Playbill – A Raisin the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking play about social change and the American Dream, opens Oct. 8 in a new production by Denver Center Theatre Company. Previews began Oct. 1 at The Stage Theatre in Denver.

Playbill – George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s The Royal Family, the 1927 comedy about an American acting family committed to the idea of “going on,” opens on Broadway Oct. 8 in a production by Manhattan Theatre Club.

Playbill – The critically acclaimed City Center Encores! concert production of Finian’s Rainbow, now revised and expanded into a full theatrical production, arrives at the St. James Theatre Oct. 8. The production will officially open on Broadway Oct. 29.

Playbill – The Chase Brock Experience, the modern dance company of theatre dancer and choreographer Chase Brock, will offer the world premiere of the new dance piece, American Sadness, set to the music of rising theatre composer Gabriel Kahane, Oct. 8-11 at the Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan.

Playbill – Lorna Luft will be saucy Martha in the new national tour of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, to also feature Stephen Bogardus as Bob Wallace, David Elder as Phil Davis, Kerry O’Malley as Betty Haynes and Megan Sikora as Judy Haynes.

Playbill – Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, CA, announced casting for the 2010 world premiere of its 2009 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize winner, Sunlight, by Sharr White, to play Jan. 21-Feb. 14.

Playbill – Programming for the 2009-10 season of DouglasPlus, the Center Theatre Group’s new program that “fosters new work, new theatrical forms and new audiences” at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, was announced on Oct. 8.

Playbill – American Theater Company has extended its run of the new musical Yeast Nation (The Triumph of Life), from Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, the creators of Urinetown.