Wednesday, February 13, 2013
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PM[SHARE]Old Jews Telling Jokes, the Off-Broadway evening of comedy whose title says it all, will get an offshoot Chicago production this fall. Marc Bruni will again direct the revue by Peter Gethers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PM[SHARE]Ramin Karimloo, star of London's The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies, will play Jean Valjean in the new Canadian-cast company of the 25th-anniversary edition of Les Misér…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Manhattan Theatre Club will give voice to dramatists Ayad Akhtar, Greg Pierce, Jonathan Caren, Ethan Lipton, Ben Ockrent, Janine Nabers, Sharon Kenny and Rachel Bonds in its spring Ernst C. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]Tom Hooper's hit film Les Misérables, starring Academy Award nominees Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, will be released March 22 on Blu-ray and DVD from Universal Studios Home Ente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PM[SHARE]The Lake Effect, a new drama of family secrets by 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, will get its world premiere by Silk Road Rising in Chicago April 23-May 26. Joseph's Bengal T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]Old Hats is the name of the new work by clowning Tony Award winners Bill Irwin and David Shiner, who appear in the show's world premiere by Signature Theatre Company starting Feb. 12, fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The troupers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of the best-reviewed musicals of the 2012-13 Broadway season, and now extended to March 10, welcome Andrew Samonsky and Erin Davie into the fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2013
The Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the family drama starring the previously reported Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, began rehearsals Feb. 11. Jona…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:19PM[SHARE]La Jolla Playhouse will present the world premiere of The Tallest Tree, a new play with music about the performer and civil rights icon Paul Robeson, written and performed by Daniel Beaty, d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]The box office at Broadway's Cort Theatre opened noon Feb. 11 for ticket sales for the new world-premiere production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, adapted by Tony Award winner Richard G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PM[SHARE]Episodes of "It Could Be Worse," a new showbiz-minded, scripted web comedy series co-created and written by longtime actor-collaborators Mitchell Jarvis (Rock of Ages) and Wesley T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 10, 2013
The Broadway cast recording of Once was named Best Musical Theater Album in the 2013 Grammy Awards on Feb. 10. The winner, among nominees that included Newsies, Follies, The Gershwins' P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:22PM[SHARE]The troupers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of the best-reviewed musicals of the 2012-13 Broadway season, and now extended to March 10, say goodbye to Andy Karl and Betsy Wolfe on Feb. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 9, 2013
A classic "nor'easter" storm that swept up the U.S. East Coast and merged with another storm from the Midwest — commingling with Arctic high-pressure to the north —…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PM[SHARE]The new Broadway revival of The Heiress ends its limited-engagement run on Feb. 9 with the 7 PM performance, an earlier-than-usual start time at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Producers previ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2013
A classic "nor'easter" storm barreling up the U.S. East Coast and merging with another storm drifting in from the Midwest — commingling with Arctic high-pressure to the n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Pump Boys and Dinettes, announced for a March 19 start at Circle in the Square Theatre, will not happen this season, after all. Producers have postponed the staging t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company's new Off-Broadway production of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Talley's Folly, the delicate study of two disparate souls, played by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]A classic "nor'easter" storm barreling up the U.S. East Coast and merging with another storm drifting in from the Midwest — commingling with Arctic high-pressure to the n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Denver Center Theatre Company explores five plays in staged readings as part of the 8th Annual Colorado New Play Summit Feb. 8-10. The playwrights are Catherine Trieschmann, Matthew Lopez, L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]A classic "nor'easter" storm barreling up the U.S. East Coast and merging with another storm drifting in from the Midwest — commingling with Arctic high-pressure to the n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AM[SHARE]Passion, the dark, Italian-set musical rumination on the light and dark nature of love — and the idea of unconditional love — gets its first New York City revival starting Feb. 8…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Talley's Folly, the delicate study of two disparate souls, played by Danny Burste…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2013
The major musicals of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II will find a home at Lyric Opera of Chicago between 2013 and 2017, the Lyric's general director Anthony Freud announced on F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:48PM[SHARE]Cats is not returning to Broadway, but felines are being sought in an open call for the world-premiere Broadway production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, in which a cat plays a supporting ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PM[SHARE]Jason Loewith, the librettist, director, theatre administrator and new-plays advocate who most recently served as executive director of the National New Plays Network, has been named artisti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PM[SHARE]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. Of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Tony Award-honored Washington, DC, theatre, will stage plays by Noël Coward, William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde in its 2013-14 season, artistic directo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PM[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 02:58PM[SHARE]Casting is complete for the Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the family drama starring the previously reported Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, Manhat…
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