The New York City premiere of Rolin Jones' The Jammer — his 1950s-set play about roller derby — begins spinning Jan. 9 at Atlantic Theater Company's Atlantic Stage 2. Pat…
Seth Clayton and Brooke Ashley Laine will join the previously announced Edie Falco, Tony Award nominee John Ellison Conlee (Murder Ballad), Drama Desk Award winner Heidi Schreck (Circle Mirr…
Marsha Mason, Mary Steenburgen and Kristen Vangsness are among the women performing in a California staged reading of Ellen Simon's Aunt Stossie's Coming for Five Days as part of The…
James Barbour and Jenny Powers will star in Irish Repertory Theatre's new production of Donnybrook!, the Johnny Burke-scored 1961 Broadway musical about the code of masculinity in Irelan…
Marin Ireland, Chip Zien, Adam Rapp, Richard Kind, Brenda Wehle, Reg Rogers and more will join the previously announced Bobby Cannavale in Clifford Odets' drama of Hollywood secrets, The…
The first season of the Emmy Award-winning musical drama series "Smash" — created by Broadway's Theresa Rebeck, with songs by Tony Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wi…
"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, returns Jan. 7 following a summer 2012 season.
Casting has been announced for the American premiere of the Broadway-aimed musical Backbeat, about the birth of the Beatles, to begin Jan. 20 at the Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theat…
James Van Der Beek, best known for his starring roles on "Dawson's Creek" and "Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23," will star in the American premiere of Australia…
Ruy Iskander and Yuekun Wu are at the center of David Henry Hwang's The Dance and the Railroad, the play about Chinese workers forging the American Transcontinental Railroad, in a new Of…
Love Makes the World Go 'Round, a new musical created from the song catalog of Broadway composer-lyricist Bob Merrill, of Funny Girl, Carnival!, Take Me Along and Sugar fame, will get it…
Stephen Bogardus, Jeffry Denman, Will Reynolds and more will join the previously announced Melissa Errico, Judy Kuhn and Ryan Silverman for the new Off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondhei…
The once and future Broadway producers of Rebecca, The Musical have been granted an extension of the rights to stage the show in New York City, lead producer Ben Sprecher told Playbill.com o…
Walnut Street Theatre's 2013-14 mainstage season in Philadelphia will include new productions of the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, plus Arsenic and Old Lace, Other Desert Ci…
The 50th-anniversary production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which opened to critical raves Oct. 13, 2012, will get an additional month of performances, now pla…
Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company is extending the run of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson one final time, now to Jan. 20. It had previously been extended three times, to…
Sekou Laidlow will play Dr. King and Amirah Vann will play the mysterious Camae in Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, her play that imagines …
Irish Repertory Theatre's fall 2012 production of Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City — the 1974 play about political unrest in Ireland — begins a three…
The national tour of Flashdance — The Musical, the fairy tale of a lady steelworker who dreams of legit dance while moonlighting as an exotic dancer, begins Jan. 1 in Pittsburgh, where…
British producer Cameron Mackintosh, who shepherded the musical Les Misérables from its French album/arena roots to the London, Broadway and international stage, talks about the new m…
Triad Stage, the ambitious resident Equity theatre in downtown Greensboro, NC, is racing to meet a Dec. 31 fundraising goal that would complete a $250,000 campaign that began Dec. 6 and has …
No more window shopping. Tickets for the new Broadway play Breakfast at Tiffany's — about the New York City dreamer Holly Golightly, who loiters outside of jeweler Tiffany & Co…
Director Nicholas Martin's new staging of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion starring the previously announced Robert Sean Leonard as Prof. Henry Higgins will also star Charlotte Parry …
A multiracial, nontraditional cast will take on the timeless Thornton Wilder play Our Town, featuring actress Portia as The Stage Manager, in a new 75th-anniversary production of the Pulitze…
The world-premiere run of Amy Herzog's critically acclaimed drama The Great God Pan, about a Brooklyn journalist recovering memories of possible past sexual abuse, will get a second exte…