Tara Rubin News

Westport Country Playhouse will stage the comic satire, “Straight White Men,” by Young Jean Lee, from May 24 through June 5, directed by Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director. The show’s 2018 Broadway run made Lee the first Asian American female playwright to have a work produced there. The cast includes Richard Kline, who was a series regular on television’s “Three’s Company” as Larry Dallas. The production reunites Kline and Lamos, who were classmates at Northwestern University. Others in the ensemble are Bill Army, Denver Milord, Nick Westrate, Akiko Akita, and Ashton Muñiz.

Read all the reviews for Bob Fosse's Dancin', currently playing on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage at the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in San Diego's Balboa Park through May 29, 2022.

Tonight, May 3, Talia Simone Robinson will become the first Black actor to play Zoe Murphy in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway full-time. Previously Zoe/Alana understudy, Robinson succeeds Gabriella Carruba, who played the role until May 1.

SIX: LIVE ON OPENING NIGHT, the first Original Broadway Cast Recording ever recorded live on opening night is now available in streaming and digital formats, including Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon Music, and more.We've got the scoop!

The Green Room 42 has announced their May line-up for in-person performances. Located inside YOTEL Times Square (570 Tenth Avenue, Fourth Floor), The Green Room 42 is Broadway's newest and most spacious cabaret club.

Hartford Stage announced today the cast and creatives for its upcoming production of the East Coast Premiere of the hilarious Kiss My Aztec!

Dear Evan Hansen is coming to Grand Rapids’ DeVos Performance Hall May 3 – 8. In advance of the start of performances, the production announced today that it will host a digital ticket lottery offering fans the chance to purchase a limited number of $25 tickets available per performance.

The Broadway-bound musical Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ has released the first production images of the cast made up of 16 principals, featuring direction by Wayne Cilento.

Goodman Theatre announced casting for Life After by rising star writer/lyricist/composer Britta Johnson, directed by Annie Tippe. Leading the cast of nine is Samantha Williams as teenaged Alice—a young woman who, in search of facts, uncovers a more complicated truth as she pieces together events of the fateful night that changed her family forever.

Tickets to Wharton Center’s premiere of DEAR EVAN HANSEN are on sale now through the official Wharton Center Ticket Office, online

In two weeks, Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen comes Overture Center for eight performances in Overture Hall, starting Tuesday, May 10 and running through Sunday, May 15.

The current engagement of Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Jersey Boys at New World Stages will finish its run Sunday, May 22.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has announced the first national tour of AIN’T TOO PROUD – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS, the new Broadway smash hit musical that will play Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center, 237 7th Street, May 17-22, 2022, as part of the 2021-2022 PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series.

Yale Repertory Theatre will conclude its 2022 season with Between Two Knees. The play, written by the intertribal sketch comedy troupe The 1491s and directed by Eric Ting, is presented with Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Between Two Knees will be performed May 12–June 4 at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street).

Concluding BTC’s Building New Pathways gala event on March 27, Co-founders T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reginald 'Reggie' Van Lee, joined by Board members Aaliytha Stevens and Naila McKenzie, along with Executive Director Olivia Jones and Program Director Nik Whitcomb announced today the addition of Davon Williams as Communications Director.

Yale Repertory Theatre is presenting a new production of Choir Boy by the theater's Academy Award-winning Playwright in Residence Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight), directed by Christopher D. Betts.

Hennepin Theatre Trust has announced the First National Tour of AIN'T TOO PROUD – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS, the new Broadway smash hit musical, will play Minneapolis this summer as part of the 2021-2022 Bank of America Broadway on Hennepin season Tuesday, June 28 to Sunday, July 10 at the historic Orpheum Theatre (910 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis).

Dear Evan Hansen comes to Providence's Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC), April 5 – 10, 2022.  In advance of the start of performances, the production announced today that it will host a digital ticket lottery offering fans the chance to purchase a limited number of $25 tickets available per performance.

Jersey Boys IPA will be available for purchase beginning April 2 exclusively at New Jersey Beer Company in North Bergen, NJ on April 2, and beginning April 7 in New Jersey and New York, including at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street), where Jersey Boys is playing.

Ben Levi Ross was welcomed back to the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street) on March 22, where he re-joined the Broadway company of Dear Evan Hansen as 'Evan Hansen.' Ross made his Broadway debut as a cover in Dear Evan Hansen in 2017, and went on to star as the original Evan in the first North American Tour.