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Tony winner Richard Maltby Jr. will direct a new revue for Weathervanes 2024 season, featuring a mix of classic and contemporary musical numbers.

The Canterbury Summer Theatre in Michigan City will kick off its 56th season with the theme "Murder and More!"

Need a great book to spring into the new season? This spring, Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 24 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's spring reading list.

Today's question is: Who has worn the most hats on Broadway- director, producer, writer, actor, etc.? Here are a few folks that could hold a record for the 'number of hats' they've worn on Broadway shows. Part one includes those who have worn four or five hats on Broadway shows and part two will include those who have held even more positions than that!

Nikki M. James, Karen Ziemba, Jelani Remy, and more will sing brand-new songs from the Closer Than Ever writers.

The classic 1987 motion picture fantasy bursts onto the stage in the unforgettable theatrical experience in “Big, the Musical.”The show is adapted from a witty, moving and insightful book by John Weidman (Assassins; Pacific Overtures; Road Show) and a...

The show will get underway at 7. 30pm

Erik Larson on "The Splendid and the Vile," and a 1988 interview with W.P. Kinsella, whose book "Shoeless Joe" became "Field of Dreams."

Hamilton Reopens In SF Next Week With $10 Ticket Lottery, Vaccination Requirement Live theater has returned to San Francisco, and the first big production to reopen is BroadwaySFs Hamilton at the Orpheum Theater. Hamilton reopens next Tuesday night, August 10, and runs for just four weeks, through September 5. The Tony-winning and now Emmy-nominated musical returns with the same excellent cast it had just as the pandemic shut down all theater last March — and they were just about ten weeks f...

SF Playhouse Announces 2021-22 Season, Readies In-Person Summer Shows The always scrappy and impressive SF Playhouse near Union Square is reemerging with live performances sooner than some of its larger counterparts around the Bay Area, and today they announced their upcoming full season. The 2021-22 season will be capped off by the big musical production that had been planned for the end of the companys 2019-2020 season, Stephen Sondheims Follies. The show depicts a reunion taking place in 19...