The Barbican's year-round "bite" (Barbican International Theatre Event) has announced its plans for the first half of 2009, which will include return visits from Complicite, Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa, the SPILL Festival of Performance, Cheek by Jowl, the Theatre Royal Stratford East, the National Theatre of Scotland, the Dundee Rep Ensemble and Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, as well as bite debuts for Israel's Cameri Theatre and Romeo Castellucci's trilogy inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

SEATTLE -- Seattle finally gets a look at the popular celebration of Irish music and dance, as Riverdance arrives at the Paramount Theatre, May 21.

Riverdance, the showcase of Irish dance and music that played sold out engagements in Dublin and London in 1995, in New York in March 1996, and again in October 1996, will return to Manhattan Sept. 25-Oct. 12, 1997.

In a startling upset, Bill Whelan’s cast recording of the Irish dance revue Riverdance won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Recording Feb. 26, beating favorite Rent and three other prominent Broadway show albums.

The Australian production of Love Never Dies, which gave new life to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera sequel, ends its run April 1 at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney.

Christine and the Phantom chase romance to turn-of-the-century Coney Island in Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's lavish sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, which opens Jan. 12 in Sydney after previews that began Jan 8.

Following an extended Melbourne engagement, the new Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to his international hit The Phantom of the Opera, arrives in Sydney Jan. 8 at the Capitol Theatre.

The Sydney engagement of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies will begin previews Jan. 8, 2012, at the Capitol Theatre. The lavish sequel to The Phantom of the Opera is currently booking a 12-week engagement.

The Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, which takes a fresh approach to the material since its London debut, has released tickets through Sept. 25.

A newly revised production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to his international hit The Phantom of the Opera, begins performances May 21 in Melbourne, Australia.

Complete casting has been announced for the new Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, which will star Ben Lewis, Anna O'Byrne and Simon Gleeson.

VIVA VEANNE!: Last month The Food Chain, Nicky Silver's manic antic at the Westside Theatre, finished its lengthy and critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run. Veanne Cox, the hysterically altar-bound bride of the Roundabout's Company (who made the runnings for this year's Tony and Drama Desk Awards), had recently inherited the lead role of the neurotic newlywed that was originally portrayed by Hope Davis.

Come fall, you'll probably find Cox in The Batting Cage, the Joan Ackerman comedy that she and Babo Harrison launched (under Lisa Petersen's direction) last spring in the 20th Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Producers David Stone, Amy Nederlander-Case, Andrew Kato and Jenny Weiner have hired the trio to repeat their chores Off-Broadway.

In case you've never made the Louisville trek, Heinemann just published two volumes of A Decade of New Comedy: Plays from the Humana Festival. Included are the works of Eduardo Machado (In the Eye of the Hurricane), Arthur Kopit (Road to Nirvana), Richard Dresser (Below the Belt), Regina Taylor (Watermelon Rinds), Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman (Trendy Blue), Jane Martin (Cementville). The Kopit had a run at Circle Rep a few seasons back, and the Dresser just completed a much-too-brief one (in light of the glowing reviews) at the John Houseman, freeing Judd Hirsch to replace the already perfectly cast Robert Klein in the Roundabout revival of Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns; that shuffle disappointed some theatre buffs who were already calling it A Thousand Kleins.

Find out which colleges and universities had the most alumni performing on Broadway during the 2018–2019 season.

59E59 Theaters has announced its upcoming winter season.

The latest edition of "The Playbill Broadway Yearbook," covering the season from June 1, 2010 to May 31, 2011, is now available for pre-ordering. Here is the index from the book — more than 9,600 of the people who make Broadway work (with the page numbers on which the name appears). Check and see if your name is on the list!

The National Theatre will host the premiere of new plays by Conor McPherson, Mike Leigh and Mike Bartlett as part of its summer and autumn season between July and November. Also planned are a revival of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen, a new staging of Bach's St. Matthew Passion and readings from the King James Bible to celebrate its 400th anniversary.