Carole Shelley returns to `Wicked'
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Madame Morrible, the crafty headmistress of "Wicked," has been played by a parade of impressive ladies including Carol Kane, Rue McClanahan, Jayne Houdyshell and, in London, by Miriam Margolyes.
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Now that Joanne Woodward  and Anne Keefe are back in charge at the Westport Country  Playhouse -- both had taken a sabbatical -- things are looking  up again for the 78th season of the venerable Connecticut  venue.
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Sir Ian McKellen says he will return to the London stage as a pantomime dame following his debut last Christmas.
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Anita Baker is making a comeback after 10 years away from R&B.
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During the past two years, old tunes have breathed new life into the careers of Rod Stewart and Michael McDonald. Both artists return to the musical well this month for a new round of classics.
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Conductor Lorin Maazel will return to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in nearly 45 years when he conducts Wagner's "Die Walkuere" next season.
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Kathleen Turner makes a confident debut as a theater director with this touching revival of Beth Henleyâs comedy.
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It seems fitting that this  revival of Harold Pinter's classic play should arrive on the  40th anniversary of both its original Broadway production and  the first (and ridiculously, only) Broadway appearance by its  star, Ian McShane.
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The company's original visionary returns to the helm.
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Kevin Spacey is returning to the stage at London's Old Vic, the theatre where he is also artistic director.
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Arts & entertainment: The ENO has put on a 1950s musical that asks how anybody could be unhappy in Baghdad. What were they thinking, asks Charlotte Higgins.
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Tim Burton brings a cinematic freshness to Sondheim's musical about a serial-killer barber.
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Several highly anticipated Broadway revivals live up to their predecessors with strong casts.
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Award-winning actress and muse of Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, is to make film comeback.
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The actor Jefferson Mays is putting his own spin on Prof. Henry Higgins in the first major Broadway revival of George Bernard Shawâs âPygmalionâ in more than two decades.
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Playbill - Tony Award winner Carole Shelley will play Marilyn Monroe's assistant and confidante in the world premiere, The Secret Letters of Jackie and Marilyn, at Pittsburgh Public Theater this fall.
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Whoopi Goldberg is back on Broadway in the one-woman show that launched her career 20 years ago, and much is the same: same theater, same big-name producer and much of the same material.