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Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, known for her show-stopping performances in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Anything Goes, makes her solo debut at Carnegie Hall with …
At first glance, it might seem difficult to hurt Patrick Page's feelings. The charismatic actor, known for embodying the villainous characters in both plays and musicals, shares why he d…
Broadway veterans Kendra Kassebaum (Wicked, Leap of Faith) and Louis Hobson (Bonnie & Clyde, Next to Normal) appear in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well & Living in Paris, a mus…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is swinging bells at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse. But the most recent adaptation of a Disney animated film differs greatly from its 1996 big-screen …
Award-winning actress and singer Barbara Cook is featured in a one-night-only concert at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts March 10 in Beverly Hills, CA.
Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, as well as two works featured in the Women's Voices Theater Festival, will be a part of Arena Stage's 2015-16 season.
Ben Platt, formerly of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and the 2012 musical movie "Pitch Perfect," has joined the cast of the world premiere of Dear Evan Hansen, a new musical wi…
The Lilly Awards Foundation presents the inaugural (3) Plays from The Kilroys’ List: A Reading Series beginning March 9.
Peter Morgan's The Audience, which features Oscar winner Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in imagined meetings with each of her Prime Ministers, officially opens March 8 following prev…
Talk of the Tony Awards race heated up when it was announced that Something Rotten!, the new musical comedy packed with Broadway talent, would skip its out-of-town tryout and come st…
Broadway veterans Kendra Kassebaum (Wicked, Leap of Faith) and Louis Hobson (Bonnie & Clyde, Next to Normal) appear in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well & Living in Paris, a mus…
Leanne Cope had never planned on being a leading lady of musical theatre. But now she finds herself making her American stage debut in the Broadway production of An American in Paris. Good f…
Laura Linney and Seth Numrich star in Switzerland, a new play by Joanna Murray-Smith about famed crime novelist Patricia Highsmith, at California's Geffen Playhouse. Performances beg…
The world premiere of the political drama The Originalist, a new play by John Strand about Justice Antonin Scalia, begins performances at Arena Stage March 6.
Following its Off-Broadway run at the Lynn Redgrave Theater, The Lion, Benjamin Scheuer's autobiographical coming-of-age musical, will launch a national tour.
Award-winning director Julie Taymor, known for her bold theatrical style, has signed with William Morris Agency, Deadline.com reports.
Complete casting has been announced for the Inaugural (3) Plays from The Kilroys’ List: A Reading Series.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the new musical based on the Victor Hugo novel and animated Disney film, begins performances at the Paper Mill Playhouse March 4. Michael Arden, Patrick…
The 2014-15 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which honors female playwrights, was awarded March 2 to Tena Štivičić for her play 3 Winters.
The Tony-winning Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch will launch a national tour, Playbill.com has learned.
Rebecca Naomi Jones, currently starring in Big Love at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre, will join the Broadway cast of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, playing the role of Yitzhak, starti…
Audra McDonald, who recently won her sixth Tony Award for her performance in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, hosts the Martin E. Segal Awards, which are presented March 2 a…
The 2014-15 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which honors female playwrights, is given March 2 in New York City.
Fashions For Men, Ferenc Molnár's comedy of character, officially opens at at the Mint Theater Company March 1 following previews that began Feb. 3.
Abundance, Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley's tall tale set in the Great American West, officially opens Off-Broadway at The Actors Company Theatre March 1.