Hero, a new musical about a young comic-book artist, will get its Equity world premiere on June 20 by Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL, following earlier development. Erich Bergen, of th…
Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan, the Chicago star who played the strained, cancerous and addicted matron Violet Weston in Broadway's August: Osage County, is Madame Armfeldt in Stephen …
The Second Stage Theatre run of Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm Not, starring Topher Grace of TV's "That '70s Show," has been extended by one week, now to June 3. The worl…
The new musical Flashdance will not play a pre-Broadway Toronto engagement this summer, the producers announced on May 9. The show was expected to move to Broadway following a five-week Augu…
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…
The producers of the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man announced on May 9 that the run now continues to July 22 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Th…
Manhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere production of The Columnist by David Auburn has been extended for a second time at Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, now to July 1.
Broadway dancers stud the new musical Heat Wave: The Jack Cole Project, about the father of theatrical jazz and musical-theatre dance, in its world premiere, opening May 9 following previews…
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…
Goodspeed Musicals' new production of the musical Mame, starring Tony Award nominee Louise Pitre, opens May 9 at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT. The run was recently extended b…
The Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying — first a vehicle for Daniel Radcliffe, and now starring Nick Jonas — will close up shop on May 20, the p…
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One, launching the company's 2012 50th-anniversary season, will feature Derek Wilson as Prince …
Nice Work If You Can Get It, the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical that marries a new screwball-comedy plot to old Gershwin songs, will spawn a national touring company, the produce…
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, will close on May 13, the produc…
John Pankow will replace previously announced David Pittu in the cast of the Off-Broadway world-premiere production of Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play by Signature Theatre Company. Pitt…
The fifth annual Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, administered by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre, will go to emerging playwright Erika Sheffer, who penned Off-Broadway's Russian Trans…
Will Eno's Title and Deed, a new solo play about a mysterious traveler, begins its American premiere May 8 as part of Signature Theatre Company's season at the new Pershing Square Si…
Somewhere in heaven, Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers, Charlie Chaplin and a long line of storytellers who loved to create physical comedy are smiling down on Tom Edden, the 33-year-old British …
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 New York Drama Critics' Circle named Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet the Best Play of the 2011-12 season following a meeting of its members on May 7. The 77th annual awards a…
Judy McLane will shed the spandex of thrice-married man-eater Tanya to begin playing mother-of-the-bride Donna in the Broadway company of Mamma Mia! on June 4. McLane has played Tanya at the…
Like the wandering troubadour at its core, Once, the 11-time Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical, will travel. The producers announced that a national tour of the acclaimed show will begin…
Somewhere in heaven, Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers, Charlie Chaplin and a long line of storytellers who loved to create physical comedy are smiling down on Tom Edden, the 33-year-old British …
Topher Grace, of TV's "That '70s Show," plays a fallen corporate millionaire coming out of a funk in Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm Not, opening May 7 in its world-premie…
Irish Repertory Theatre and Gingold Theatrical Group open a co-production of George Bernard Shaw's complete four-act Man and Superman — his 1903 comedy set in England, Spain and He…