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Jim Parrack, making his Broadway debut as Slim in Of Mice and Men, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMPotted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff, the Olivier-nominated production that presents all seven "Harry Potter" books in 70 minutes, will play a limited …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PMBonnie & Clyde, with music by Tony Award nominee Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Tony winner Don Black and a book by Ivan Menchell, will play the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre beginning Nov. 4. La…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMSeminar, Theresa Rebeck’s new play about the creative and personal tensions of four young novelists who are taking a private writing class with a potentially damaging teacher, played b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMHugh Jackman, who won a Tony Award for his Broadway debut in The Boy from Oz, will return to The Great White Way in his solo show, Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway. Performances begin Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMVenus in Fur, David Ives’ two-character play about the relationship between a hungry actress and a controlling writer-director, made its Broadway premiere Oct. 13 at the Samuel J. Frie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMTony Award winner David Henry Hwang’s comedy Chinglish began performances at the Longacre Theatre Oct. 11. According to the producers, “Chinglish is the new comedy about the misa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMA new revival of Godspell begins performances at Circle in the Square Theatre Oct. 13. Conceived and originally directed by John-Michael Tebelak with music and lyrics by Academy and Grammy A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMJon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities will begin previews at the Booth Theatre Oct. 12. The work centers on a shamed Republican family who buries a crime committed by their eldest son,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AMTony Award-winning actress Phyllis Newman was recently on hand at New York City’s P.S. 212 to read and sing from the brand-new children’s book “What’s New At The Zoo?…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMSamuel L. Jackson portrays Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in The Mountaintop, which begins performances Sept. 22 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Taking place on April 3, 1968, The Mountaintop…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMRelatively Speaking — three one-act comedies by the writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen — begins performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre Sept. 20. Directed by John…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMThe MCC Theater world-premiere staging of Jeff Talbott’s The Submission, starring Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff and Rutina Wesley, will arrive Off-Broadway in September. Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Terence Rattigan’s Man and Boy begins performances at the American Airlines Theatre Sept. 9. Here’s how Roundabout bills the 196…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMConstantine Maroulis, who originated the role of hopeful young musician Drew in the Off-Broadway and subsequent Broadway production of Rock of Ages, will appear in the upcoming motion pictur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52PMRent, the 1996 rock musical about a group of friends, lovers and artists seeking to express themselves in the age of AIDS, returned to New York City July 14. The Jonathan Larson work plays …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFollowing a successful run in Washington, DC, the Kennedy Center production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning Follies begins previews at Broadway’s Marqu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PM"Trading Spaces" and Chicago star Paige Davis helped Volunteers of America (VOA) kick off VOA’s Operation Backpack campaign, which began June 27. The drive “collects brand-ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMThe national tour of the Tony-winning revival of Hair will play a limited Broadway engagement beginning July 5 at the St. James Theatre. Winner of the of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMTerrence McNally’s music-kissed biographical drama about opera diva Maria Callas, Master Class, begins previews as Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre June 14. According to MTC…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMVanessa Williams paid a recent visit to Lysistrata Jones, the new Douglas Carter Beane-Lewis Flinn musical that rips a page out of Aristophanes’ ancient comedy about women withholding …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMSome of the biggest talents on both sides of the Atlantic are featured in the cast of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMWonderland, the new musical that reinvents “Alice in Wonderland” for the 21st century, opened at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre April 17. Edward Staudenmayer, who plays the Whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PMLarry Kramer's groundbreaking play The Normal Heart makes its Broadway debut at the John Golden Theatre. "The story of a city in denial," The Normal Heart, according press notes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50PMMatthew Lombardo’s High plays the Booth Theatre. Here’s how the show is characterized: “High explores the universal themes of truth, forgiveness, redemption and human falli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27PMA starry Broadway revival of John Guare’s House of Blue Leaves is in previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre. In The House of Leaves, “Ben Stiller is Artie Shaughnessy, a zookeeper a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFollowing a hit London engagement, Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem currently plays The Music Box Theatre. Here’s how the producers characterize the play: “In the woods of Sout…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMGarson Kanin’s Born Yesterday begins previews at the Cort Theatre March 31. The producers bill the 1946 comedy as the “timely story of a not-so-honest businessman and a not-so-du…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMStephen Adly Guirgis’ new play The Motherf**ker With the Hat plays the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Here’s how the play is described in production notes: “Jackie and Veronic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMTony Award winner Sutton Foster, appearing as Reno Sweeney in Roundabout’s new revival of Anything Goes, wishes everyone a Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Foster is joined onstage at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMRoundabout’s extended Broadway production of The Importance of Being Earnest celebrated its 100th performance at the American Airlines Theatre the evening of March 15. Previews began D…
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