Monday, August 11, 2014
The first major New York revival of Lee Blessing's A Walk in the Woods, featuring a gender reversal in the lead character, and Andrew Lippa's rarely-performed two-person musical John…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMTony winner Bryan Cranston, Julia Roberts and Julianna Margulies are among the presenters scheduled for the 66th annual Emmy Awards, Deadline.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMSir Ian McKellen, a Tony Award-winning actor who officiated the wedding of his friend and co-star Sir Patrick Stewart, assisted with another marriage recently, Deadline.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PMTimberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, the true story of British convicts exiled from their homeland, will play Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMTickets to Hamlet, featuring stage and screen star Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, were released to the general public Aug. 11 with more than 33,000 people waiting in the online…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMSunday, August 10, 2014
The world premiere of When We Were Young And Unafraid, Sarah Treem's new play about an underground women's shelter in the early 1970s, concludes its Off-Broadway run Aug. 10 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Old Globe Theatre concludes its 2014 summer season with William Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, beginning performances Aug. 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of Violet, starring two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, plays its final performance at the American Airlines Theatre Aug. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, August 9, 2014
Vestments of the Gods, a modern-day take on Sophocles' Antigone written in response to LGBT bullying, begins performances at the New York Fringe Festival Aug 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, August 8, 2014
Complete casting has been announced for the world-premiere production of Found, the original musical inspired by found letters and notes that will play the Atlantic Theater Company's Lin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMStand-up comedy, a Yiddish production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot and a true-crime story will be featured in Barrow Street Theatre's upcoming season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMA sold-out production of a play inspired a new business venture for husband-and-wife team Nandita Das and Subodh Maskara, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMThursday, August 7, 2014
Dylan Coburn Gray's Boys and Girls and a production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in Yiddish will be featured in the seventh annual Origin's 1st Irish Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PMOriginal Broadway and Off-Broadway casts will be reunited with works from their past in L.A. Theatre Works' 2014-15 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMTits of Clay, the band that accompanies the stars of Hedwig and the Angry Inch onstage at the Belasco Theatre, will present a special midnight show at the Mercury Lounge Sept. 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMCarol Channing and Tommy Tune, who together share 12 Tony Awards and decades of show-business experience, appear at Provincetown's Town Hall Aug. 7 at 8 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAward-winning actress Cate Blanchett, starring in Jean Genet's The Maids at City Center, discusses the 1947 plays relevance to a 2014 audience as well collaborating with her husband, And…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCarol Channing and Tommy Tune, who together share ten Tony Awards and decades of show-business experience, appear at Provincetown's Town Hall Aug. 7 at 8 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAracaWorks: Chicago, a weekend of readings of world-premiere American plays presented by the American Theater Company and The Araca Group, begins Aug. 7 in Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe first rock orchestration of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd can be heard beginning Aug. 7 as part of Landless Theatre Company's "Summer of Rock."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPhoenix, Scott Organ's dark comedy about a one-night stand that stars Julia Stiles and James Wirt, officially opens Aug. 7 following previews that began July 28 at Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning actress Betty Buckley was featured in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2014 Cabaret and Performance Conference, which began July 23 in Waterford, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, August 6, 2014
The complete cast has been announced for the world premiere of Bright Star, the new American musical by Edie Brickell and Steve Martin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMContinuing her award-winning portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II, Academy Award winner Helen Mirren will star in a limited engagement of The Audience on Broadway beginning in February 2015 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMThe Tricycle Theatre, which has hosted the Jewish Film Festival for the past eight years, has refused to host the 2014 festival while it is partially funded by the Israeli embassy, according…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMThe Geffen Playhouse continues its ongoing presentations of works by Neil LaBute with the dark comedy Reasons to Be Pretty, which officially opens Aug. 6 following previews that began J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe boxing drama The Opponent, which marks the first production of A Red Orchid NY, officially opens Aug. 6 following previews that began July 31 at Off-Broadway's 59E59 Theate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 5, 2014
At least 15 people were injured when a double-decker bus crashed into a pedestrian plaza in Times Square Aug. 5 just before 3:30 PM, the New York Times reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMAt least 13 people were injured when a double-decker bus crashed into a pedestrian plaza in Times Square Aug. 5 just before 3:30 PM, the New York Times reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMBay Area Cabaret has announced the lineup for its 11th annual season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMChristopher 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."
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