Masterworks Broadway continues its campaign to reissue theatre recordings from its deep vault with summer releases of The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955 Broadway cast), Half-Past Wednesday (…
Jeffrey Finn and Jill Furman will produce the Broadway world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new play, Seminar, starring Alan Rickman as a world-famous writer with power over young scribes …
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards, celebrating excellence in a number of performing arts disciplines in Toronto, were handed out June 27. Billy Elliot, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Blasted and R…
Venus in Fur, David Ives' two-actor Off-Broadway comedy that introduced future Tony Award nominee Nina Arianda to audiences in 2010, will make the leap to Broadway this fall.
Stage and screen star Brooke Shields, who was seen in the recent world premiere of the new musical Leap of Faith in Los Angeles, returns to Broadway June 28, slipping into the skin of Mortic…
Playbill.com spread its net wide to gather response to the June 24 passage of same-sex marriage in New York State. Terrence McNally, Jordan Roth, Douglas Carter Beane and more shared their g…
Hank Azaria is Bill W. opposite Martin Sheen as Dr. Bob for the one-night benefit reading of Samuel Shem & Janet Surrey's play about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W. and…
The Goodman Theatre's world premiere of Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy about "the challenges of doing business in…
It's the biggest night of the year for the Toronto performing arts community. The 32nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards ceremony, celebrating excellence in Toronto theatre, dance and opera…
Two-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth leaves behind the role of Morticia — the undead matriarch of Broadway's The Addams Family — following the June 26 matinee of the musi…
Steppenwolf Theatre Company's summer production of Middletown, Will Eno's portrait of a small town, directed by Les Waters, opens June 26 following previews from June 16 in Chicago. …
It's time to pack designer Desmond Heeley's 2011 Tony Award-winning Victorian costumes into a trunk. The acclaimed Broadway revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earne…
The new Broadway production of Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, which earned Nina Arianda a Best Actress Tony Award nomination for her portrayal of dumb-blonde Billie Dawn, closes June 26,…
Desperate Writers, the comedy about a couple seeking Hollywood success, plays its final performance at Off-Broadway's Union Square Theatre 8 PM June 25.
Julie Taymor, the Tony Award-winning director of The Lion King and the visionary co-creator and original director of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, confirmed on June 24 that she will direct t…
Surflight Theatre, a Jersey Shore tradition in Beach Haven, NJ, opens a new production of the '50s-set musical Grease June 24 following previews from June 22. Broadway's Meredith Pat…
David Greenspan's new adaptation of the 1925 Broadway comedy The Patsy, with the Obie Award-winning actor-writer appearing in the work, will get an Off-Broadway staging by The Transport …
The producers of the Chicago production of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, which pre-dates the recent Broadway staging and is now in its third year, has extended the show's ticket-sa…
The Jacksonian, Beth Henley's new play set in a seedy motel in Mississippi, MS, circa 1964, will be populated with Ed Harris, Bill Pullman, Amy Madigan and Glenne Headly, Geffen Playhous…
A Room With a View, a new musical based on E.M. Forster's 1908 novel about stuffy Brits soaking in romance in Italy, will make its world premiere as part of The Old Globe's 2011-12 s…
Shout!, the intimate pop revue selling the sounds of the '60s, as sung by female artists of that time, has been revised and expanded to include eight dancers in Marriott Theatre's ne…
Unnatural Acts, a new play about Harvard's investigation and persecution of a group of gay students in 1920, opens Off-Broadway June 23 following previews from June 15 as the final show …
The producers of Bonnie and Clyde, the new rockabilly-and-blues-infused musical about the Depression-era American outlaws, are targeting Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre for a Decemb…
The leaders of Vineyard Theatre and Naked Angels announced that they will co-produce the world premiere of Zayd Dohrn's Beijing-set comedy Outside People, directed by Evan Cabnet, at The…
The cast of the fall world premiere of The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness, a fractured adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel," was announced by Off-Broad…