American Repertory Theater News

According to Deadline, Broadway's Matthew James Thomas has landed a role as a series regular in a drama pilot for HBO, titled THE DEVIL YOU KNOW. He joins Ever Carradine, Damien Molony, Julian Rhind Tutt, Nigel Lindsay, Ewen Bremner, Karen Gillan, Hannah Nordberg, Naian Gonzalez Norvind and Zawe Ashton in the new series from ORANGE IS THE NEW BALCK creator Jenji Kohan.

The American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training, presents Silent Rage: a double bill of two plays, Heroin/e (Keep Us Quiet) by Carson Kreitzer and Dutchman by LeRoi Jones, directed by Scott Zigler.

New Repertory Theatre in Watertown revisits Yiddish Theatre with Robert Brustein's new Klezmer musical comedy THE KING OF SECOND AVENUE.

American Repertory Theater of WNY is presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with a production of Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, now through March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

The producers of the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical PIPPIN are pleased to announce that Tony Nominated, ADRIENNE BARBEAU will play the role of 'Berthe' in the national tour of PIPPIN in select cities! PIPPIN comes to the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts on April 28 - May 3, 2015.

New York Spring Spectacular, the brand-new production at Radio City Music Hall, celebrates "Spectacular City Week," which provides New Yorkers with the opportunity to explore iconic New York City landmarks and institutions featured in the production.

FISH IN THE DARK, the new comedy written by and starring Larry David, is running for an 18-week limited engagement through Sunday, June 7 at the Cort Theatre. Opening night is tonight, March 5. Scroll down to learn more about the company and watch highlights from the play!

American Repertory Theater of WNY will be presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, tonight, March 5th and runs to March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!

Shea's Performing Arts Center and Broadway Partner/Producer Albert Nocciolino present the M&T Bank 2015-16 Broadway Series, featuring multiple Tony-Award winning musicals and hits on Broadway.

The Board of Trustees of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) just announced that the theater's annual gala Boundless, which was held at the Boston Park Plaza Castle on Monday, March 2, with close to 500 supporters from around the country in attendance raised more than $1,000,000 in support of the theater's artistic, community, and education programs.

Daniel von Bargen, best known for playing George Costanza's boss Mr. Kruger during the final season of NBC's SEINFELD, has pased away at the age of 64.

A first peek at the unveiling of WAITRESS: THE MUSICAL showstoppers!

The American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training, presents Silent Rage: a double bill of two plays, Heroin/e (Keep Us Quiet) by Carson Kreitzer and Dutchman by LeRoi Jones, directed by Scott Zigler.

According to a recent post by the A.R.T. the show already has plans for Broadway! The theatre auctioned off tickets to the show's opening night on Broadway as a part of its 2015 gala, teasing: 'See it in Cambridge before it heads to NYC!' Casting has not yet been announced, but a recent NYC workshop was led by Tony winner Jessie Mueller, Keala Settle, Bryce Pinkham, Christopher Fitzgerald, Barrett Wilbert Weed, and Eric Anderson.

Experience the thrilling 2013 Tony Award-winning musical PIPPIN. PIPPIN comes to Omaha's Orpheum Theater tonight, March 3, through Sunday, March 8, 2015 as part of Omaha Performing Arts' Broadway Series.

Audra McDonald has picked up two more Tony Awards since her last appearance at the Celebrity Series of Boston in 2011. Accompanied by her music director Andy Einhorn on piano, Gene Lewin on drums, and Dave Phillips on bass, McDonald gave the sold-out Symphony Hall audience an evening of stars, moon, and rainbow.

American Repertory Theater of WNY will be presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with a production of Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, March 5th and runs to March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. Known as an existential comedy, PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE is Steve Martin's tongue-and-cheek poke at the deep philosophical pieces penned by French playwrights like Jean Paul Sartre or Eugene Ionesco. In this Victor Hugo a go-go knee-slapper, Martin creates an alternative universe where famed theoretical physicist Albert Einstein and famed theoretical romantic and painter Pablo Picasso meet at the Parisian bar Lapin Agile and wax philosophies, ponder existence, and, with help of a time-traveling 'country boy', brave the new 20th century world and the future beyond.

Can a girl who can't fall at all, fall in love? The Light Princess follows the journey of a young princess cursed to live without gravity in a new musical from A.R.T. Institute. Funny, romantic and buoyed by whimsical original songs, The Light Princess is an enchanting tale for all ages, running at The New Victory Theater from tonight, February 27 - March 8, 2015.

American Repertory Theater of WNY will be presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, March 5th and runs to March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!

In a career spanning more than four decades, the contemporary American choreographer Karole Armitage has been celebrated for blurring the boundaries between dance, music and art. Inspired by disparate, non-narrative sources—from 20th century physics, to 16th century Florentine fashion, to pop culture and new media—the classical dance vocabulary, in her hands, is given a needed shock to its system with speed and fractured lines, abstractions and symmetry countermanded by asymmetry.