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Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff revealed a new side of himself in the midwest on Oct. 13 when he sang two sold-out cabaret performances that featured pop music, show tunes and specialty nu…
The Goodman Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and Chicago Shakespeare Theater's revival of Follies each took six Joseph Jefferson Awards at the Oct. …
Tony Lo Bianco will play late, beloved New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in a new solo play The Little Flower, written and directed by the actor, in a brief Off-Broadway engagement t…
The 25th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will be celebrated as a Special Gala Performance on Jan. 26, 2013. Exact details of the 6:3…
Simon Stephens' Harper Regan earned a handful of glowing reviews in recent days, including praise for Mary McCann in the title role, prompting Atlantic Theater Company to announce an ext…
The F.B.I. and the U.S. Attorney's office charged Long Island businessman Mark Hotton with defrauding the producers of the Broadway show Rebecca – The Musical "by fabricating …
The Jeff Awards, celebrating excellence in Chicago-area Equity theatre, will be given out Oct. 15. A dozen new plays or adaptations are in the mix, pointing to Chicago as a continuing breedi…
Sex, drugs, religion, celebrity, music and romance are swirled together in the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, co-written by Kathie Lee Gifford, beginn…
George and Martha, the English-speaking theatre's most contentious married couple since Katharina and Petruchio, are back on Broadway in a new production of Edward Albee's Who's …
Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Roundabout Theatre Company's Cyrano de Bergerac.
Miriam Margolyes' Olivier Award-nominated one-woman show, Dickens' Women, an intimate evening of indelible characters that has been presented around the world, will play two Manhatta…
Tony Award winner Anthony LaPaglia plays Richard M. Nixon opposite Tony nominee Kathryn Erbe as wife Pat in Douglas McGrath's new political-minded play, Checkers, beginning Oct. 12 at Of…
Shuler Hensley, who won a Tony Award for playing brooding Jud Fry in Oklahoma!, stars in the New York City premiere of Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale, about a 600-pound m…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's new production of Sunday in the Park With George, embraced by critics and selling briskly, will get an extra week, now to Nov. 11, the Tony Award-winning th…
The U.S. premiere of Nick Payne's humor-kissed dysfunctional-family drama If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, at Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway home at the Laura Pels …
The creative team of the new musical Diner, based on the movie of the same name, began a four-week workshop Oct. 8 in Manhattan to prepare for the show's spring 2013 Broadway bow.
Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, continues it commitment to developing new works with a one-weekend-only concert of Crossing, a musical by Matt Conner (Nevermore; The Hollow) and Grace Ba…
Obie Award winner Lisa Emery plays drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite David Chandler as aging actor James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night, opening Oct. 11 at Actors Theatre …
As if performing in an animated Baroque-era painting, Clémence Poésy, Patrick Page, Bill Buell, Kyle Soller and Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge star in the new Broadway product…
Carol Channing's Oct. 20 public Q&A at The Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts on the Campus of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, has been postponed to a later date owing…
Launching a new musical is complicated. In order to allow for the sharpening of the technical aspects of the world-premiere production of the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murd…
Truman Capote's indelible little-girl-lost, Holly Golightly, will appear on Broadway in early 2013 in a new Richard Greenberg adaptation of the novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's.&…
Ella Minnow Pea, a musical fantasy about disintegrating language on an island, by Larson Award-winning writers Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel, will get private performances in Manhattan Oct. …
The Los Angeles debut of the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar, starring Aya Cash, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Jennifer Ikeda and Greg Keller, all circling Academy A…
The Gate Theatre Dublin's production of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape starring John Hurt opens Oct. 10 in a Los Angeles run through Nov. 4 at Center Theatre Group's Kirk…