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The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey has invited Broadway and concert veteran William Michals to tilt at windmills this fall as Cervantes/Don Quixote in the musical Man of La Mancha, Oct. 1…
AWA Partners is the name of a new touring-show booking agency representing a merger between AVID Touring and AWA Touring. Alan Wasser, Allan Williams and Alison Spiriti announced on Sept. 11…
Signature Theatre's staging of Christopher Shinn's Dying City, Oct. 2-Nov. 25 in Arlington, VA, will feature Thomas Keegan and Helen Hayes Award nominee Rachel Zampelli under the dir…
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, playing Sept. 11-Oct. 7 at Pa…
Prospect Theater Company's 2012-13 season of musical-theatre programming includes the previously reported revised revival of Working, plus the world premiere of Death for Five Voices, a …
Neil Patrick Harris will appear in the "onscreen role" of The Magic Mirror, with Charlene Tilton of TV's "Dallas" as The Wicked Queen and Ariana Grande of TV's &q…
Manhattan Theatre Club's Murder Ballad, a new rock musical that launches the company's new Studio at Stage II Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series, will star John Ellison Conlee…
The Off-Broadway production of Rent, representing a rethought approach to the material by members of the Broadway creative team, including director Michael Greif and music supervisor and arr…
The new Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man — about candidates seeking the presidential nomination of their political party at a convention — ends its limited run o…
The New York City premiere of The Train Driver, written and directed by Athol Fugard and featuring Leon Addison Brown as Simon and Ritchie Coster as Roelf, opens Sept. 9 at Signature Theatre…
We snagged a few minutes with two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster to get a post-mortem on her newly renewed TV series, "Bunheads," and her fall concert schedule.
The New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment is expected to announce recipients of Spotlight Awards in tribute to theatre people who contribute to the richness of the Broa…
Veterans of director Des McAnuff's international and Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar will punctuate the rockin', other-worldly production of his new musical Yoshimi Battle…
Tony Award winner Anthony LaPaglia will play Richard M. Nixon opposite Tony nominee Kathryn Erbe as wife Pat in Douglas McGrath's new play, Checkers, beginning Oct. 12 at the Vineyard Th…
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, begin…
A new take on Anton Chekhov's play about passionate artists and those in their orbit surfaces in Long Island City, Queens, Sept. 5-15 when Wandering Bark Theatre Company presents the New…
New York Theatre Workshop's 2012-13 season-launching production of Red Dog Howls, Alexander Dinelaris' drama about family secrets shaken loose, begins Sept. 5 toward a Sept. 27 openi…
Vincent Kartheiser, widely known as ambitious ad man Pete Campbell on TV's "Mad Men," turns a new page with the world-premiere production of Jonathan Marc Feldman's Th…
Sony Masterworks releases the 27-track Encores! concert cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, featuring the 1949 Broadway score by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, on Sept. 4. This is the mos…
The American premiere of Love Story, the musical, based on the best-selling Erich Segal novel, starring Alexandra Silber (Broadway's Master Class) as Jenny Cavilleri and Will Reynolds (M…
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, begins performa…
Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular, director Harold Prince's revised staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber's internationally popular musical — putting the audience in an immers…
The acclaimed Broadway production of the British farce One Man, Two Guvnors, which won star James Corden the 2012 Best Actor Tony Award, end its limited engagement at the Music Box Sept…
Clybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Play, ends its limited Broadway run (already extended) on Sept. 2 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. By close, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-dra…
Hal David, the pop, movie and musical theatre lyricist who wrote words to composer Burt Bacharach's music in the Broadway musical Promises, Promises — and for a slew of hit songs &…