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PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, and the producers of the new Broadway production of Follies officially confirmed on Aug. 22 news that …
The Tony Award-honored Crossroads Theatre Company, the New Jersey regional theatre devoted to African-American works, writers and performers, will present an all-musical season in 2011-12.
Damian McGinty, the deep-voiced Irish lad with a taste for the music of Dean Martin and Bobby Darin, and Samuel Larsen, the California guy with dreadlocks and a tattoo that reads "Jesus…
Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee Simon Russell Beale has returned to the New York stage in the U.S. premiere of Simon Stephens' Bluebird, opening Aug. 22, in which he plays a …
Hello! My Baby, a new musical dipping into the trunk of American pop songs that are now in the public domain, will find a home at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre in Connecticut …
Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth's three-act tragicomic play about the indelible inhabitants of a slice of rural England, for which Mark Rylance won his second Tony Award, ends its extended Br…
Barrington Stage Company's intimate BSC Stage 2 in Pittsfield, MA, is home to the drama about identity, family and career, My Name Is Asher Lev, adapted from the Chaim Potok novel, openi…
Manhattan Theatre Club announced the 2011 recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative commissions, given to playwrights whose work will address topics of math, science and techno…
A U.K. touring production of the rock musical Chess — featuring a company of actor-musicians playing their own accompaniment — will play Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre S…
Mike Burstyn will reprise 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. The musical prem…
Karl Miller and Aubrey Dollar are the lovers at the center of Itamar Moses' Completeness, the story of a computer scientist and a molecular biologist, beginning Off-Broadway Aug. 19 at P…
The cast of Atlantic Theater Company's world-premiere Off-Broadway production of Adam Rapp's Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling will include Betsy Aidem, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Reed…
The world premiere of the musical Grumpy Old Men, based on the 1993 film comedy, will star Conrad John Schuck and Tony Award winner John Rubinstein in roles created by Walter Matthau and Jac…
Complete casting for Ford's Theatre's new production of the Tony Award-winning Parade, the Jason Robert Brown-Alfred Uhry musical about a great American injustice, has been revealed …
Murder for Two, the two-actor, one-piano musical comedy mystery, has been extended again at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, now to Oct. 16.
Saint-Ex, a musical about the life of author-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who penned the classic children's book "The Little Prince," will get its world premiere Au…
Barrington Stage Company's intimate BSC Stage 2 in Pittsfield, MA, is home to the drama about identity, family and career, My Name Is Asher Lev, adapted from the Chaim Potok novel, Aug. …
Dorset Theatre Festival, the Vermont summer Equity company that produced Theresa Rebeck's The Novelist in 2010, gives life to her Broadway play Mauritius Aug. 18-27. The cast includes a …
Joshua Bergasse, the choreographer who was seen as a dancer in Broadway's The Life and Hairspray and on tour in Movin' Out and West Side Story, will choreograph the first season of t…
Erin Mackey, once of Broadway's Wicked and Sondheim On Sondheim, will succeed Laura Osnes as Hope Harcourt in the Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes starting Sept. 13.
Israel Horovitz's Fighting Over Beverley, one in a collection of plays set in Gloucester, MA, and environs, gets an encore run by Gloucester Stage Company 18 years after it was first see…
Israel Horovitz's Fighting Over Beverley, one in a collection of plays set in Gloucester, MA, and environs, gets an encore run by Gloucester Stage Company 18 years after it was first see…
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival has added the "satirical historical drama" The War of 1812 to its 2012 season in Ontario. The work will be produced in collaboration with VideoCa…
Traces, the acrobatic theatre show that has been exciting audiences in Canada and on an American tour, made its New York City commercial debut Aug. 8 following previews from July 29 at the U…
The cast album for the acclaimed, Tony Award-winning new Broadway production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes will be available by digital download starting Aug. 23, with a street date of …