Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The Ghostlight Records cast album for the acclaimed Tony Award-winning new Broadway production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes hit No. 1 on iTunes' Soundtrack Chart Aug. 23, the same …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMThursday, August 18, 2011
James Barbour, who was announced to star as Frank 'N' Furter in The Old Globe's new production of The Rocky Horror Show, has exited the cult favorite due to family matters, it wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PMWednesday, August 10, 2011
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's popular Des McAnuff-directed revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, which will move to La Jolla Playhouse in southern California starting in November, ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AMThursday, August 4, 2011
Additional casting has been announced for the revised revival of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever starring Harry Connick Jr., which will begin previews at Broadway's St. Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMMonday, August 1, 2011
Think of it as a new waltz for "Che" and "Eva." Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin will bring their acclaimed concert act to Broadway's Ethel Barrymor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PM"Smash," the new hourlong drama-with-music about the making (and makers) of a Broadway musical, will launch on the network Feb. 6, 2012, at 10 PM ET, according to the show's of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PMMonday, July 25, 2011
PS Classics' studio cast recording of Vernon Duke and Ogden Nash's 1946 musical, Sweet Bye and Bye, which was released July 12, debuted at #10 on the Billboard Top Cast Album chart i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMThursday, June 23, 2011
Bonnie and Clyde, the new rockabilly-and-blues-infused musical about the Depression-era American outlaws, will begin previews Nov. 4 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre with an official opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMWednesday, June 22, 2011
With "money" reviews from the New York Times and other publications in its gym bag, Off-Broadway's Lysistrata Jones — the pop-comic musical rewrite of Aristophanes' a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMSunday, June 19, 2011
Director John Rando's Guys and Dolls for Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, officially opens June 19 at 5 PM following previews that began June 15. The company is led by Michael…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJenn Colella plays Heather, known for doing her "strong woman" numbers, in the York Theatre Company revival of Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer's rueful pop musical I'm Gettin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, June 15, 2011
The Spoon River Project, a dramatic new adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters' 1915 collection of poems, "The Spoon River Anthology," comes alive at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemeter…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, June 13, 2011
The York Theatre Company, the Off-Broadway company committed solely to musical theatre, will present the 20th Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre to Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMMonday, June 6, 2011
Florida Stage, an iconic presence in South Florida's theatre scene since 1987, has closed its doors after its board of directors voted June 5 to seek court-ordered bankruptcy protection.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMSaturday, June 4, 2011
The 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were handed out May 23 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan, make their broadcast debut June 4 at 9 PM ET on the Ovation network.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 31, 2011
The Bay Street Theatre launches its 20th season with Jay Presson Allen's Tru, starring "Saturday Night Live" veteran Darrell Hammond, which begins previews May 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 20, 2011
Baby It's You!, the story of a New Jersey housewife who launched the 1960s girl-group The Shirelles, will begin offering Friday matinees next month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMTuesday, May 17, 2011
Brian Bedford, who directed and stars in the Roundabout Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, told Playbill.com he was "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMMonday, May 9, 2011
Greta Lee and Zoe Winters have been announced to join Tony Award-winning actress Mary Louise Wilson and Gabriel Ebert for the world premiere of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, which will premie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMDouglas Sills, a Tony Award nominee for The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Sara Gettelfinger, last seen on Broadway in A Free Man of Color, will star as Gomez and Morticia, respectively, in the nati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMIn conjunction with its upcoming production of The Seven Deadly Sins, New York City Ballet presents the seminar "The Seven Deadly Sins: Creating a Ballet" May 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 5, 2011
The winners of the 67th Annual Theatre World Awards — honoring performers making their New York stage debuts on or Off-Broadway — will be announced May 10 at noon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AMTuesday, May 3, 2011
Lombardi, Eric Simonson's football drama about late Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, will end its Broadway run May 22, producers announced on May 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22PMMonday, April 25, 2011
The Vineyard Theatre has extended the world-premiere production of Christopher Shinn's Picked an additional week through May 22 Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMAdditional cities have been announced for the national tour of the Tony Award-nominated Green Day musical American Idiot, which will launch Dec. 28 in Toronto.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMSunday, April 24, 2011
The Off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, the historic play documenting the American AIDS crisis in the mid 1980's, concludes i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, April 23, 2011
Tomorrow Morning, Laurence Mark Wythe's musical about "coupling and uncoupling," seen in London and Chicago, concludes its New York City run at The York Theatre Company's h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 7, 2011
In conjunction with its upcoming production of The Seven Deadly Sins, New York City Ballet will present the seminar "The Seven Deadly Sins: Creating a Ballet" May 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMMonday, April 4, 2011
Following an injury sustained during a performance of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark in March, T.V. Carpio, the actress playing supervillain Arachne, returned to that production at Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMWednesday, March 30, 2011
Tomorrow Morning, Laurence Mark Wythe's musical about "coupling and uncoupling," seen in London and Chicago, officially opens in its New York City premiere at The York Theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 28, 2011
John Scoullar, a composer, lyricist, playwright and performer, died on March 25, his partner Bradshaw Smith said. He had been battling skin cancer. He was 61.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PM 
