3,529 stories by "Kenneth Jones"
Director Nicholas Martin's new staging of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, starring Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard as Prof. Henry Higgins and Charlotte Parry as Eliza, opens J…
Arena Stage in Washington, DC, has not yet revealed its full 2013-14 programming at its lavish Mead Center for American Theater, but a tease of two of the coming projects has surfaced.
Multidisciplinary theatre-maker Martha Clarke and Brooklyn playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins have joined Signature Theatre Company's Residency Five program, which provides five-year resi…
Second Stage Theatre's 2012-13 season will climax this summer with the New York City premiere of Nobody Loves You, the new Gaby Alter-Itamar Moses musical that looks at the pitfalls of b…
Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes' "Elliot Trilogy" will be seen in a marathon made up of two readings — Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue and The Happiest So…
The world premiere of Marriott Theatre's Now and Forever, a theatrical exploration of the lush songs of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — featuring Linda Balgord, a veteran of Cats, S…
Joe Calarco's popular all-male Shakespeare's R&J, refracting Romeo and Juliet through the story of four boys at a boarding school where the classic is banned, has been revised by…
Prince Music Theater, the Philadelphia venue that seemed a new hope for American musicals when it opened its doors in 1999 —but has been largely dormant in recent years — emerged…
Canadian dramatist George F. Walker gets a major American spotlight Feb. 28-March 24 with the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) world premiere of his dark comedy Dead Metaphor. Directed…
The national tour of Matthew Lombardo's Looped, about a fictional encounter between actress Tallulah Bankhead and a young recording editor, will kick off Feb. 26 in Fort Lauderdale rathe…
The national tour of Matthew Lombardo's Looped, about a fictional encounter between actress Tallulah Bankhead and a young recording engineer, will play Boston's Majestic Theatre Apri…
Jo Bonney, a frequent creative partner of playwright Neil LaBute, will direct the writer's new adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles thi…
Tickets for the Broadway revival of Pump Boys and Dinettes go on sale to the general public beginning Jan. 14.
Matt Polk, the theatrical press agent who has worked on high-profile stage productions as part of the team at Boneau/Bryan-Brown for the past 15 years, opens his own shop — Polk & …
Airswimming, the 1997 play by Charlotte Jones — known for Humble Boy and The Woman in White — gets its U.S. premiere by Irish Repertory Theatre and Fallen Angel Theatre Company i…
The new Canadian production of London's popular The Wizard of Oz, featuring the classic movie score punctuated with new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and featuring Danielle …
Picnic, William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town women yearning for what's beyond, is back on Broadway, officially opening Jan. 13 in a Roundabout Theatre Company pr…
Director Nicholas Martin's new staging of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, starring Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard as Prof. Henry Higgins and Charlotte Parry as Eliza, launche…
Alex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten will star in The Flick, Annie Baker's new Off-Broadway play that reunites her with director Sam Gold. Playwrights Horizon…
Mark St. Germain's two-character play Freud's Last Session begins a Los Angeles run Jan. 11 with its starriest cast yet — two-time Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch as Sigmund…
Women's Project Theater's world premiere of Laura Marks' dark comedy Bethany, starring America Ferrera, Emily Ackerman, Kristin Griffith, Ken Marks, Tobias Segal and Myra Lucreti…
Des McAnuff's new Stratford Festival staging of the rock musical Tommy, which he helped create for its Broadway life, will star Robert Markus as the gifted title character, Paul Nolan as…
Off-Broadway's Obie Award-winning The Play Company launches the U.S. premiere of Working On a Special Day, a stage version of the Oscar-nominated Ettore Scola film about Hitler's vis…
The troupers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of the best-reviewed musicals of the 2012-13 Broadway season, and now extended to March 10, will welcome Erin Davie to the fold beginning Feb.…
Some of the best-known American songs from theatre, pop and movies are being heard Off-Broadway in the New York City premiere of The Wonderful Wizard of Song: The Music of Harold Arlen, a ne…