The Lyric Opera of Chicago's new production of Show Boat, the 1927 musical drama that was a watershed in American theatre, plays Feb. 12-March 17 at The Civic Opera House. Opera and conc…
A compromised slave auctioneer alone in the Mississippi swamps is at the mercy of a runaway slave in the world premiere of Jan Buttram's Lost on the Natchez Trace, opening Feb. 12 in an …
Alumni of the 24-year Broadway run of The Phantom of the Opera are expected to be sprinkled among the audience of the history-making 10,000th Broadway performance of the Andrew Lloyd Webber …
Masterworks Broadway will release the cast album of Once: A New Musical on March 13 in the same week that the delicate musical opens at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Previews for…
The 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Memphis will embrace Nancy Opel again as Mama. She will return to the Broadway troupe at the Shubert Theatre Feb. 14.
A healthy winter box office is prompting the producers of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess to extend the sales period of the Broadway revival beyond its planned limited run. Originally anno…
Second Stage Theatre's tenth anniversary season of its Uptown Series of new works at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre on the Upper West Side will feature the world premieres of Alena Smith'…
Tony Award nominee Tom Wopat (Annie Get Your Gun, A Catered Affair) and Will Chase are among actors who will join the previously announced Laura Osnes in the New York City Center Encores! pr…
Kenneth Lonergan's new work this spring for Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company is called Medieval Play, "set against the classic comic background of late 14th century eccl…
Helena Bonham Carter, the actress who created a frisky Mrs. Lovett in the film musical "Sweeney Todd," will play craven Madame Thénardier in the movie version of the interna…
Les Misérables producer Cameron Mackintosh confirmed that the in-production film version of the epic Victor Hugo-inspired musical will feature a new song for Jean Valjean, the hero pl…
The complete company of the world-premiere production of Matt Charman's Regrets has been revealed by Manhattan Theatre Club. Carolyn Cantor directs the production at MTC's Off-Broadw…
The Atlantic Theater Company world-premiere production of Gabe McKinley's journalism play CQ/CX, directed by Tony Award nominee David Leveaux, has been extended by one week in advance of…
Tony Award nominee Anthony Heald and performance artist and songwriter Taylor Mac are among the troupers joining Tony winner Bebe Neuwith and Christina Ricci for Classic Stage Company's …
Tony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me) will be the "obnoxious and disliked" John Adams opposite fellow Continental Congressman — and Tony nomine…
Tony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me) will be the "obnoxious and disliked" John Adams opposite fellow Continental Congressman — and Tony nomine…
Rated P for Parenthood, the new Off-Broadway musical revue about the joys and quirks of having kids, begins its Off-Broadway life Feb. 8 at the Westside Theatre, where Courtney Balan ([title…
The new musical Amazing Grace, based on the life of John Newton, the former slave trader who wrote the famous hymn of the title, will launch Goodspeed Musicals' 2012 Norma Terris Theatre…
Supporters of Roundabout Theatre Company are being invited to a starry presentation of director Jessica Stone's all-male production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the…
Basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, formerly of Michigan State University and the Los Angeles Lakers, will make his Broadway debut this spring — sort of.
Basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, formerly of Michigan State University and the Los Angeles Lakers, will make his Broadway debut this spring — sort of.
The critically acclaimed theatre-inspired TV series "Smash," in its pilot airing at 10 PM (ET) Feb. 6, was a ratings hit, earning 11.5 million total viewers and scoring high with v…
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle named The Old Globe's 2011 production of Tracy Letts' drama August: Osage County the Outstanding Dramatic Production in the 10th annual Craig Noe…
The world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart), begins Feb. 7 at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Bill Pullman, Am…
Signature Theatre Company's Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater in the new Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street is unveiled to the public Feb. 7 with the first performance o…