Monday, February 25, 2013
David 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 04:12PM[SHARE]The 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 01:40PM[SHARE]Complete 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 12:25PM[SHARE]Hartford 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 04:30PM[SHARE]Emmy 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 02:08PM[SHARE]Darren 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 01:22PM[SHARE]Tony 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Producer Cameron Mackintosh made official on Feb. 19 something he had all but promised in recent months: His 25th-anniversary production of Les Misérables, which features fresh scenic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PM[SHARE]A cast recording of the 2012 Off-Broadway production of the musical Dogfight — featuring a pop-rock score by rising theatre songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul — will be relea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) revealed four of its seven 2013-14 season titles, including a new production of the musical 1776, directed by Tony Award winner Frank Galati, and B.D. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PM[SHARE]The Brits Off Broadway festival, offering an eclectic collection of the U.K. theatre in New York City, will return March 27-June 30 for its ninth season. Titles were announced on Feb. 18 by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]Monday, February 18, 2013
Playwright A. Zell Williams is the recipient of Philadelphia Theatre Company's Terrence McNally New Play Award for the research and development of his play, The Urban Retreat, PTC announ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:29PM[SHARE]Rattlestick Playwrights Theater will present the world premiere of Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar, starring Michael Urie as a struggling Los Angeles actor working for a superstar, s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]Ann, actress-writer Holland Taylor's biographical play about late Texas Governor Ann Richards, begins Broadway previews Feb. 18 prior to opening March 7 at Lincoln Center Theater's V…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Jerome Robbins Foundation will fete dancer-actress Chita Rivera, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director-producer Harold Prince — who worked with Robbins on West Side Story…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 17, 2013
James Barbour and Jenny Powers star in Irish Repertory Theatre's new production of Donnybrook!, the Johnny Burke-scored 1961 Broadway musical about the code of masculinity in Ireland, op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2013
Laoisa Sexton's For Love, about the sexual adventures of three women in modern-day central Dublin, will begin performances March 13 as part of the Irish Repertory Theatre's season in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]The board of the Foursquare Foundation — the charitable arm of The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, founded by evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson — has been "re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AM[SHARE]One Night with Janis Joplin, a popular attraction at Arena Stage in fall 2012, will return for a summer 2013 engagement, June 21-Aug. 11. Mary Bridget Davies, a 2013 Helen Hayes Award nomine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Alex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten are featured in The Flick, Annie Baker's new Off-Broadway play that reunites her with director Sam Gold. Playwrights Hori…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
Tanya Barfield's foreign-adoption drama The Call, a world-premiere co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages, will feature Kelly AuCoin, Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler, O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PM[SHARE]Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Story, the biographical musical about the stylish actress and singer, is aiming for Broadway this fall, according to participants in the project. No official a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM[SHARE]Director Scott Schwartz's ensemble cast for the Philadelphia resident premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar will feature Rufus Collins as salty editor and literary lion Leonard, plus …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Brighid Fleming, Adam Haas Hunter, Robert Joy, Dakin Matthews and Jeanne Syquia will star in Jennifer Haley's The Nether, about the addictive world of virtual reality, getting its world …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PM[SHARE]The affenpinscher Banana Joe, the "Best in Show" winner of the 2013 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Feb. 12, will make a cameo appearance in the Feb. 13 evening performance of …
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