Tony Award winner Nathan Lane will star in the Lincoln Center Theater production of The Nance, a new comedy from Tony Award-nominated Little Dog Laughed playwright Douglas Carter Beane, whic…
The Sundance Institute has announced the creation of the Tennessee Williams Award, which will recognize the work of emerging playwrights who are alumni of the Sundance Theatre Program Labs. …
Samuel D. Hunter, whose play The Whale is receiving its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons Off-Broadway, is among four playwrights to receive a $50,000 Whiting Writers' Award.
The world-premiere stage adaptation of "Freedom" author Jonathan Franzen's autobiographical essay "House for Sale" officially opens Off-Broadway Oct. 24 after preview…
Harvey Fierstein, Audra McDonald, Linda Lavin, Eddie Redmayne and Raúl Esparza are part of Perfectly Marvelous: The Songs of Cabaret with Anne Hathaway and Friends Oct. 24 at Joe…
Participants in Horizon Theatre Rep's cancelled production of The Balcony at Off-Off-Broadway's ArcLight Theatre are clarifying details about the show's shuttering, which was fir…
Vanessa Redgrave will direct and appear in a two-night presentation of A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman, which will be presented by the Public Theater at the Miller Theatre at Col…
The LCT3 production of Disgraced, a new play by Ayad Akhtar which opened to strong reviews Oct. 22, has extended its run through Dec. 2 at the Claire Tow Theater. Aasif Mandvi and …
Tony Award winners Harvey Fierstein, Audra McDonald and Eddie Redmayne as well as Tony nominee Raúl Esparza will be part of Perfectly Marvelous: The Songs of Cabaret with Anne Hathawa…
Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella, Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh and Alvin Epstein have been cast in the Red Bull Theater revival of Ben Jonson's Volpone, or The Fox, which will begin pre…
Producers of Fuerza Bruta, who announced that the production would end its five-year Off-Broadway run in November, have now extended the engagement due to ticket demand through January 2013.
The world premiere of Wild With Happy, a new play about family, death and healing written by and starring Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo, officially opens Off-Broadway Oct. 23 at the…
Broadway for Obama founders Celia Keenan-Bolger (Peter and the Starcatcher) and Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Newsies) have announced another "Broadway Gets Out the Vote" phone bank event …
When two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters returns for the second season of "Smash," she will premiere a brand-new tune from the series' Tony Award-winning songwriting t…
Million Dollar Quartet, the Tony Award-nominated jukebox musical about a flashpoint in rock history, will debut in Las Vegas Feb. 4, 2013, at Harrah's Showroom.
Patti Issues, the solo piece by writer-director Ben Rimalower, which chronicles his relationship with his gay father and his obsession with Tony Award winner Patti LuPone, has extended its r…
Mozart, l'Opera Rock, the successful French pop spectacle about the life of the classical composer, is being adapted for Broadway by Paul Gemignani and David Grimm, according to Variety.
Heidi Blickenstaff, Jason Danieley, Rebecca Luker, Barbara Carroll and James Naughton will be part of the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists concert series, which will celebrate Gilb…
The Red Bull Theater launches its 2012-13 Revelation Reading series with Moliere's The Miser, starring Jan Maxwell, Richard Kind, T.R. Knight and Reg Rogers, Oct. 22 at the Lucille Lorte…
Acclaimed monologist Mike Daisey, who caused controversy with his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, returns to the Public Theater Oct. 22 to debut new material at Joe's …
Aasif Mandvi and Heidi Armbruster co-star in the LCT3 production of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, about a Pakistani-American lawyer on the rise, which officially opens Off-Broadway Oct. 22 at…
Sara Jean Ford, who appeared as Smitty in the recent Broadway revival of How to Succeed and as Christine in the Broadway production of Phantom of the Opera, performs a new, fully-orchestrate…
Encompass New Opera Theatre honors Tony and Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken in an Oct. 21 ceremony, featuring appearances by Karen Ziemba, Tituss Burgess, Maury Yeston and Lindsay…
The Broadway Dolls, featuring cast members from Motown, Hairspray and A Chorus Line in a pop-rock revue of Broadway song and dance, launch a mini tour Oct. 20 in Jefferson City, MO.
Academy and Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush stars as Pseudolus in the Australian staging of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which begins previews Oct. 20 in Melbourne.