The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, a new look at the George and Ira Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera, starring Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald, bows at the American Repertory Theater Aug. 17…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel will exit her position as chair of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year, according to The New York …
Sister Act producer and original film star Whoopi Goldberg, "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf and veteran casting director Meg Liberman will be honored during the 27th Annual Art…
Melissa Leo, who earned the Academy and Golden Globe awards for her performance in "The Fighter," has joined Naked Angels' one-night-only benefit presentation of Warren Leight&…
Though the Tony Award-winning Intiman Theatre ceased operations in April, its stage will continue to offer theatrical riches to the Seattle community. The Seattle Shakespeare Company has ann…
Tony Award winner Chuck Cooper and recent Wonderland star Janet Dacal will appear at the Engeman Theater in Broadway Journey, an evening of songs and stories from the stage.
Tony Award winner Dick Latessa, Kate Jennings Grant and Brenda Pressley have joined the world-premiere cast of Nicky Silver's The Lyons, a new dark comedy which will begin performances O…
Actor-playwright Brian Dykstra will star as expressionist painter Mark Rothko in the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis production of John Logan's Tony Award-winning drama Red.
The 92YTribeca will celebrate the life of Wendy Wasserstein, as well as Broadway songwriters Rodgers and Hammerstein as part of its fall programming lineup.
The new actor-musician musical Ten Cents a Dance, created by Tony Award-winning director John Doyle that incorporates the songs of Rodgers and Hart into its love story, is serenading audienc…
Charles Busch's world-premiere comedy Olive and the Bitter Herbs, starring Marcia Jean Kurtz, Julie Halston and Dan Butler, officially opens Off-Broadway Aug. 16 at 59E59 Theaters. Mark …
Producers of Bring It On: The Musical, which is set to launch a U.S. national tour in Los Angeles this October, are facing a claim from the Writers Guild of America that the musical exploits…
Tony Award-winning Next to Normal star Alice Ripley has joined Tony nominee Kathleen Chalfant in the new independent black comedy "Isn't It Delicious?," which is currently film…
The musical adaptation of the 1982 film "An Officer and a Gentleman," which has been adapted by original Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Douglas Day Stewart, will premiere in …
Tony Award-winning In the Heights author and star Lin-Manuel Miranda has joined former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres in the upcoming romantic comedy "200 Cartas."
The HOLA Awards, which honor the achievements of Latino actors in theatre and the entertainment industry, will be presented Oct. 17 at New York City's Battery Gardens. Rubén Blade…
Kendra Kassebaum and Louis Hobson join the Seattle-based theatre company Contemporary Classics to showcase the work of new musical theatre writers Aug. 15.
Tickets are now on sale for the Broadway engagement of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, starring Stacy Keach, Stockard Channing and Judith Light, which will begin performances Oct.…
The Royal Shakespeare Company, which offered a six-week, five-play residency in a custom-made theatre constructed within the Park Avenue Armory, concludes its New York engagement Aug. 14.
Mike Nichols presents Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee with the 2011 Edward MacDowell Medal Aug. 14 in Peterborough, NH.
David Coffee and Jennifer Foster are the zaftig mother and daughter duo in Hairspray at the Casa Mañana Theatre beginning Aug. 13 in Ft. Worth, TX.
Yeast Nation (The Triumph of Life), the new musical by the Tony-winning authors of Urinetown, starring Tony-winning actress Harriet Harris, begins performances Aug. 13 as part of the 15th an…
The authors of Chasing Heaven, a new play with music debuting at the New York International Fringe Festival Aug. 13, are touching on a hot topic following recent discussions in the press abo…
The New York return of Joey Arias and Basil Twist's dreamy evening of song and illusion, Arias With a Twist, will officially open Sept. 18 at the Abrons Arts Center.
The Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to the international hit The Phantom of the Opera, will be captured on film Sept. 15 at 8 PM for a future w…