Friday, March 6, 2015
The world premiere of the political drama The Originalist, a new play by John Strand about Justice Antonin Scalia, begins performances at Arena Stage March 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, March 5, 2015
Following its Off-Broadway run at the Lynn Redgrave Theater, The Lion, Benjamin Scheuer's autobiographical coming-of-age musical, will launch a national tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMAward-winning director Julie Taymor, known for her bold theatrical style, has signed with William Morris Agency, Deadline.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMTaking note of the heavy snow falling over the New York area, the Broadway production of the hit Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus musical Mamma Mia! is offering discounted tickets …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
Complete casting has been announced for the Inaugural (3) Plays from The Kilroys’ List: A Reading Series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMThe Hunchback of Notre Dame, the new musical based on the Victor Hugo novel and animated Disney film, begins performances at the Paper Mill Playhouse March 4. Michael Arden, Patrick…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AMMonday, March 2, 2015
The 2014-15 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which honors female playwrights, was awarded March 2 to Tena Štivičić for her play 3 Winters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:59PMThe Tony-winning Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch will launch a national tour, Playbill.com has learned.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PMRebecca Naomi Jones, currently starring in Big Love at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre, will join the Broadway cast of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, playing the role of Yitzhak, starti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMAudra McDonald, who recently won her sixth Tony Award for her performance in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, hosts the Martin E. Segal Awards, which are presented March 2 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AMThe 2014-15 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which honors female playwrights, is given March 2 in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10AMSunday, March 1, 2015
President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton attended the 8 PM performance of Hamilton, the critically acclaimed new musical written by and starring …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53PMPresident Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton attended the 8 PM performance of Hamilton, the critically acclaimed new musical written by and starring …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53PMFashions For Men, Ferenc Molnár's comedy of character, officially opens at at the Mint Theater Company March 1 following previews that began Feb. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAbundance, Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley's tall tale set in the Great American West, officially opens Off-Broadway at The Actors Company Theatre March 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, February 28, 2015
In the first installment of Playbill's new series focusing on women in theatre, Tony Award-winning director Pam MacKinnon shares how a 10-year relationship with Edward Albee led …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 27, 2015
Betty Buckley, Barbara Cook and Rex Smith will be honored by the Shubert Theatre at their 100th anniversary gala March 21 in New Haven, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PMThe famed NYC nightclub Café Carlyle will feature Tony Award winners Alan Cumming and Lena Hall during its spring 2015 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMLena Hall, who won a Tony Award for her performance as Yitzhak in the Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, will play her final performance in the award-winning rock musical …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM"The Cosby Show" star and Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad will star in the pilot of the CBS drama "For Justice," according to Variety.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMThe Broadway production of Constellations, a love story about a beekeeper and a physicist that features Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and two-time Olivier Award (and rec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 26, 2015
The Broadway engagement of Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the history novels by Hilary Mantel about Henry VIII, which will begin performances March 20 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMClassic Stage Company has announced complete casting for its upcoming production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Seven new works will be featured in the 18th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, a showcase of new works held in California's South Coast Repertory theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMThe Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere of Posterity, a new play by Tony Award winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife, Grey Gardens), begins previews Feb. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 24, 2015
John Cameron Mitchell, the co-creator and original star of the Off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, had no intention of returning to the heels and wig of the charact…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world-premiere production of Lives of the Saints, a collection of short plays by David Ives (Venus in Fur, All in the Timing), officially opens Off-Broadway Feb. 24 following pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 23, 2015
A production of Show Boat, the landmark musical that addresses romantic and racial relations on a Mississippi River show boat following the Civil War that had been slated for presentation by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:09PMJoely Richardson, who recently starred as Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, will be featured in a film about another historic figure, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMKeke Palmer, who made history with her Main Stem debut as the first African-American woman to play Cinderella on Broadway, has teamed up with the the anti-bullying and girl-empow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMThe first Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, following the life of feminist art historian Heidi Holland, has ann…
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