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Classic Stage Company has shifted its opening night of Ivanov again, now settling on Nov. 11, following schedule issues resulting from Hurricane Sandy and conflicts with other productions.
Veterans of director Des McAnuff's Canadian and Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar punctuate the rockin', other-worldly production of his new musical Yoshimi Battles the…
PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, will record and release a new album that pairs — and compares — the wit, sentiment and mel…
Five-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury plans to return to the New York stage in fall 2013 in a revival of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, wh…
The life and work of late Tony Award-winning librettist Mark O'Donnell, co-writer of Broadway's Hairspray, will be celebrated 3 PM Nov. 12 at Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatr…
The Old Globe's 15th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! in San Diego will star Steve Blanchard (Broadway's Beauty and the Beast) as the green villain…
The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's world-premiere staging of Mia Chung's You for Me for You, a fantasy about North Korean sisters facing the regime there, begins Nov. 5. The troupe…
The New York City premiere of Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale, the harrowing character study of the roots of dysfunction in the life of a morbidly-obese 600-pound man, ope…
Tim Kazurinsky and Marc Grapey are Felix and Oscar, respectively, in The Odd Couple at the Chicago area's Northlight Theatre, starting Nov. 2. Grapey is a last-minute replacement for Geo…
The ongoing (as of Nov. 2) power outage in downtown Manhattan, in many neighborhoods south of 34th Street, has prompted Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company to move the opening night of …
Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival will go back to an earlier brand name — just "Stratford Festival" — effective immediately and in anticipation of its 2013 se…
The sun'll come out tomorrow, insists the optimistic red-headed moppet in the musical Annie, and — for the Broadway theatre community — that day happens to be Nov. 1. Followi…
The sun'll come out tomorrow, insists the optimistic red-headed moppet in the musical Annie, and — for the Broadway theatre community — that day happens to be Nov. 1. Followi…
The new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress opens Nov. 1 following previews from Oct. 6 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Oscar nominee Jessica Chast…
Hurricane Sandy, downgraded to a tropical storm when it made landfall the evening of Monday, Oct. 29, has left a lasting mark on New York City this week. A blackout south of 38th Street in M…
The producers of the Broadway musical Nice Work If You Can Get It are offering a discount ticket offer to residents of no less than 14 states affected by Hurricane Sandy for performances Oct…
Hurricane Sandy, downgraded to a tropical storm when it made landfall the evening of Monday, Oct. 29, has left a lasting mark on New York City this week. A blackout south of 38th Street in M…
The New York City premiere of The Whale, Samuel D. Hunter's character study of a housebound, morbidly obese man, resumes performances 7:30 PM Oct. 31 following canceled performances on S…
Hurricane Sandy, downgraded to a tropical storm when it made landfall the evening of Monday, Oct. 29, left a lasting mark on New York City. A blackout south of 38th Street in Manhattan on Mo…
When Disney buys the characters who populate the "Star Wars" franchise, can a Broadway musical set in "a galaxy far, far away" be far behind?
The new resident Chicago-area production of the musical Annie, produced by Paramount Theatre this fall, will star Gene Weygandt (Broadway's Big, Chicago's Wicked) as Daddy Warbucks, …
Manhattan Theatre Club's Murder Ballad, a new rock musical that launches the company's new Studio at Stage II Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series, begins previews Oct. 31 &mdas…
Hurricane Sandy, downgraded to a tropical storm as it made landfall the evening of Monday, Oct. 29, left a lasting mark on New York City. A blackout south of 38th Street in Manhattan on Mond…
Actor George Wendt has left the in-rehearsal company of The Odd Couple at the Chicago-area's Northlight Theatre due to medical reasons, the not-for-profit announced on Oct. 30. Marc Grap…
Playbill.com reached out to housebound theatre people in New York City and surrounding states to ask what they were doing Oct. 29-30 as Hurricane Sandy lashed the area. Here's what we le…