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Michael Learned, who won three Emmy Awards for playing the soft-spoken wife Olivia Walton on the hit TV show "The Waltons," will assume the role of a more outspoken woman when …
Stephen Trask, who wrote the music and lyrics for Hedwig and the Angry Inch, tweeted photos of John Cameron Mitchell in rehearsal for the Broadway production.
Emmy Award nominee T.R. Knight, best known for his role on TV's "Grey's Anatomy," returns to the New York stage in Pocatello, a new work by prolific playwright Samuel D. Hu…
The New York premiere of Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy), the comic oratorio based on Monty Python's "Life of Brian," kicks off The Collegiate Chorale's 2014&…
The world-premiere production of Airline Highway, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D'Amour, officially opens at Steppenwolf Theatre Company Dec. 14 following previews that …
The Gospel According to Matt: Confessions of a Teenage Dirtbag, the sequel to the award-winning Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, is presented in staged readings in North…
Casting has been announced for the world-premiere production of Anton Dudley's City Of, a story of four Americans in Paris, that will be seen Off-Broadway in 2015.
London's Tricycle Theatre has announced the complete lineup for its 2015 season.
Continuing its 20th Anniversary Season of Sondheim, Porchlight Music Theatre will present the Chicago premiere of Sondheim on Sondheim, the musical exploration of the life and work of the aw…
The Lion, Benjamin Scheuer's autobiographical coming-of-age musical that played MTC Stage II at City Center this past summer, will play an Off-Broadway engagement at the Lynn…
The nominations for the Clive Barnes Awards, which honor excellence in theatre and dance, have been announced.
The Irish Repertory Theatre has announced complete casting for its upcoming production of Hugh Leonard's classic memory play, Da.
In a new partnership with BY Experience, the Stratford Festival will launch an initiative to capture all of Shakespeare's plays in HD to cinemas throughout America and Canada.
We Must Breathe: A Response from Chicago Playwrights and Poets will be held at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater in response to current events and to engage locals in a conversa…
We Must Breathe: A Response from Chicago Playwrights and Poets will be held at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater in response to current events and to engage locals in a conversa…
Eric Idle, known for his silly and satirical sense of humor and work with the comedy group The Monty Pythons, chats with Playbill.com about the New York premiere of Not the Messiah (He's…
Jaime Castañeda has been appointed the associate artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse in California.
Award-winning actress Meryl Streep appeared on "The Late Show With David Letterman" Dec. 10.
The American premiere of Dying for It, a new play by Olivier Award winner Moira Buffini, adapted from Nikolai Erdman's The Suicide, begins performances at the Atlantic Theater Company De…
Shakespeare in the Square, a group of young professionals working to bring a new perspective to classic theatre, will present a new production of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Rom…
Rufus and Martha Wainwright will present the benefit concert Noël Nights, marking a return to their annual holiday tradition of celebrating the season through music.
Susan Blackwell, who starred in the Broadway musical [title of show], will offer two workshops on creativity and communication in January.
The in-the-round staging of Fiddler on the Roof has extended its run at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage.
The nominations for the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced Dec. 10 at the Pacific Design Center’s SilverScreen Theater in West Hollywood, CA.
Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles," which will pl…
