Monday, June 30, 2014
The War of the Roses, the stage adaptation of Warren Adler's best-selling novel novel of the same name, will play Broadway in the 2015-16 season, producers announced June 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMIn honor of Pride, Playbill.com looks at the portrayal of same-sex parents and families onstage throughout the years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMLevi Kreis, who won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a musical for his Broadway debut, playing Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet, joined the company of the Broadway revival …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThe St. Louis Artists' Guild, which was once home to performances by a young Tennessee Williams, will present the acclaimed playwright's rarely performed play Stairs to the Roof, acc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMThe Drama League presents Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Kate Wetherhead, co-creators of the online web series "Submissions Only," in its Up Close series June 30 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 29, 2014
Casa Valentina, the Tony-nominated new play by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein about an upstate colony where heterosexual men dress as women, ends its run on Broadway June 29. &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 27, 2014
The Geffen Playhouse continues its ongoing presentations of works by Neil LaBute with the dark comedy Reasons to Be Pretty.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMCasting has been announced for the Chicago-premiere production of Conor McPherson's The Night Alive at the Steppenwolf Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMWriter and actress Zoe Kazan sits down with Playbill.com to discuss theatre, film and feminism.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMTracy Hobson, executive director of the Center for Anti-Violence Education, talks with Playbill.com about the organization's four decades of work.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, June 26, 2014
Women's Project Theater, the non-profit company dedicated to producing plays written and directed by women, has begun a national search for a new artistic director.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMThe administrative offices inside Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center were vandalized with spray paint spelling out obscene messages, the New York Times reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMNorthlight Theatre has announced the casting for the first three productions of its 2014-15 season: The Commons of Pensacola, The Mousetrap and White Guy on the Bus.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMThe boundary-pushing downtown theatre troupe The Amoralists stage The Gyre, a repertory production of two world-premiere dramas by Derek Ahonen and Mark Roberts, beginning June 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMManhattan Theatre Club presents The Lion, a new autobiographical solo musical written and performed by singer/songwriter Benjamin Scheuer, officially opening June 26 following previews …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, June 25, 2014
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods, which made its world premiere at the Old Globe in 1986, will be presented in a re-imagined production at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMMary Bridget Davies, who earned a Tony nomination for her performance as rock legend Janis Joplin in A Night With Janis Joplin, will be featured performing rock songs in Summer at the Pasade…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMExcerpts from a new musical about Fannie Lou Hamer, a Civil Rights activist, will be presented at Carnegie Hall this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMThe complete creative team has been announced for the upcoming production of Phoenix, Scott Organ's dark comedy about a one-night stand that will star Julia Stiles and James Wirt.&n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMExcerpts from Carmen, a new Afro-Cuban musical in development, will be presented as part of The Guggenheim’s "Works & Process" June 28 at 7:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMWriter-performer Charles Busch will bring his solo show to 54 Below next month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMTuesday, June 24, 2014
Manhattan Theatre Club will present the world-premiere production of Richard Greenberg's familial drama The Swing of the Sea Off-Broadway next spring. The company has also announced cast…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMSir Ian McKellen, a Tony Award-winning actor, has received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PMThe first rock orchestration of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, presented at Washington D.C.'s Warehouse Theatre by Landless Theatre Company, is being written by a team of arra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMMonday, June 23, 2014
This American Life, a musical event that was held June 7 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and featured a mini-musical by Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, is available for download on Amazon a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:40PMConnecticut Repertory Theatre has announced complete casting for the company's multi-racial production of the Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne and Arthur Laurents' musical Gypsy, with aw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMTony Goldwyn, Leslie Uggams and Jessica Molaskey participated in a reading of the Southern-based true-crime musical Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Deadline.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PMA Red Orchid NY, a new collaborative partnership between the Chicago-based A Red Orchid Theatre and Bisno Productions, will inaugurate its initiative in New York with the premiere of the box…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PM"Venus in Fur," the film adaptation of David Ives' sexually charged dark comedy, topped the box-office take for limited release movies its opening weekend, according to Deadlin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM"Jersey Boys," the movie musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, took in a disappointing $13.5 million its opening weekend, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMInside Broadway presents the Broadway Beacon Awards June 23 at The Essex House at 5:30 PM.
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