The 2012 Tony Awards, celebrating the best of Broadway, are announced 8-11 PM June 10 in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winners throughout the evening.
Chicago's resident company Theater Oobleck makes a rare Off-Broadway appearance by staging the New York City premiere of the musical comedy The Hunchback Variations, opening June 10 at 5…
Veteran Broadway producer Emanuel Azenberg is receiving a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre on June 10.
The Importance of Being Earnest (in New York), David Zippel's reinvention of Oscar Wilde's classic Victorian comedy, gets a June 11 reading in Manhattan, with Tony Award winner Chris…
Tony Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad directs Paul Oakley Stovall's Immediate Family, a new comedy about secrets revealed at a family reunion, playing a Chicago run that opens June …
Money continues to be raised for the long-gestating, Broadway-aimed musical MerryGoRound, with songs by the Academy Award-winning team of Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, lead produ…
Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA, will host three world-premiere productions — Twist Your Dickens, The Nether and The Royale — in its 2012-13 se…
Vincent Kartheiser, widely known as ambitious ad man Pete Campbell on TV's "Mad Men," will star in the lead role in San Jose Repertory Theatre's world-premiere production o…
Tony Award nominee Arian Moayed of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is among cast members of New York Theatre Workshop/Noor Theatre's Middle East-set play Food and Fadwa, about cooking an…
Kenneth Lonergan, the American playwright acclaimed for creating modern men who haplessly search for a sense of purpose, has drawn another character in this tradition — but set him in …
Italian playwright Alberto Bassetti's Two Sisters, Two Brothers, a pairing of two one-acts, gets an American premiere June 7-24 at Off-Off-Broadway's Theater for the New City. Lindse…
Brynn O'Malley, Clarke Thorell and J. Elaine Marcos have been revealed as members of the principal cast of the new Broadway production of Annie, tickets to which go on sale June 6 to Ame…
Arden Theatre Company's 25th season in Philadelphia will include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, in "a visually rich production using new technology," producing arti…
Drew Sarich, the American actor who has had a busy career performing musicals in Europe, will play iconic underdog boxer Rocky Balboa in Rocky the Musical, getting its world premiere this fa…
Philadelphia Theatre Company will produce the Philadelphia premiere of David Ives' Tony Award-nominated Venus in Fur at the end of its 2012-13 season, May 24-June 23, 2013.
Director Lonny Price and music director Eric Stern are attached to the new musical Sleepless in Seattle, according to a recent posting on the producer's website.
Nominees for the 33rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, recognizing excellence in Toronto's performing arts community, were announced June 5. The awards administered by the Toronto Allianc…
The new Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, adapted by Tony Award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-honored Tracy Letts, will feature Ora Jones as Olga, Carrie…
A tiny production of the musical The Light in the Piazza, produced by Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, won six Non-Equity Jeff Awards on June 4 in Chicago, where the non-union theatre scene is v…
The new concert cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's score to Merrily We Roll Along will be in stores July 10, PS Classics announced. The label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway reco…
Mark Blum, the busy New York actor who originated the role of campaign manager Dick Jensen in the 2000 Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, will permanently take over the same …
Italian playwright Alberto Bassetti's Two Sisters, Two Brothers, a pairing of two one-acts, will get an American premiere June 7-24 at Off-Off-Broadway's Theater for the New City. Li…
The world-premiere Broadway engagement of David Auburn's The Columnist, starring 2012 Tony Award nominee John Lithgow, is being extended for the final time, now to July 8.
You loved him in falsies and a dress in Broadway's La Cage aux Folles, but wait'll you see Douglas Hodge in a false nose. The Tony Award winner will play the title nobleman — h…
The Jeff Non-Equity Awards, celebrating the best in the vibrant non-union theatre season in Chicago, will be presented June 4.