The days when tulips were bought and sold as gold are conjured in the new musical Tulipomania: The Musical, with book, music and lyrics by Barrymore Award winner Michael Ogborn, opening May …
Hands on a Hardbody, the new musical about a Texas endurance competition, will open on Broadway in the 2012-13 season, producers Broadway Across America (John Gore, Thomas B. McGrath, Beth W…
Signature Theatre Company's new production of Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa! will get an extra week Off-Broadway, now to June 17. The production directed by Ruben Santiago-Hu…
Triad Stage, the Equity company that performs on a thrust stage carved out of a former department store in downtown Greensboro, NC, will present the world premiere of Tennessee Playboy &mdas…
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's new production of the showbiz fable 42nd Street opens May 29 following previews from April 12 in Ontario. Chicago and Broadway director Gary Gri…
Lungs, British playwright Duncan Macmillan's play about prospective parents, gets its New England premiere, opening May 27 following previews from May 23, at Barrington Stage Company'…
The Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime, first developed in Toronto prior to Broadway, is now getting a major resident Canadian production on the opposite side of Lake Ontario, at the Shaw Fe…
Amelia, Alex Webb's two-person Civil War drama about a wife disguising herself as a Union soldier to find her missing husband Down South, gets its New York City premiere May 26-June 17 i…
Katie Finneran, who won Tony Awards for her turns in revivals of Promises, Promises and Noises Off, will play orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in the new Broadway production of Annie, the prod…
Mr. Finn's Cabaret, an intimate nightspot in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, is inaugurated May 25-26 with the songs of Joe Iconis. The new venue operated by Barrington Stage Company is…
Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty begins performances May 25, for a run to June 24. Daniel Abeles plays Greg, a boyfriend tortured …
The New York City production of Million Dollar Quartet, the musical that dramatizes the historic recording session of four American rock icons who came to light in the '50s, will close o…
Ford's Theatre Society's black-tie Annual Gala on June 3 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, will include the presentation of the Lincoln Medal to actor Morgan Freeman and human…
Producers Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel and Thomas Viertel are picking up the reins of Prince of Broadway, the new musical retrospective of the work of Harold Prince, after the …
"Over the Rainbow," a CBC television talent competition this fall, will decide who gets cast as "Dorothy" — and her little dog, too — in the Canadian premiere…
The days when tulips were bought and sold as gold are conjured in the new musical Tulipomania, with book, music and lyrics by Barrymore Award winner Michael Ogborn, beginning a world-premier…
Stars of David, a new musical about Jewish identity, with a book by Charles Busch and songs by a collection of Broadway and Hollywood songwriters — from William Finn to Tom Kitt to Mar…
Signature Theatre's new production of Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa!, the tale of race and achievement, teachers and students, freedom and apartheid — featuring new mus…
Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of Simon Gray's comedy-drama The Common Pursuit, about literary-minded college friends who are changed over the years, opens May 24 follow…
The 51st season of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, officially begins May 23 at the Festival Theatre with the opening night of Noel Coward's Present Laughter, directed …
James Lecesne will step into the role of Dick Jensen, the role regularly played by Michael McKean, in the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man.
The world premiere of Noah Haidle's Smokefall will appear in South Coast Repertory's first season under new artistic director Marc Masterson. A second new play in the 29th season wil…
Lungs, British playwright Duncan Macmillan's play about prospective parents, gets its New England premiere starting May 23 at Barrington Stage Company's intimate St. Germain Stage in…
Clybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Best Play, will stick around the Broadway neighborhood a little longer. Producer Jordan Roth announced May 23 that the Pulitzer Prize-winning co…
Los Otros, Michael John LaChiusa and Ellen Fitzhugh's chamber musical touching on the Mexican-American experience, begins a world-premiere run at Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles on May 2…