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A cast recording of the 2012 Off-Broadway production of the musical Dogfight — featuring a pop-rock score by rising theatre songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul — will be relea…
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) revealed four of its seven 2013-14 season titles, including a new production of the musical 1776, directed by Tony Award winner Frank Galati, and B.D. …
The Brits Off Broadway festival, offering an eclectic collection of the U.K. theatre in New York City, will return March 27-June 30 for its ninth season. Titles were announced on Feb. 18 by …
Playwright A. Zell Williams is the recipient of Philadelphia Theatre Company's Terrence McNally New Play Award for the research and development of his play, The Urban Retreat, PTC announ…
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater will present the world premiere of Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar, starring Michael Urie as a struggling Los Angeles actor working for a superstar, s…
Ann, actress-writer Holland Taylor's biographical play about late Texas Governor Ann Richards, begins Broadway previews Feb. 18 prior to opening March 7 at Lincoln Center Theater's V…
The Jerome Robbins Foundation will fete dancer-actress Chita Rivera, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director-producer Harold Prince — who worked with Robbins on West Side Story…
James Barbour and Jenny Powers star in Irish Repertory Theatre's new production of Donnybrook!, the Johnny Burke-scored 1961 Broadway musical about the code of masculinity in Ireland, op…
Laoisa Sexton's For Love, about the sexual adventures of three women in modern-day central Dublin, will begin performances March 13 as part of the Irish Repertory Theatre's season in…
The board of the Foursquare Foundation — the charitable arm of The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, founded by evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson — has been "re…
One Night with Janis Joplin, a popular attraction at Arena Stage in fall 2012, will return for a summer 2013 engagement, June 21-Aug. 11. Mary Bridget Davies, a 2013 Helen Hayes Award nomine…
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…
Tanya Barfield's foreign-adoption drama The Call, a world-premiere co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages, will feature Kelly AuCoin, Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler, O…
Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Story, the biographical musical about the stylish actress and singer, is aiming for Broadway this fall, according to participants in the project. No official a…
Director Scott Schwartz's ensemble cast for the Philadelphia resident premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar will feature Rufus Collins as salty editor and literary lion Leonard, plus …
Brighid Fleming, Adam Haas Hunter, Robert Joy, Dakin Matthews and Jeanne Syquia will star in Jennifer Haley's The Nether, about the addictive world of virtual reality, getting its world …
The affenpinscher Banana Joe, the "Best in Show" winner of the 2013 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Feb. 12, will make a cameo appearance in the Feb. 13 evening performance of …
Old Jews Telling Jokes, the Off-Broadway evening of comedy whose title says it all, will get an offshoot Chicago production this fall. Marc Bruni will again direct the revue by Peter Gethers…
Ramin Karimloo, star of London's The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies, will play Jean Valjean in the new Canadian-cast company of the 25th-anniversary edition of Les Misér…
Manhattan Theatre Club will give voice to dramatists Ayad Akhtar, Greg Pierce, Jonathan Caren, Ethan Lipton, Ben Ockrent, Janine Nabers, Sharon Kenny and Rachel Bonds in its spring Ernst C. …
The Lake Effect, a new drama of family secrets by 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, will get its world premiere by Silk Road Rising in Chicago April 23-May 26. Joseph's Bengal T…
Old Hats is the name of the new work by clowning Tony Award winners Bill Irwin and David Shiner, who appear in the show's world premiere by Signature Theatre Company starting Feb. 12, fo…
The troupers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of the best-reviewed musicals of the 2012-13 Broadway season, and now extended to March 10, welcome Andrew Samonsky and Erin Davie into the fo…
The Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the family drama starring the previously reported Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, began rehearsals Feb. 11. Jona…
La Jolla Playhouse will present the world premiere of The Tallest Tree, a new play with music about the performer and civil rights icon Paul Robeson, written and performed by Daniel Beaty, d…
