Meghann Fahy, of Broadway's Next to Normal, will play a young woman on the brink of her future, in the Goodspeed Musicals production of The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown. …
Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman ('night, Mother) will write the inaugural play for Theatre for Humans, an arts and entertainment production company "dedicated to telling the poi…
Michele McConnell, a member of the Broadway cast of The Phantom of the Opera, assumes the role of ego-mad soprano Carlotta starting July 11 at the Majestic Theatre.
A memorial for Michael Langham, the internationally-known stage director, educator and artistic director of Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival from 1956 to 1967, will be held at Str…
J.M. Barrie's fable, The Admirable Crichton, about a shipwrecked British family and their butler, opens July 9 at the The Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Steven Sutcliffe,…
A fresh tour of Guys and Dolls starring Broadway's Erin Davie as Sarah, Megan Sikora as Adelaide, Steve Rosen as Nathan and Ben Crawford as Sky launches July 9 at the Walton Center in Fa…
The President, Ferenc Molnár's comedy that was a hit in the Shaw Festival's 2008 season, returned there June 3 with many of the original cast, including Lorne Kennedy in his r…
Casting has been announced for Academy, the next musical offering in York Theatre Company's Developmental Reading Series, 3 PM July 21 in Manhattan.
Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will anoint the new Lone Tree Arts Center in suburban Denver with a performance at its grand-opening gala on Aug. 27.
A film obligation has prompted Jason Moore to withdraw as director of Andrew Hinderaker's dark comedy Suicide, Incorporated in the Roundabout Underground series Off-Broadway this fall.
The pirates, Indians, lost boys and British siblings surrounding Cathy Rigby's Peter Pan, on tour starting this August, have been revealed. Broadway's Tom Hewitt and Kim Crosby had p…
PlayPenn, Philadelphia's professional new-play development organization, embraces six playwrights and their new scripts in its seventh annual New Play Development Conference July 8-24 at…
Arena Stage's in-the-round production of Oklahoma!, the sold-out revival that inaugurated Arena's new multimillion dollar Mead Center for American Theater last fall, is back for seco…
Broadway's Tituss Burgess, of The Little Mermaid, Guys and Dolls and Jersey Boys, makes his debut at Greenwich Village's The Bitter End — the famed 50-year-old performance venu…
Tony Award nominee Liz Larsen will play a government investigator in the world premiere of Hello Out There, the musical about three teens who commit securities crimes, at Adirondack Theatre …
Theatre Aspen, the Colorado summer Equity company, launches its largest production yet — the musical Annie — on July 7. Wife and husband Joan Hess and David Hess play Grace Farre…
Tryst, a romantic thriller by Karoline Leach, seen in a commercial Off-Broadway run in 2006 and in later regional productions, returned to New York City July 1 for an engagement by Irish Rep…
Terrence McNally's music-kissed biographical drama, Master Class, starring Tyne Daly as a late-career diva Maria Callas, opens on Broadway July 7 following previews from June 14 at Manha…
The West Coast premiere of Good People by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire has been added to Geffen Playhouse's 2011-12 season in Los Angeles.
Broadway Wicked star Ana Gasteyer, a veteran of "Saturday Night Live," will take her Elegant Songs from a Handsome Woman act to Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, CA, Aug. 11-13.
Boston's Colonial Theatre, the famed 1900 venue where such major hits as Oklahoma! and La Cage aux Folles tested their wings before Broadway, will be going dark for a time.
Goodman Theatre has extended the run of the world-premiere production of Chinglish, the Broadway-bound new comedy by Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang.…
Timon of Athens, Shakespeare's rarely produced play on the topics of greed and betrayal, gets revived by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey starting July 6 in a 90-minute adaptation by Br…
Goodspeed Musicals' new production of the landmark musical Show Boat will keep rolling along for eight added performances, now to Sept. 17. The revival began previews July 1, and by July…
Playwrights Horizons' New York City premiere of Itamar Moses' science-minded play, Completeness, starting Aug. 19, will feature Brian Avers, Aubrey Dollar, Meredith Forlenza and Mich…