Arts and Stage News - Playbill

John Cullum, Brandon Victor Dixon and Colman Domingo will be featured in the world premiere of John Kander, Fred Ebb and David Thompson's The Scottsboro Boys, the Vineyard Theatre announced. Full Story »

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2009 production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, directed by Des McAnuff, will play a commercial run in Toronto as part of Mirvish Productions' 2010-11 subscription season. Full Story »

Phone sales for the world-premiere Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane begin Dec. 14 in anticipation of the first preview Feb. 15, 2010. Full Story »

Griff Rhys Jones begins performances Dec. 14 in the role of Fagin in the London run of Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He succeeds Omid Djalili, and will continue in the role through June 2010. Full Story »

Matthew Modine, Jennifer Morrison and Elizabeth Franz have joined the Broadway cast of The Miracle Worker. Full Story »

New York City Christmas, the starry Dec. 14 Joe's Pub concert that reunites performers from a 2008 benefit event of the same name, is now offering standing tickets for $25. Main seating for the 9:30 PM performance is sold out. Full Story »

Steppenwolf Theatre Company's new production of David Mamet's American Buffalo, directed by Amy Morton, opens Dec. 13 after previews from Dec. 3. Patrick Andrews plays young Bobby opposite Steppenwolf ensemble members Francis Guinan as Don and Tracy Letts as Teach. Full Story »

Kate Baldwin, the rising star who nightly ponders how things are in Glocca Morra, in Broadway's Finian's Rainbow, takes her voice uptown on Dec. 13, performing an 8:30 PM solo show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency. Full Story »

Broadway's Beth Fowler, of The Boy From Oz and Beauty and the Beast, is Lady Bracknell, famous for her withering looks, in Irish Repertory Theater's new production of the cult-favorite musical Ernest in Love, beginning previews Dec. 12. Full Story »

Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway production of The Royal Family by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber ends its scheduled run Dec. 13 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Full Story »