Robert Egan will direct the West Coast premiere of John Robin Baitz's Tony Award-nominated Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum, replacing Joe Mantello, who dropped out due to sch…
The complete cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People, starring the previously announced Boyd Gaines and Richard Thomas, was announced on July 3…
Universal Television and NBCUniversal International have signed a development deal with Storyline Entertainment's Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, executive producers of TV's "Smash&…
Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre will produce Brian Friel's Lovers and Anita Loos' Happy Birthday in its 2012-13 season, marking 20 years since the group was founde…
Sony Masterworks will release the 27-track Encores! concert cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1949 Broadway score by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, on Sept. 4. This is to be the mos…
The world premiere of The Nutty Professor, the new Rupert Holmes-Marvin Hamlisch musical based on the 1963 Jerry Lewis film comedy, opens in Nashville July 31 following previews from July 24…
Anastasia, a new stage adaptation of the 1997 animated musical film, got a private industry reading in Manhattan the week of July 23, a spokesperson for Stage Entertainment confirmed.
Will Chase will step into Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It Aug. 21-26 to take on the role of playboy Jimmy Winter while Matthew Broderick takes a vacation. The "Smash," H…
Producers Arlie Cone and Steven Hayes are continuing development of a new musical based loosely on the life and career of Sammy Davis, Jr., which is now entitled I Will, I Can.
Soul Doctor, the musical about the real-life unconventional rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, his passion for pop music and his relationship with soul singer Nina Simone, plays New York City July 30-A…
A Separate Peace, the new musical by Warren Leight and Todd Almond, tracing the coming-of-age story of prep-school buddies, gets its first public presentation July 29 as part of the Vassar &…
The East Coast premiere of The North Pool, the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, featuring Remi Sandri and Babak Tafti, opens July 29 following previews from July 26 at Barri…
The world premiere of All the Way, the new play by Robert Schenkkan, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Kentucky Cycle, opens July 28 following previews from July 25 at the Or…
Bob Fosse, the Tony Award-winning director and choreographer who changed the energy of Broadway dance by adding slinky sexuality and incorporating cocked, Chaplinesque limbs, appears on a ne…
Sanaa Lathan will reprise her New York City role of a maid-turned-movie star in By the Way, Meet Vera Stark this fall when Lynn Nottage's satiric comedy makes its West Coast premiere at …
Louis Ozawa Changchien, Katharine Powell and David Rasche star in the world premiere of Kenneth Lin's Warrior Class, which will play an extra week, now to Aug. 18, following its Off-Broa…
Two-time Emmy and Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth will reunite with her Tony-winning Chicago director, Walter Bobbie, this fall when she stars in his staging of the New York City premiere of…
The new musical Sleepless in Seattle has its new songwriters, producers announced on the show's website. Composer Ben Toth and lyricist Sam Forman will pen the score for the show based o…
Film actor Isaiah Washington will star in Unspeakable, a "dramatic fantasia" inspired by the life of comedy star Richard Pryor, which will play an eight-week run at the Royal Georg…
The East Coast premiere of The North Pool, the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, featuring Remi Sandri and Babak Tafti, begins July 26 at Barrington Stage Company's intim…
New Girl in Town, Bob Merrill's 1957 musicalization of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, about a prostitute with abuse in her past, gets a rare New York City revival opening July 2…
Christopher Plummer explores a few of his favorite literary things in a new solo show, A Word or Two, starting July 25 at the Stratford Festival in Canada. Artistic director and Tony Award w…
The producers of the North American premiere of Flashdance — The Musical will explore the show in a late-summer workshop directed and choreographed by Broadway's Sergio Trujillo, a…
Two-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth and Tony nominee Brian Murray will star in a reading of Noel Coward's 1968 showbiz comedy Star Quality — a play that was not produced in th…
Teal Wicks, a former Elphaba of Broadway's Wicked, will dismount from the role of Julie Jordan in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel. Wait…