Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company opens its first-ever American musical today at its home theater in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
"Sarcophagus," a Soviet play about the Chernobyl nuclear accident, was to receive its Western premiere Sunday at Vienna's Volkstheater.
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.
Thursday night's performance of "Cabaret" at London's Strand Theatre went on with music again, marking the second straight night the musical has been staged without an orchestra.
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.
The annual Helen Hayes Awards, which honor outstanding achievements in theater in Washington, will be held at the Kennedy Center in May.
group's decision to stage "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
"The Cure" and "Film Is Evil, Radio Is Good," two plays by Richard Foreman, won Obie awards Monday as the best new American plays produced Off Broadway or Off Off Broadway in the past year.
More than 300 University of Alabama students protested Friday the banning from campus of a sexually explicit student play, and playwright Walter Alves said he would sue if the university does not reverse its decision within 10 days.
The American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Conn.
American actor and director Sam Wanamaker has won a 17-year fight to rebuild William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on its original London site.
"The Music Man," the first American musical ever staged in China, opened in Beijing on Friday with an old-fashioned production of the 1957 Broadway show about swindler-salesman Harold Hill and his escapades in River City.
The London production of the musical "Cabaret" has closed at the Strand theater after a valiant two-night struggle to carry on without music because the orchestra had walked out in a labor dispute.
The 1986-87 Broadway theater season, buoyed by three big British musicals, reversed a five-year slide in attendance, box-office receipts and number of productions, the League of American Theaters and Producers announced Tuesday.
Undaunted by playwright Eugene O'Neill's professed hatred of his hometown and some residents' hatred of him, the city of New London, Conn., has commissioned a statue of the writer for the city's harbor.
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle will honor three artistic directors for outstanding achievement during its April 6 awards.
Peter O'Toole's Broadway debut last week--as Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion"--has met with decidedly mixed reviews.
A Soviet theater that produced a play about Jews and Jewish immigration has been nominated for the Soviet Union's highest cultural award, Tass reported.
In the revisionist theater department, a Chinese director in Shanghai has decided Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" doesn't have enough punch, the China Daily newspaper reported Friday.
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.