Thursday, October 23, 2014
Porchlight Music Theatre's production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has been extended at the Chicago theatre through Nov. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMTony nominee Ethan Hawke, last seen on Broadway in Shakespeare's Macbeth, will play legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in the biopic "Born To Be Blue," Deadline.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM"Still Dreaming," the documentary film about residents of the Lillian Booth Actors' Home performing A Midsummer Night's Dream, will receive its world premiere Nov. 18-1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Topher Grace, who starred as earnest high school student Eric Forman on "That 70's Show," will star in a movie musical, ShowBiz411 reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMThe Manhattan Theatre Club and the Sloan Foundation, who began their collaboration in 2000 with David Auburn's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof, will continue their ongoin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMAl Pacino, who will return to Broadway next October playing a billionaire businessman in David Mamet's China Doll, will also be seen playing a small-town locksmith in the dramatic fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMTuesday, October 21, 2014
Following the cancellation of the Maiden High School production of John Cariani's Almost, Maine, a Kickstarter campaign has begun to fund a production of the play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMThe 19th annual Kids' Night On Broadway, offering children a free ticket to a Broadway show when accompanied by a paying adult, will be held Jan. 9-15, 2015.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMA starry lineup has been set for the 14th Annual 24 Hour Plays: On Broadway, according to the Associated Press.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMTwo disruptions occurred during the opening-night performance of The Death of Klinghoffer at the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Times reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PMWashington, D.C.'s Arena Stage presents Our War, a new theatrical event and collection of short stories that explores the history and present-day impact of the U.S. Civil War, beginn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAcademy Award nominee John Hawkes makes his New York stage debut in the Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of David Auburn's new play Lost Lake, which also features Rent star Tracie T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, October 20, 2014
A starry group of Broadway performers will gather to honor Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan at the Manhattan Theatre Club's fall benefit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMFollowing the cancellation of a student production of John Cariani's Almost, Maine due to "sexually-explicit overtones and multiple sexual innuendos" in the script, Cariani…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMKey casting has been announced for Stratford Festival's 2015 season, which includes 13 productions that focus on "eureka moments."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AMThe controversy over the Metropolitan Opera's production of John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer, which opens Oct. 20, continues with the release of a letter by the daughters of Leon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AMKey casting has been announced for Stratford Festival's 2015 season, which includes 13 productions that focus on "eureka moments."
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMRed Bull Theater's Revelations Readings kicks off its 2014-15 season with a star-studded gala benefit reading of Shakespeare's The Tempest Oct. 20 at 7:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBilly & Ray, Mike Bencivenga’s new comedy about the making of the classic film "Double Indemnity," officially opens at the Vineyard Theatre Oct. 20 following prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe starry revival of A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama starring Glenn Close and John Lithgow, begins previews on Broadway Oct. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCelebrity Autobiography, the comedy show featuring actors reading excerpts from celebrities' books, features a starry lineup in its Oct. 20 show, including "Orange is the New Black&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, October 19, 2014
Golden Globe Award nominee Joely Richardson stars in The Belle of Amherst, a one-woman play about the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, which officially opens Oct. 19 at the Westside Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMarking the 15th anniversary of playwright Sarah Kane's death, 4:48 Psychosis, Kane's play about a mind on the edge of a breakdown, officially opens at St. Ann's Warehouse Oct. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, October 18, 2014
Hari Dhillon, making his Broadway debut in Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, talks about his feeling of "otherness" while pursuing the American Dream.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJoely Richardson, starring in The Belle of Amherst at the Westside Theatre, shares with Playbill.com the challenges of starring in a one-woman show and how Emily Dickinson has influenced…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 17, 2014
Steppenwolf for Young Adults' 2014-15 season begins with the world premiere of a new stage adaptation of George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm," officially opening Oct. 18…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PMThe Old Globe Theatre will kick off the holiday season with the 17th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, the musical inspired by the children's book.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:40PMGarth Drabinsky, a Canadian film and theatrical producer and entrepreneur who was recently released from prison on parole, is working on a stage musical based on the film "Madame Sousat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMThe series premiere of "Freestyle Love Supreme," featuring the improv troupe of the same name, airs on Pivot TV Oct. 17 at 10:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world-premiere Playwrights Horizons production of Heidi Schreck's Grand Concourse begins previews Oct. 17 Off-Broadway at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 16, 2014
Al Pacino, the two-time Tony Award winner who recently starred on Broadway in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, will return to Broadway next October in China Doll, a new play that M…
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