Saturday, August 17, 2013
The nine-time Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon, which opened to raves on Broadway March 24, 2011, celebrates its 1,000th performance Aug. 17 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMThe nine-time Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon, which opened to raves on Broadway March 24, 2011, celebrates its 1,000th performance Aug. 17 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMTuesday, May 10, 2011
Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage takes a cue from Hollywood screwball comedies for her new play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, about an African-American maid and her white movie-star employ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMWednesday, May 4, 2011
The long-running Off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks celebrated its 51st year of performance May 3 at the Snapple Theater Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMThe Théâtre du Châtelet production of Sweeney Todd, starring Rod Gilfry, Franco Pomponi and Caroline O'Connor, began performances April 22 in Paris.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMTuesday, May 3, 2011
The nominees of the 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards, honoring productions that opened on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off Off-Broadway during the 2010-2011 New York theatre season, received thei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AMFriday, April 29, 2011
A party was held April 28 to celebrate the addition of Minka Kelly, most recently seen on NBC's “Parenthood,” and "Two and a Half Men" star Conchata Ferrell, to the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AMThe New York premiere of Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures, starring Michael Cristofer, Linda Emond, Michael …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 28, 2011
Utilizing elements from a starry reading that was seen in October 2010, Larry Kramer's groundbreaking, emotionally powerful The Normal Heart officially made its Broadway debut April 27 f…
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Rehearsals have begun for the Signature Theatre Company production of Tony Kushner's The Illusion. The Off-Broadway staging, based on the play by Pierre Corneille, begins May 17 and feat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06PMThe high-definition film of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Memphis premiered April 25 at the Regal Union Square Theatre in New York. The film will rock cinemas across the country fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMA gala was held to celebrate Time Magazine's "Time 100: The World's Most Influential People" list, which includes 100 "people who most affect our world," April 26…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMTuesday, April 26, 2011
Mamie Gummer, Hamish Linklater and two-time Tony Award nominee Alison Fraser star in David Ives' new comedy The School for Lies, inspired by Molière's The Misanthrope, which b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMThe starry Broadway revival of John Guare's House of Blue Leaves, helmed by much-in-demand director David Cromer (Adding Machine and Our Town), officially opened April 25 following previ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AMMonday, April 25, 2011
Born Yesterday, Garson Kanin's 1940s hit comedy about a rough-edged chorus girl named Billie Dawn, who refines herself in the context of a world of politics, greed and corruption, opened…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMFriday, April 22, 2011
Jerusalem, British playwright Jez Butterworth's tragicomic play about the indelible inhabitants of a slice of rural England, featuring Tony Award winner Mark Rylance in a performance acc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMThursday, April 21, 2011
Following a 2009 London premiere, the disco musical Sister Act was born again in New York City. The retooled Broadway production, featuring a score by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, new direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMWednesday, April 20, 2011
High, Matthew Lombardo's new play about an addict, an enabler and a sponsor — starring Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner as a flinty Catholic nun who takes a young crystal-meth ab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMMonday, April 18, 2011
The April 17 performance of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark marked the final chance for audiences to see director-co-creator's Julie Taymor original vision for the musical, which began prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMSunday, April 17, 2011
Andréa Burns, Jessica Grové, Thomas M. Hammond and Josh Davis are the leading foursome of the classic musical Guys and Dolls at the Engeman Theater, which opened April 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMFriday, April 15, 2011
The touring production of Rain - A Tribute to The Beatles opened April 12 at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. Lief Garrett, Loretta Devine, Megan Hilty and John Lloyd Young were among those i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMWednesday, April 13, 2011
The 22nd annual GLAAD Media Awards were presented April 10 in Los Angeles at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMActor-writer David Greenspan's Go Back to Where You Are, the tale of a chorus boy from the theatre of ancient Greece who travels to modern-day Long Island, opened April 12 at Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMMusic-Theatre Jam, a one-night-only event featuring material from past Music-Theatre Group performances in honor of the organization's 40th anniversary, was presented April 9 at One Arm …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMSunday, April 10, 2011
The New York Philharmonic presented the final performance of a starry concert production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company — boasting Emmy winner Neil Patrick Harris a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMSupermodel Christie Brinkley made her Broadway debut April 8 as merry murderess Roxie Hart in the long-running revival of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMFriday, April 8, 2011
Maggie Siff of "Mad Men" and Polly Draper of "thirtysomething" star in the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of Jane Anderson's The Escort, a play that "combines t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMAnything Goes, the Cole Porter musical about the lovers, liars and clowns on a transatlantic cruise, opened April 7 in a Broadway revival starring Sutton Foster, Joel Grey, Laura Osnes and C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMTuesday, April 5, 2011
A party was held April 4 to celebrate the first major New York revival of Wallace Shawn's Marie and Bruce, presented in a limited Off-Broadway engagement that opens April 5 at The New Gr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMA Moment with You, Second Stage's benefit featuring selections from the theatre company's most memorable musical productions, was held April 4 at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMMonday, April 4, 2011
John Kander and Fred Ebb's darkly entertaining look at pre-WWII Berlin, Cabaret, starring Claybourne Elder, Kara Lindsay and Brian Sills, officially opened March 25 at the Kansas City Re…
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