The American Theatre Wing Gala honoring Sir Howard Stringer on Sept. 26 will be a starry affair featuring Angela Lansbury, Samuel L. Jackson, Elaine Paige, Kelli O'Hara, New York City Ma…
The 25th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction on Sept. 25 raised $547,658 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, organizers announced.
Milk and Honey, Jerry Herman's first Broadway musical, will get a concert version by Musicals Tonight Oct. 11-23 at Off-Broadway's Lion Theatre. Richard White and Barbara McCullogh p…
South Street, a musical comedy about a Philadelphia nightspot that is facing transition, opens Sept. 25 in its world premiere at Pasadena Playhouse.
The debate of evolution vs. creation roils anew in Catherine Trieschmann's How the World Began, the story of the clash between an evolutionist teacher and a creationist student, getting …
A U.K. touring production of the rock musical Chess — featuring a company of actor-musicians playing their own accompaniment — plays Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre Sept.…
D.B. Bonds and Burke Moses are nothing without each other in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of City of Angels, the sexy noir musical comedy about a mystery writer named Stine and his…
Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera brings a trunk of show tunes to Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, PA, to perform Chita Rivera: My Broadway Sept. 23-25.
The Rocky Horror Show, the rock musical about a vanilla couple that stumbles into an altered science-fiction world where sexuality and gender roles are redefined, opens Sept. 23 following pr…
The producers of Bonnie & Clyde, the new Broadway musical with a blues, gospel and rockabilly-kissed score by composer Frank Wildhorn and lyricist Don Black, offer Playbill.com readers a…
An event aimed at foodies and theatre lovers is being cooked up at Lookingglas Theatre for spring 2012. Chicago celebrity chef Rick Bayless of Frontera Grill is teaming with the Tony Award-w…
The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan announced casting for its new production of Irish playwright Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, considered by many to be his masterpiece for its …
A teen's suicide in a small town prompts the action of Troy Deutsch's play Lake Water, getting its world premiere in an Off-Off-Broadway production at IRT Theatre in Greenwich Villag…
Nicky Silver, chronicler of dark dysfunction in such plays as Raised in Captivity and Pterodactyls, conjures another fractured family — The Lyons — in his new play that begins S…
The Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of Zoe Kazan's We Live Here, about secrets that surface during a wedding, begins performances Off-Broadway on Sept. 22. The clan includes Mark B…
Thomas Kail, the Tony Award-nominated director of In the Heights and Lombardi will direct the new sports-minded play Magic/Bird, written by Lombardi playwright Eric Simonson and produced by …
Canada's Shaw Festival will offer two plays by George Bernard Shaw in its 2012 season, plus the musicals Ragtime and Trouble in Tahiti and works by Henrik Ibsen, Noel Coward, John Guare,…
Freckleface Strawberry: The Musical, seen in an Off-Broadway run that played September 2010 to April 2011, returns to New York City starting Nov. 8 in a non-Equity engagement at a new venue …
The pulse of Southern black gay men is taken by writer-actor E. Patrick Johnson in Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, opening Sept. 20 following previews from Sept. 13 at Signature Theat…
The life, times and Broadway lights of late Broadway producer and theatre owner Gerald Schoenfeld will be conjured in his own words with the posthumous 2012 publication of his memoir, "…
New York City's Signature Theatre Company announced playwrights Annie Baker, Will Eno, Katori Hall, Kenneth Lonergan and Regina Taylor as writers in the theatre's new Residency Five …
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will be tapping her heart out in the 2011 Tony Award-winning Best Revival, Anything Goes, through April 29, 2012. Roundabout Theatre Company announce…
The street date for the new two-disc Broadway cast album of Follies will be Nov. 29, PS Classics confirmed. The cast of the critically acclaimed revival of the musical by Stephen Sondheim an…
The ten "Best Plays" chosen for the annual "Best Plays Theater Yearbook" chronicling the 2010-2011 U.S. theatre season were announced Sept. 19 by editor Jeffrey Eric Jenk…
Kathleen Turner will reprise her Broadway turn as a tough-talking nun who counsels a young drug addict in a planned national tour of the three-character play High.