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The soulful, yearning, tragic Eponine in the forthcoming film musical of Les Misérables will not be played by a speculated-about pop star. The part has been won by Samantha Barks, who…
Kathleen Turner will reprise her Broadway role of a no-nonsense nun in High for a San Francisco engagement of Matthew Lombardo's drama, playing March 21-25 at the SHN Curran Theatre.
Northlight Theatre in Skokie, IL, has snagged Chicago comedy stars Tim Kazurinsky and George Wendt for a production of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, for a fall 2012 production under the d…
The Claire Tow Theater, the new permanent venue on the campus of Lincoln Center Theater, will be unveiled June 4 with the world premiere of Slowgirl, a new play by Greg Pierce.
Alley Theatre's production of John Logan's popular two-character play Red, directed by Jackson Gay, will feature Tony Award nominee Scott Wentworth as painter Mark Rothko and Jay Sul…
Nominations for the 2012 Kevin Kline Awards, representing excellence in St. Louis-area theatre for the year 2011, were announced Jan. 30.
Playwright-director Athol Fugard's staging of his Blood Knot — launching the Signature Theatre Company's new home, The Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street…
Paul James, of TV's "Greek," shares the stage with Kim Rosen, Bethany Anne Lind, Danny Gavigan, Lauren Culpepper, Evan Casey and Jake Odmark for the world premiere of Really Re…
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced nominations and special awards for excellence for work produced or presented in 2011 in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County. Among th…
Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba will star as Charlotte Bartlett, the overbearing chaperone of Lucy Honeychurch, in the new musical A Room With a View, based on the E.M. Forster novel, getting…
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2011 pop-rock-infused production of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night gets a cinematic release March 10 and March 22 at Cineplex Entertainment t…
The directors and choreographers for Goodspeed Musicals' season at Goodspeed Opera House have been named. Ray Roderick, Rob Ruggiero and Casey Hushion will direct Mame, Carousel and Some…
Atlantic Theater Company canceled its two Jan. 29 performances of the play CQ/CX due to water damage on the play's set following a Jan. 28 fire that occurred in the building above the th…
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, has been been extended by …
The Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy about an Ohio businessman navigating misunderstandings of language and etiquette on an important business trip to China…
Broadway's revised revival of the 1965 musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, starring Harry Connick Jr. as a conflicted shrink who uncovers a patient's past life in hypnos…
Golden Age, Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally's new 1835-set backstage drama that swirls around the premiere of Bellini's opera I Puritani, will get its New York City de…
Golden Age, Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally's new 1835-set backstage drama that swirls around the premiere of Bellini's opera I Puritani, will get its New York City de…
Colm Wilkinson, the original Jean Valjean in the 1985 London and 1987 Broadway productions of Les Misérables, will play the pivotal role of the Bishop of Digne in the new film of the …
American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Richard Montoya's new work about a U.S. citizenship test and echoes from American history, plays La Jolla Playhouse starting Jan. 27. Jo B…
Director David Cromer's intimate, unsentimental street-clothes version of Our Town, a hit in Chicago and New York City, will play New England — the Pulitzer Prize-winning play'…
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present its first musical since 2004 this fall when artistic director Bonnie J. Monte stages Man of La Mancha starring Broadway's Robert Cuccioli i…
Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, revealed its complete 2012 programming, which will include the world premiere of Mark St. Germain's new play Dr. Ruth, All the Way starring De…
Broadway music and stars will punctuate the 2012-13 of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, music director Steven Reineke announced on Jan. 26. Paulo Szot, Kelli O'Hara and the work of&nb…
Norm Lewis, of Broadway's Sondheim on Sondheim and the most recent Les Miserables, is plenty of something in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess on Broadway.
