The Public Theatre News

The Public Theater has expanded its artistic staff this fall to coincide with the start of its 52nd Season.

Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre announces Old Springs Pike, a band featuring Spring Awakening's John Gallagher Jr, on Monday, October 8 and Monday, October 29 at 11:30PM.

Boy Howdy Productions has announced the cast and performance dates of the new play Madonna and Child and Other Divas, written by Tom Johnson and directed by Julie Hamberg to be presented at the New York International Fringe Festival/ FringeNYC in August.

Signature Theatre Company announced today that Kate Mulgrew will replace the previously announced Victoria Clark in Charles Mee's Iphigenia 2.0, directed by Tina Landau

Signature Theatre Company announced today the casting for the first play in the Charles Mee Series, Iphigenia 2.0, starring Victoria Clark

New York Theatre Workshop has announced that The Black Eyed, written by Betty Shamieh, directed by Sam Gold, will begin performances Tuesday, July 17 at 8:00pm, at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery

New York Musical Theatre Festival concludes its first-ever Spring Concert Series with 'Undercover Showtunes' on Monday, June 18 at 7PM at The Zipper Factory. Gloria Reuben is one of the many talented Broadway and screen stars set to perform.

Signature Theatre Company today announced the next four years of programming as well as the unprecedented Signature Ticket Initiative, made possible by the lead sponsorship of Time Warner, Inc.

A remix version of 'Defying Gravity' from Idina Menzel's forthcoming studio album is now available to download from iTunes' UK store.

The final production of Houston's Alley Theatre's 60th anniversary season is the world premiere production of Treasure Island.

The Leopold Group, a new Chicago-based modern dance company, will present a concert version of Green Eyes, a new song cycle fusing musical theatre, pop/folk music, modern dance, and video-dance.

On this evening's episode of 'That's Kentertainment!,' host Ken Kleiber sits down for Part One of an excusive interview with actress/singer Daphne Rubin-Vega, who was most recently seen in Jack Goes Boating at the Public Theatre and Les Miserables on Broadway.

Obie Award-winner Lisa Kron (writer, star of Well) will join the cast of the acclaimed Naked Angels production of Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell beginning tomorrow (Wednesday) through June 3rd at the Minetta Lane Theatre, taking on the role of 'Love' during Kathleen Chalfant's vacation.

Tatum O'Neal, Vanessa Aspillaga, and over two dozen more stars have signed on to LAByrinth Theater Company's Live Nude Plays, a free marathon festival of staged readings of six new works on Monday, April 16th.

At 8 pm on Wednesday, May 9th and Thursday, May 10th, the New York Festival of Song will perform We Open in Paris. Paris is the backdrop for four musical theatre works in vest-pocket NYFOS productions, including Jacques Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne and Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen.

LAByrinth Theater Company has announced Live Nude Plays, a free marathon festival of staged readings of six new works on Monday, April 16th.

The new Broadway production Eric Bogosian's 1987 comedy/drama shows that its themes not only haven't dated, they've been amplified.

Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel is in the process of working on a new solo album, which will be released in the fall.