Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, a play that premiered at Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania prior to its 1963 Broadway run and international success, returns to its Pennsylva…
The world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, directed by Daniel Aukin for Signature Theatre Company, begins previews Aug. 7. The staging features Jenny Bacon (In the Wake), …
Mark O'Donnell, the playwright, novelist and librettist who shared the Tony Award for Best Book for the musical Hairspray, died on Aug. 6 after collapsing in Manhattan, his agent Jack Ta…
Single tickets are now on sale for Roundabout Theatre Company's upcoming productions of Cyrano de Bergerac and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Alan Cumming will accept The Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre on behalf of honoree Kristin Chenoweth on Aug. 11 in Connecticut. Tony Award winner Chenoweth (Yo…
John C. McGinley, of TV's "Scrubs," will play real estate salesman Dave Moss in the new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, according to the New York …
Sugar Babies, the burlesque musical comedy revue that earned a 1980 Tony Award nomination as Best Musical, will be explored in a Manhattan workshop in September. Expect legs and laughs. Tony…
Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed Broadway production of Mary Chase’s Harvey, which stars Emmy winner Jim Parsons, end its limited engagement, as originally announc…
Prolific playwright, librettist and songwriter Rupert Holmes is always juggling a number of stage projects. The Tony Award winner's latest is the new Jerry Lewis-directed musical The Nut…
Goodspeed Musicals, the two-time Tony Award-winning resident theatre devoted to new and classic musicals, announced that its summer productions of Carousel and The Bikinis will get added per…
The Broadway trajectory of the new musical Diner was clarified by lead producer BASE Entertainment (co-CEOs Scott Zeiger and Brian Becker) on Aug. 3. As reported by Playbill.com on Aug. 2, t…
Complete casting has been announced for the New York Theatre Workshop's 2012-13 season-launching production of Red Dog Howls, Alexander Dinelaris' drama about family secrets shaken l…
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, will …
Producers of the new Sheryl Crow-Barry Levinson musical Diner, based on the 1982 film, are expected to postpone their fall tryout at San Francisco's Curran Theatre, but the show remains …
Milwaukee Repertory Theater is expanding its organization to include 19 "associate artists" from various disciplines. The newly invited directors, writers, designers and musicians …
George Hearn, the imposing Tony Award-winning Broadway baritone of Sunset Boulevard and the original La Cage aux Folles, will play two roles in the new Broadway musical Scandalous: The Life …
A visit by the national tour of the Tony Award-winning Anything Goes will be part of the Mirvish subscription season in Toronto in 2012-13, replacing the canceled booking of the pre-Broadway…
Betsy Aidem, Janet Zarish and Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch ("Taxi," Talley's Folly, I'm Not Rappaport, Conversations With My Father) star in Dorset The…
"Word, words, words." Hamlet loved them, and so does Christopher Plummer. The Oscar and Tony Award-winning octagenarian actor explores a few of his favorite literary things in a ne…
Barrington Stage Company's new production of Philip King's farce See How They Run, directed by Jeff Steizter on the BSC mainstage in Pittsfield, MA, will feature Lisa McCormick, Cary…
Theatre for a New Audience's 33rd season — its last one before moving into a permanent home in Brooklyn next year — will boast the work of William Shakespeare, Franz Kafka in…
Gore Vidal, the American novelist, screenwriter, essayist and playwright, whose 1960 political drama The Best Man is currently enjoying a Tony Award-nominated revival on Broadway, died July …
Jonathan Groff and Alfred Molina create the canvas that is John Logan's Red, a play about art and artists, fathers and sons, teachers and pupils — and the march of time — sta…
Teal Wicks, an Elphaba of Broadway's Wicked, plays Julie Jordan to the Billy Bigelow of James Snyder, of Broadway's Cry-Baby, in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of Rodgers &am…
Broadway's End of the Rainbow, Peter Quilter's play with music about the final days of Judy Garland, starring the hailed-as-incandescent 2012 Tony Award nominee Tracie Bennett as the…