ArtsBeat: Playwright Challenges Racial Casting Practices
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris has called for a boycott in Germany of theater productions in which white actors are cast in roles explicitly written for black performers.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris has called for a boycott in Germany of theater productions in which white actors are cast in roles explicitly written for black performers.
A film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical is in the works.
The Civilians theater company will assemble an evening of performance material inspired by more than 150 interviews with activists associated with the Occupy movement.
59E59 Theaters has announced that it will present the New York premiere of a revival of Stephen Schwartz's musical "Working" beginning Dec. 1 as part of its fall season.
The Cygnus Ensemble has announced that it will perform new musical compositions based on the works of Samuel Beckett, to be paired with three of his one-act plays in a new production.
A play by the actor Jesse Eisenberg is one of five world premieres that will highlight the 2012-13 season for the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
The total number of viewers dropped and the broadcast had its lowest rating ever in the 18-to-49-year-old group coveted by advertisers.
The actors are set to return to the stage this fall for the Broadway premiere of Craig Wright's "Grace."
The Brooklyn Academy of Music festival starts in September and continues until mid-January. It will provide an opportunity for BAM to showcase its new 250-seat black-box theater.
The Headlong Theater Company in London has announced that the world premiere of the musical adaptation of "American Psycho" will be part of its 2012-13 season.
Burlesque acts will play in 440-seat facility, which in previous summers had been housed at South Street Seaport.
Tracy Letts, Johanna Day, Glenn Fitzgerald and Parker Posey will portray suburban couples who share the same last name in "The Realistic Joneses," a new play written by Will Eno.
Inspired by the Web site "Old Jews Telling Jokes," Dan Okrent and Peter Gethers have created a stage production.
Jennifer Haley has been named the 34th winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play "The Nether."
Shirley Knight will star in the coming production of "In Masks Outrageous and Austere," the final full-length play written by Tennessee Williams.
A commitment to Shakespeare in the Park will keep Lily Rabe from starring in "An Early History of Fire" for the New Group.
On Monday, after close to 200 performances, the monologuist Mike Daisey was to release a theatrical transcript of his latest one-man show, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," through …
The Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass., has announced its 2012 season, including a new play from Mark St. Germain titled "Dr. Ruth, All the Way." The production, which will have i…
The show features music from the composer Frank Wildhorn, who has struggled with a string of flops, including two short-lived 2011 productions, "Bonnie & Clyde" and "Wonderland."
Ms. Garofalo, well-known for her comedic roles in television and film, will have a chance to show her dramatic chops on the stage for the first time.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, himself a Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist, is set to play the role of Charley Kringas in the upcoming Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll …
Michael Boyd will step down as artistic director at The Royal Shakespeare Company.
The permutations of "Porgy and Bess" and how African-Americans are depicted in theater has also been on the mind of the playwright Leah Maddrie.
Starting with the last page of its very first issue, "Ex Machina" boldly announced its willingness to go beyond your typical funny book fare.