The countdown to the Sept. 4 release of the 27-track Encores! concert cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has begun, and Sony Masterworks is giving Playbill.com an exclusive first-lis…
Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven, NJ, opens the New Jersey premiere of the musical comedy Once Upon a Time in New Jersey on Aug. 30 for a run through Sept. 15.
Vincent Kartheiser, widely known as ambitious ad man Pete Campbell on TV's "Mad Men," turns a new page starting Aug. 30 with the first preview of the world-premiere production …
Through an August fundraising drive on the Kickstarter.com website, the creators of the Off-Broadway musical Now. Here. This. have raised $86,769 toward a $75,000 goal to support the origina…
A resident Chicago production of Keith Huff's hit two-actor crime thriller, A Steady Rain, will end Sept. 2 at Chicago Dramatists, but will resurface in engagements in Wisconsin and Mich…
Additional cast members populating Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People have been announced. Rehearsals lead to a Sept. 4 first preview at the Samue…
Playwrights Horizons' world premiere of Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan will feature Becky Ann Baker, Tony Award nominee Peter Friedman, Oliver Award nominee Sarah Goldberg, Keith Nob…
Irish Repertory Theatre's upcoming 25th season will offer the work of Brian Friel and Harold Pinter, songs by Phil Coulter, and the artistry of actor Julian Sands and directors Ciar&aacu…
Candy Buckley completes the final piece of the casting puzzle for the new Broadway musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, which begins previews Oct. 13 at the Nei…
The West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's comedy of cultural misunderstandings, Chinglish, directed by Leigh Silverman, who helmed the Broadway staging, opens Aug. 29 following prev…
Green Day's American Idiot, the two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the Green Day album, with a story crafted by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and director Michael Maye…
After a sold-out July engagement, nightlife performer Tori Scott is back at Joe's Pub Aug. 29 for an evening of songs by Donna Summer, Cee-Lo Green, Whitney Houston and Cyndi Lauper. The…
Obie Award winner Lisa Emery will play drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite David Chandler as aging actor James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Linda Lavin, the Tony Award-winning actress-singer who famously sang "You've Got Possibilities," is still reaching for the possible. She'll appear in two Manhattan engageme…
Sam Shepard is in talks to play the gone-missing patriarch Beverly Weston in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, Variety reported.
Complete casting has been announced for David Cromer's new production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, starring the previously mentioned Diane Lane and Finn Wittrock.
Bend in the Road, a new family-friendly musical based on the youth novel "Anne of Green Gables," will play a limited engagement Sept. 14-Oct. 7 at the Carrie Hamilton Theatre at Pa…
The new Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man — about candidates seeking the presidential nomination of their political party at a convention — has recouped its inves…
The new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress goes on sale to the general public starting Aug. 27. The revival starring Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens,…
Sean Palmer, who played Prince Eric in Broadway's The Little Mermaid, will get his feet wet again: He'll play the Gene Kelly-originated role of Don Lockwood in the stage musical Sing…
A 2013 Baltimore booking of the sports play Lombardi has been replaced by a visit by Matthew Lombardo's Looped starring Valerie Harper. Rob Ruggiero (the regionally popular Ella, Goodspe…
A 2013 Baltimore booking of Matthew Lombardo's lurid drama High has been replaced by a visit by the author's Looped starring Valerie Harper. Rob Ruggiero (the regionally popular Ella…
The new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress goes on sale to the general public starting Aug. 27. The revival starring Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens,…
The world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, directed by Daniel Aukin for New York City's Signature Theatre Company, already extended by two weeks, officially opens Aug.…
The West Coast premiere of Elephant Room, a unique entertainment about three semi-pro magicians — starring magicians Louie Magic, Daryl Hannah (not that Daryl Hannah) and Dennis Diamon…