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MJ Rodriguez of Off-Broadway's Rent was named winner of the 2011 Clive Barnes Award, celebrating the work of young actors and dancers. The award was presented Dec. 5 at the Walter Reade …
Roundabout Theatre Company opens the music box of a dear friend on Dec. 5 with a benefit concert performance of She Loves Me, a title that ushered in Roundabout's expanded mission to inc…
Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company opens the world premiere of Happy Hour, a collection of three one-act comedies by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, Dec. 5 following previews from …
Classic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's tragicomic classic The Cherry Orchard, featuring John Turturro as Lopakhin, Dianne Wiest as Ranevskaya and Daniel Davis as G…
Adriane Lenox, a Tony Award winner for Doubt, which Manhattan Theatre Club premiered, returns to MTC in the new year to play the proprietor of a Nevada retreat where men seeking divorces coo…
Brandon Victor Dixon, the actor who created the role of Harpo in the Broadway musical The Color Purple, joins the Off-Broadway cast of Rent Dec. 1 in the role of Tom Collins.
Judges and presenters for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year fundraiser performances on Dec. 5-6 were announced on Dec. 1. The shows at Broadway's New A…
Sierra Boggess will be in good company at the mysterious estate called Manderley in the Broadway musical Rebecca in spring 2012. Producers announced Dec. 1 that the principal cast includes K…
Sierra Boggess will be in good company at the mysterious estate called Manderley in the Broadway musical Rebecca in spring 2012. Producers announced Dec. 1 that the principal cast includes K…
Jane Austen's famous literary matchmaker Emma is slipping into boots and a miniskirt for a new musical that relocates the 1815 British novel to 1964, the time of women's lib, the pil…
Molly Smith Metzler's Close Up Space, a new comedy starring Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce as a harried book editor, begins previews Dec. 1 in a Manhattan Theatre Club staging at Ne…
Bonnie & Clyde, the new musical with songs by Frank Wildhorn and Don Black, telling the story of the Depression-era American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, opens Dec. 1 followin…
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, begi…
The Broadway cast of The Phantom of the Opera will welcome Trista Moldovan, making her Broadway debut as impressionable soprano Christine, on Dec. 9 at the Majestic Theatre.
Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City announced on Nov. 30 that Karen Azenberg, the busy New York City-based free-lance director and choreographer, will make the move to Utah in 2012 to …
Eric McCormack, the Emmy Award winner of TV's "Will & Grace," will return to Broadway as presidential contender Joseph Cantwell in the cast of the 2012 Broadway revival of …
Three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella wraps up his run as corrupt international financier Gregor Antonescu in Man and Boy Nov. 27 at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre. Tere…
Some Lovers, a new pop musical-theatre take on O. Henry's holiday-themed "The Gift of the Magi," with songs by music legend Burt Bacharach and Tony Award-winning lyricist Steve…
The Arena Stage production of Amy Freed's comedy You, Nero, directed by Nicholas Martin and featuring some members of the original West Coast production of the romp about making plays in…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's new Washington, DC, production of Much Ado About Nothing, featuring Kathryn Meisle as Beatrice and Derek Smith as Benedick, under the direction of Ethan…
Sutton Foster, fresh from shooting a TV pilot, returns to her Tony Award-winning production of Anything Goes, in her Tony-winning Best Actress turn as Reno Sweeney, Nov. 25 at the Stephen So…
On the occasion of the publication of "Look, I Made a Hat," his second volume of collected and annotated lyrics, Stephen Sondheim talked to Playbill.com about everything from cast-…
The Heiress, the durable play about a plain spinster, a gold-digger suitor, a blunt father and a family home with a good view of Washington Square, is being readied for another Broadway prod…
The Jack Cole Project, a new musical entertainment about the father of theatrical jazz dance, is being developed and will be presented in 2012 at Queens Theatre in the Park. The work is crea…
Finding Neverland, the American musical about the family that inspired J.M. Barrie to write his "Peter Pan" stories, will resurface in a London reading in December.
