Ella, the musical biography of American singer Ella Fitzgerald, a popular title in regional theatres, is currently making its New York City premiere at Queens Theatre, now to Oct. 7.
The Princess of Wales Theatre, which opened in Toronto in 1993 to house Canadian sitdowns of major musicals like Miss Saigon, the inaugural show there, will be demolished to make way for new…
"Last night I dreamt I wentto Manderley again," the opening line of Daphne du Maurier's novel, "Rebecca," will not be sung on Broadway this fall. Producers Ben Sprech…
The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story, a popular and sold-out Chicago-area title in 2006, gets revived by First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook, IL, opening Sept. 29. Christian Gray plays …
P.J. Benjamin, Naomi Brockwell, Stephen R. Buntrock, Rachel de Benedet, Nancy Johnston and Robert Petkoff will star in a three-performance staged concert performance of the chamber musical M…
The Old Globe production of Allegiance – A New American Musical, telling the story of Japanese Americans forced into concentration camps on U.S. soil during World War II, will get an a…
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) opens the world-premiere production of Broken and Entered by Madison, Wisconsin-based playwright Kurt McGinnis Brown on Sept. 28. The play, which examines cha…
Vince Pesce, choreographer of Goodspeed Musicals' in-rehearsal production of the mystery musical Something's Afoot, has taken over the direction of the show. Due to a critical illnes…
Mark St. Germain's two-character play Freud's Last Session will star two-time Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh (of TV's "Ed") as C. S. Le…
The Canadian Theatre Critics Association have named Judith Thompson, "one of Canada's darkest and most daring playwrights," as recipient of the 2012 Herbert Whittaker-CTCA Awar…
The New York City premiere of Terrence McNally's Golden Age, the backstage story of the Bellini opera I Puritani, will feature "Pushing Daisies" star Lee Pace as the 19th-centu…
Director-choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge's creative team for the world premiere of Sense & Sensibility The Musical will include Tony Award-nominated set designer Allen Moyer, Tony…
The new Off-Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, part of Signature Theatre Company's 2012-13 Hwang residency, will get an added week, now to Dec. 9. There is &quo…
Classic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov will get two additional weeks, to Dec. 9, at CSC's home on East 13th Street. Ethan Hawke plays the title role, so…
George and Martha, the English-speaking theatre's most contentious married couple since Katharina and Petruchio, are back on Broadway Sept. 27 for the first preview of the 50th-anniversa…
Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People, adapted by British dramatist Rebecca Lenkiewicz and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes, opens Sept. 27 …
Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre officially opens its 2012-13 season on Sept. 27 with Brian Friel's Lovers, made up of two related one-acts. Previews began Sept. 18 at …
Andy Williams, the smooth vocalist who was the epitome of the "easy listening sound" of the 1960s and '70s, singing songs by Henry Mancini and others, died Sept. 25 of complica…
Colony, the Times Square-area music store variously referred to as Colony Records, Colony Music or just The Colony since 1948, is now a memory. Owner Richard Turk confirmed that the last day…
Queen for a Day: The Musical, inspired by the radio and TV reality show of yesteryear, gets its world premiere in a 12-performance run in Toronto starting Sept. 26. TV's Alan Thicke (&qu…
Sanaa Lathan reprises her New York City role of a maid-turned-movie star in Lynn Nottage's satiric comedy By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, opening Sept. 26 following previews from …
Jason Danieley, of Broadway's Candide, Curtains, The Full Monty and Next to Normal, plays George in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's new production of Sunday in the Park With Georg…
The new Pasadena Playhouse production of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel, directed by artistic director Sheldon Epps, will star Kristy Johnson, Dawnn Lewis, Angel Reda, Adam J. Smith, Da…
Clifford Odets' groundbreaking 1935 agitprop play, Waiting for Lefty, about union members on the brink of a strike during hard times, received a private reading presentation Sept. 24 as …
Satchmo at the Waldorf, Terry Teachout's new play about musician Louis Armstrong, will make its Philadelphia debut Nov. 16-Dec. 2 in an engagement at The Wilma Theater. The Philly stagin…