Monday, August 3, 2015
New theatre-pop songwriting team of Will Van Dyke & Jeff Talbott (2015 NAMT Festival of New Musicals) will release an album followed by a 54 Below concert. Billy Porter, Kate Baldwin, Jonath…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Actress and playwright Julia Gibson, of Playmakers Rep, will hear her new play "105 Bank Street, or The Joanna Play," in a Manhattan reading this week. Tisch School alumni populate the priva…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2015
The titles and dramatists of the revamped Festival of New Works, running Aug. 7-8 at Ohio's Human Race Theatre Company, have been announced.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:07AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2015
A Q&A with playwright Melissa Ross, whose "Of Good Stock" " a tale of three sisters " is now at Off-Broadway from Manhattan Theatre Club.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2015
Writers and titles for the eight musicals in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals have been announced.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2015
Fault Line Theatre's Off-Broadway world premiere of Michael Perlman's "At the Table" at HERE Arts Center conjures culturally eclectic conversation among a group of characters in their thirti…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:11AM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2015
An interview with Seattle playwright Vincent Delaney, whose new history-inspired play is getting a reading in Manhattan June 24-25.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:21AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 20, 2015
Liz Thaler talks about working out the kinks of creating her new play "Happy," about a professional dominant who falls for a feminist gender studies professor, now at The Brick Theater in Br…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 08:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2015
Playwright Joe Tracz talks about collaborating with composer Joe Iconis to bring the late Ned Vizzini's YA novel, "Be More Chill," to life as a musical.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 10:16AM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2015
Fresh from its Geva Theatre Center premiere, "The Road to Where," the folk-tinged musical memoir by actress-writer Cass Morgan, gets a "listen" in Manhattan prior to a run Weston Playhouse i…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 11:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Playwright Jeff Talbott talks about his new play, getting a reading in the 2015 NewTACTics Festival of New Plays by Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 09:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Broadway's Robert Creighton talks about his passion for James Cagney and how it led him to co-write (and star in) a musical about the Hollywood icon.
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 02:55PM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
The complete cast of eight in The Pitmen Painters ring up their collective Broadway debuts Sept. 30 when Lee Hall’s biographical drama bows at the Samuel J. Friedman, but one of their …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Grey Gardens and 42nd Street Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will appear in the 7 PM Oct. 27 "Selected Shorts" evening called Fairy Tales: Classic and Reimagined hosted by Grego…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Composer John Kander had been working on songs and Broadway musicals with his lyricist Fred Ebb for more than 40 years when Ebb died in 2004, leaving a handful of unfinished musicals on thei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Composer John Kander had been working on songs and Broadway musicals with his lyricist Fred Ebb for more than 40 years when Ebb died in 2004, leaving a handful of unfinished musicals on thei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]There is no evidence that Dr. Sigmund Freud ever said that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” a quote that is attributed to the psychoanalyst. And there is no word about the sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The sold-out Nov. 15 Merkin Hall presentation of the conceptual concert All the Things You Are: Jerome Kern, part of the Broadway Close Up series there, proved that any New York City theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim took a surprise bow at the Nov. 19 New York Pops concert at Carnegie Hall. The evening's encore, "Old Friends," was completed with the introduction of Sondheim, who …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Marilyn Maye was such a showstopper at the recent New York Pops Sondheim birthday concert at Carnegie Hall that we could not resist catching her intimate new show, Her Kind of Broadway, at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Marilyn Maye was such a showstopper at the recent New York Pops Sondheim birthday concert at Carnegie Hall that we could not resist catching her intimate new show, Her Kind of Broadway, at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the director-writers of the 3-D animated film "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," are in talks to direct the movie musical “Bob the Musical,”…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The third annual New York City Christmas, a benefit concert at Joe’s Pub at 7 PM Dec. 20, will not be a mere repeat of previous years, or just a rehash of the lively album of the same …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Paramount Theatre, an 1,800-seat touring house in suburban Chicago, will expand its mission in 2011 to become a producing theatre, offering a four-show subscription series of Broadway mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]An eight-week Chicago run of White Noise, the new rock musical about a pop sister act that performs White Supremacy-laced songs, will be co-produced by Whoopi Goldberg and directed and chore…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, will offer an eclectic array of theatre and dance this June. The 2011 festival's theatre and dance program was announced on Jan. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The 29th season of the New York Pops will welcome a handful of theatre artists, including Hugh Panaro, Cheyenne Jackson and Ashley Brown, and will celebrate the work of Irving Berlin and Geo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]New Zealand native Hayden Tee, a star in Australia, ascends the throne as King Arthur in the new Pittsburgh Public Theater production of Camelot, directed by producing artistic director Ted …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Manoel Felciano is among residents of the West Coast premiere of Clybourne Park, the acclaimed Bruce Norris play inspired by A Raisin in the Sun, about a white neighborhoo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theater welcomes back Funk It Up About Nothin', the hip-hop adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, on Jan. 21. An engagement in Australia follows.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Adult brothers retreat to their childhood bedroom in the Victory Gardens Theater world premiere of Joel Drake Johnson's The Boys Room, starting Jan. 21 in Chicago.
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