The Woman in White, the melodrama-steeped London and Broadway musical by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyricist David Zippel and librettist Charlotte Jones, is being streamlined for a new ch…
Obie Award winner Eisa Davis will appear in the New York City premiere of Kirsten Greenidge's Milk Like Sugar playing the role currently being created on the West Coast by Tonya Pinkins.
Lysistrata Jones — the pop musical take on an ancient Greek classic, now reset in the world of college cheerleaders and basketball players — will open at Broadway's Walter Ke…
Steppenwolf Theatre Company's artistic staff will welcome Jacob G. Padrón as associate producer and Aaron Carter as the new literary manager, the Tony Award-honored Chicago compan…
The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan will stage a new production of Irish playwright Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, considered by many to be his masterpiece for its rich weave of…
The Broadway run of David Henry Hwang's new play, Chinglish, about an American businessman being tripped up by communication in his efforts to make a deal in China, will play the Longacr…
The rock-kissed songs of Stratford Shakespeare Festival's current new production of Twelfth Night, directed by artistic director Des McAnuff, will be released on a new CD this summer. Mc…
The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan will dance to a new tune — literally — for its 2011-12 season-opener. Ériu Dance Company's Noctú, "a new Irish dan…
South Street, a musical comedy about a Philadelphia nightspot that is facing transition, will get its premiere at Pasadena Playhouse beginning Sept. 16. Casting was announced Aug. 1.
Casting is set for the world premiere Alan Ayckbourn's 75th play, Neighbourhood Wach, to premiere Sept. 8-Oct. 15 at his longtime artistic home, The Stephen Joseph Theatre Company in Sca…
Steppenwolf Theatre Company will welcome the Chicago companies The Inconvenience, LiveWire Chicago and Theatre Zarko into its spring 2012 Garage Rep. The residencies, offering shows in rotat…
Tickets for the Broadway engagement of Venus in Fur, David Ives' two-actor comedy that introduced future Tony Award nominee Nina Arianda to audiences in 2010, are on sale starting A…
Matthew Gardiner, a resident director with Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, has been named the theatre's new associate artistic director, working in collaboration with co-founder and …
Mary Poppins, The Wild Duck, Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush were among recipients of 2011 Helpmann Awards — honoring artistic achievement and excellence in many disciplines of Austra…
The La Jolla Playhouse world-premiere production of Milk Like Sugar, an inner-city-set, coming-of-age play by Kirsten Greenidge, will feature Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins, for a Californi…
Second Stage Theatre's Uptown Series launches the world premiere of the Catholic-girl coming-of-age comedy The Talls by Anna Kerrigan on Aug. 1 at Off-Broadway's McGinn/Cazale Theatr…
The 2011 Helpmann Awards, recognizing distinguished artistic achievement and excellence in many disciplines of Australia's live performance scene, will be presented Aug. 1 at the Sydney …
The popular, highly theatrical docudrama Unnatural Acts, about Harvard University's efforts to purge homosexuals from its campus in 1920, ends its extended run at Classic Stage Company&#…
Jessica Walter sheds her fur wrap as dowager Evangeline Harcourt in Broadway's Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes on July 31, which is when the revival was originally scheduled …
Cathy Rigby put her Peter Pan tights in a trunk a few years ago and said goodbye to the role that she has played thousands of times. Never say "never." She's flyin' again.
Second Stage Theatre continues fundraising toward the $24 million purchase of Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre following an extension of the closing deadline to May 2012.
Rod Brogan is George Bernard Shaw opposite Angela Pierce playing wealthy heiress — and romantic prospect — Charlotte Payne-Townshend in the West Coast premiere of John Morogiello…
Traces, the acrobatic theatre show that has been exciting audiences in Canada and on an American tour, makes its New York City commercial debut July 29 at the Union Square Theatre. Opening n…
Edgar Lansbury, producer of both the original Broadway production and the 1973 motion picture adaptation of Godspell, has joined the producing team of the new Broadway revival of the Stephen…
Edgar Lansbury, producer of both the original Broadway production and the 1973 motion picture adaptation of Godspell, has joined the producing team of the new Broadway revival of the Stephen…