Flashdance, the movie-inspired pop-rock musical that had a short life in London in 2010-11, is being revised and aimed at Broadway for a fall 2012 launch, according to the New York Times.
Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rock-Star Rabbi, starring Grammy Award-winning country star and Les Misérables veteran Gary Morris as a real-life rockin' rabbi, gets two South Florida e…
Theatregoers who have been turned away from Classic Stage Company's sold-out, starry production of The Cherry Orchard have more than the pits to look forward to. CSC has added one week t…
Tickets for the spring 2012 commercial Broadway engagement of Venus in Fur go on sale Dec. 15. David Ives' dark comedy about a director auditioning a mysterious actress for a stage adapt…
The new "revisal" of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever prompted Playbill to reach out to Facebook and Twitter followers for suggestions of shows ripe for a rewrite and revival. Mu…
Rob Fisher, the musical supervisor and vocal arranger of Broadway's Anything Goes, is acclaimed for conducting on Broadway and at Encores!, but has never led the band of Roundabout Theat…
The Chicago premiere of librettist Harvey Fierstein and composer-lyricist John Bucchino's musical A Catered Affair, produced by Porchlight Musicals, will feature Rebecca Finnegan as matr…
Julie Halston and Robert Petkoff are joining the cast of Broadway's Anything Goes, the shipboard musical comedy, in January 2012, Roundabout Theatre Company announced on Dec. 14.
After swearing she was retiring her green tights for good, Cathy Rigby flies back to New York City in her Tony Award-nominated role as Peter Pan Dec. 14-30 at The Theater at Madison Square G…
An American Express pre-sale for the new Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It begins on Dec. 14. The Broadway musical directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshal…
Basketball. Cheerleaders. Sex. Show tunes. The stately Walter Kerr Theatre is the home court for all of that in the new Broadway musical comedy Lysistrata Jones, opening Dec. 14 following pr…
The producers of the new Broadway-bound musical Leap of Faith, based on the film, officially announced on Dec. 13 that Christopher Ashley (Memphis), Warren Leight (Side Man) and Sergio Truji…
Alan Alda, the actor of stage, television and film, is also known as a filmmaker, but not as a playwright. Until now.
Surflight Theatre, the long-time summer theatre in Beach Haven, NJ, on Long Beach Island has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to mount a 63rd season beginning in April 2012. Expe…
The first major New York City revival of Shlemiel the First, the Klezmer musical based on the play by Isaac Bashevis Singer, begins performances Dec. 13 at the Jack H. Skirball Center for th…
When Detroit, Lisa D'Amour's critically acclaimed 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist play about neighbors, makes its New York City debut Off-Broadway in fall 2012, it will be Playwrights H…
Venus in Fur keeps rising. David Ives' dark comedy about a director auditioning a mysterious actress for a stage adaptation of an erotic novel will move to a commercial Broadway engageme…
Charlotte Parry has replaced Anastasia Griffith in the role of Helena in Roundabout Theatre Company's new Off-Broadway production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.
A national tour of the 2011 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival Anything Goes will launch in October 2012 at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH, Roundabout Theatre Company announced on De…
Film star Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) and Broadway's Aaron Tveit (Catch Me If You Can) are the latest names linked to the coming film musical version of Les Misérables.
Film star Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) and Broadway's Aaron Tveit (Catch Me If You Can) are the latest names linked to the coming film musical version of Les Misérables.
Finding Neverland, the American musical about the family that inspired J.M. Barrie to write his "Peter Pan" stories, takes wing in a London industry reading, getting two performanc…
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 1965 Broadway musical remembered as a richly tuneful vehicle for Barbara Harris, but maligned for its confused plotting, extraneous characters —…
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 1965 Broadway musical remembered as a richly tuneful vehicle for Barbara Harris, but maligned for its confused plotting, extraneous characters —…
The Chicago premiere of Enda Walsh's Penelope, the absurdist-flavored take on the tale of the Trojan War wife who waits for her soldier husband and is courted by unsuitable suitors, open…