Striking 12, the holiday-set concept-concert musical by members of the pop trio GrooveLily and librettist Rachel Sheinkin, will return to New York City for a Dec. 26-31 engagement at the Met…
The cast of Off-Broadway's Rent has cooked up a benefit called 2011 Rent Holiday Christmas Pageant Extravaganza Spectacular, to play Dec. 5 at 11 PM at the show's home at New World S…
"Look, I Made a Hat," the second volume of the collected and annotated lyrics of groundbreaking theatre songwriter Stephen Sondheim, gathered by the master himself, is officially i…
Gatz, the acclaimed six-and-a-half-hour theatrical event by Elevator Repair Service, which boldly puts the entire text of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in an unexpec…
Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin will test his new concept concert, Let Go, in February 2012 at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center in Aventura, FL, near Miami.
Signature Theatre's new Arlington, VA, production of Hairspray — starring national radio host Robert Aubry Davis, of WETA's "Around Town" and Sirius/XM Radio, as Edna…
Rocky, the musical version of the Oscar-winning boxing movie, will get its world premiere at the Operettenhaus in Hamburg, Germany, in November 2012, producers Stage Entertainment, Sylvester…
John Neville, the respected British-born actor and director who was artistic director of Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival 1985-89, died in Toronto on Nov. 19, surrounded by family…
Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's new play about the creative and personal tensions of four young novelists who are taking a private writing class with a potentially damaging teacher, opens on B…
The current Broadway world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar coincides with her leading the writing staff of the new TV series "Smash." The prolific playwright gives …
The New York City premiere of Jordan Harrison's Maple & Vine, about a community of modern Americans choosing to revert to a simpler 1950s lifestyle, begins Nov. 19 in an Off-Broadway…
The producers of the limited engagement of Noel Coward's Private Lives woke up to news that they wanted to read on the morning of Nov. 18: The New York Times embraced the revival starrin…
The February 2012 City Center Encores! concert staging of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical Merrily We Roll Along will not reflect the 1981 version of the script and score that…
Luke Macfarlane, star of the TV series "Brothers & Sisters" and Broadway's recent Tony Award-winning production of The Normal Heart, plays the title role in the world premi…
One great American resident theatre welcomes the work of another starting Nov. 18 when Arena Stage hosts the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of Bill Cain's Equivocation, fea…
Kathleen Turner will reprise her Broadway turn as a tough-talking nun who counsels a young drug addict in a Ft. Lauderdale, FL, engagement of the national tour of the three-character play Hi…
Lee Pockriss, the theatre and pop composer whose musicals include Broadway's Tovarich and Off-Broadway's Ernest in Love, both with lyricist Anne Croswell, died Nov. 14 at his home in…
Recipients of the 39th Annual Vivian Robinson/Audelco Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre, for work in New York City, were announced Nov. 14 at a ceremony in Harlem.
Noel Coward's 1930 comedy Private Lives, featuring that other famous balcony scene of the theatre, opens on Broadway Nov. 17 following previews from Nov. 6. Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross s…
The first episode of "Hustling," the new web series created by and starring Sebastian LaCause, the actor-dancer who played the vascular Rocky in the 2000 Broadway production of The…
The infectious pop tunes and sensitive story songs of Academy Award-winning composer David Shire — also known for his scores to the musicals Big, Baby and Closer Than Ever — find…
Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company unveils the world premiere of Happy Hour, a collection of three one-act comedies by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, Nov. 16 at the Peter Norton S…
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…
The new Disney stage musical Newsies, which recently had a critically acclaimed world premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, will get a limited Broadway engagement March 15-June 10,…
Broadway producer Thomas Viertel told the New York Times on Nov. 15 that he and his partners are aiming to put the gospel-infused musical comedy Leap of Faith on Broadway in fall 2012.