It's officially December, which means that there's a whole month of fun and exciting Broadway events ahead of us! Read on to see what we've picked as the cream of the crop from the week ahead, which includes opening nights for Golden Boy and Bare, a thrilling Assassins reunion and a slew of stars bringing their talents ...

Maggie Grace, Sebastian Stan, Mare Winningham and Ellen Burstyn lead a new Broadway revival of Picnic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that promises to serve up a steamy, romantic slice of American life.

It’s the early 1950s in the American heartland, and a dashing young drifter has come to town and sends the women of Independence, Kansas, reeling. That’s the story of Picnic, William Inge’s Pultizer Prize-winning dramedy that will be revived on Broadway by Roundabout Theatre Company with a gorgeous cast that promises to bring the rogue love story ...

Pack the sandwiches, lay out the blanket and get your tickets to Picnic, William Inge’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about chatty women in the American Heartland. Tickets are on sale now for Roundabout Theatre Company’s forthcoming revival, which will star Maggie Grace, Ellen Burstyn, Sebastian Stan, Elizabeth Marvel, Reed Birney and Mare Winningham.

Directed by Sam Gold, the show ...

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced full casting for its upcoming revival of William Inge’s Picnic. Ellen Burstyn, Sebastian Stan, Maggie Grace, Elizabeth Marvel, Reed Birney and Mare Winningham will star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play alongside Madeleine Martin, Ben Rappaport, Cassie Beck, Maddie Corman and Chris Perfetti. 

Directed by Sam Gold, the show will begin previews on December 14 ...

Jon Robin Baitz's Tony-nominated play Other Desert Cities will end its run June 17 at the Booth Theatre. Directed by Joe Mantello, the show first ran off-Broadway at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theatre during the 2010-11 season. The show then transferred to Broadway and opened on November 3, 2011. 

In Other Desert Cities, once-promising novelist Brooke Wyeth (Elizabeth ...

Elizabeth Marvel, who originated the role of Brooke Wyeth in Other Desert Cities off-Broadway earlier this year, will replace Rachel Griffiths in the show's current Broadway production. Marvel will join Stockard Channing, Stacy Keach, Judith Light and Justin Kirk beginning March 6, 2012 at the Booth Theatre. Griffiths' final performance is set for March 4.  

Written by Jon Robin ...

In anticipation of the upcoming Lucille Lortel Awards on May 1, the Off-Broadway League honored the 2011 nominees with an April 11 cocktail reception at Planet Hollywood Times Square. From Other Desert Cities actors Elizabeth Marvel and Thomas Sadoski to Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson co-writer and director Alex Timbers, the brightest lights of off-Broadway came together to celebrate their accomplishments ...

In the face of rapturous reviews for Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities, the rumor mill heated up about a possible Broadway transfer of Lincoln Center Theater’s world premiere off-Broadway production. But according to Shubert Organization chairman Philip Smith, there’s no place for the play to go before the end of the spring 2011 season. “The reality ...

Sparks may fly between members of the Wyeth family in Lincoln Center Theater's Other Desert Cities when daughter Brooke returns home with the announcement she's penning a memoir chronicling the family, but show stars Stockard Channing, Linda Lavin, Stacy Keach and Thomas Sadoski couldn't have been more pleased to call each other family at the show's ...