Novelist Iris Rainer Dart's current Broadway debut as a librettist and lyricist of the musical The People in the Picture is a warm-up to the writer's next show — a musical vers…
Boom!, the concert of Baby Boom generation hits starring Tony Award-nominated sister-actresses Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton Callaway, will be preserved on a live-concert album from PS Classi…
Lucky Guy, the country-fried musical comedy about a singer who dreams of Nashville stardom, begins at Off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre on April 28. Kyle Dean Massey plays crooner Bi…
Off-Off-Broadway's The Flea Theater opens the world premiere of Laurel Haines' Future Anxiety, set in a world of depleted resources, April 28 following previews from April 15. Artist…
The People in the Picture, the new original musical starring Tony Award winner Donna Murphy as an American grandmother remembering her days as a star in European Yiddish theatre and film, op…
Lynn Nottage's new comedy By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is still in previews at Second Stage Theatre, but its Off-Broadway run is being extended by one week, now to May 29.
A complaint on behalf of artists living and dead has been filed against the producers of the new Broadway musical Baby It's You!, the law firm Baker Hostetler announced on April 27, the …
Steppenwolf Theatre Company will present Second City alumnus and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Jeff Garlin in No Sugar Added: An Evening of Stand-Up Comedy, July 13-24, in Steppenwol…
Camp Broadway, the summer program for 10-to-17-year-old kids who are passionate about the theatre, has a permanent home at Pearl Studios NYC. The Manhattan studio rental facility is now the …
Baby It's You!, the story of a New Jersey housewife who launched the 1960s girl-group The Shirelles, opens on Broadway April 27 following previews from March 26 at the Broadhurst Theatre…
Chicago star Rebecca Finnegan joins the cast of the new revised revival of the 1970s musical Working on April 26 at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place in Chicago. She plays Woman 3,…
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will return to Broadway in October 2012 in an acclaimed new production seen in 2010-11 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and Arena Stag…
Classic Stage Company will honor American actor, writer, director and CSC veteran Austin Pendleton at its annual benefit gala May 23 at Bridgewaters at South Street Seaport in Manhattan. The…
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…
The 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards ceremony on May 1 at NYU's Skirball Center will have a theme of "Off-Broadway Rocks!," featuring performances by Everett Bradley, Orfeh, The Bett…
The original cast recording of the new Broadway musical Baby It's You! was recorded between April 17-25 and will be released in stores and digitally June 14 by Universal Music Group'…
Sony's Masterworks Broadway label continues to dip into its vast musical theatre vault, releasing three more "classic cast recordings previously unavailable in the CD era" on A…
Side By Side By Sondheim, the musical revue that addresses only the first 20 years of the work of Broadway composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, gets a fresh production starting April 26 at Vi…
The 2011 Helen Hayes Awards, celebrating excellence in Washington, DC-area professional theatre, were handed out April 25 at the Warner Theatre. David Ives' The Liar, Arena Stage's O…
Off-Broadway's not-for-profit Playwrights Horizons, the birthplace of Sunday in the Park With George, Driving Miss Daisy and this year's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, i…
The life-loving friends, family and lovers in the new musical Death Takes a Holiday will include British actor Julian Ovenden as the grim reaper himself, plus Broadway's Jill Paice as hi…
Gloucester Stage's summer 2011 season in Gloucester, MA, will include the world premiere of Richard Vetere's Last Day, and a revised version of founding artistic director Israel Horo…
The League of Chicago Theatres named The New Colony as the recipient of the 2011 Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theater Award, which comes with a $5,000 prize.
The life-loving friends, family and lovers in the new musical Death Takes a Holiday will include British actor Julian Ovenden as the grim reaper himself, plus Broadway's Jill Paice as hi…
The 2011 Helen Hayes Awards ceremony, celebrating excellence in Washington, DC-area professional theatre, will be held 8 PM April 25 at The Warner Theatre and JW Marriott Hotel.