Brooklyn playwright Amy Herzog, whose 4000 Miles and After the Revolution draw on the history of her Marxist grandparents, received the 2011 Whiting Writers' Award at an Oct. 25 evening …
In the age of "Glee," maybe the time has come, at last, for a commercial New York life for bare, the rock musical about repressed teens in a Catholic high school. A private industr…
Mel Sagrado Maghuyop, who played the Engineer in Walnut Street Theatre's Miss Saigon, returns to the Philadelphia venue to star as the King of Siam opposite Broadway's Rachel York as…
Broadway theatre couple Marc Kudisch and Shannon Lewis were married in an intimate wedding in the presence of family and a few close friends the evening of Oct. 24 in Key West, FL.
The Black Theater Alliance Awards, honoring African Americans who achieve excellence in theatre, dance or other areas of the performing arts in the Chicagoland area, were presented Oct. 24 a…
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2011 production of Twelfth Night, directed by artistic director Des McAnuff, will be filmed for screenings at Cineplex and participating theatres acr…
Broadway theatre couple Marc Kudisch and Shannon Lewis are getting married in an intimate wedding in the presence of family and a few close friends the evening of Oct. 24 in Key West, FL.
Petula Clark, the Grammy Award-winning singer-actress with one foot in pop and one in musicals, will perform in an intimate nightclub setting — Feinstein's at Loews Regency in Manh…
The complete cast of Signature Theatre's new Arlington, VA, production of Hairspray — starring previously reported national radio host Robert Aubry Davis, of WETA's "Aroun…
Sue Mathys, the Swiss-born singer popular in German-speaking Europe for her taste for show music and the American songbook, begins a four-show Manhattan engagement Oct. 24 at the Metropolita…
Cast members from the 25th anniversary touring production of Les Misérables, now playing the Kennedy Center, present a one-night-only benefit concert, Signature Songs: An Evening of B…
The fall releases from Masterworks Broadway, drawing from a deep vault of recordings held by Sony, include Oct. 24 reissues of a studio recording of Babes in Arms and the 1985 Follies in Con…
The musical A Christmas Memory, based on the story by Truman Capote and developing quietly in regional theatres, will be seen in a special 45-minute presentation in New York City on Oct. 26.
Sandi Patty has sold 11 million albums (give or take a few) of gospel music. Her love of show tunes has finally surfaced, on a new disc called "Broadway Stories."
Tony Award-honored playwright, performer and activist Eve Ensler announced on Oct. 21 that she will team with Berkeley Repertory Theatre to present the world premiere of her new play Emotion…
A new North American tour of Fiddler on the Roof, featuring John Preece as Tevye the milkman, launches Oct. 21-27 at Atwood Concert Hall in Anchorage, AK. Engagements in American and Canadia…
Rehearsals are underway in New York City for a month-long workshop of the new musical Yank!, about gay military personnel during World War II, under the direction of David Cromer, the MacArt…
Reed Birney (Circle Mirror Transformation, A Small Fire, Blasted) and Rob Campbell (Broadway's Translations, Ivanov) will read Larry Kirwin's Rebel in the Soul 3 PM Oct. 21 as part o…
'S Wonderful, the new singing and dancing touring revue of the songs of George and Ira Gershwin, makes a stop in New York City at Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadow Corona Park Nov. 3-13.…
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…
Patti Cohenour is Mother Abbess, Larry Adams is Captain von Trapp and Jennifer Blood is Maria in Drury Lane Theatre's new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, …
Roundabout Theatre Company's New York City premiere of Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, a play about a tragedy-plagued family, opens Oct. 20 following previews from Sept. 28 at t…
The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan launches its new production of Irish playwright Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa — considered by many to be his masterpiece for…
Christian-pop singer Sandi Patty, known for her soulful belting soprano in gospel and pops concerts, will play Dolly Levi in a semi-staged concert version of Hello, Dolly! with the Indianapo…
Vineyard Theatre announced a second extension for its world-premiere production of Nicky Silver's play The Lyons, now to Nov. 20.