Chris Peluso, Dennis Parlato, Whitney Bashor, Chris Hoch, Harriet D. Foy and more bring the story behind the famed spiritual "Amazing Grace" to life in a new musical, aptly titled …
The Old Globe's world-premiere production of the pop-flavored Nobody Loves You — a musical comedy set in the world of reality television, with music and lyrics by Gaby Alter and bo…
Newsies, the Broadway musical now contending for Best Musical in the 2012 Tony Awards race, is now playing an open-ended run, Disney Theatrical Productions announced on May 16.
Water By the Spoonful, the 2012 Pulizter Prize-winning play by Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jon Kern's Modern Terrorism, the 2012 winner of the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, are two o…
American Theater Company, the Chicago troupe that found success with a staging of the original, gritty version of Grease in 2011, will unearth the original Off-Broadway script of Hair in 201…
American Theater Company, the Chicago troupe that found success with a staging of the original, gritty version of Grease in 2011, will unearth the original Off-Broadway script and score of H…
Plays and directors are lined up for The Araca Group's AracaWorks, a week-long series of play readings May 21-25 in Manhattan. New plays by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich, Dorothy Fortenberr…
The Magic Theatre in San Francisco will offer the world premieres of Octavio Solis' Se Llama Cristina and Anna Ziegler's Another Way Home in the 2012-13 season. Plays by Sharr White …
John Patrick Shanley directs the world premiere of his Bronx-set Storefront Church, the third play of his trilogy that began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt, which begins performances …
Playbill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the creation of a new Broadway musical about Marilyn Monro…
Tony Award winner Jennifer Holliday, one of the original Dreamgirls, is heard on a bonus track on the cast album of Broadway's Lysistrata Jones, which gets released May 15 by Broadway Re…
Signature Theatre's DC-area premiere of the musical Xanadu, the stage adaptation of the disco-era movie musical, featuring Erin Weaver as the Greek muse Kira and Charlie Brady as artist …
The Off-Broadway world-premiere production of Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play by Signature Theatre Company begins May 15. It's set "against the classic comic background of late…
The Vineyard Theatre's Developmental Lab of The Landing, the new triptych musical by Tony Award-winning composer John Kander, with book and lyrics by Greg Pierce, plays Off-Broadway May …
Marcelo Pereira, Anthony Reimer, Randy Schein, Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh, Zoe Winters and Remy Zaken join Tony nominee Valerie Harper in the May 14 industry reading of Sherri Heller&#…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle hands out its 2011-12 awards on May 14 at a cocktail reception at Angus McIndoe restaurant. Presenters include Andrew Garfield, John Guare and Lin-Manu…
Dan Stevens, known to millions of international TV viewers as romantic lead Matthew Crawley on the period drama series "Downton Abbey," will play suitor Morris Townsend in the new …
Leap of Faith, the new Broadway musical about a con-man preacher who blows into a depressed, drought-plagued Kansas town, where he spars with a lady sheriff, closes on May 13. Despite its so…
The world premiere of Hands on a Hardbody, the new musical about a Texas endurance competition, starring Jim Newman and Tony nominees Keith Carradine, Hunter Foster and Mary Gordon Murray, o…
Magic/Bird, Eric Simonson's sports biography about the rivalry and friendship of basketball stars Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, plays its final performance on Broadway…
Marcelo Pereira, Anthony Reimer, Randy Schein, Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh, Zoe Winters and Remy Zaken complete the cast of the May 14 industry reading of Sherri Heller's new comedy…
"Do No Harm," the TV medical drama created by playwright David Schulner, about a gifted neurosurgeon with a secret life, has been picked up for series at NBC. Broadway's Tony A…
Broadway star and Philadelphia native Hugh Panaro is celebrated May 11 with the presentation of the 2012 Edwin Forrest Award at Walnut Street Theatre's annual benefit gala in Philadelphi…
Meredith Willson's The Music Man, the Americana-striped musical comedy about a corrupt salesman who charms — and is charmed by — a small town in Iowa, begins performances in-…
The White House echoed with the popular songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David — known for hit tunes, including those from the Broadway musical Promises, Promises — on May 9, when…