Cate Blanchett and Stephen Dillane in a Martin Crimp world premiere, Gillian Anderson and Lily James in All About Eve, and the U.K. premieres of Come From Away and Waitress are among the many productions opening on the other side of the Atlantic this January through March.

A revival of the classic musical On the Town, starring Tony Yazbeck, Jay Armstrong Johnson and Clyde Alves, opened Oct. 16 at the Lyric Theater.

The Jeff Awards, celebrating excellence in Chicago-area Equity theatre, will be given out Oct. 15. A dozen new plays or adaptations are in the mix, pointing to Chicago as a continuing breeding ground for new work. The nominees for work seen between Aug. 1, 2011, and July 31, 2011, include Brian Dennehy, Amy Morton, Tracy Letts, Robert Falls, Harry Groener, Liz McCartney and more.

Nominations for the Jeff Awards, celebrating excellence in Chicago-area Equity theatre, were announced Aug. 21. A dozen new plays or adaptations are in the mix, pointing to Chicago as a continuing breeding ground for new work. The nominations address work seen between Aug. 1, 2011, and July 31, 2011, produced by 55 organizations.

The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were presented Jan. 25 at the Pacific Design Center’s SilverScreen Theater in West Hollywood, CA.

The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are presented Jan. 25 at the Pacific Design Center’s SilverScreen Theater in West Hollywood, CA.

The nominations for the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced Dec. 10 at the Pacific Design Center’s SilverScreen Theater in West Hollywood, CA.

Playbill.com posed this question to over 100 theatre actors: If you could star in a Broadway revival of any play or musical, which show and role would you choose?

Songwriters Marvin Hamlisch, Hal David, Robert B. Sherman and Richard Adler, actresses Celeste Holm and Joan Roberts, producers Theodore Mann and Marty Richards, designer Eiko Ishioka and dramatists Nora Ephron and Jerome Kilty were among those who left us in 2012. At year's end, Playbill remembers them and others who enriched our lives through their commitment to the stage.

Songwriters Marvin Hamlisch, Hal David, Robert B. Sherman and Richard Adler, actresses Celeste Holm and Joan Roberts, producers Theodore Mann and Marty Richards, designer Eiko Ishioka and dramatists Nora Ephron and Jerome Kilty were among those who left us in 2012. At year's end, Playbill remembers them and others who enriched our lives through their commitment to the stage.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

Hello, diva lovers. I'd like to dedicate this week's column to Dorothy Loudon, the Tony Award-winning actress-singer who lost her battle with cancer Nov. 15.

Hello, diva lovers. I'd like to dedicate this week's column to Dorothy Loudon, the Tony Award-winning actress-singer who lost her battle with cancer Nov. 15.

SARAH BRIGHTMAN
Former Phantom of the Opera star Sarah Brightman will release her latest album, “La Luna,” on Aug. 29. An Angel Records release, the CD will feature classical pieces from Handel and Beethoven as well as more recent tunes. The release coincides with Brightman’s concert tour, a worldwide expedition that begins in Brazil on Aug. 20. The following tours dates are from Brightman’s website, which can be found at sarah-brightman.com.

SARAH BRIGHTMAN
Former Phantom of the Opera star Sarah Brightman will release her latest album, “La Luna,” on Aug. 29. An Angel Records release, the CD will feature classical pieces from Handel and Beethoven as well as more recent tunes. The release coincides with Brightman’s concert tour, a worldwide expedition that begins in Brazil on Aug. 20. The following tours dates are from Brightman’s website, which can be found at sarah-brightman.com.

PRIME TIME MUSICALS (Varese Sarabande)
Varese Sarabande has devoted compilation discs to songs from flop musicals, songs cut from successful shows, songs from Shakespearean musicals, Christmas songs from Broadway, and songs from various versions of Peter Pan. Its latest collection has the happy notion of paying tribute to a genre that thrived in the '50s and '60s, the musical written for television. Perhaps the most celebrated entry in this genre, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, is not represented because, as the notes inform us, Varese is recording a compilation of songs from various Cinderella musicals. But Rodgers is represented here nonetheless, and he is in the company of many other top-level Broadway artisans (Cole Porter, Dorothy Fields, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Burton Lane) who were attracted to the form.

PRIME TIME MUSICALS (Varese Sarabande)
Varese Sarabande has devoted compilation discs to songs from flop musicals, songs cut from successful shows, songs from Shakespearean musicals, Christmas songs from Broadway, and songs from various versions of Peter Pan. Its latest collection has the happy notion of paying tribute to a genre that thrived in the '50s and '60s, the musical written for television. Perhaps the most celebrated entry in this genre, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, is not represented because, as the notes inform us, Varese is recording a compilation of songs from various Cinderella musicals. But Rodgers is represented here nonetheless, and he is in the company of many other top-level Broadway artisans (Cole Porter, Dorothy Fields, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Burton Lane) who were attracted to the form.