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In the first installment of Playbill's new series focusing on women in theatre, Tony Award-winning director Pam MacKinnon shares how a 10-year relationship with Edward Albee led …
Betty Buckley, Barbara Cook and Rex Smith will be honored by the Shubert Theatre at their 100th anniversary gala March 21 in New Haven, CT.
The famed NYC nightclub Café Carlyle will feature Tony Award winners Alan Cumming and Lena Hall during its spring 2015 season.
Lena Hall, who won a Tony Award for her performance as Yitzhak in the Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, will play her final performance in the award-winning rock musical …
"The Cosby Show" star and Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad will star in the pilot of the CBS drama "For Justice," according to Variety.com.
The Broadway production of Constellations, a love story about a beekeeper and a physicist that features Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and two-time Olivier Award (and rec…
Classic Stage Company has announced complete casting for its upcoming production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Seven new works will be featured in the 18th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, a showcase of new works held in California's South Coast Repertory theatre.
The Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere of Posterity, a new play by Tony Award winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife, Grey Gardens), begins previews Feb. 25.
John Cameron Mitchell, the co-creator and original star of the Off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, had no intention of returning to the heels and wig of the charact…
The world-premiere production of Lives of the Saints, a collection of short plays by David Ives (Venus in Fur, All in the Timing), officially opens Off-Broadway Feb. 24 following pre…
A production of Show Boat, the landmark musical that addresses romantic and racial relations on a Mississippi River show boat following the Civil War that had been slated for presentation by…
Joely Richardson, who recently starred as Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, will be featured in a film about another historic figure, according to Deadline.com.
Keke Palmer, who made history with her Main Stem debut as the first African-American woman to play Cinderella on Broadway, has teamed up with the the anti-bullying and girl-empow…
The first Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, following the life of feminist art historian Heidi Holland, has ann…
The annual TEDxBroadway conference, bringing together innovative minds and industry experts to help shape the future of Broadway, is held Feb. 23 at New World Stages, beginning at 11 AM.
Cat, a one-man show about a former member of the Cats cast who was fired opening night, begins performances at the Courtyard Theatre in Northern Ireland Feb. 23 following its sold-ou…
The first Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, following the life of feminist art historian Heidi Holland, begins …
The starry revival of A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama starring Glenn Close and John Lithgow, plays its final performance Feb. 22 at the John Go…
After two stints bringing murderous men to life on Broadway, Bryce Pinkham lays down the weapons to play Peter Patrone in The Heidi Chronicles alongside Elisabeth Moss and Jason Biggs.
Final casting has been announced for the Goodman Theatre's 2015-16 season.
Final casting has been announced for the Goodman Theatre's 2014-15 season.
The world premiere of The Guard, a new comedy-drama featured as part of the 2015 Women’s Voices Theater Festival, will be presented as part of The Ford's Theatre Society…
The world premiere of a new adaptation of The Nutcracker will be presented at Chicago's Joffrey Ballet.
Abundance, Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley's tall tale set in the Great American West, begins performances Feb. 17 Off-Broadway at The Actors Company Theatre.