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 …
Luke Macfarlane, star of the TV series "Brothers & Sisters" and Broadway's recent Tony Award-winning production of The Normal Heart, will play the title role in the fall wo…
The complete cast from the acclaimed Off-Broadway production of the musical comedy Lysistrata Jones, including Patti Murin as the title character, will transfer with the musical when it open…
Those old devil "artistic differences" have prompted The Old Globe to hire James Vásquez as director of its in-rehearsal production of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Ho…
The California world premiere of Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup, a music-kissed biographical show created specifically for the Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner, opens Sept. 7 foll…
San Jose Rep's production of the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening, featuring Jason Hite as Melchior, Miguel Cervantes as Moritz and Eryn Murman as Wendla, opens Sept. 7 f…
Director Edward Torres and original cast members Usman Ally, Terence Archie and Desmin Borges are reunited for the Geffen Playhouse production of Kristoffer Diaz's Pulitzer Prize-nominat…
Tickets for the Broadway world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's tart comedy, Seminar — starring Tony Award nominee Alan Rickman, Hamish Linklater and Tony nominee Lily Rabe — are…
Manhattan Theatre Club announced on Sept. 6 that its 2011-12 season will be completed by the world-premiere production of British playwright Matt Charman's Regrets, a drama about men gat…
Resident presentations of Miss Saigon, My Wonderful Day, The Threepenny Opera, In the Next Room and Let Me Down Easy are among productions nominated for 2011 Barrymore Awards in Philadelphia…
Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce will perform in Vineyard Theatre's spring 2012 Developmental Lab production of The Landing, the new musical by John Kander and Greg Pierce.
The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan dances to a new tune — literally — for its 2011-12 season-opener. Ériu Dance Company's Noctú, "a new Irish dance/p…
The Guys, playwright Anne Nelson's response to the 9/11 terror attacks on New York City, gets seen in a tenth anniversary presentation Sept. 6-9 by the Flea Theater, which premiered the …
The world premiere of David Ives' The Heir Apparent, an adaptation of a little-known 1708 comedy, kicks off Shakespeare Theatre's company's 25th season in Washington, DC, on Sept…
The Walnut Street Theatre curtain rises Sept. 6 on the love triangle of Aspects of Love, a cult-favorite show among fans of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Philadelphia revival of the roma…
Mike Burstyn reprises his turn as famed 20th-century entertainer Al Jolson in a California engagement of Jolson at the Winter Garden Sept. 6-18 at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. T…
The La Jolla Playhouse world-premiere production of Milk Like Sugar, an inner-city-set, coming-of-age play by Kirsten Greenidge, featuring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins, opens Sept. 6 foll…
The puppet-populated musical The Water Dream gets its next developmental step Sept. 5 as the final presentation of Shakespeare & Company's 12-hour Studio Festival of Plays. Rent…
Baby It's You!, the musical story of New Jersey housewife Florence Greenberg's place in pop music history, plays its final performance on Broadway at 3 PM Sept. 4 at the Broadhu…
The extended run of the new Broadway production of Master Class, Terrence McNally's portrait of a late-career Maria Callas, starring Tyne Daly, ends its engagement Sept. 4.
Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera will get fresh opera managers André and Firmin over Labor Day weekend. Longtime company members George Lee Andrews, who plays Andre, and David …
Tickets for the Broadway engagement of Chinglish, the new comedy by David Henry Hwang, are on sale to the general public starting Sept. 3.
The Weston Playhouse in Vermont launched the world premiere of the musical Saint-Ex, about the aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, on Aug. 25, but by Aug. 28 Hurricane Irene …
The California world premiere of Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup, a music-filled biographical show created specifically for the Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner, begins Sept. 2 at …
The puppet-populated musical The Water Dream will gets its next developmental step Sept. 5 as the final presentation of Shakespeare & Company's 12-hour Studio Festival of Plays. Rent…