Michael Bloomberg News

Baseball fans will have the chance to cheer on the New York Yankees as they prepare for Game 1 of the 2009 World Series, New York City will host a Pep Rally in Times Square (Broadway between 44th Street and 45th Street) in honor of the Yankees' American League Championship.

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, the first of THE Neil Simon PLAYS, directed by David Cromer, opened last night, Sunday, October 25th at the Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street). BROADWAY BOUND will join BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS in repertory on November 18th, 2009.

Bye Bye Birdie celebrated Opening Night, yesterday evening, Thursday, October 15th at the new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street). Bye Bye Birdie stars John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin & Nolan Gerard Funk with Jayne Houdyshell, Dee Hoty, Matt Doyle, Jake Evan Schwencke and Alllie Trimm.

Broadway's brightest stars came out on Sunday afternoon, September 13th to Times Square to celebrate the annual Broadway on Broadway concert! BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to capture every theatrical moment!

Broadway's brightest stars came out on Sunday afternoon, September 13th to Times Square to celebrate the annual Broadway on Broadway concert! BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to capture every theatrical moment!

Sunday morning, September 13th, Mayor Bloomberg received the endorsement of playwright Neil Simon in front of the Nederlander Theatre, where The Neil Simon Plays are set to open this fall. The Neil Simon Plays are all new productions of Simon's hit plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, directed by David Cromer and starring Laurie Metcalf.

Sunday morning, September 13th, Mayor Bloomberg received the endorsement of playwright Neil Simon in front of the Nederlander Theatre, where The Neil Simon Plays are set to open this fall.

We just couldn't wait to bring you the first pictures available for Broadway on Broadway 2009. We'll have extensive photo coverage up shortly of all the performers both backstage and performing from our own Genevieve Rafter-Keddy and Peter James Zielinski.

New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 13th annual festival August 14 - 30, 2009. This year, the festival will offer performances by 201 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies.

New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 13th annual festival August 14 - 30, 2009. This year, the festival will offer performances by 201 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies.

New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 13th annual festival August 14 - 30, 2009.

New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 13th annual festival August 14 - 30, 2009. This year, the festival will offer performances by 201 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies.

New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 13th annual festival August 14 - 30, 2009. This year, the festival will offer performances by 201 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies.

ABC News education reporter, Art McFarland, recently featured a story on The American Place Theatre's Literature to Life program, a performance-based literacy program that presents staged adaptations of significant American literary works.

The producer and members of the cast of Off Broadway's Perfect Crime will ring the closing bell at The New York Stock Exchange today, Thursday, June 18, 2009 in celebration of the show's historic 22nd anniversary as the longest-running play in the history of New York theater.

The theater community recentky kicked off The Fantasticks 50th anniversary year with an early curtain of the show and a post-performance cocktail reception at The Snapple Center on Monday May 4th. The beloved hit also recently welcomed a number of new cast members, including the charming young actress Ramona Mallory as 'Luisa.'

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's effort to reduce traffic congestion in Midtown will be taking another 'big step' as he plans to close several new blocks of Broadway to vehicle traffic through Times Square and Herald Square, a project that would turn sections of the Great White Way into wide reaching pedestrian malls starting on Sunday evening.

The Literature to Life® program of The American Place Theatre (APT) will kick off its newest campaign, Project 451, with a celebrity gala May 17 and 18 in Theater at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street, Manhattan.

Tonight the theater community will kick off The Fantasticks 50th anniversary year with an early curtain of the show (7PM) and a post-performance cocktail reception at The Snapple Center with performances by Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, Anna in the Tropics, Jack Goes Boating), Rita Gardner (original 1960 production of The Fantasticks, The Cradle Will Rock, The Wedding Singer), Orfeh (Legally Blonde, Footloose), Aaron Lazar (The Light in the Piazza, A Tale of Two Cities, Les Miserables), GrooveLily (Striking 12) and Jill Paice (Curtains, The Woman in White). In addition, The Office of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will offer a special proclamation declaring Fantasticks Day in New York City.

The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, will kick off its 50th Anniversary Year with a two-day celebration featuring a reunion of 50 years' worth of cast members and performances by some of the theater industry's biggest names.