Broadway colors outside the lines

Are they Broadway stages or Benetton ads? In the coming weeks, three shows will open with casts that are entirely or nearly all nonwhite. Two of those productions feature African-American st…

To Boldly Go Where Shakespeare Calls By SARAH LYALL

Patrick Stewart is in the midst of a third act in his unlikely career that brings him full circle: back to England and back to the Shakespeare of his youth.

Slide Show: Not Just Shakespeare

Shows Survive by Sharing a Stage By ROBERT SIMONSON

Off Broadway's latest survival strategy, called piggybacking, involves two shows saving production costs by sharing a stage and equipment.

Tackling a Character Who's a Real Character By CHARLES McGRATH

Harvey Keitel's part in "Jerry Springer: The Opera" calls for him to play a character who both is and is not the real Jerry Springer, the British-born lawyer and former massage parlor patron…

PHOTO CALL: Backstage at Jerry Springer Rehearsals

Pushy Questions For... Cheyenne Jackson

Star of 'Xanadu' on Broadway

Bewitching the Bard

Illusionist Teller conjures 'MacBeth'

Dietz takes stage at Reprise!

New topper to redefine, rebrand tuner co.

Shows scale summit

Denver festival boasts world premieres

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? by Richard Ouzounian

The first round of auditions for the Canadian version of the reality show that swept England hit Toronto.

SHAW FESTIVAL LOST $927,000 by Richard Ouzounian

For the third time in the five seasons that Jackie Maxwell has been artistic director, the Shaw Festival has posted a major deficit.

Michael Abbott, Theatre Producer, Dies at 81

Michael Abbott's Broadway Credits

Road continues to slide

Road Grosses

'Todd' to terrorize U.K. audiences

Local pics debut in Spain, Italy

A "Leap" Onto "The Band Wagon": Bakula Stars in Dancing in the Dark

Bakula, Davi, Leavel, Page, et al. Set for Dancing in the Dark

"Ugly Betty" Star Dale is New King Arthur in London Spamalot

Ugly Betty's Alan Dale to Play King Arthur in London Spamalot

Grey Gardens' Ebersole and Wilson Will Reunite for A Little Night Music

Primo - with Antony Sher - to Air on PBS in April

Topol to Join O'Hare and Martin in London Gigi

Baldwin, Cody, McCarthy and Page Among Kline Award Nominees

Baldwin, Elder, McCarthy, et al. Receive Kevin Kline Award Nominations

Casting Announced for Public LAB's Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?

Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles

Spring Awakening Gals Set for Broadway Backwards Concert

Spring Awakening Cast Added to Broadway Backwards 3

Christopher and Hutchison to Star in Barrington's Trumbo

Christopher and Hutchison to Star in Barrington Stage's Trumbo

Cook, Fleming, Mitchell, Taylor, et al. Set for Tanglewood Season

Christopher Walken to Receive Harvard's Hasty Pudding Award

Arnett, Boeving, Brooks, Lopez and More Join Reprise! Li'l Abner Cast

Cheryl Freeman Will Return to Metropolitan Room Feb. 6

Tony-Winning Designer Oenslager Showcased at Museum of the City of New York

Mary Poppins Star Brown to Perform in Concert Feb. 9

A Cloistered Life Opens in World Premiere of Adjmi's Stunning in DC; Cast Announced

PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Jan. 19-25: Sheba Comes Back

Betty Buckley to Offer Two Different Programs at Feinstein's; Orfeh Joins Cabaret Line-Up

A Majestic Milestone: Broadway's Phantom Turns 20

Here They Are World: Tix for LuPone Gypsy Go On Sale to Public Jan. 26; Box Office Opens Jan. 28

Rapp, Alley and Shuford Join Rimalower Underground Jan. 26

Jeff Daniels' Apartment 3A Begins Run at Beckett Theatre Jan. 26

Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 26

Keenan-Bolger, Arden and Schuck Will Join Clark for Encores! Juno

Bill Hart, Downtown Theatre Director, Dies at 70

Mendes Set to Direct New Comedy for Focus Features

PHOTO OP: S. Epatha Merkerson Returns to Broadway in Come Back, Little Sheba

SOUNDS OF SILENCE by Bill Stevenson

William Inge's Come Back Little Sheba is given a low-key, but effective revival. There's a dignity to this tale of lives led in quiet desperation. Could this be the start of an Inge revival?

A Lovefest, if Misery Loves Company By RACHEL SALTZ

Pain, alienation and the thousand varieties of loneliness that flesh is heir to: these are the topics that Abi Morgan's "Tender," a British play being given its New York premiere by Thirteen…

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Maybe because it's a political year and cowboy president is almost a household word, to say nothing of "rock star president", this play stings like a political rally.

Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

Richard Foreman's latest opus reaffirms why audiences continue to find his work both dynamic and perplexing.

MAKING THINGS RIGHT by Matt Wolf

It's back: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. This six-and-a-half hour production down from the original's eight-and-a-half hours has some grand moments, but it doesn't set the th…

Eli Stone
Review By BRIAN LOWRY

As an up-and-coming attorney, Eli thought he had it all, he muses in voiceover, "and then I heard the music." Suddenly, he's being guided by visions, switching sides to represent the plainti…