David Lindsay-Abaire News

As previously announced, Carolee Carmello will lead the cast of the National Tour of Kimberly Akimbo, which kicks off next month. Learn more about the full cast here!

Broadway In Chicago has revealed its new season lineup featuring a mix of classic and contemporary shows. See the full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

The Echo Theater Company will present the West Coast premiere of CLARKSTON by Samuel D. Hunter. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Once Upon A Mattress will begin previews on Broadway tonight, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. The revival will celebrate its opening night on Monday, August 12, 2024, for the limited engagement through November 30, 2024, at The Hudson Theatre. Meet the cast of Once Upon a Mattress here!

Shrek the Musical, with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori, has arrived in London. Directed by Samuel Holmes, this adaptation of the iconic 2001 movie stars Antony Lawrence as Shrek, a lonely ogre who ends up falling in love with the unusual Princess Fiona (Joanna Clifton).

Shrek - The Musical is running at The Princess of Wales Theatre. Watch footage below!

Broadway In Chicago has revealed six new shows joining its lineup. SHUCKED and KIMBERLY AKIMBO are in the next Broadway In Chicago Season, on sale this fall. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Three-time Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown will perform a special concert event at Carnegie Hall on October 25, 2024, at 8:00 PM. Learn more about the concert here!

Three-time Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello will play Kimberly in the National Tour of the musical, KIMBERLY AKIMBO.  Learn more about the tour here!

An all-new version of SHREK THE MUSICAL will depart Duloc to embark on a cross-country national tour that includes a stop in St. Louis at Stifel Theatre on October 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Don’t miss Shrek at The Tobin

The Bergen County Players has announced its 2024/25 season with a lineup of musicals and plays for its 92nd season. BCP will be celebrating 75 continuous years of operation at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell, and will kick off its new season in September with the Tony Award-winning comedy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Ana Gasteyer and Seth Rudetsky will perform live at the White Plains Performing Arts Center this month. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

THE 24 HOUR PLAYS has announced this year's cohort for The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, which will return this summer for their 13th year. A weeklong professional development initiative for early-career theater artists, The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals 2024 will take place July 15-22, 2024 at the Pace University Lower Manhattan campus. 

The 2024 summer theatre season is already in full swing in St. Louis, Missouri, with three exceptional comedy-dramas opening last week. St. Louis stages opened their 2024 season with STEEL MAGNOLIAS starring a mostly local cast. Broadway World called the Stages St. Louis production “wonderfully funny – creating contagious uncontrollable laughter.”  Albion Theatre opened a terrific production of Alan Ayckbourn’s WOMAN IN MIND with a tour-de-force performance from Emily Baker in the lead role. Baker is on stage the entire production. Stray Dog Theatre had audiences laughing out loud with their production of David Lindsay-Abaire's RIPCORD. All three productions run through the end of June. The most anticipated productions of the remaining summer season include shows at The Muny, Stages St. Louis, and The New Jewish Theatre.

The Stage Managers’ Association (SMA) has announced its annual Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management.

Still hurting over the end of the Broadway season? BroadwayWorld has just learned that that singer, songwriter and actor Nick Jonas and Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren will return to Broadway to star as 'Jamie' and 'Cathy' in the first ever Broadway production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's beloved THE LAST FIVE YEARS. We have all of the details!

Jeanine Tesori and Bess Wohl have joined The Dramatists Guild Council, the leadership team of the Guild.

Full casting has been announced for someone spectacular, the world premiere of a new play by Domenica Feraud, directed by Tatiana Pandiani.

The Echo Theater Company will present a very dark comedy about the lengths to which a woman might go for the love of a good man.