" and starring Georgia Brown, will replace the stage adaptation of Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" at the Mark Taper April 30-June 14.
For the first time in five years, income at the nation's resident nonprofit theaters rose faster than operating costs last year, according to a new survey of regional theater groups.
Veteran Broadway writer and director George Abbott, who turns 100 June 25, began rehearsals Tuesday in Cleveland for a revival of his first hit, "Broadway."
The Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, Calif., has been sold for $6.4 million to Kathy and Jim Burney of Los Altos, who intend to revitalize it and attract top-name entertainment.
Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka is directing the New York premiere of his play "Death and the King's Horseman," which is scheduled to open Sunday at Lincoln Center.
Leading members of Ireland's Jewish community Wednesday angrily condemned a bid to stage playwright
The Royal Shakespeare Company's much touted "Les Miserables" makes its New York debut tonight, riding a crest of advance publicity and and ticket sales of more than $11 million.
The biggest stage hit in South Africa this year, playing to full houses at one of Cape Town's top
Comedian Bill Cosby was named Atlantic City, N.J.'
"Shear Madness," the long-running whodunit marking its seventh anniversary at Boston's Charles Playhouse Thursday, will launch two international companies this spring.
Actress Bernadette Peters will be honored as 1987's Woman of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals today.
Someone stole props and costumes for "The Last Unicorn" from a UC Santa Barbara theater troupe, but the show went on anyway Saturday at UCLA.
Entertainer Johnny Carson, golfer Arnold Palmer and cult leader and convicted killer Charles Manson are among people who have donated items to a Palmer, Ala., theater group's fund-raising auction on March 28.
After 27 years and hundreds of parts in films, Jean-Paul Belmondo has returned to the stage for a series of performances in Paris.
Chinese audiences will thrill to the sound of 76 trombones this spring when American musical comedy will be performed in China for the first time, it was announced Tuesday.
France's oldest drama company, La Comedie-Francaise, has been forced by a crippling strike to leave the historic theater in central Paris where it has presented French classical drama since 1799.
On Thursday--April 23 being the accepted date for the Bard of Avon's birth--members of the Shakespeare Society of America announced plans to launch a campaign to rename a presently unnamed stretch of beach that fronts Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach as Shakespeare Beach.
The late Tennessee Williams, who once declared New Orleans' French Quarter the closest thing he ever had to a home, will be honored next week at the new Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival.
A musical without an orchestra?
"Fences," by August Wilson, was chosen by the New York Drama Critics Circle as best new play of the 1986-87 New York season, winning 14 out of a possible 21 votes from the organization Monday.