The new Court Theatre production of George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward's folk opera Porgy and Bess opens May 21 following previews from May 12 in Chicago. The title lovers in t…
Lucky Guy, the country-fried musical comedy about a singer who dreams of Nashville stardom, opens May 19 at Off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre following previews from April 28. Kyle D…
Off-Off-Broadway's The Flea Theater presents the world premiere of Zack Russell's Just Cause, about a group of revolutionaires in Brooklyn, opening May 19 following previews from May…
Marcia Milgrom Dodge, the Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer of the Broadway revival of Ragtime, is placing a new revival of Kander & Ebb's Chicago in a vaudeville-theat…
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 — will get new life in a world-…
Telsey and Co., casting office for the new 2012 Broadway production of Annie, will hold an open call on June 12 for girls ages 6-12 to audition for the roles of Annie and the orphans. In add…
Freud's Last Session, the Mark St. Germain play about the fictional meeting between atheist Dr. Sigmund Freud and Christian writer C.S. Lewis, will continue into the summer at the Marjor…
Those who consider the music of composer Cy Coleman as being synonymous with the energy, heat and sensuality of Manhattan can get a load of the late songwriter's work in his hometown May…
Series A of Atlantic Theater Company's 10x25 festival of ten-minute plays launches May 18, offering eight titles that appear through May 29 at Atlantic Stage 2. Before the festival ends …
Bruce Sabath (Hello Again) is Julius Caesar, Bret Shuford (The Little Mermaid) is Marc Antony and Erika Amato is Cleopatra in the new musical comedy The Sphinx Winx, opening Off-Broadwa…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater has carved out a cast for its world-premiere summer musical The Adventures of Pinocchio by Neil Bartram and Brian Hill, the writers of Broadway's The Story of…
Center Theatre Group, the Los Angeles theatre company that programs the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre, will welcome Edward L. Rada as its new managing direc…
Lombardi, Eric Simonson's biographical Broadway play about Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi and his relationship with the game, his players, his wife and his fans, will make its re…
"Philosophy of the World" by The Shaggs, the 1969 cult album that inspired the Off-Broadway musical The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, has been remastered and reissued for CD in …
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, will find a New York City home at St. Luke's T…
The company over at Broadway's Anything Goes seems to take that title seriously, as Playbill.com learned when we supplied a video camera to cast member Robert Creighton for a new three-p…
The passengers of Goodspeed Musicals' Show Boat, the groundbreaking 1927 musical getting fresh steam this summer at Goodspeed Opera House, will include Sarah Uriarte Berry as Magnolia, Q…
Joe Kinosian, the co-creator of Murder for Two — A Killer Musical, appears in the Chicago premiere of the comic thriller, opening May 17 following previews from May 12 at the Tony Awar…
La Jolla Playhouse's world-premiere production of A Dram of Drummhicit, a supernatural comedy by Arthur Kopit and Anton Dudley, begins May 17 under the direction of Playhouse artistic di…
Walnut Street Theatre's new production of Miss Saigon, the Vietnam-era pop musical inspired by Madama Butterfly, features Melinda Chua as Kim, Eric Kunze as Chris and Bobby Martino …
Artistic director Michael Kahn directs The Shakespeare Theatre Company's new production of Harold Pinter's enigmatic Old Times, beginning May 17 at STC's Lansburgh Theatre in Was…
The Signature Theatre Company's production of Tony Kushner's The Illusion, based on the play by 17th-century tragic playwright Pierre Corneille, begins casting its spell May 17 at th…
Writer-actor Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man play Juan and John, a tale of baseball, violence and forgiveness, drawing on a true story, begins a run at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Ang…
Atlantic Theater Company has announced internationally-known playwrights, actors, directors and designers for its 10x25 collection of 25 ten-minute plays to run May 18-June 26. John Guare, D…
Polly Carl is leaving Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago to join Arena Stage in Washington, DC, in the new position as director of the American Voices New Play Institute (AVNPI) beginnin…