Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff will leave the position of artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival after the 2013 season, he and the Stratford board of governors anno…
The work of Ludvig Holberg — the 18th-century Danish dramatist little-known in the U.S. but regarded as a pillar in the world of Danish literature — gets new life in a world-prem…
Lysistrata Jones, the new Douglas Carter Beane-Lewis Flinn musical that rips a page out of Aristophanes' ancient comedy about women withholding sex in protest of war, bounds onto a Green…
Off-Broadway's Peter Norton Space has been transformed into a lamp-lighted cave for Signature Theatre Company's production of Tony Kushner's The Illusion, based on the play by 17…
The theatre people who cooked up [title of show], the frisky new musical about creating a new musical, unveil — what else? — their new musical, called Now.Here.This., June 4…
Colt Coeur, the collective of New York City theatre artists, is presenting the world premiere of Fish Eye, a darkly comic work about "a couple struggling to hold on to one another witho…
Casting has been announced for the collection of works being produced this summer by Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA. Graham Rowat and Rachel York will star (and spar) in the retu…
Motherhood the Musical, the new show from the producer of Menopause the Musical, will be seen in a handful of separate sitdown productions nationally, starting with a June 3-Oct. 2 run at th…
The President, Ferenc Molnár's comedy that was a hit in the Shaw Festival's 2008 season, returns June 3 with many of the original cast, including Lorne Kennedy in his role as …
The San Francisco-set musical Tales of the City, based on Armistead Maupin's novels, will get additional performances July 12-24 due to demand at American Conservatory Theater in the Cit…
Sarah Jessica Parker, the international TV and film star whose early career included donning a red wig, red dress and patent-leather Mary Janes as Broadway's Annie, will present an award…
The acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated new production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes will get a cast album from Ghostlight Records in late summer, Roundabout Theatre Company announced.
A special performance of Now.Here.This., the new work from the creators and cast of the musical [title of show], will benefit the not-for-profit Vineyard Theatre, which is presenting the wor…
Tony Kushner's The Illusion, based on the play by 17th-century tragic playwright Pierre Corneille, will get a one-week extension by Signature Theatre Company, which is producing the work…
Casting is set for the 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 a …
Northlight Theatre's world-premiere production of Bruce Graham's play The Outgoing Tide, starring Tony Award winners John Mahoney and Rondi Reed, will get an extra week in Skokie, IL.
South Coast Repertory's 2011-12 season in Costa Mesa, CA, will feature three world premieres, all of them spawned from SCR Pacific Playwrights Festival earlier this year.
The New York City premiere of Jordan Harrison's Maple & Vine has been added to Playwrights Horizons' 2011-12 season Off-Broadway, artistic director Tim Sanford and managing direc…
A spring reading of a musical version of the Oscar-winning boxing movie "Rocky," with songs by Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty and libretto by Tony winner Thoma…
A spring reading of a musical version of the Oscar-winning boxing movie "Rocky," with songs by Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty and libretto by Tony winner Thoma…
Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed will play Aladdin and Jasmine, respectively, with James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie, in the stage premiere of the Disney musical Aladdin, based on the animated…
Nightwood Theatre, devoted to plays by women, announced a 2011-2012 Toronto season that will include a world premiere, a North American premiere and a Toronto premiere, plus a festival of th…
Sara Thigpen and Nate Miller will be Beatrice and Benedick, respectively, in The Boomerang Theatre Company's al fresco production of Much Ado About Nothing, presented free in Central Par…
Directors have been announced for the 2011 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, which develops new works in a summer session in Waterford, CT.
Series B of Atlantic Theater Company's 10x25 festival of ten-minute plays launches June 1, offering eight titles that appear through June 12 at Atlantic Stage 2. Works by Annie Baker, Cr…