The Old Globe's 2012-13 season in San Diego will include the world-premiere productions of the musicals Allegiance, starring Lea Salonga and George Takei and Telly Leung, and A Gentleman…
Acclaimed director David Cromer's new production of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent begins April 27 in Chicago. The troupe includes resident performers Alex A…
Steve Roland, 83, an actor at home in Broadway shows, TV commercials and smoky clubs over a long career, died April 26 of natural causes at his home in New York City.
New plays by John Guare, Rolin Jones, Melissa James Gibson, Simon Stephens will populate Atlantic Theater Company's 2012-13 season. Two final productions, dates and additional directors …
Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre announced an eight-title 2012-13 season, including the world premiere of David Henry Hwang's Kung Fu. Expect a mix of plays by Signature alumni write…
The name of the child actress to play the title "little orphan" in the new Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning musical Annie will be announced at 9:30 AM (ET) April 27 on…
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, opens April 26 at the St. James …
Roundabout Theatre Company opens a revival of Marc Camoletti's 1960-set sex farce Don't Dress for Dinner — a sort of sequel to Boeing-Boeing, featuring the same randy male…
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…
Goodspeed Musicals has stuffed The Bikinis — a musical bursting with pop standards from the '60s and '70s — to its 2012 season at the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT.…
The 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, honoring excellence in Washington, DC-area professional theatre, were handed out April 23 at the Warner Theatre. Ruined, Hairspray, Charlotte's Web an…
Josh Safran, an executive producer at CW's "Gossip Girl," will succeed Theresa Rebeck as "showrunner" — the person in charge of all aspects of story — for…
Hershey Felder, the pianist-actor known for appearing in musical biographies about George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and classical composers, directs the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of …
The Columnist, David Auburn's character study about the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of the late political journalist Joseph Alsop, opens in its Broadway world pr…
Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, has acquired the theatrical archive of actress and playwright Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010). The collection of professional and family papers docume…
The Chicago engagement of Mark St. Germain's Freud's Last Session at the Mercury Theater has been extended to July 15, the producers announced on April 24. Mike Nussbaum and Coburn G…
A new generation of Broadway theatregoer gets exposed to the classic songs of composer George Gershwin and lyricist Ira Gershwin with the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It — …
The Broadway cast album of Bonnie & Clyde gets its official release April 24 on the Broadway Records label. It has been available through digitial services in recent days. The …
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment announced a 2012-13 season that will include a 2013 visit by Shirley MacLaine, plus productions of Next to Normal, Sev…
Barrington Stage Company's borrowed second-stage at a V.F.W. post in Pittsfield, MA, will become a permanent home for the resident Equity organization. BSC announced that a gift from lon…
The dark tale of "Trainspotting," the novel about heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland, best known as a film by Danny Boyle, is being re-adapted as an American-set play written an…
The Columnist, David Auburn's character study about the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of the late political journalist Joseph Alsop, will get an extra week on Broa…
A Civil War Christmas, written by Paula Vogel and directed by Tina Landau, will make its New York City premiere in the 2012-13 season of New York Theatre Workshop, the Off-Broadway theatre w…
A Civil War Christmas, written by Paula Vogel and directed by Tina Landau, will make its New York City premiere in the 2012-13 season of New York Theatre Workshop, the Off-Broadway theatre w…
The 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards ceremony, honoring excellence in the Washington, DC, theatre community, is April 23. The list of more widely-known performers nominated includes Euan Morto…