Maureen McGovern will star in her "musical memoir" Carry It On in the 2011-12 season of Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. The season will also feature such artists as Sam Buntrock…
Lucky Guy, the country-fried musical comedy about a singer who dreams of Nashville stardom, will close prematurely on May 29, just ten days after opening May 19 at Off-Broadway's Little …
Jerusalem, British playwright Jez Butterworth's tragicomic play about the indelible inhabitants of a slice of rural England, featuring Tony Award winner (and current 2011 nominee) Mark R…
Adirondack Theatre Festival's 17th summer of professional theatre in Glens Falls, NY, will feature the world premiere of the 1990s-set musical Hello Out There, a new play by Steven Dietz…
It's a sure sign of spring and the coming summer in Ontario: The Shaw Festival celebrates its annual Opening Week starting May 25 with the opening night of George Bernard Shaw's Hear…
Walnut Street Theatre's new production of Miss Saigon, the Vietnam-era pop musical inspired by Madama Butterfly, featuring Melinda Chua as Kim, Eric Kunze as Chris and Bobby Martino…
Tony Award nominee Maria Dizzia, of In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, and Greg Keller, of 33 Variations in Los Angeles, do double-duty playing two couples in the Off-Broadway world pre…
The Best Is Yet to Come, a starry new revue for which director-conceiver David Zippel pulled songs from the catalog of his late collaborator, the Tony Award-winning composer Cy Coleman, open…
Actor-writer Laurence Luckinbill, who has crafted solo plays about Lyndon Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway, will read his one-man show Clarence Darrow Tonight! June 19 to benefi…
The 29th Annual Elliot Norton Awards, recognizing excellence in Boston-area theatre, were handed out May 23 at the Paramount Mainstage in Boston. The tours of Hair and August: Osage County w…
Theatre, art song and opera composer-lyricist Ricky Ian Gordon (Dream True, My Life With Albertine, The Grapes of Wrath) is being heard as never before with the release of his complete works…
Signature Theatre will offer Broadway Duets, a cabaret show "celebrating some of the greatest duets ever written for the Broadway stage," June 7-11 at its 110-seat ARK Theatre in A…
The 29th Annual Elliot Norton Awards, recognizing excellence in Boston-area theatre, were handed out May 23 at the Paramount Mainstage in Boston. The tours of Hair and August: Osage County w…
Extraordinary Chambers, David Wiener's play about a couple's business trip abroad, begins its world-premiere engagement at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles May 24. Marin Hinkle, Mathe…
The 2011 Drama Desk Awards, honoring New York City theatre for the 2010-11 season, recognized The Book of Mormon, Anything Goes, The Normal Heart and War Horse in production categories. The …
Screen actor Kirk Douglas and his wife, Anne, awarded a $1 million challenge grant to Center Theatre Group to be combined with their earlier $1 million seed grant for new work, which results…
Director John Rando's principal Guys and Dolls for Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, this summer are Michael Thomas Holmes as Nathan Detroit, Morgan James as Sarah Brown, Lesli…
David Mamet will write and direct an HBO Films project about pop record producer Phil Spector, who was convicted of murder in 2009, Variety reported. If the deal goes through, Bette Midler w…
The Original Grease, a rare glimpse at the early-1970s draft of the property that would later be revised to international fame, is a hit at Chicago's American Theater Company, the leader…
The 2012 Encores! concert season of musicals at the renovated New York City Center will include Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, Rodgers & Hammerstein's…
The 2011 Elliot Norton Awards, celebrating excellence in resident and visiting theatre in Greater Boston, will be handed out May 23. Tours of Hair, Mary Poppins and August: Osage County are …
Lombardi, Eric Simonson's football drama about late Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi — and his passion for the game, its players and his wife — ends its Broadway run Ma…
Broadway's Sebastian Arcelus, of Elf and Jersey Boys, takes a more serious — and non-singing — role in A Time to Kill, Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of the novel by Joh…
Northlight Theatre's world-premiere staging of Bruce Graham's The Outgoing Tide, starring Tony Award winners John Mahoney and Rondi Reed, plus Thomas J. Cox, opens May 22 follow…
George C. Wolfe, co-director of the Broadway premiere of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, talks about the impact of the revival.