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Ben Vereen, the man who sang "Magic to Do" as the Leading Player of Bob Fosse and Stephen Schwartz's musical Pippin, has more magic up his sleeve, after all these years.
Kristen French makes her New York City cabaret debut Feb. 20-21 at Don't Tell Mama with a Cole Porter evening called All Right With Me, directed by Amy Coady, with musical direction by Geral…
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…
On Jan. 25, while many Americans were watching President Obama’s State of the Union address, a large audience at Alice Tully Hall was hearing the political views of Knickerbocker Holid…
Leaders of Surflight Theatre, the Beach Haven, NJ, theatre with 60 years of Jersey shore theatre under its belt, announced on Feb. 15 that they have filed for protection under Chapter 11 of …
Puma, the new play about the love affair between actress Marlene Dietrich and writer Erich Maria Remarque, with Hollywood's Golden Age as the backdrop, gets its world premiere by New Jersey …
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat begins a world-premiere engagement March 11 as part of the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville in Ken…
Classic Stage Company's acclaimed new production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Josh Hamilton, Jessica Hecht, Marin Ireland, Juliet Rylance and Peter Sarsgaard,…
Tony Award winner Harriet Harris (Thoroughly Modern Millie) and Geffen Playhouse alumna Mia Barron (Farragut North) join Drama Desk Award nominee Saidah Arrika Ekoluna (Ruined) and actor/act…
Mary Beth Fisher, Keith Kupferer, Beth Lacke and David Pasquesi begin their bickering in Chicago on March 5 as the badly behaved parents of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, at the Goodman Thea…
The Whipping Man, Matthew Lopez's historical drama about a Confederate Jewish solider returning home to his former slaves, who are also Jewish, earned encouraging reviews following its Feb. …
The Tony Award-winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater will present two musicals -- including a world-premiere show by the writers of Broadway's The Story of My Life -- at its home on Navy Pier …
The world premiere of Lookingglass Theatre's Ethan Frome, Laura Eason's adaptation of the New England-set Edith Wharton novel, opens March 5 following previews from Feb. 23 in Chicago.
The Paramount Theatre, an 1,800-seat touring house in suburban Chicago, will expand its mission in 2011 to become a producing theatre, offering a four-show subscription series of Broadway mu…
The new Old Globe Theatre production of Groundswell, Ian Bruce's psychological drama set in South Africa, will feature Antony Hagopian, Mfundo Morrison and Ned Schmidtke.
An eight-week Chicago run of White Noise, the new rock musical about a pop sister act that performs White Supremacy-laced songs, will be co-produced by Whoopi Goldberg and directed and chore…
Green Day fans around the country who cannot get to New York City won't have to ask, "Are we the waiting?," starting this fall. American Idiot, the Green Day-scored Broadway musical fantasia…
Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, will offer an eclectic array of theatre and dance this June. The 2011 festival's theatre and dance program was announced on Jan. 17.
The Tony Award-winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater will open its 2011-12 season this fall with Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's musical Follies, directed by Gary Griffin.
One of the great voices of the American musical theatre is meeting one of the great voices of the American musical theatre at Feinstein’s at the Loews Regency through March 12. Kate Ba…
The 29th season of the New York Pops will welcome a handful of theatre artists, including Hugh Panaro, Cheyenne Jackson and Ashley Brown, and will celebrate the work of Irving Berlin and Geo…
Second Stage Theatre artistic director Carole Rothman announced Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents and Anna Kerrigan's The Talls as the two world-premiere plays in the company's nint…
The producers of Broadway's American Idiot confirmed the expected on Feb. 23: The rock musical based on Green Day's Grammy Award-winning album will be launched on a national tour this fall. …
The cast of Broadway's extended production of The Importance of Being Earnest will welcome Brian Murray, Jayne Houdyshell and Jessie Austrian to the American Airlines Theatre on March 22.
Moscow is far out of reach -- again -- in a new Off-Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, opening Feb. 3 following previews from Jan. 12. The Classic Stage Company's staging …
