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Venus in Fur, David Ives' dark comedy about a director auditioning a mysterious actress for a stage adaptation of an erotic novel, begins a commercial run at Broadway's Lyceum Theatr…
The pilot episode of the new NBC drama-with-songs, "Smash," about the making of a Broadway musical, aired 10 PM (ET) Feb. 6. Full of spoilers, here's Playbill's look at the…
The new musical Kinky Boots, with a score by pop singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, was seen New York City workshop presentations Jan. 19-20 in anticipation of a Broadway bow sometime in 2012-1…
Additional casting has been announced for Leap of Faith, the new Broadway musical about a flim-flam preacher who blows into a small town, where he spars with a lady sheriff.
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 …
"Smash," the new hour-long musical drama series created by Broadway dramatists who dwell in the world they're writing about, premieres 10 PM Feb. 6 on NBC. In an era where &quo…
Noël Coward's Semi-Monde — the playwright's frank look at gay lives — gets its American premiere in a Feb. 6 one-night-only benefit concert performance presented by …
Music Is, the short-lived 1976 Broadway musical based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, is getting its first revival in a concert version produced by the theatre school at Western Carolina…
American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Richard Montoya's new work about a U.S. citizenship test and echoes from American history, opens at La Jolla Playhouse Feb. 4 following pr…
The world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley, will get an extra week of performances at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
Audiences at Broadway's Jersey Boys have been more at home than ever in the past month following the Jan. 8-10 installation of firmer seat cushions in the 1,250-seat auditorium of the Au…
Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan, the Chicago star who played the strained, cancerous and addicted matron Violet Weston in Broadway's August: Osage County, will be Madame Armfeldt in Ste…
The New York City premiere of Leslye Headland's Assistance, about those in service of nightmare bosses, begins performances Feb. 3 with a cast that features Tony Award nominee Bobby Steg…
American Theater Company (ATC) and About Face Theatre will co-produce a resident Chicago production of Jonathan Larson's award-winning Rent, directed by MacArthur Fellow David Cromer, wh…
Playwrights Horizons announced complete casting for the New York City premiere of Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, a play that spans 80 years in the life of a family in one setting — a …
Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of Marc Camoletti's farce Don't Dress for Dinner, a sequel to Boeing-Boeing, will star Ben Daniels, Melora Hardin, Adam James, Os…
Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls announced full casting for the Chicago revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh starring the previously announced Tony Award winne…
Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Scott Rudin shed light on the circumstances that led him to abandon his plan to produce Bruce Norris' play Clybourne Park on Broadway this spring.
Keith Baker, Madi DiStefano, Jack Koenig and Anette Michelle Sanders appear in Bristol Riverside Theatre's world premiere of A Raw Space, the new play by Jon Marans, the author of The Te…
John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, directed by Sam Gold in an arresting physical production that conjures the squalor and straitened circumstances of a working class life, opens Feb. 2 a…
Artistic director Michael Kahn announced plays by Shakespeare, Gogol, Shaw and Schiller for the 2012-13 season at The Shakespare Theatre Company in Washington, DC.
Music Is, the short-lived 1976 Broadway musical based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, is getting its first revival in a concert version produced by the theatre school at Western Carolina…
Producers Scott Rudin and Stuart Thompson are no longer attached to a planned spring Broadway move of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the personalitie…
The run of Classic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as the persecuted scientist, begins Feb. 1 on East 13th…
Lloyd Suh's Jesus in India, billed as "a contemporary reimagining of a wild stretch in the lost years of Jesus Christ" in his teen years, opens Feb. 1 in a world premiere at Ma…
