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Chaplin, a biomusical about the silent film star Charlie Chaplin, book by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan, music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis, directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle, will preview from August 21st at the Barrymore Theatre, with an official opening on...
7th May 2012
The big hitters in this year's Tony Awards nominations are led by Once with 11, including Musical, Steve Kazee - Actor (Musical) and Cristin Milioti - Actress (Musical); Porgy And Bess with 10, including Musical Revival, Norm Lewis - Actor (Musical) and Audra McDonald - Actress (...
30th April 2012
New York Theatre Workshop's 2012/2013 season will include Alexander Dinelaris's Red Dog Howls, in which the discovery of a box of old letters reveals buried memories of a hidden family history; Paula Vogel's A Civil War Christmas, which weaves a tapestry of the nation on Christmas...
23rd April 2012
The Amoralists will stage the premiere of Derek Ahonen's The Bad And The Better, a dark detective tale about two brothers, one with everything to lose, one with everything to prove, with Byron Anthony, William Apps, Selene Beretta, James Kautz, Nick Lawson, Sarah Lemp, Sarah Roy, ...
16th April 2012
The Vineyard Theatre's Developmental Lab production of the musical The Landing, book and lyrics by Greg Pierce, music by John Kander, a 4 handed musical in 3 acts, telling 3 different stories of people confronting what it means to get what they want, with Julia Murney, David Hyde...
10th April 2012
The Public Theater's 20112/2013 season will include Colman Domingo's Wild With Happy, which explores the comedy that lies in dealing with death and healing, directed by Robert O'Hara, from October 9th; the musical Giant, book by Sybille Pearson, music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa...
2nd April 2012
Spiegelworld, the Belgium originated 'spiegeltent' (a portable performance venue with mirrors lining the interior walls), which in previous summers has pitched on Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport, will this year lodge on a vacant lot at 265 West 45th Street, with a new show Empire...
26th March 2012
This year's Lincoln Center Festival of music, dance and theatre, will run from July 5th to August 5th, across the Lincoln Center campus. Highlights will include: The National Theatre of Scotland production of Alan Cumming performing a contemporary one man version of Shakespeare's...
19th March 2012
It has been confirmed that the previously postponed musical Rebecca, adapted from the novel by Daphne du Maurier, in which a man brings his second wife to the house where the shadow of his first wife still remains, original book and lyrics by Michael Kunze, music by Sylvester Levay...
12th March 2012
Culture Project will stage the premiere of Tennessee Williams's final full length play In Masks Outrageous And Austere, combining bizarre characters, dark humor and exorbitant theatricality, with Shirley Knight, directed by David Schweizer, previewing from April 5th, opening on April...
5th March 2012
Roundabout Theatre Company's 2012/2013 season will include the musical The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, book, music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes, adapted from Charles Dickens's final unfinished murder mystery novel, performed as in a Victorian British Music Hall, with the audience voting...
27th February 2012
The Vineyard Theatre production of Nicky Silver's The Lyons, a tragi-comedy about a family in crisis, will transfer to Broadway, with original cast members Linda Lavin, Dick Latessa, Michael Esper, Kate Jennings Grant, Brenda Pressley and Gregory Wooddell, directed by Mark Brokaw...
20th February 2012
Playwrights Horizons has announced its 2012/2013 season, which will comprise on the Mainstage: Lisa D'Amour's Detroit, in which a suburban barbecue to welcome new neighbours soon veers out of control, directed by Anne Kauffman; the premieres of Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan, which...
13th February 2012
Radio City Music Hall has confirmed that Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana, written and directed by Francois Girard, music by Nick Littlemore, with choreography by Elena Kolyadenko and Debra Brown, featuring cast of 75 international artists, will return for a second season from June 6th...
6th February 2012
Lincoln Center Theater's new stage, a 131 seater venue built on the roof of the Vivian Beaumont Theater as a home for LCT3, the initiative dedicated to presenting the work of emerging playwrights, directors and designers, which will be known as the Claire Tow Theater, has announced...
30th January 2012
It's Official! As previously forecast here, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, which follows the woes of a faded Southern belle, and her road to madness aided by her violent brother in law, with Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker and Wood Harris, directed by Emily Mann...
23rd January 2012
It's Official! As previously forecast here, the current Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum Los Angeles's production of Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park, a black comedy charting how change overtakes a neighborhood, along with attitudes, inhabitants and property values, between 1958...
16th January 2012
It's Official! As previously forecast here, a gospel-infused musical comedy Leap Of Faith, book by Janus Cercone and Warren Leight, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, based on the 1992 film about a fraudulent faith healer, with Raul Esparza, Jessica Phillips and Kendra...
9th January 2012
A new musical, Tokio Confidential, book, music and lyrics by Eric Schorr, in which a young Victorian American war widow goes to Japan, where she falls in love with a renowned tattoo artist and enters a different world, with Jeff Kready, Austin Ku, Mel Maghuyop, Benjamin McHugh, Manna...
2nd January 2012
It has been confirmed that Gore Vidal's The Best Man, a play about power, ambition, political secrets, and ruthlessness in the race for the presidency, with James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Candice Bergen, John Larroquette, Eric McCormack, Michael McKean and Jefferson Mays, directed...