Friday, March 1, 2013
Hartford Stage opens the world-premiere production of Man in a Case, a movement-friendly stage adaptation of two stories by Anton Chekhov, March 1 following previews from Feb. 21 in Connecti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 28, 2013
The Goodman Theatre in Chicago announced three world premieres for its 2013-14 season, including Luna Gale by Rebecca Gilman, directed by Robert Falls; Smokefall by Noah Haidle, a Goodman co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMPassion, the Italian-set musical rumination on the light and dark nature of love — and the idea of unconditional love — opens Feb. 28 in its first New York City revival. Tony Awa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMCanadian dramatist George F. Walker gets a major American spotlight Feb. 28-March 24 with the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) world premiere of his dark comedy Dead Metaphor. Directed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAcademy and Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg co-star in the Rattlestick Plawrights Theater world premiere of The Revisionist, Eisenberg&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 27, 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 05:54PMNeil LaBute's new play, The Money Shot, billed as "an old-fashioned comedy about real family values, L.A.-style," will get a private Manhattan reading on March 13. Terry K…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMTuesday, February 26, 2013
Actors' Equity Association, the labor union representing more than 49,000 professional stage actors and stage managers in the U.S., received a national charter from the AFL-CIO on Feb. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMA new era in the American life of Andrew Lloyd Webber's megahit The Phantom of the Opera begins this fall with the launch of a national tour of a newly reimagined production of the roman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMEric Coble's The Velocity of Autumn, a new play starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, previously announced for a spring Broadway launch, will instead begin at Arena Stage in Was…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMEdie Falco plays a mother and teacher who sheds her life and moves to a rundown apartment building in the world premiere of The Madrid, Liz Flahive's comedy that opens Feb. 26 following …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMGoodspeed Musicals' new adaptation of the Jazz Age musical Good News!, about college romance, football and a certain dance called "The Varsity Drag," will feature Beth Glover, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLooped, Matthew Lombardo's Broadway comedy for which Valerie Harper was a 2010 Best Actress Tony Award nominee, launches Feb. 26 on a national tour starring Emmy Award nominee Stefanie P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Noël and Cole," the new PS Classics studio cast album marrying the wit, sorrow and melody of songwriters Noël Coward and Cole Porter, gets released Feb. 26, offering 22 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLanford Wilson's The Mound Builders, a tale of archaeologists exploring the remains of an ancient culture, gets unearthed by Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company starting Feb. 26…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Northlight Theatre, the suburban Chicago resident theatre known for contemporary plays, will produce the world premiere of Irish writer Christian O'Reilly's Chapatti, featuring Emmy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMRoundabout Theatre Company's second annual Roundabout Underground Reading Series begins Feb. 25 with Jonathan Caren's The Recommendation, directed by Laura Savia. Tickets to presenta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMThe Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series this spring and summer will feature the world premiere of Erica Lipez's The Tutors and the New York premiere of the musical Murder for Two, a hit i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMDavid Henry Hwang's The Dance and the Railroad, his 1981 play about Chinese workers forging the American Transcontinental Railroad, opens Feb. 25 in an Off-Broadway revival by Signa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 24, 2013
Roundabout Theatre Company's limited-engagement production of Picnic, William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town women yearning for what's beyond, ends on schedule…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
The Brooks Atkinson Theatre opens Feb. 23 as the Broadway garage of Hands On a Hardbody, the new musical about a gaggle of American dreamers engaged in an endurance contest to win a pickup t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 22, 2013
PS Classics will record and release "Laura Osnes Sings Maury Yeston," drawing from the Tony Award-nominated actress' November 2012 turn at the cabaret 54 Below. This is the sec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 21, 2013
S. Epatha Merkerson, Howard McGillin, Jerry Dixon, Wally Dunn, Philip Hoffman, Jose Llana and Tyrah Skye Odoms are the latest names added to the cast of the Actors Fund's March 4 benefit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PMThe Rascals: Once Upon a Dream, a new concert event written by guitarist Steven Van Zandt, with music and lyrics by Felix Cavaliere & Eddie Brigati, will play a limited engagement at Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMComplete casting for Ford's Theatre's spring revival of Hello, Dolly! — featuring the previously announced Washington, DC actor Edward Gero as cantankerous Horace Vanderge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMHartford Stage launches the world premiere of Man in a Case, a movement-friendly stage adaptation of two stories by Anton Chekhov, Feb. 21 in Connecticut. The work stars Mikhail Baryshnikov,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 20, 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 04:30PMEmmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch, known for playing a bullying cheer coach on TV's "Glee," will take over the role of orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in Broadway's Anni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PMDarren Goldstein, of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, will join the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of The Madrid, in the role of Danny, starting Feb. 28, two days after ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMTony Award-nominated director Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) directs Mickey Sumner and Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Carol Kane in the worl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 19, 2013
David Henry Hwang's The Dance and the Railroad, the play about Chinese workers forging the American Transcontinental Railroad, has been extended one week, now to March 24, in its Off-Bro…
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