A performance of excerpts from a newly discovered, unfinished play by Thornton Wilder, set in Capri and titled Villa Rhabani, will be a highlight of the second International Thornton Wilder …
L.A.'s Kirk Douglas Theatre has announced that its 12th season will feature the West Coast premiere of Kansas City Choir Boy, the musical collaboration between Todd Almond (Iowa) and roc…
92Y continues its spring theatre events with a discussion with award-winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman June 4. Tony Vellela talks with her about her remarkable ca…
Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of Melissa Ross' Of Good Stock begins performances June 4, featuring Alicia Silverstone ("Clueless") and direction by artistic di…
Tony nominee Tony Yazbeck has been nominated for a 2015 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his role as Gabey in On the Town. Pla…
The Greenwich Village venue SubCulture will present the New York premiere of Surviving Twin, written and performed by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III. In…
Tony Award nominee Brian D'Arcy James received a 2015 Tony nomination for his performance as Nick Bottom in the new musical Something Rotten! Playbill.com looks back at his care…
Roundabout Theatre has cancelled the June 3 matinee preview performance of Significant Other, due to an ill cast member. Performances are scheduled to resume the evening of…
Tony winner Tonya Pinkins, recently seen in the racially charged workplace drama Rasheeda Speaking, will star in the title role of Classic Stage Company's upcoming Off-Broadway produ…
Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Heisenberg, a new play by Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time fame, officiall…
St. Ann's Warehouse has announced the line-up for its inaugural season in its new home on Brooklyn's waterfront. Included in the slate: three-time Tony winner Mark Rylance (T…
Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company was forced to delay its inaugural Master Storyteller Award presentation for Stephen Sondheim due to a power outage. While a storm raged, Sondheim and…
Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company was forced to delay its June 1 inaugural Master Storyteller Award presentation for Stephen Sondheim due to a power outage. While a storm raged, Sondh…
The New Group's world premiere of The Spoils — by Jesse Eisenberg of "Social Network" fame — officially opens June 2 following previews th…
Alan Cumming makes his Cafe Carlyle debut June 2 with the solo concert Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, featuring songs by a diverse range of artists including Billy Joel, S…
Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater will present a concert reading of the first act of The Prince of Egypt, a new stage adaptation of the animated 1998 film by Wicked composer and lyricist S…
Manhattan's Drama Book Shop will host a panel discussion on the life and career of late stage and screen legend Madeline Kahn June 11 moderated by author William V. Madison. The panel will b…
Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater has announced that its annual Ignition Festival of New Plays will feature Confessions of a P.I.M.P, a monologue play featuring song, dance and spoken wo…
Manhattan's Drama Book Shop will host a panel discussion on the life and career of late stage and screen legend Madeline Kahn June 11 moderated by author William V. Madison.
59E59 Theaters have announced the line-up for their 9th annual Summer Shorts festival, a series of short new plays by leading playwrights Neil LaBute (Reasons to be Pretty), Matthew Lope…
Broadway's Tony-winning, long-running revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Chicago welcomes the return of Latin-American star Marco Zunino in the rol…
Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre's 36th anniversary gala celebration, honoring Select Equity Group Foundation and Uganda Project co-founders Matt Gould and Griffin Matthew…
Following the recent casting announcements of Jennifer Hudson, Danielle Brooks and Cynthia Erivo in the upcoming Broadway production of The Color Purple, Playbill.…
The Vineyard Theatre stages the world premiere of Gloria by Branden Jacob-Jenkins, whose recent play An Octoroon garnered critical acclaim and two separate extended Off-Broadway runs…
A.C.T.'s Geary Theater will stage the American premiere of Call Me Miss Birds Eye: A Celebration of Ethel Merman, a musical revue that chronicles and celebrates the life of stage legend …