Winners of the 2012 Barrymore Awards, celebrating excellence in Philadelphia-area theatre, were announced Sept. 25. Productions of The Scottsboro Boys, Twelfth Night and Body Awareness are a…
Casting has been announced for director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Signature Theatre Company staging of the late August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about …
"The Carlyle Set," the 2003 solo album by two-time Tony Award winner Christine Andreas, which has gone out of print, is being re-released by PS Classics, the label devoted to the h…
Dorothy Ateca Carter, an African-American stage actress who starred in three pre-Civil Rights-era plays, including a Broadway adaptation of the novel "Strange Fruit," about an inte…
Toronto's Mirvish Productions — known for big musicals in the Ontario metropolis — is packaging a collection of smaller, riskier productions produced by local and internation…
Ann, actress-writer Holland Taylor's biographical play about late Texas Governor Ann Richards, will get a Broadway stage — and a big one — on March 7, 2013, when it opens at …
The Shaw Festival on Ontario announced Sept. 24 that its 2013 season will include 10 productions, including George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, the musicals Guys and Dolls and The Light…
The Great American Mousical, the new musical to be directed by Julie Andrews, on whose children's book the show is based, will star Tony Award nominee Emily Skinner as a diva mouse named…
Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir, Keith Bunin's nightclub-set play with music about a gay singer in the decade before gay rights and identity began to blossom, get its West Coast premiere sta…
New York Theatre Workshop's 2012-13 season-launching production of Red Dog Howls, Alexander Dinelaris' drama about family secrets shaken loose, opens Sept. 24 following previews from…
David Cromer's new production of Tennessee Williams' steamy Southern-set Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Diane Lane and Finn Wittrock, opens Sept. 24 following previews from Sept.…
Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People opens Sept. 23 following previews from Sept. 13 for a run to Nov. 11, featuring Steppenwolf ensemb…
Dr. Ruth, All the Way, Mark St. Germain's biographical play about the life and work of sexpert Dr. Ruth Westheimer, which had a sold-out summer run by Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfi…
Sergio Trujillo, one of the busiest theatre choreographers working today, has added the Broadway musical Hands On a Hardbody to his plate. The producers of the new populist show announced Se…
Lisa D'Amour's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play Detroit, about neighbors who form a codependent bond in the current economic downturn, opened Sept. 18 in its New York City debut at Play…
The North American touring production of the revised and redesigned musical Les Misérables, a road hit that launched in early 2011 and has recouped due to sellout crowds and bookings …
Lisa D'Amour's suburban-set play Detroit, a tale of codependence in the recession era, has earned some of the most enthusiastic reviews of recent seasons, prompting a two-week e…
Misery, a new stage version of the Stephen King novel about a novelist held captive and hobbled (literally) by his greatest fan, will get its world premiere at Bucks County Playhouse. The ad…
Christopher Innvar, Mary McCann, Mary Beth Peil, Jordan Lage, Madeleine Martin, Gareth Saxe and more bring Simon Stephens' tale of Harper Regan to life for Off-Broadway's Atlantic Th…
Sugar Babies, the burlesque musical-comedy revue that earned a 1980 Tony Award nomination as Best Musical, has been revived in Manhattan workshop rehearsals leading to two industry presentat…
The American premiere of Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, featuring Annie Funke, Michelle Gomez, Tony Award winner Brían F. O'Byrne and Oscar nominee Jake …
Dr. Ruth, All the Way, Mark St. Germain's biographical play about the life and work of sexpert Dr. Ruth Westheimer, which had a sold-out summer run by Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfi…
The Philadelphia world premiere of the new musical song cycle Stars of David, featuring song contributions by major writers of the musical theatre, will star Nancy Balbirer, Alex Brightman, …
Tony Award winner Hal Linden, of Broadway's The Rothschilds and TV's "Barney Miller," stars in the world premiere of the comedy Under My Skin, opening Sept. 19 following pr…
The Old Globe production of Allegiance — A New American Musical, charting the lives of Japanese Americans who were placed in concentration camps on U.S. soil during World War II, opens…