NEW YORK—The upcoming season at the Signature Theatre will be a fertile one—with new works by David Henry Hwang, Will Eno, Martha Clarke and the much-anticipated world premiere o…
NEW YORK—The Juilliard School in New York City has received a $10 million gift that will endow its new four-year graduate program in drama.
The three actors entrusted with introducing local audiences t o the work of the much-heralded young playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney sit in the back room of the converted church that is home…
Call it a glimpse into the chipper dystopian. After all, there are danceable beats, bubble-gum and neon hues and scads of youthful quirks in the Catamounts' production of the futurist ta…
A spunky little mouse learns some important life lessons in the Denver Children's Theatre production of "Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse."
Meredith Monk has been creating complex, beautiful, challenging work for more than five decades as a composer, theater director, performer, filmmaker.
NEW YORK—Elizabeth Olsen will soon be a star-crossed lover—she'll star in an off-Broadway version of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet.
NEW YORK—A late winter blizzard was recently clobbering New York but Catherine Russell watched the flakes fall without a worry.
NEW YORK—Actress Amanda Peet is hoping to make her professional debut as a playwright next season with a drama that may attract Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker.
PARIS—Jerome Savary, a director who broadened the appeal of theater to French audiences and helped popularize musicals, has died at age 70.
NEW YORK—A musical based on Jonathan Lethem's celebrated 2003 novel "The Fortress of Solitude" is heading toward New York.
Although lauded for its benefits to the University of Colorado and the Boulder community as a whole, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's poor financial performance has stirred unease among s…
The tricky challenge of making experimental theater is often one of precision. Idea-infused plays demand particularly agile work from their performers and directors.
Theater openings Longmont Theatre Company's "4 a.m., the Musical" Friday only): This is only the second production in the country of a new musical that explores what it's like to be awake w…
NEW YORK—Idina Menzel, who won a Tony Award as the green witch in "Wicked," is planning a return to Broadway.
HARTFORD, Conn.—The Broadway group that put on a benefit for victims of the Newtown school shooting is trying to raise more money for the town through an online auction.
As promised, Denver Center Attractions has announced dates for the return engagement of the record-breaking, wise-cracking musical. Subscribers to the Denver Center Attractions 2013-2014 sea…
This is the note security consultant Frank W. Abagnale sends out to banks before arriving to share his peculiar wisdom about fraud, identity theft and other pesky issues and cons that bede…
NEW YORK—Shia LaBeouf is out. Ben Foster is in. A day after LaBeouf stepped away from the play that would have marked his Broadway debut, he was replaced by Foster.
NEW YORK—The band that gave us "Good Lovin,'" "People Got To Be Free" and "I've Been Lonely Too Long" are grooving their way to Broadway.
NEW YORK—Someone is dreaming the dream: "Les Miserables" is coming back to Broadway. Producer Cameron Mackintosh said Tuesday that the national tour of the epic musical about life …
NEW YORK—They were hooked: The moment singer-songwriter Jim James and his bandmates from My Morning Jacket first wandered into the immersive, genre-bending show "Sleep No More," there …