Theater J in Washington, DC, announced a 2011-12 season that will include two world premieres and a new festival focused on cultivating work by local playwrights.
NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt announced on May 15 that "Smash," the new hourlong drama-with-music about the making (and makers) of a Broadway musical, will launch on th…
Friends and colleagues will reflect on the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, who died March 24 after an illness, at a memorial tribute 1 PM May 16 at Broadwa…
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…
Wonderland, the new musical that reinvents Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" for the 21st century, closes May 15 at Broadway's Marquis Theatre. A natio…
Sam Forman's The Moscows of Nantucket, a Chekhov-flavored comedy about a family bonding over a summer weekend, gets its world premiere May 15 following previews from May 11 at Theater J …
Grey Music NYC, a musical-theatre cabaret show celebrating the shows and songs associated with Joel Grey, plays May 14-15 at the Museum of the City of New York, coinciding with MCNY's cu…
Double Time, a new musical about a young white playwright trying to create a new musical comedy about the life of Alabama native Leonard Harper, an African-American Broadway star, will be he…
Williamstown Theatre Festival artistic director Jenny Gersten announced additional casting for the Nikos Stage productions for the 2011 season in Williamstown, MA. This is the company's …
Classic Stage Company's sold-out production of David Ives' well-reviewed new comedy, The School for Lies, directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie, originally scheduled to close M…
Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary U.S. touring production of Les Misérables — redesigned and reimagined for a new generation — will welcome J. Mark McVey to th…
City Theatre's Pittsburgh world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher and Eric Simonson's comedy, Louder Faster, about Pittsburgh playwright George S. Kaufman trapped in the sort of comic plot…
The fragile, fractured mind of an Ingmar Bergman heroine fresh from the psych ward is explored anew with the May 13 first preview of Through a Glass Darkly, the American premiere of Jenny Wo…
Playbill's Broadway 101 video series continues with an in-depth look at the puppets that populate the haunted mansion of The Addams Family.
Unnatural Acts, a new play about Harvard's investigation and persecution of a group of gay students in 1920, will begin Off-Broadway performances June 14 as the final show of Classic Sta…
Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has lined up three world premieres for its 2011-12 season: a new adaptation of the demonic-possession thriller The Exorcist, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winn…
Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has lined up three world premieres for its 2011-12 season: a new adaptation of the demonic-possession thriller The Exorcist, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winn…
The subculture of the Broadway musical theatre will come into American homes weekly in the form of the hour-long TV drama "Smash," the pilot of which has been picked up for an NBC …
Goodspeed Musicals launches a developmental production of Cutman: a boxing musical, the story of a young Jewish boxer pulled between faith and stardom in the ring, May 12 at the Norma Terris…
The new Court Theatre production of George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward's folk opera Porgy and Bess begins May 12 in Chicago. The title lovers in the all-Chicago cast are Alexis Rogers (T…
Joe Kinosian, the co-creator of Murder for Two — A Killer Musical, appears in the Chicago premiere of the comic thriller, May 12-June 19 at the Tony Award-winning Chicago Shakespeare T…
Philip Kan Gotanda's Love in American Times, a new play that gives the old tradition of matchmaking a contemporary twist, gets its world premiere by San Jose Repertory Theatre May 12-Jun…
Annie Golden, Steve Routman, Emily Walton, Peter Friedman, Kevin Cahoon, Jamey Hood, Cory Michael Smith and Sarah Sokolovic are all in the family of the New York City premiere of the musical…
Second Stage Theatre's world-premiere production of Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark has been extended for a second time, now Off-Broadway through June 12.
Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre has informed its members that the world premiere of Nicky Silver's The Lyons, about an "unforgettable family in search of connection," will …