Playwright Joe Tracz talks about collaborating with composer Joe Iconis to bring the late Ned Vizzini's YA novel, "Be More Chill," to life as a musical.
Fresh from its Geva Theatre Center premiere, "The Road to Where," the folk-tinged musical memoir by actress-writer Cass Morgan, gets a "listen" in Manhattan prior to a run Weston Playhouse i…
Playwright Jeff Talbott talks about his new play, getting a reading in the 2015 NewTACTics Festival of New Plays by Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre.
Broadway's Robert Creighton talks about his passion for James Cagney and how it led him to co-write (and star in) a musical about the Hollywood icon.
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced winners and special awards for excellence at a ceremony held March 14 at the Colony Theatre in Burbank. The 42nd annual awards represent excell…
William Finn and James Lapine's new musical comedy Little Miss Sunshine, featuring Broadway's Hunter Foster, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Malcolm Gets and Tony Award winner Dick Latessa, begins …
Roundabout Theatre Company will produce a 29-hour reading of a new original musical called The Distant Bells, featuring Tony Award winner Chita Rivera, famed for West Side Story, Bye Bye Bir…
Kate Baldwin, the Best Actress Tony Award nominee for Finian's Rainbow, will blend a little contemporary pop into her repertoire for her Feb. 19 show in Lincoln Center's American Songbook se…
The musicals Dogfight and Gloryana are the recipients of the 2011 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater, the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced on Feb. 11.
Tulipomania, the musical about the real-life Netherlands tulip craze of the 1600s, developed in a 2009 workshop by Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company, is sprouting anew with a shift in per…
Dramatists Matthew Lopez, Alfred Uhry, Jonathan Caren, Kelly Younger, D.C. Jackson, Michael Elyanow, Steve Cosson and Michael Friedman will hear their new works read in Manhattan Theatre Clu…
Katharine McPhee, the one-time "American Idol" contestant, has joined the cast of the NBC pilot of "Smash," the proposed hour-long drama with songs about the making of a Broadway musical. Sh…
Roundabout Theatre Company lays out the gangplank March 10 for the first performance of a new Broadway production of Cole Porter's shipboard musical comedy, Anything Goes, at the Stephen Son…
The playwright of Shrek the Musical, Fuddy Meers and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole drew on his old neighborhood to write Broadway's Good People.
Looks like Sierra Boggess -- who plays the tragic soprano Christine of Love Never Dies, the London sequel to The Phantom of the Opera -- will face another terrifying musical genius this spri…
The new adaptation of the 1978 Broadway musical Working, inspired by Studs Terkel's best-selling collection of oral histories about vocations, opens in Chicago March 2 following previews fro…
Grey Gardens and 42nd Street Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will appear in the 7 PM Oct. 27 "Selected Shorts" evening called Fairy Tales: Classic and Reimagined hosted by Grego…
Annie Hendy's comedy The Catholic Girl's Guide to Losing Your Virginity, a popular title in several regional theatres, begins a run Feb. 2 at the Falcon Theatre, the Burbank, CA, company kno…
Composer John Kander had been working on songs and Broadway musicals with his lyricist Fred Ebb for more than 40 years when Ebb died in 2004, leaving a handful of unfinished musicals on thei…
Annie Golden, Steve Routman and Emily Walton will join the previously announced Peter Friedman and Kevin Cahoon for the new musical The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, an Off-Broadway co-pr…
English Theater of Vienna opens Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Feb. 2 in Austria. The English-language staging features six performers from the United States, under the direction …
Leaders of Centerstage, Baltimore's resident Equity theatre company, announced that they will welcome British playwright, director, actor, singer and broadcaster Kwame Kwei-Armah as the thea…
Kevin Anderson plays the modern-day prophet John Smith in the Los Angeles leg of the world premiere of Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon, opening Feb. 2 following previews from Jan. 25 at Geff…
Public Theater artistic director continues his commitment to new plays by staging Rinne Groff's Compulsion, about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
The Triangle Factory Fire Project, the 2004 Off-Broadway theatrical event that used public documents to tell the true story of an American workplace tragedy, gets a benefit concert reading o…