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Whodunit Ten guests are invited to a dinner. None of them know why. But one by one they start vanishing in the Agatha Christie thriller "And Then There Were None" opening at 8:15 tonight at Flat Rock Playhouse, ...

After 11 years at The Pasadena Playhouse, Managing Director Brian Colburn said Tuesday he will leave later this year to take up "basically the same job" at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle.

Now it's "Godspell" that is saying "no go" on Broadway. A revival of the 1970s Stephen Schwartz flower-power musical about Jesus has announced it will not open as scheduled, the fourth production to put on hold ...

Rock meets classical music in a theatrical presentation next month in Minneapolis conceived by rocker Elvis Costello.

The new Suzan-Lori Parks-directed Broadway production of August Wilson's Fences, previously mentioned as a fall 2008 candidate, is aiming for a spring 2009 bow, representatives for the production confirmed.

Musical theater is traditionally associated with London's West End, but increasingly the city's tiny fringe venues are putting on their own cheeky, slimmed-down versions of the big shows.

Thanks to a generous season sponsor, Chesapeake Energy Corp., Lyric Theatre's annual Broadway Ball will offer a special and exciting pre-event blind auction.

Members of Available Light, from left: Matt Slaybaugh, Dave Wallingford, Acacia Duncan, Michele Schroeder and Ian Short A small Columbus theater will be one of 11 companies nationwide to present a shared world ...

"Some say noise is the future of music," reads the jacket of Bob Bellerue's new documentary film, People Who Do Noise , offering the logical conclusion "Others claim it is the end." The answer, of course, is ...

Ashley Development Corp. has passed on an opportunity to purchase the former Colonial Theater site in downtown Allentown, letting a city-mandated deadline pass without action.

Scenes of funny family foibles have been plucked from some of Shakespeare's greatest plays to create "From Whence We Came," the entertaining new production by the Elements Theatre Company .

Mark Chamberlain did everything to become a hip, high-tech New Yorker. He ran away from home in Seattle at 15 to make it in the nation's biggest city.

Kara Lindsay and Jenn Gambatese contribute strong voices to the world premiere musical "Little House on the Prairie" at the Guthrie.

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The screams of agony from the soldier echoed through the ballroom-turned-theater, forcing a hushed whisper among those witnessing his sudden break with reality.

Stage Crafters Community Theatre Inc. turns up the heat this summer with its production of Tennessee William's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The show opens tonight at 7:30 at the Fort Walton Beach Municipal ...

WILLOWS THEATRE COMPANY Meghan Doyle is a bad girl with a good heart, and Ricardo Rust is the dweeby plant shop worker who loves her in "Little Shop of Horrors." During a recent Willows Theatre Company ...

WHEN THE AVERAGE JOE or Josephine refers to "the fabulous'50s," the image conjured up is usually that of Elvis Presley, or maybe hula hoops.

IF you're a regular visitor to New York, enjoying the shops and restaurants and art and theater and pure energy of the streets, you may have asked yourself: how did it get this way? The long answer lies in lots ...

This weekend marks the end of a lot of shows, so try and check out a couple in the next few days: Lonely Planet , presented by Runway Theatre.