As part of its 50th anniversary season, New York's PBS station WNET/Thirteen will offer programming on Joseph Papp and Mel Brooks as well as a new film series of Shakespeare's histor…
The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Elevator Repair Service, The Tectonic Theatre Project and Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 are among the nine theatres to receive grants from the Tony Randall…
Southern Comfort, the award-winning musical by Dan Collins and Julianne Wick Davis, will be presented during the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals this fal…
War Horse, Michael Morpurgo's emotional WWI-set drama about a boy and his horse, which galloped to triumph in London, Broadway and Toronto, sets out to conquer the U.S. in a 30-city nati…
Chilina Kennedy, who currently stars as Mary Magdalene in the Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, will perform July 8 at the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan.
TheatreWorks will develop the Paul Gordon-Jay Gruska musical adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as Kara Manning's play Sleeping Rough and the new Will Aronson-Daniel …
The Public Theater has announced that the 2012 component of its free Mobile Shakespeare Unit will present Richard III at community venues throughout New York City this summer prior to a thre…
An August workshop of the new Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, featuring a fresh book by Douglas Carter Beane, will feature Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, An…
Stark Sands and Billy Porter will star as unlikely business partners in the world premiere of the new Broadway-aimed Cyndi Lauper musical Kinky Boots, about a shoemaker in trouble and the dr…
Claybourne Elder, Mary Testa, Nick Cordero and Katie Gilchrist will star in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre production of Pippin, which will launch the company's 2012-13 season.
Soho Rep has extended its production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, a new, contemporary adaptation by playwright Annie Baker, an additional month of performances through Aug. 26.
Elf The Musical, which played a Broadway holiday run in 2010, will spread Christmas cheer on a five-city mini-tour beginning Nov. 4 at the Providence Performing Arts Center in Rhode Island.
Adinah Alexander, who is set to be part of the new Cyndi Lauper musical Kinky Boots, stars as Miss Mona in the TriArts Sharon Playhouse production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, whi…
Tony Award winner Betty Buckley will bring her latest concert act, Ah Men! The Boys of Broadway, to the Bay Street Theatre Aug. 4.
Producers of the Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks have announced that veteran actor John Davidson, who just completed a 19-performance engagement in the musical, will return for a …
Boy from New York City, a new jukebox musical by Tony-nominated Million Dollar Quartet and Baby It's You creator Floyd Mutrux will debut in September at West Hollywood's Coast Playho…
Abigail Williams seeks a new life in Boston in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Abigail/1702 — a new drama that explores the aftermath of Arthur Miller's The Crucible — whic…
The first New York revival of Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles' WWII comedy Love Goes to Press, which opened Off-Broadway June 18 at the Mint Theater, has extended its run by one…
After winning the 2010 Fringe Festival Award for Best Musical, Triassic Parq The Musical is unearthed for an Off-Broadway run, which officially opens June 27 after previews that began June 1…
Marshal Kennedy Carolan, Lauren Zakrin, Adrian Zmed, Todd Buonopane and Tony Award nominee Robert Torti are part of the Beach Boys production, Surf the Musical, which makes waves beginning J…
Nora Ephron, the Academy Award-nominated writer of "Heartburn," "When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle," has died in Manhattan at the age of 71, accor…
Memphis, the Tony Award-winning musical about a soulful, white radio DJ and his love for a black singer at the dawn of the Civil Rights movement, will end its run on Broadway Aug. 5 after 1,…
Andrew Samonsky, Tina Fabrique, Zachary James, Lynne Wintersteller and Betsy Wolfe are among the actors to join the National Music Theater Conference presentations of A Good Man and The ToyM…
Andrew Samonsky, Tina Fabrique, Zachary James, Lynn Winterstellar and Betsy Wolfe are among the actors to join the National Music Theater Conference presentations of A Good Man and The ToyMa…
Academy Award-nominated Tribes star Mare Winningham will perform Country – Jewish – Folk, or Jewgrass at the Barrow Street Theatre July 16.