Nominees for the 2011 Elliot Norton Awards, celebrating excellence in resident and visiting theatre in Greater Boston, were announced on April 13. Tours of Hair, Mary Poppins and August: Osa…
Casting has been announced for the La Jolla Playhouse world-premiere production of A Dram of Drummhicit, a supernatural comedy by Arthur Kopit and Anton Dudley, directed by Playhouse artisti…
Crossroads Theatre Company, the Tony Award-winning resident theatre in New Brunswick, NJ, presents Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, the groundbreaking drama about the aspiration…
It takes a lot of brass to play Penelope Pennywise in Urinetown, and Tony Award nominee Andrea McArdle — Broadway's original Annie — has just the pipes. She stars in the Conn…
The Shaw Festival, Canada's institution rooted in the works of George Bernard Shaw, launched a company first on April 13 — a production of the musical My Fair Lady, staged by Ameri…
The new Broadway production of Cole Porter's shipboard musical comedy Anything Goes, which launched as a limited run through July, will cruise longer than expected — to January 201…
Golden Globe Award nominee Carey Mulligan will be joined by Academy Award nominee Chris Sarandon, Jason Butler Harner and Ben Rosenfield in the American premiere of Ingmar Bergman's Thro…
The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA) will present its 21st "Simply Shakespeare" reading of The Merry Wives of Windsor on May 9. The starry benefit evening will feature…
Dustin Lance Black, an Academy Award winner for his 2008 screenplay for "Milk," has been approached to write the screenplay for a film version of the Broadway musical American Idio…
Harry Groener, the three-time Tony nominee of Cats, Crazy for You and 1980's Oklahoma!, as well as many non-musical works, plays the title role in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater product…
Two-time Tony Award nominee Alison Fraser stars in David Ives' new comedy The School for Lies, inspired by Molière's The Misanthrope, beginning previews April 13 at Classic St…
Four-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh will climb the Everest of musical theatre this fall, playing Mama Rose in Gypsy at Bristol Riverside Theatre. The Bucks County, PA, theatre announ…
The Lark Play Development Center announced four playwrights — Joshua Allen, Thomas Bradshaw, Bekah Brunstetter and Andrea Thome — to receive cash awards and professional support …
Florida Stage, the West Palm Beach, FL, company devoted to recent and new American works, announced its 2011-12 season, the Equity troupe's 25th. Two-time Tony Award winner Frances Stern…
Theatre 20, a new musical theatre company in Toronto, will offer a three-concert series at the Panasonic Theatre in 2011, featuring stage stars Louise Pitre (Mamma Mia!), Colm Wilkinson (Les…
Deirdre O'Connor's latest play, Assisted Living, about a pushing-40 woman who is stuck, will get its world premiere in the 2011-12 season of Profiles Theatre in Chicago.
"Joel Grey/A New York Life," a new exhibit that examines the relationship between Broadway actor Joel Grey and New York City, opens April 12 at Museum of the City of New York (MCNY…
Actor-writer David Greenspan's Go Back to Where You Are, the tale of a chorus boy from the theatre of ancient Greece who travels to modern-day Long Island, opens April 12 at Off-Broadway…
Casting has been announced for City Theatre's Pittsburgh world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher and Eric Simonson's comedy, Louder Faster, about Pittsburgh playwright George S. Kaufman tr…
Tyne Daly's late-career Maria Callas will share the stage with Clinton Branhagen, Jeremy Cohen, Alexandra Silber, Garrett Sorenson and the previously announced Sierra Boggess in the new …
Off-Off-Broadway's The Flea Theater will stage the world premiere of Laurel Haines' Future Anxiety, set in a world of depleted resources, April 15-May 26. Artistic director Jim Simps…
Stephen Buntrock, Rebecca Luker, Eleasha Gamble and Euan Morton will perform at the April 11 gala benefit presentation of the Stephen Sondheim Award to Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters &m…
White Noise, the new rock musical about a controversial band with a taste for white-supremacy content, opens April 9 in Chicago following previews from April 1. The world-premiere staging is…
Broadway's Tom Hewitt (The Rocky Horror Show, Dracula, Chicago) and Kim Crosby (Cinderella in the original Into the Woods) will play Mr. Darling/Captain Hook and Mrs. Darling, respective…
La Jolla Playhouse presents a private, invitation-only reading of its commissioned musical Hands on a Hardbody April 8-9 in Manhattan. Keith Carradine, Brian D'Arcy James and Leah Hockin…