Monday, May 25, 2015
The nominees of the 25th annual Carbonell Awards, recognizing excellence in South Florida professional theatre, were announced Feb. 15. Miss Saigon at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Leaders of Surflight Theatre, the Beach Haven, NJ, theatre with 60 years of Jersey shore theatre under its belt, announced on Feb. 15 that they have filed for protection under Chapter 11 of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The New York Theatre Workshop production of Peter and the Starcatcher, telling the origin of kid-lit hero Peter Pan in a bare-bones staging that encourages the audience to use its imaginatio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Ben Vereen, the Tony Award-winning song-and-dance man of Pippin, Jesus Christ Superstar and Wicked, will sing, dance and reminisce about his life and career Feb. 18 at The Town Hall in midto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner John Gallagher, Jr. of Spring Awakening and American Idiot, will be among cast members populating Jerusalem on Broadway. Complete casting for the Jez Butterworth play, star…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Marc Masterson, artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Tony Award-winning company known for its embrace of new work, will exit the theatre after 11 seasons in order to take t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Public Theater artistic director continues his commitment to new plays by staging Rinne Groff's Compulsion, about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Kate Baldwin, the Best Actress Tony Award nominee for Finian's Rainbow, blends a little contemporary pop into her repertoire for her Feb. 19 show in Lincoln Center's American Songbook serie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Lucky Duck, Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's popular pop musical version of "The Ugly Duckling," opens at South Coast Rep Feb. 19 following previews that began Feb. 11. Art Manke, a five-tim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Michael Kuchwara, the respected late theatre critic for the Associated Press, will be celebrated by Broadway showfolk that he wrote about in a benefit on Feb. 28, which would have been his 6…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Kristen French makes her New York City cabaret debut Feb. 20-21 at Don't Tell Mama with a Cole Porter evening called All Right With Me, directed by Amy Coady, with musical direction by Geral…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Jim True-Frost directs Academy Award winner Chris Cooper in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's one-night-only presentation of Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class Feb. 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Arena Stage's acclaimed, sold-out fall 2010 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! will return in summer 2011 for an encore that will feature many of the same cast members.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Harmony, Kansas, the new musical about a gay men's chorus that forms in rural Kansas, gets an invitation-only Manhattan reading Feb. 22. Jonathan Rayson, Zak Resnick, Chris Hoch, Howie Micha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The eight-week Chicago run of White Noise, the new rock musical about a pop sister act that performs White Supremacy-laced songs, will feature Broadway's Luba Mason, Rodney Hicks, MacKenzie …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The commercial producers of SCKBSTD are prepping the next steps for the musical by Bruce Hornsby following a popular world-premiere run by Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk, VA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The world premiere of Lookingglass Theatre's Ethan Frome, Laura Eason's adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel, begins Feb. 23 in Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Puma, the new play about the love affair between actress Marlene Dietrich and writer Erich Maria Remarque, with Hollywood's Golden Age as the backdrop, gets its world premiere by New Jersey …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater will present two musicals -- including a world-premiere show by the writers of Broadway's The Story of My Life -- at its home on Navy Pier …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The new Old Globe Theatre production of Groundswell, Ian Bruce's psychological drama set in South Africa, will feature Antony Hagopian, Mfundo Morrison and Ned Schmidtke.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater will open its 2011-12 season this fall with Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's musical Follies, directed by Gary Griffin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Second Stage Theatre artistic director Carole Rothman announced Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents and Anna Kerrigan's The Talls as the two world-premiere plays in the company's nint…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The producers of Broadway's American Idiot confirmed the expected on Feb. 23: The rock musical based on Green Day's Grammy Award-winning album will be launched on a national tour this fall. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The cast of Broadway's extended production of The Importance of Being Earnest will welcome Brian Murray, Jayne Houdyshell and Jessie Austrian to the American Airlines Theatre on March 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The critically embraced Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has moved from the frigid Windy City to the more moderate Mid-Atlantic. It be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Bathsheba Doran's Kin, about the connection between a scholar and a personal trainer, begins a world-premiere engagement at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons Feb. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Roundabout Underground launches David West Read's new play, The Dream of the Burning Boy, about a high school tragedy, on Feb. 25. The Off-Broadway staging features Reed Birney, Josh Caras, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Max Wilk, a novelist, a nonfiction chronicler of show business subjects, playwright, screenwriter -- and a dramaturg for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Cen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tom Hooper, the Oscar-nominated director of "The King's Speech," has been offered to direct the film version of the musical Les Miserables, according to the "24 Frames" blog in the Los Angel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner James Earl Jones has been picked to play the former President of the United States in the upcoming Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for Liberty Smith, the musical comedy about a fictional patriot's encounters with figures from the American Revolution. Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, will prod…
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