Time Stands Still, Donald Margulies' Tony Award-nominated play about war correspondents returning home, ends its run at Broadway's Cort Theatre Jan. 30, when the contracts of its four princi…
The stars of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark will appear on CBS's "The Early Show" the morning of March 1 in anticipation of their appearance that night on "The Late Show."
Irish Repertory Theatre stages the first major New York City revival of Tony Award-winning playwright Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney, the story of a blind woman who undergoes an operation to re…
Mary Beth Fisher, Keith Kupferer, Beth Lacke and David Pasquesi begin their bickering in Chicago on March 5 as the badly behaved parents of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, at the Goodman Thea…
"Sex and the City" star Kim Cattrall will repeat her London role of Amanda in Noel Coward's Private Lives in Toronto in a September-October engagement billed as "prior to Broadway."
The world premiere of Lookingglass Theatre's Ethan Frome, Laura Eason's adaptation of the New England-set Edith Wharton novel, opens March 5 following previews from Feb. 23 in Chicago.
Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, a rarely seen title about a wealthy, aging Southern eccentric barking her memoirs to a secretary as a harbinger of death climbs …
Marilyn Maye was such a showstopper at the recent New York Pops Sondheim birthday concert at Carnegie Hall that we could not resist catching her intimate new show, Her Kind of Broadway, at t…
Tom Hooper, the Oscar-nominated director of "The King's Speech," has been offered to direct the film version of the musical Les Miserables, according to the "24 Frames" blog in the Los Angel…
The New York Theatre Workshop production of Peter and the Starcatcher, telling the origin of kid-lit hero Peter Pan in a bare-bones staging that encourages the audience to use its imaginatio…
American Conservatory Theater's world-premiere run of the musical Tales of the City, inspired by the novels of Armistead Maupin, will get two extra weeks in San Francisco this summer.
Ben Vereen, the Tony Award-winning song-and-dance man of Pippin, Jesus Christ Superstar and Wicked, will sing, dance and reminisce about his life and career Feb. 18 at The Town Hall in midto…
Sex With Strangers, Laura Eason's new play about relationships, sex, identity and authenticity in the age of the Internet, opens in a world-premiere production Jan. 30 following previews fro…
Tony Award winner James Earl Jones has been picked to play the former President of the United States in the upcoming Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man.
Casting has been announced for Liberty Smith, the musical comedy about a fictional patriot's encounters with figures from the American Revolution. Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, will prod…
Goodman Theatre in Chicago announced part of its 2011-12 season, to include the Chicago premieres of John Logan's Red and David Mamet's Race, plus the world-premiere co-production of Danai G…
Old Globe Theatre's production of Jane Austen's Emma - A Musical Romantic Comedy, by Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon, starring Patti Murin as Emma Woodhouse and Adam Monley as Mr. Knightley, …
The sold-out Nov. 15 Merkin Hall presentation of the conceptual concert All the Things You Are: Jerome Kern, part of the Broadway Close Up series there, proved that any New York City theatre…
Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard (The Invention of Love, TV's "House") will play the reporter Paul Verrall in the new Broadway production of Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, the producers…
Following in the tradition of recent Playbill magazine features in which directors of Broadway shows interviewed their famous collaborators, Playbill Video debuts "Director's Cut" this week.…
Myra Lucretia Taylor, of Broadway's Nine and Macbeth, plays the title servant role in the Chicago world premiere of Thomas Bradshaw's absurdist comic drama Mary, opening Feb. 14 at Goodman T…
David Garrison, a Tony Award nominee for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, completes the cast of Lynn Nottage's new play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, which gets its world premiere …
Rob McClure, late of Avenue Q, will sing the Frank Loesser classic "Once in Love With Amy" as romantic lead Charley in the March 17-20 City Center Encores! concert of Where's Charley?
Sean McNall, a resident actor with Pearl Theatre Company, plays the title character of The Misanthrope in the new Off-Broadway staging of the 17th-century verse comedy by Molière. It …
Ben Vereen, the man who sang "Magic to Do" as the Leading Player of Bob Fosse and Stephen Schwartz's musical Pippin, has more magic up his sleeve, after all these years.