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Pub theaters remain a beloved part of the play-making tradition in England, especially London.
In the lineup: a play based on the Jayson Blair scandal.
"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" had its most profitable eight performances last week since beginning in February.
The rock opera will move to the La Jolla Playhouse in November, with an eye on Broadway.
A play by the Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black, called "8," consists mostly of verbatim dialogue and statements from the transcript of the trial over same-sex marriage in California.
Turning children into hands-on heroes of "The Crash of the Elysium" and giving some of them their first taste of theater are among the goals of the Punchdrunk theater troupe.
Fiasco Theater's highly inventive production of "Cymbeline," featuring six actors in 14 roles and an imaginative set that relied on just two crates, a sheet, and trunk serving many purposes,…
Andrew Lloyd Webber has long been a hands-on theater creator and producer, but lately, after a battle with cancer, he has been more content to let others interpret his work.
Mr. Lane will play one of the stage's great dramatic characters, the doomed salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman, in the Goodman Theater's revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Iceman Cometh" in sprin…
A federal judge decided that approvals given to St. Ann's Warehouse to occupy a site once designated parkland were granted in error.
A $16 million musical production of "Rebecca," based on the classic 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier, has been scaled down.
he playwrights Theresa Rebeck, David Marshall Grant, Jacquelyn Reingold, and others working on the upcoming NBC series "Smash" - about the making of a Broadway musical - will do research nex…
The play is scheduled to open in September at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
The National Theater in London is presenting Ibsen's "Emperor and Galilean," from 1873, that foreshadowed his more famous works.
Radar L.A., a Los Angeles festival featuring international theater troupes, was organized by the producer of the Under the Radar festival in New York and partners in Los Angeles.
The playwright Martin McDonagh and actors from the Druid Theater Company travel to Inishmaan, Ireland, to present "The Cripple of Inishmaan" there for the first time.
Patrick Healy reports on "SILENCE! The Musical" in this week's Arts & Leisure.
The Broadway revival of Larry Kramer's 1985 play "The Normal Heart" draws varied reactions from gay people too young to remember the era in which it is set.
The Wednesday night performance on Broadway was cancelled after a stagehand died from what the police said was a drug overdose he suffered backstage.
Angela Bassett will appear in Katori Hall's drama "The Mountaintop," about Dr. Martin Luther King on the night before his assassination.
Kristoffer Diaz won the honor for "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," his satire of television wrestling and the ethnic stereotypes and political imagery of that industry.
Harold Prince, who has won 21 Tony Awards for producing and directing some of the most well-known musicals of the 20th centurey, is planning a return to Broadway in the fall of 2012 with a s…
Julie Taylor, who was fired from "Spider-Man" in March, speaks out against theatrical focus groups and instant Web and twitter critics.
In her first public comments about "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" since the opening of the $70 million Broadway musical, Julie Taymor described the new show as "much simpler" than the versi…
Why has "The Book of Mormon" emerged as the hit musical of the year on Broadway, while another artistically ambitious show a few block away, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," has struggled?
