About Face Theatre, the Chicago company interested in new works about gender and sexual identity, announced casting for the world premiere of Philip Dawkins' play, The Homosexuals, inspi…
Two plays — an adaptation and a world premiere — related to the American novelist Carson McCullers will be presented as part of the Steppenwolf for Young Adults series in Chicago…
Recipients of the 2011 Kleban Prize, honoring excellence in theatre lyrics and libretti, are composer-lyricist Adam Gwon and book writer-lyricist Michelle Elliott.
Sam Forman's The Moscows of Nantucket, a Chekhov-flavored comedy about a family bonding over a summer weekend, gets its world premiere May 11-June 12 at Theater J in Washington, DC.
Goodspeed Musicals' new production of the Gershwin-fueled musical My One and Only opens May 11 following previews from April 15, with Broadway's Tony Yazbeck (White Christm…
Jump, the action-packed martial-arts comedy that launched in South Korea before touring the world, returns to Off-Broadway May 11 for an engagement at New World Stages. The producers promise…
Pieces of the provocative new musical White Noise, about a rock band with White Supremacy on its playlist, get heard in a May 11 concert streamed live over the internet. The Broadway-aimed m…
Wonderland, the new musical that reinvents "Alice in Wonderland" for the 21st century, will close May 15 at Broadway's Marquis Theatre, the producers announced on May 10. A nat…
Atlantic Theater Company will welcome Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee Simon Russell Beale to opens its 2011-12 season with the U.S. premiere of Simon Stephens' Bluebird, abou…
Further details about Vineyard Theatre's Developmental Lab Production of Now. Here. This., the new musical by the creators of [title of show], were revealed on May 10.
The executive committee of the trustees of the City University of New York (CUNY) met on May 9 and reversed a May 2 decision to withhold an honorary degree from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwr…
Cathy Rigby's New York City dates as Peter Pan have been confirmed by Madison Square Garden. The fiftysomething Tony Award nominee will fly into the Theater at MSG Dec. 14-30 as part of …
Big League Theatricals is launching a summer tour of Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls directed by Gordon Greenberg and starring Erin Davie as Sarah, Megan Sikora as Adelaide, Steve Rosen a…
Playwright Marsha Norman and composer Jason Robert Brown's The Trumpet of the Swan: A Novel Symphony for Actors and Orchestra, the music-and-narration piece for actors and musicians (inc…
Tony Award nominee Maria Dizzia, of In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, and Greg Keller, of 33 Variations in Los Angeles, star in the Off-Broadway world premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's…
The life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, who died March 24 after an illness, will be celebrated in a memorial tribute 1 PM May 16 at Broadway's Lyceum Theat…
The life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, who died March 24 after an illness, will be celebrated in a memorial tribute 1 PM May 16 at Broadway's Lyceum Theat…
Playbill Video snagged some of the players and creators of the four 2011 Tony Award nominees for Best Musical — Sister Act, The Scottsboro Boys, Catch Me If You Can and The Book of Mor…
Manhattan Theatre Club announced three world-premiere productions — including the Broadway bow of Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn's new play, The Columnist — for its 2011-…
The dawning musical by the creators of [title of show] will be called Now. Here. This. in June, when it will be presented by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre as a Developmental Lab Produc…
The New York City premiere of Stephen Karam's play Sons of the Prophet will feature Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason, under the direction of Peter DuBois. Off-Broadway performances will …
Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage takes a cue from Hollywood screwball comedies for her new play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, about an African-American maid and her white movie-star employ…
Jenny Bacon plays the leading lady at the center of Goodman Theatre's world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss, billed as an offbeat fairy tale ab…
The dysfunctional family of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County at The Old Globe in San Diego includes Robert Foxworth as gone-missing Beverly Weston, Lois Mark…
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…