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Bad Jews, Joshua Elias Harmon's comedy about family and faith, will make its midwest premiere at Chicago's Theater Wit.
As part of its "Globe on Screen" season, the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre's Tony-nominated all-male production of Twelfth Night, featuring Mark Rylance and Stephen F…
James Cromwell, who played media mogul William Randolph Hearst in the TV movie "RKO 281," will take on another media mogul when he stars in the Sydney production of the play Rupert…
The cult favorite musical Ruthless! has returned to New York for a limited run to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Playbill.com attended a performance of the show-business sati…
Joe Calarco, who has helmed revivals of Gypsy, Side Show and Urinetown at the Signature Theatre, has been named the resident director/director of new works at the Washington, D.C.-based …
Brian d'Arcy James will star in "Spotlight," a new movie about the Boston priests scandal, Deadline.com reports.
The Fatal Weakness, George Kelly's comedy about romance, marriage and commitment, officially opens at the Mint Theater Company Sept. 15 following previews that began Aug. 19.
Tony winner Victoria Clark chats with Playbill.com about leaving the maternal roles behind her with the new film "Archaeology of a Woman."
Hereafter Musical, a new musical by Vinnie Favale and Frankie Keane exploring the afterlife, begins an open-ended run at Off-Broadway's Snapple Theater Center Sept 13.
Gallery Players begins its 2014-15 season with Next to Normal, the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical, opening Sept. 13.
The world premiere of Bright Star, the new American musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, begins at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre Sept. 13.
Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, the true story of British convicts exiled from their homeland, plays Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre beginning Sept. 13.
Free tickets to the world-premiere production of Found, the original musical inspired by found letters and notes, will be offered by a partnership of the Atlantic Theater Company and Tod…
In an effort to develop the opera audience by broadening access to the company's productions, the rush system for the Metropolitan Opera, which provides $25 tickets to performances, will…
The New Yorker Festival, a weekend-long series of events devoted to culture and politics, will present an evening with award-winning composer Stephen Sondheim Oct. 10 at 7 PM.
Northlight Theatre presents The Commons of Pensacola, a new play by Amanda Peet, with performances beginning Sept. 12 prior to an official opening Sept. 20.
INTAR Theatre kicks off its 2014 season Sept. 12 with Teach, Teacher, Teachest, a play inspired by Eugene Ionesco's The Lesson.
Northlight Theatre presents The Commons of Pensacola, a new play by Amanda Peet, with performances beginning Sept. 12 prior to an official opening Sept. 20.
The world-premiere production of Kingdom City, a comedy about religious oppression in a small town, officially opens Sept. 12 at La Jolla Playhouse following previews that began…
During its presentation of the play Dry Land, a Kilroys-recommended work by Ruby Rae Spiegel about female friendship and abortion, HERE Arts Center will also feature a festival of readin…
"High School Musical" star Vanessa Hudgens will star in the title role of the Broadway-bound production of Gigi, it was announced Sept. 10.
Complete casting has been announced for the Center Theatre Group engagement of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, which will begin previews …
"The Daughter," a new film inspired by Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, will feature Miranda Otto, Anna Torv and Sam Neill along with Geoffrey Rush and Ewen Leslie, according to T…
James Franco, the ubiquitous actor who was seen on Broadway in Of Mice and Men and who recently directed the Off-Broadway play The Long Shrift, is now starring in an online comedy series…
Janine Nabers, who won the 2014 Yale Drama Series Award for Serial Black Face, a new work inspired by events surrounding the Atlanta Child Murders, receives the honor Sept. 11 at 7 …
