Officials at Ford's Theatre have decided not to put on permanent display the embroidered overcoat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated in 1865.

A play at the Goodman Theatre that features a white actress in blackface is sparking controversy. Late Wednesday afternoon, hours before the opening of The Wooster Group production of Eugene O'Neill's play, "The Emperor Jones," at the Goodman, Third World Press sent out e-mails asking for a boycott of the show.

As part of a feasibility study undertaken by the Carlisle Theatre and Dickinson College, a user survey has been launched to determine how the nearly 1,000-seat downtown theater space could be used even more than it is now.

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The Magic Theatre , which has been a San Francisco home to such major American playwrights as Sam Shepard and David Mamet , is seeking emergency funding to salvage its 43rd season. The company is about two-thirds of the way toward raising $350,000 needed to avoid shutting down.

The Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) in North Branch, joined by the RVCC Foundation, will mark the Theatre's 25th anniversary season at a gala celebration Saturday, Feb. 28. The event will feature a performance by three-time Grammy Award-winner Tom Chapin.

WESTERLY — A play by John Patrick Shanley, author of the recent hit movie “Doubt,” will open the Granite Theatre’s 2009 season in March. The play, “Italian American Reconciliation” follows in the tradition of the Granite’s popular productions of “Over the River and Through the Woods” and “Never Get Smart With an Angel.”

BATAVIA — Albright Theatre Company will hold auditions for "Skyscraper" by David Auburn at 7:30 p.m. Sunday and Monday at The Albright Theatre on the third floor of the Batavia Government Center, 100 N. Island Ave.

All the world's a stage. British theatre, from William Shakespeare to Howard Barker, is packing in audiences across the Channel. The ambitious "Paris Calling" season is a timely reminder to Britons that France has a thriving theatre scene of its own.

Know Theatre has canceled a production, re-organized management duties, and re-ordered its calendar, eliminating its repertory schedule and Sunday matinees.

Bruce R. Nelson has played multiple characters and has done solo pieces, but the 35 people he takes on in "I Am My Own Wife," at Baltimore's Everyman Theatre, loomed as a new sort of theatrical beast.