Israeli actor Topol--who became famous for his performance as Tevye in the 1971 film version of "Fiddler on the Roof"--will return in a new production of the musical March 11 in Manchester, England.
"Primrose" and "Pardon My English"--two Gershwin musicals unearthed in a New Jersey warehouse in 1982--will receive performances today for the first time in more than 50 years.
The largest advance sale of tickets in Broadway history guarantees the musical "Les Miserables" a long run, even if the reviews are as mixed as when it premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London.
Playwright Edward Albee is directing the world premiere of his new work "Marriage Play" this weekend at Vienna's English Theatre.
A musical drama not seen since 1160 opened Thursday night in Chicago.
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Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company opens its first-ever American musical today at its home theater in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
Responding to an avalanche of fan mail, Lily Tomlin announced Friday that "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" will open in San Francisco this fall.
There seems to be a revival of Arthur Miller classics going on, reports the Washington Post.
Ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and singer-actress Bernadette Peters were named man and woman of the year Monday by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard University, the nation's oldest dramatic organization.
Tony Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard's new comedy "Rough Crossing" has its North American premiere tonight at, of all places, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery.
A fire wrecked an empty Istanbul theater and killed a night watchman early Sunday.
Moscow's Taganka Theater has a new artistic director.
A black Oxford, Miss., teen-ager filed a $140,000 suit in U.S.
A predominantly white Cape Town, South Africa, audience voted Tuesday night to scrap the performance of the musical they were about to see, in sympathy with black protests against Wednesday's whites-only general election.
Longtime Broadway producer and writer George Abbott--who turns 100 Thursday--was honored Monday night at a black-tie gala on the Great White Way.
The annual Helen Hayes Awards, which honor outstanding achievements in theater in Washington, will be held at the Kennedy Center in May.
The Crystal Cathedral's attempt to cut costs for its Christmas and Easter pageants by hiring preacher Robert Schuller's son-in-law, Paul David Dunn, has embittered some workers.
Placido Domingo sang "The Rain in Spain" and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. recited the lyrics to "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" as an international array of stars paid tribute to the late lyricist Alan Jay Lerner in London on Sunday night.
"Sarcophagus," a Soviet play about the Chernobyl nuclear accident, was to receive its Western premiere Sunday at Vienna's Volkstheater.