The short-lived Peter Allen musical Legs Diamond will be seen for the first time since its 1988 Broadway run in a Dec. 2 staged reading at Musical Theatre West in Long Beach, CA.
Tony Award-winning producer Rocco Landesman will step down from his role as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts at the end of 2012, the government agency confirmed Nov. 20.
Out Magazine's 2012 Out100 list hits newsstands Nov. 20. A host of theatre folk are included in the list of inspiring and influential individuals.
Kristen Johnston and Steven Weber will co-star in the L.A. Theatre Works production of Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart, which will begin Dec. …
The Diet Show, a new stage comedy co-written by comedian Gilbert Gottfried and featuring contestants from "The Biggest Loser," begins performances Nov. 20 at Stage 72, formerly the…
The Public Theater has added two weeks to its run of Giant, the new Texas-set musical by Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson. Off-Broadway performances now play through Dec. 16. Kate B…
The Public Theater has announced a second extension for Richard Nelson's acclaimed drama Sorry, which revisits the Apple Family of Rhinebeck, NY, on Election Day 2012.
Erin Davie, Megan Sikora and Claybourne Elder will be part of UnsungMusicalsCo.'s developmental reading of the unproduced 1955 play-with-music Sounds Like Love, which will take place Dec…
Florence Welch, the lead singer of Florence + the Machine – the U.K. band that spins out dark, driving indie-rock tunes – is planning to pen a new stage musical, according to the…
Tony Award nominee John Leguizamo and original Merrily We Roll Along star Ann Morrison are among the winners of the 2012 United Solo Awards, celebrating the work of solo theatre pieces, whic…
Tony Award nominee John Leguizamo and original Merrily We Roll Along star Ann Morrison are among the winners of the 2012 United Solo Awards, celebrating the work of solo theatre pieces, whic…
The new Jason Robert Brown musical The Bridges of Madison County will get an early winter reading, according to a casting notice.
The Richard Rodgers Theatre box office opens Nov. 19 for the starry Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, featuring Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansson and Benj…
Actor-musicians Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, who comprise the scantily-clad music duo The Skivvies, celebrate their new single "Hardbody Hoedown" with a release party and concer…
The 1983 film A Christmas Story, based on Jean Shepherd's nostalgic and comedic holiday tale of American Christmases past, is re-wrapped as a new Broadway musical by songwriters Benj Pas…
Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick hosts the Williamstown Theatre Festival's Nov. 18 benefit, honoring late writer-director Abe Burrows, at the Edison Ballroom. David Hyde Pierce, Steve…
The Twenty-Seventh Man, the world-premiere stage production adapted from author Nathan Englander's short story of the same title, officially opens Off-Broadway Nov. 18 at the Public Thea…
Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster, Arielle Jacobs and Alexandra Silber inhabit Inner Voices, a collection of three solo musicals, which officially opens Off-Broadway Nov. 18 after previe…
The Mystery of Edwin Drood star Stephanie J. Block talks about her dual role as a leading lady and a leading man.
Tony Award winners Lea Salonga and Tyne Daly and Tony nominee Norm Lewis will populate the Manhattan Concert Productions concert staging of the Tony-winning Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty-Terr…
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced that the American premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, starring stage and film actress Karen Allen, will extend its run.
An unreleased studio album of the Stephen King-John Mellencamp musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, which was recorded in 2010 prior to the musical's debut at the Alliance Theatre,…
Jason Donovan, Richard Grieve and Graham Weaver will star in the U.K. tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which will shake its groove thing beginning Feb. 9, 2013, at the Manchester Opera…
Jim Stanek, John Curcuru and Kristin Parker lead the Theatreworks USA production of Kevin Del Aguila's The Velveteen Rabbit, which begins a ten-week limited engagement Nov. 16 at the DR2…
Audiences witness Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies up close in the Toneelgroep Amsterdam productions of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra, which put theatregoers in the m…