Thursday, March 21, 2013
Playwrights Horizons has announced the first five titles of its 2013-14 Off-Broadway season, to include three world premieres and two New York premieres. The dramatists are Anne Washburn, Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Alice Ripley will appear in the dual role of Bev/Kathy in the ensemble cast of the Long Wharf Theatre's upcoming production of Clybourne Park, the Pulitzer Prize-winnin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AM[SHARE]Playbill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the dreamers behind Broadway musicals. Here's a look a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AM[SHARE]The Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the Manhattan-set family drama starring Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, begins previews March 21 in a Manhattan …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Hands on a Hardbody, the cultural pulse-taking about a cross-section of Texans hoping to win a pickup truck in a grueling endurance competition, opens on Broadway March 21. The musical's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Klea Blackburst, the big-voiced character actress who recently appeared in York Theatre Company's Happy Hunting, will play Dolly Levi in director Daniel Goldstein's Goodspeed Musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) talks about digging into his Texas roots to create the book of the new Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody, inspired by the film documen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world-premiere production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, adapted by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, who drew from Truman Capote's novella, opens on Broadway March 20 in a produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Allegiance, the award-winning new American musical about family, freedom, love and loss in Japanese internment camps on U.S. soil during World War II, will get a developmental lab staging in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]Asolo Repertory Theatre's 2013-14 season in Sarasota, FL, will open with a revival of Show Boat, the landmark Oscar Hammerstein II-Jerome Kern musical, directed by Rob Ruggiero.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Stephen Mo Hanan, a 1983 Tony Award nominee as Best Featured Actor in a Musical, will star in the circus-inspired reinvention of The Megile of Itzik Manger, produced by the Drama Desk Award-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Brighid Fleming, Adam Haas Hunter, Robert Joy, Dakin Matthews and Jeanne Syquia star in Jennifer Haley's Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning The Nether, about the addictive world of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Laoisa Sexton's For Love, about the sexual adventures of three women in modern-day central Dublin, opens March 19 following previews from March 13 as part of the Irish Repertory Theatre&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2013
The York Theatre Company's new Musicals in Mufti concert presentation of the 1955 Cole Porter musical Silk Stockings, inspired by the film "Ninotchka," will feature Erin Davie …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]Ben Hope and Laura Dreyfuss will be the new "Guy" and "Girl," respectively, of Broadway's 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Once, beginning March 26. Also joining …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]Just in time for the new Broadway musical Hands On a Hardbody, which opens March 21 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, comes the home-video release of the source film documentary of the same na…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2013
Lanford Wilson's The Mound Builders, a tale of archaeologists exploring the remains of an ancient culture, is being unearthed by Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company, opening Mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
The Vineyard Theatre's world-premiere production of Jenny Schwartz's Somewhere Fun, to begin Off-Broadway May 15, will star Kathleen Chalfant, Kate Mulgrew, Greg Keller and more. Ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PM[SHARE]The producers of Rebecca are continuing to push their case that the show's former press rep scuttled the Broadway production last fall by scaring off an "angel investor." In a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PM[SHARE]Murder Ballad, the new rock musical about a New Yorker pulled between her uptown present and her downtown past, is expected to have a commercial life this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Director Scott Schwartz's Philadelphia resident premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar, featuring Rufus Collins as salty editor and literary lion Leonard, with Matt Harrington, Te…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim's score to Passion will gets its second American cast recording when PS Classics preserves the work of the current Off-Broadway Classic Stage Company production starring…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Ford's Theatre's revival of Hello, Dolly! — featuring Washington, DC actor Edward Gero as cantankerous Horace Vandergelder and Nancy Opel as Dolly — begins March 15,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2013
A week has been added to the run The Flick, Annie Baker's study of boredom, yearning and dysfunction in a crew of New England movie-house workers, now playing to April 7 at Off-Broadway&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company's acclaimed, jewelbox-size revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion will get four additional performances Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PM[SHARE]Center Theatre Group's 2013-14 season at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles will feature the U.S. premiere of Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths in the London production of Neil Simon&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]Totem, the new Cirque du Soleil show written and directed by visionary international director Robert Lepage, makes its New York City debut in a Big Top on the grounds of Citi Field — h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Playbill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the dreamers behind Broadway musicals. Here's a look a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:42PM[SHARE]The March 13 episode of the ABC sitcom "The Neighbors" — the series about an average human family moving into a New Jersey community populated by quirky aliens — includ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]The Korean theatrical impresario Chunsoo Shin is one of the lead producers behind a plan to bring the sci-fi musical Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots to Broadway, according to a report in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre, the Off-Broadway company known for focusing on one playwright-in-residence per season, as well as works by alumni writers and a unit of new playwrights, will produce an &q…
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