Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Christopher Rice, currently performing in The Book of Mormon on Broadway, has released a new video featuring a group of dancers tap dancing to Pharrell Williams' "Happy."
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PMLarry David, the co-creator of "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm," will make his Broadway debut in the self-penned play Shiva, Showbiz411.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMCarol Channing and Tommy Tune, who together share ten Tony Awards and decades of show-business experience, will appear at Provincetown's Town Hall Aug. 7, the Boston Globe reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMRehearsal video of the first rock orchestration of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, presented at Washington D.C.'s Warehouse Theatre by Landless Theatre Company, has been released.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AMAnd I And Silence, Naomi Wallace's drama about a friendship formed in prison, begins performances Off-Broadway Aug. 5 at the Signature Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 4, 2014
Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris is in the final leg of his acclaimed run of the Broadway premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Prior to his Aug. 17 departure, the stage and screen sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PMFriday, August 1, 2014
The world premiere of Tony nominee Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play Between Riverside And Crazy, which officially opened July 31 at the Atlantic Theater Company, has extended its Off-Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMTony Award-winning actor Jason Alexander, who starred in the original 1986 production of Broadway Bound, directs a production of that Neil Simon play for the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble with pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 31, 2014
A Red Orchid NY, a new collaborative partnership between the Chicago-based A Red Orchid Theatre and Bisno Productions, inaugurates its initiative in New York with the premiere of the boxing …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Tony nominee Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play Between Riverside And Crazy officially opens July 31 at Atlantic Theater Company following previews that began July…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMQuartet, a comedy by Academy Award winner Ronald Harwood, officially opens at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre July 31 following previews that began July 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, July 30, 2014
La Jolla Playhouse has announced the cast and creative team for the world-premiere production of Kingdom City, a comedy about religious oppression in a small town.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PMOona Laurence, who received a Special Tony Award for her performance as the precocious title character in Matilda The Musical, will appear in the independent film "Lamb," Dead…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMTheatre For a New Audience, the company dedicated to presenting Shakespeare and classic American drama, has announced the lineup for its 2014-15 season at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMCelebrity chef Rick Bayless stars in a return engagement of the culinary and theatrical experience Rick Bayless in Cascabel: Dinner – Daring – Desire beginning July 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 29, 2014
With a deadline of July 31 approaching, negotiations between union officials and the Metropolitan Opera continue with little hope of resolution, according to the Wall Street Journal.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMHamlet, featuring stage and screen star Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, has announced the sale of low-priced tickets for each of its performances, according to the production's w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMStephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods, which made its world premiere at the Old Globe in 1986, has extended its run through Aug. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMThe Geffen Playhouse continues its ongoing presentations of works by Neil LaBute with the dark comedy Reasons to Be Pretty, which begins performances July 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 28, 2014
Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of Morris Panych's The Shoplifters, a satirical comedy about class and privilege in society at Arena Stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMPolitical dramas, two one-act operas from Carlisle Floyd and music by Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen will be featured in the fall 2014 season at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMPresident Barack Obama presents the National Medals of Arts July 28 at 3 PM ET in an East Room ceremony at the White House.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMPlaywrights Realm has announced complete casting for the world premiere of My Mañana Comes, a new play by Elizabeth Irwin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM"La Mama Earth," the 53rd season presented by the historic downtown theatre complex, will feature productions reflecting on climate change and worldwide global issues.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMBlanche Marvin, a producer, playwright, actress and critic, claims she was the inspiration for the character of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire, the T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMPhoenix, Scott Organ's dark comedy about a one-night stand that stars Julia Stiles and James Wirt, begins performances July 28 at Off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 27, 2014
The Great Society, the next play in Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan's works exploring the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, opens July 27 in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 25, 2014
Executive director Lou Moore has departed the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, the Los Angeles Times reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMQuartet, a comedy by Academy Award winner Ronald Harwood, begins performances at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre July 25 prior to an official opening July 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSundance Theatre Lab participants Dominique Morisseau, Annie Baker and Sheila Callaghan open up to Playbill.com about the roles women are playing in the theatre — both onstage and off.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 24, 2014
TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, a company dedicated to presenting rarely-produced plays, has announced the lineup for its 2014-15 season.
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