The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, the life-story musical about the jazz and blues singer from the 1920s and 1930s, finds a New York City home (again) in a production…
Lee Blessing's Going to St. Ives, in which "questions of life and death are settled over pots of tea," begins June 22 at BSC Stage 2, Barrington Stage Company's intimate se…
The world premiere of Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents, a play about the gap between parents and children, opens June 22 following previews from June 7 in Second Stage Theatre&…
Adirondack Theatre Festival's 17th summer of professional theatre in Glens Falls, NY, begins June 22 with Laura Schellhardt's The K of D, an urban legend, directed by Matthew Earnest.
Shells, the one-woman show about a financial analyst by day who blossoms as a cabaret artist by night, appears June 22 in Los Angeles, following dates in New York City.
The New York Times announced June 20 that the winner of the 2011 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award is Kristoffer Diaz for his play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, produced in…
PS Classics puts two discs in stores on June 21: a studio recording of George and Ira Gershwin's 1930 Broadway musical Strike Up the Band and the playwright Marsha Norman and composer Ja…
Life in a Marital Institution (20 Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Hour), monologist James Braly's show about "sex, love, family, betrayal, death…and dinner parties,"…
Casting for The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's summer 2011 National Music Theater Conference, which will develop four new musicals in rehearsed public readings, has been announced.
Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre announced the appointment of Rebecca Habel as managing director of the Tony Award-winning non-profit theatre company. Also announced on June 20 was news t…
The Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY, concludes its 20th season in July with the world premiere of a romantic comedy, At a Loss, by Jason Odell Williams. Casting was announced June 20.
First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook, IL, announced a 2011-12 season to include The Merchant of Venice, Jeffrey Hatcher's The Turn of the Screw, the Katharine Hepburn bio Tea at Five by Matt…
Songs from Broadway musicals directed and/or produced by Harold Prince, the man of the theatre who often finds the word "legendary" attached to his name, will be conjured in a new …
The restaurant letter grades you see posted in windows and doors of New York City eateries will soon appear in Broadway theatres to tell you what the New York City Department of Health and M…
Timon of Athens, Shakespeare's rarely produced play on the topics of greed and betrayal, will be revived by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in a 90-minute adaptation by Brian B. Crowe.…
Desperate Writers, the comedy about a couple seeking Hollywood success, will play its final performance at Off-Broadway's Union Square Theatre 8 PM June 25.
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, will close a mo…
The People in the Picture, the new original musical starring Tony Award winner Donna Murphy as an American grandmother remembering her days as a star in European Yiddish theatre and film, en…
Actor-writer Laurence Luckinbill, who has crafted solo plays about Lyndon Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway, performs his one-man show Clarence Darrow Tonight! June 19 to benefit…
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…
Tony Award winner Barbara Cook's latest cabaret show, You Make Me Feel So Young, now through June 18 at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, will be preserved on a CD. The two evening shows…
Classic Stage Company's passion for Russian master Anton Chekhov will continue into the 2011-12 season when The Cherry Orchard starring John Turturro and Dianne Wiest is presented under …
The producers of the new musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It, boasting a score by George and Ira Gershwin, book by Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro and direction and choreography by Ton…
People's Light & Theatre in Malvern, PA, will present the world premiere of Philadelphia playwright Bruce Graham's Mr. Hart and Mr. Brown, a tale of freedom of the press and the …
Freestyle Love Supreme, the improv musical comedy experience featuring In the Heights stars Christopher Jackson and Lin-Manuel Miranda, play June 16 in Manhattan and June 17 in Philadelphia.