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Tonya Pinkins and Christopher Jackson will also be in the cast of the show, based on the music of Tupac Shakur.
Mr. McCallum's background includes a good deal of Shakespeare. He'll take up his new position immediately.
Eight composers were chosen to receive grants in a new program to encourage more operas by women.
The producers of a Mexico City production of Eve Ensler's play will bring it to the Westside Theater in Manhattan, where the original ran for 1,381 performances.
Ms. Nabers's play "Serial Black Face" won the award, for an unpublished work, and will receive a reading and a $10,000 prize.
Norm Lewis will take over as the Phantom and Sierra Boggess as Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera."
"Zurich Meets New York: A Festival of Swiss Ingenuity" will take place in May at various sites in Manhattan.
The musical revue "A Night With Janis Joplin," with Mary Bridget Davies, will reopen at the Gramercy Theater in April.
"The Country House," a comedy by Mr. Margulies, will be followed by Mr. Auburn's "Lost Lake" and a new work by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig.
The ballet, which canceled an American performance in 2012, will bring Adolphe Adam's "Giselle" and three other programs to the David H. Koch Theater in November.
The festival, in April, will honor the work of the lawyer-turned-playwright and performance artist, who died in 2012.
"Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!" is to begin previews at the Davenport on March 17.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Stephen Ward," which opened in December, is to close in March.
Dominique Morisseau's "Detroit '67," which had its premiere in March 2013, has won the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. Columbia University and Jean Kennedy Sm…
Mr. Catazaro joined the corps de ballet at New York City Ballet in 2008.
This summer's season will begin with Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater in "Much Ado About Nothing," and John Lithgow will play the title role in "King Lear."
A theater company in Washington D.C. plans to present a rescored version of Stephen Sondheim's musical.
A musical about a young man who goes to Uganda has won the 2014 Richard Rodgers Production Award for Musical Theater.
A 15-show run will more than double the number of performances the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater gave at the theater last year.
Ms. Fleming's class, on Feb. 13, will also be streamed online.
The production, being adapted by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale and Jamie Lloyd, will include new music as well as songs from the 1985 film.
An opera about the jazz musician Charlie Parker has been commissioned by Opera Philadelphia.
Nearly four dozen theaters will work together to produce the Women's Voices Theater Festival, showcasing contemporary female playwrights.
Edward Gardner will leave after the 2014-15 season to become chief conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic. Mark Wigglesworth will take his place.
The soprano Renée Fleming will be the first opera superstar to sing the anthem at the Super Bowl.
