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The Tony Award-wining Denver Center Theatre Company in Colorado will give voice to two world premieres, plus Other Desert Cities, The Three Musketeers, Fences, Romeo and Juliet and more in i…
The Bruce Hornsby-scored musical formerly known as SCKBSTD has been retitled Stranger, and will appear March 20 in the Developmental Reading Series of York Theatre Company in Manhattan. Lanc…
The Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, will stage The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Company, Dreamgirls and a new in-the round production of Joe Calarco's Shakespe…
Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 2012-13 subscription season in Chicago will feature the world premiere of the Tina Landau-directed Steppenwolf commission Head of Passes by ensemble member …
Now. Here. This., the new work from the creators and cast of the cult-hit musical [title of show], gets its world premiere by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre starting March 7 prior to an…
Philadelphia Theatre Company announced Equivocation author Bill Cain as the first recipient of the Terrence McNally New Play Award to aid in the research and development of Cain's new pl…
Due to health issues, Jack Klugman has withdrawn from the George Street Playhouse's upcoming production of Twelve Angry Men in New Brunswick, NJ.
Viewership for NBC's "Smash" was up 17 percent for its March 5 episode, according to published reports.
Playbill's weekly overview, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC series "Smash," about the people behind the creation of a new Broadway musical. Here's …
Zoe Lister-Jones will succeed Lily Rabe in Broadway's Seminar, the Theresa Rebeck comedy about young novelists whose work is judged by a waspish editor. Rabe and original cast members Al…
New York Theatre Workshop's New York City premiere of Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's Homer-inspired one-man play An Iliad, gets two opening nights this week. Tony Award winners…
Signature Theatre Company's new production of Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque, widely praised by critics as a rediscovery following its March 5 opening night, has been extended …
The Best Man, Gore Vidal's 1960 play about a U.S. presidential election, gets its second Broadway revival — and a starry one, at that — beginning previews March 6 at the Gera…
Dana Rowe and John Dempsey, the writers of the musicals The Fix and The Witches of Eastwick, have crafted a new pop-rock musical called Brother Russia, about the life and times of Rasputin, …
Helen Hayes Award winner and Tony Award nominee Helen Carey will play drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite Peter Michael Goetz as husband and aging actor James Tyrone, Sr., in Arena Stage'…
Goodspeed Musicals, the two-time Tony Award-winning Connecticut company devoted to new and vintage musicals, will honor Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth as the recipient of The Goodspeed …
Prior to its March 13 release on the Masterworks Broadway label, the cast album of Once: A New Musical is now getting a "first listen" on National Public Radio's website at npr…
If the sour and intolerant Dean Wormer of the hit film comedy "Animal House" sang a song, what might it sound like? Probably something like a Barenaked Ladies pop song, if Broadway…
Geffen Playhouse veterans Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle") and Jon Tenney ("The Closer") play former high school lovers in the West Coast premiere of David Lindsa…
Tony Award winner Jane Alexander is the enigmatic title character in Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque — the acclaimed actress' first-ever role in an Albee play —…
The works of playwright-songwriter Noël Coward — and his contemporaries and U.K. successors — get presented in a monthly Manhattan reading series dubbed Noël and Compan…
The Broadway premiere of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, his three-actor play about an expressive, inspirational South African artist, played by Rosemary Harris, and the forces that wi…
Tickets for Broadway engagement of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, a play about race and real estate, will be available to the general public starting March 3.
The Broadway cast album of Bonnie & Clyde will be released April 24 on the Broadway Records label. The musical ended its short run on Broadway Dec. 30, 2011, but the Frank Wild…
Tony Award winner David Zippel, who wrote frisky lyrics for City of Angels, The Goodbye Girl and the regionally-seen Princesses, has adapted Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest…