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Continuing its 20th Anniversary Season of Sondheim, Porchlight Music Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of Sondheim on Sondheim, the musical exploration of the life and work of the award&…
For The Record: Dear John Hughes, an immersive concert event showcasing the works of film director John Hughes, plays Los Angeles beginning Feb. 6.
Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical, a production featuring country music songs inspired by the CBS TV series, will receive its world premiere at the Dallas Theater Center.
John Cameron Mitchell, the co-creator and original star of the Off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, has extended his run in the revival of that Tony-winning musi…
A Broadway veteran and star of social networking have joined the lineup for the annual TEDxBroadway conference, scheduled for Feb. 23 at New World Stages.
Peter Dinklage, currently starring alongside Taylor Schilling in Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country at Classic Stage Company, has been cast in the comedy film "Michelle Darnell,…
The dramatic film "I'll See You In My Dreams," which follows a woman coping with a sudden loss, has been acquired by Bleeker Street Films, Deadline.com reports.
The world premiere of Texas in Paris, the new musical play about two people who form an unexpected spiritual bond, officially opens at the York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's…
Sparks on the Broadway stage are nothing new to a great play or musical. But just what makes those sparks fly? The answer: chemistry. With Valentine's Day just around the corner, Playbil…
Arena Stage will present the world premiere of the political drama The Originalist, about Justice Antonin Scalia.
Tommy Tune, a nine-time Tony Award-winning actor-director-choreographer, will receive the Chicago Human Rhythm Project's JUBA! Award for Extraordinary Lifetime Achievemen…
Chicago Dramatists, a non-profit theatre dedicated to nurturing new playwrights, is experiencing a change in leadership.
Finalists for the 2014-15 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which honors female playwrights, have been announced.
The Events, a new play by David Greig that was inspired by community violence, begins performances at the New York Theatre Workshop Feb. 4 featuring cast members from the London and touring …
Laura Linney and Seth Numrich will star in Switzerland, a new play by Joanna Murray-Smith about famed crime novelist Patricia Highsmith, at California's Geffen Playhouse.
Award-winning actress and singer Barbara Cook will be featured in a one-night-only concert at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
Broadway and London stage veteran Ann Morrison will be featured in a performance of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana with students from Elmira College's theatre program.
The Lion, Benjamin Scheuer's autobiographical coming-of-age musical that played MTC Stage II at City Center this past summer, begins an Off-Broadway engagement at the Lynn Re…
The world-premiere production of Lives of the Saints, a collection of short plays by David Ives (Venus in Fur, All in the Timing), begins Off-Broadway Feb. 3.
Acclaimed actress Helen Mirren may have won another award from New York city locals: Best Subway Etiquette.
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, known for her show-stopping performances in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Anything Goes, will make her solo debut at Carnegie Hall w…
Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush will star in "Final Portrait," a new drama about the artist Alberto Giacometti painting a portrait of James Lord.
A new trailer for "Pitch Perfect 2," the sequel to the hit 2012 musical film about a college a cappella group, was released during the Super Bowl Feb. 1.
A starry group of actors, including co-stars of acclaimed actor James Earl Jones, honor his career in the 31st Musical Celebration of Broadway, the Drama League's annual gala Feb. 2.
Can women really "have it all"? "Mad Men" star Elisabeth Moss, starring in the first Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles thinks they can.
