Sporting one of the most provocative titles to hit Broadway in a while, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play officially opened on November 19, setting audiences buzzing at the Lyceum Theatre. Headed by Tony winners Laura Benanti and Michael Cerveris, the show centers on Dr. Givings, who treats overwraught Victorian women (and men) suffering from ...

Snap, snap! They may be altogether ooky, but we still can’t wait until The Addams Family lands on Broadway. The new musical, starring Tony winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, begins previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York in March, but they are wowing crowds right now at Oriental Theatre in Chicago through January 10. Entertainment Weekly’s ...

Dean-Charles Chapman is returning to the London production of Billy Elliot on November 23. The young performer, who has previously played the parts of Small Boy and Michael in the smash musical, will now take on the title role at the Victoria Palace Theatre.

Chapman, a 12-year-old Essex native, was a part of the original cast when he played Small ...

In what is already being hailed as the theatrical event of the season, the first of three parts in Horton Foote’s Orphans’ Home Cycle has made its debut at Signature Theatre Company. This massive undertaking, involving nine plays and 22 actors playing multiple roles, follows Horace Robedaux (a character based on the late playwright’s father) from 1902, when ...

The hit off-Broadway show Love, Loss and What I Wore welcomed a new roster of stars on November 18. The new cast, which consists of Lucy DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Katie Finneran (graciously stepping at the last minute to replace an unwell Kristin Chenoweth), Capathia Jenkins and Rita Wilson, share stories about clothes and the memories they trigger. With big names ...