The leadership of Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company announced on Nov. 1 that Edward Albee's 1977 play The Lady From Dubuque will be produced in 2012 in a new production featur…
Jan Maxwell returns to the Marquis Theatre and the acclaimed new Broadway production of Follies Nov. 1 after being struck by traffic following the Oct. 29 matinee.
Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne, who played painter's assistant Ken in Broadway's Red and was featured in the film "My Week With Marilyn," will play lovestruck student Mar…
Tony Award winner James Earl Jones will be in good company for the spring 2012 revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man. The play about a U.S. presidential race will also star Emmy Award win…
The 2011 Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan launches Nov. 1 with the first performances of the solo-actor shows Shadow Boxing and The Maddening Rain, both in repertor…
The Pasadena Playhouse's new production of Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky begins Nov. 1, featuring Robin Givens (of TV's "Head of the Class" and "The…
The world premiere of Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, shining a light on the conflicts in the life and work of the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, begins Nov. …
The West Coast company of Milk Like Sugar, Kirsten Greenidge's play about a "pregnancy pact" between a group of inner-city teens, reunited Oct. 13 for the first preview of the …
Josh Gad, the Tony Award-nominated star of The Book of Mormon, has been out of the smash Broadway show since Oct. 27, when he reportedly sustained an injury and was replaced by an understudy.
Producers Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo are shooting for their production of Eric Simonson's basketball play, Magic/Bird, to have a March 21, 2012, Broadway opening following a Feb. 27 f…
A candid chat with Hugh Jackman about his Back on Broadway concert, plus cell phones, ticket prices, shirtlessness, show tunes, The Boy From Oz and more.
In the age of "Glee," has the time come, at last, for a commercial New York life for bare, the rock musical about repressed teens in a Catholic high school? Producers are hoping so…
The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan opens its new production of Irish playwright Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa — considered by many to be his masterpiece for it…
The Tony Award-honored Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, offers a concert presentation of the early Stephen Sondheim musical Saturday Night in four performances Oct. 29-30.
The Old Globe in San Diego, CA, has confirmed casting for its Jan. 14-Feb. 12, 2012, production of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate, which reunites members of the Broadway cast, includ…
Composer-lyricist Jeff Blumenkrantz was named recipient of the seventh annual Fred Ebb Award, an honor for rising musical theatre songwriters. The award includes $50,000, one of the largest …
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's new Washington, DC, production of Much Ado About Nothing will feature Tony Award nominees Veanne Cox as Beatrice and Derek Smith as Benedick, under the …
Will Frears will direct Jenni Barber, Jason Danieley, Michelle Duffy and Andrew Mueller in composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist-librettist Steven Sater's new musical Some Lovers at the O…
Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy about an Ohio businessman selling his goods in China — where there is mutual misunderstanding of language and busines…
The TACT/The Actors Company Theatre revival of A.R. Gurney's Children, an early work from the author of Love Letters and The Dining Room, opens Off-Broadway Oct. 27 following previews fr…
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, played by …
Pop star Lance Bass, Beverley Mitchell, Jamie Kennedy and Matt Seifnia are putting their heads and wallets together to produce a Broadway play, according to a casting notice. They hope…
Roundabout Theatre Company has given playwright Stephen Karam a second commission following his first commission, Sons of the Prophet, which is currently enjoying an acclaimed run Off-Broadw…
Atlantic Theater Company announced the ensemble cast for the world premiere of Happy Hour, a collection of three one-act comedies by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, premiering Off-Broadway …
Van Hughes, the standby for the trio of broken buddy roles in Broadway's American Idiot, will play Johnny — also known as Jesus of Suburbia — in the national tour of the Gree…