parties, the comedy queen hosts 'Virtual Halston,' a weekly hour-long gab-fest spotlighting her famous friends.

Enjoy these holiday shows online with your family as the Broadway shutdown continues.

The nominees for the Broadway World Award in the category of Best Recurring Series are some of the most well-liked and well attended shows in town... when the clubs are open, of course. See them in action here!

When one of the greats welcomes one of the greats, bring your smelling salts.

With guests like Joan Ryan, Brianna Thomas, John Bucchino, James Harkness and the UK country group Essex County, Jim Caruso reaches a lot of corners of the industry.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party, the mother of all open mic night/variety shows has taken to the web, and it's required watching for lovers of Broadway, jazz and cabaret.

They're not called special events for nothing. These are the shows that people will say, years later, 'I'm glad I was there for that one.'

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, November 28-29, 2020.

This week's Theater Stories features the Palace Theatre! Learn about the theatre's rich history with vaudeville, the films to have made their premiere at the theatre, including Citizen Kane and others, the most recent show to be performed in the theatre, the SpongeBob musical, and much more!

This is the episode not to miss when Julie Halston dishes with Tony Award recipient Beth Leavel.

Submissions Only is a grassroots web sitcom that shows viewers what really goes on off-stage. The show follows the friendship of two theater professionals, an actress (Wetherhead as Penny Reilly) and a casting director (Colin Hanlon as Tim Trull), as they try to build careers in the notoriously tricky and often absurd world of Broadway theatrics.