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The producers of Rebecca are continuing to push their case that the show's former press rep scuttled the Broadway production last fall by scaring off an "angel investor." In a …
Murder Ballad, the new rock musical about a New Yorker pulled between her uptown present and her downtown past, is expected to have a commercial life this summer.
Director Scott Schwartz's Philadelphia resident premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar, featuring Rufus Collins as salty editor and literary lion Leonard, with Matt Harrington, Te…
Stephen Sondheim's score to Passion will gets its second American cast recording when PS Classics preserves the work of the current Off-Broadway Classic Stage Company production starring…
Ford's Theatre's revival of Hello, Dolly! — featuring Washington, DC actor Edward Gero as cantankerous Horace Vandergelder and Nancy Opel as Dolly — begins March 15,…
A week has been added to the run The Flick, Annie Baker's study of boredom, yearning and dysfunction in a crew of New England movie-house workers, now playing to April 7 at Off-Broadway&…
Classic Stage Company's acclaimed, jewelbox-size revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion will get four additional performances Off-Broadway.
Center Theatre Group's 2013-14 season at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles will feature the U.S. premiere of Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths in the London production of Neil Simon…
Totem, the new Cirque du Soleil show written and directed by visionary international director Robert Lepage, makes its New York City debut in a Big Top on the grounds of Citi Field — h…
Playbill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the dreamers behind Broadway musicals. Here's a look a…
The March 13 episode of the ABC sitcom "The Neighbors" — the series about an average human family moving into a New Jersey community populated by quirky aliens — includ…
The Korean theatrical impresario Chunsoo Shin is one of the lead producers behind a plan to bring the sci-fi musical Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots to Broadway, according to a report in the…
Signature Theatre, the Off-Broadway company known for focusing on one playwright-in-residence per season, as well as works by alumni writers and a unit of new playwrights, will produce an &q…
The fall 2012 Hartford Stage troupers of the new musical comedy A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder are reunited at The Old Globe in San Diego for the next leg of the praised sho…
The Fabulous Lipitones, a new musical comedy about a not-so-traditional barber shop quartet, will be one of three shows in Goodspeed Musicals' 2013 season at the Norma Terris Theatre, th…
Laoisa Sexton's For Love, about the sexual adventures of three women in modern-day central Dublin, begins performances March 13 as part of the Irish Repertory Theatre's season in its…
Mickey Sumner and Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Carol Kane star in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony nominee Craig Lucas' "comic thriller,"&n…
Neil LaBute's new play, The Money Shot, billed as "an old-fashioned comedy about real family values, L.A.-style," gets a private Manhattan reading on March 13. Terry Kinne…
Alex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten are featured in The Flick, Annie Baker's new Off-Broadway play that reunites her with director Sam Gold. Playwrights Hori…
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Central California filed on March 11 a ruling that the producers of Jersey Boys were entitled to use a seve…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's 2013-14 season will feature The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, Harry Groener as Cyrano de Bergerac and a simultaneous pairing of works by Stephen Sondheim…
The troupers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of the best-reviewed musicals of the 2012-13 Broadway season, pack their trunks after the March 10 matinee. Roundabout Theatre Company's e…
Megan Hilty, the Broadway and television actress-singer whose volcanic voice is one of the primary reasons to watch the NBC musical series "Smash," made her Carnegie Hall debut Mar…
Dana Delany, Steven Culp, Linda Gehringer, Rebecca Mozo and one actor to be announced will star in the South Coast Repertory world-premiere production of The Parisian Woman by Beau Willimon,…
Off-Broadway's not-for-profit Pearl Theatre Company, in the midst of a fundraising campaign, has rescheduled the spring world premiere of Terrence McNally's And Away We Go to this fa…