Freckleface Strawberry, the Off-Broadway family musical based on the children's book character, goes on hiatus at New World Stages after the April 24 performance.
The gang at Broadway's American Idiot packs up its bongs and its bus tickets and its dogtags on April 24, when the musical inspired by the Green Day punk album closes at the St. James Th…
Born Yesterday, Garson Kanin's 1940s hit comedy about a rough-edged chorus girl named Billie Dawn, who refines herself in the context of a world of politics, greed and corruption, opens …
High, Matthew Lombardo's play about an addict, an enabler and a sponsor — starring Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner as a flinty Catholic nun who takes a young crystal-meth abuser…
American Theater Company in Chicago revives the internationally popular musical Grease as few have seen it before. A production dubbed The Original Grease — the R-rated original 1971 v…
Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, CA, introduces its audiences to the roots and branches of American folk music with the world premiere of Lonesome Traveler, opening April 23 following pre…
British actor Adam Godley, whose "gypsy" is revealed in the Broadway revival of Anything Goes, talks about playing light comedy.
Long Story Short, comic-writer Colin Quinn's one-man history of the world, which had a Broadway run in 2010-11, will resurface June 28-July 10 as a presentation of Philadelphia Theatre C…
Sweet Bye and Bye, a forgotten 1946 musical by Vernon Duke and Ogden Nash, will get a world-premiere studio recording starring Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie. PS Classics, which has release…
Itamar Moses' Completeness, a romantic comedy about the budding relationship between a pair of science geeks, opens April 22 in a world-premiere production by South Coast Rep in Costa Me…
The new Arena Stage production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined, beginning April 22, marks the first time the play is appearing in an in-the-round staging. Perf…
Gary Cole, Edi Gathegi, Mary Beth Fisher and Kathryn Joosten are among cast members in the Geffen Playhouse production of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, running May …
Bruce Sabath, of the recent Off-Broadway production of Hello Again, will play Julius Caesar, replacing Jim Walton, in The Sphinx Winx, a new musical comedy look at Caesar, Cleopatra and Marc…
American Theater Company's 27th season in Chicago will feature a world premiere dance-theatre piece called Escape, melding modern dance with the words of Tennessee Williams.
The U.S. tours of the Broadway musical Fela! and the Gate Theatre production of Krapp's Last Tape starring John Hurt will begin this fall on the stages of the Shakespeare Theatre Company…
Irish Repertory Theatre revives Dion Boucicault's ripe 19th-century comic melodrama The Shaughraun on the company's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage starting April 21. Artistic direc…
Jerusalem, British playwright Jez Butterworth's tragicomic play about the indelible inhabitants of a slice of rural England, featuring Tony Award winner Mark Rylance in a performance acc…
The world premiere of Fish Men, Puerto Rican playwright Cándido Tirado's play about "chess hustlers" making their moves in an urban park, will play Chicago's Goodman…
High, Matthew Lombardo's play about an addict, an enabler and a sponsor — starring Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner as a flinty Catholic nun who takes a young crystal-meth abuser…
Patti Murin will play the title role in Lysistrata Jones, the new musical that puts an Ancient Greek classic on a basketball court — literally. The Transport Group Theatre Company'…
About Face Theatre, the Chicago company devoted to plays related to gender and sexual identity, announced three titles for its 2011-12 season, which includes a production of the musical Rent.
Michael Stahl-David, of the horror film "Cloverfield," stars as an actor who gets his big break in Hollywood in the Vineyard Theatre's world-premiere production of Christopher …
The New Victory Theater's fall 2011 season of shows aimed at young people — in the heart of the Times Square theatre district — will launch Oct. 1 with the New York City prem…
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…
The lads of Broadway's The Importance of Being Earnest — namely Santino Fontana and David Furr — have created a video series exclusively for Playbill, asking the question: Wh…