Tickets for the Los Angeles engagement of God of Carnage, which reunites original Broadway cast members Marcia Gay Harden, James Gandolfini, Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis, go on sale to the ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe 2011 Nightlife Awards, featuring performances by Christine Ebersole, Colin Quinn, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, are presented Jan. 31 at Town Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe LCT3 world premiere of Nathan Louis Jackson's When I Come to Die, about a death-row inmate who is faced with questions about faith and hope when he survives a lethal injection, begins pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMShakespeare's Hamlet takes the witness stand in The Trial of Hamlet, featuring Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and actors Helen Hunt and Tom Irwin, Jan. 31 in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAfter a brief hiatus, the acclaimed Broadway revival of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino and Lily Rabe, resumes performances Feb. 1 at the Broadhurst Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award-winning actor Mandy Patinkin portrays haunted playwright Sid Silver in Rinne Groff's Compulsion, which begins performances Feb. 1 Off-Broadway at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMElevator Repair Service, which dazzled New York audiences with Gatz, its treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," is giving Ernest Hemingway a shot. The Select (The Sun Also Ri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Liz Callaway will perform the music of Stephen Sondheim and the late Frank Loesser when she joins the Columbus Symphony Orchestra Feb. 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMCatch Me If You Can, the new Broadway musical from Tony Award-winning Hairspray songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, has delayed the start of Broadway previews by four days.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMA new film about the life of Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning songwriter Elton John is in the works. Billy Elliot collaborator Lee Hall is penning the screenplay.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Ann Hampton Callaway has been added to New York City Opera's April 21 concert Defying Gravity: The Music of Stephen Schwartz.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Public Theater staging of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino and Lily Rabe, will return to Broadway Feb. 1 with a few new faces on the rialto.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAl Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Natalie Portman and Colin Firth are among the winners of the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which were presented Jan. 30 at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditoriu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe life of Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, is explored in Thomas Kilroy's My Scandalous Life at the Irish Repertory Theater, beginning Feb. 2 Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTennessee Williams' dark memory play Vieux Carré takes on new life in a new production by New York's Wooster Group, beginning Feb. 2 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMJackie Five-Oh!, the latest show from Addams Family cast member Jackie Hoffman, has extended its run at Joe's Pub. Audiences will be delighted and offended through April 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award-winning actress Victoria Clark will get into the habit of the new Broadway musical Sister Act. The Light in the Piazza star has been cast as Mother Superior in the new disco music…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMComplete casting has been announced for the world premiere of the Steven Sater-Serj Tankian musical Prometheus Bound, which will bow at the American Repertory Theater Feb. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMIn 2010 the Public Theater brought repertory Shakespeare back to Central Park. The company will continue the tradition with repertory productions of All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM"Glee" actress Jane Lynch will trace the roots of caustic cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester in her new memoir "Happy Accidents," due out this September, according to the New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBen Lewis and Anna O'Byrne will star as the Phantom and Christine, respectively, in the Australian premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the dark sequel to the hit musical The P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe online men’s magazine Ask Men has named Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley and Lea Michele among its Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2011.According to Ask Men, the list “ranks …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMPuppeteer and director Theodora Skipitares pulls the strings on Lysistrata, Aristophanes' comedy about sexual politics and the mechanics of war, beginning Feb. 3 at LaMaMa e.t.c.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Yale Repertory Theatre production of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, starring Eisa Davis and LeRoy McClain, officially opens Feb. 3 after previews that began Jan. 28 at the Yale Repert…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAndrew D. Hamingson will vacate his position as executive director of the Public Theater, the organization announced Feb. 2. Citing personal reasons for his departure, Hamingson will be temp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award-winning entertainer Ben Vereen will celebrate the release of his new album, "Steppin' Out Live," Feb. 15 at the Upper East Side Barnes and Noble.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Daniel Jenkins, Vivienne Benesch, Deanne Lorette and Stephen Barker Turner have been cast in the Keen Company's 25th anniversary production of Michael Frayn's Benefactors.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDayton, OH's Human Race Theatre Company has announced its 25th anniversary season, which will include the Jeanine Tesori-Tony Kushner musical Caroline, or Change, as well as the Tony Award-w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM"Mad Men" actress Miss Yager and "Drop Dead Diva" cast member Josh Stamberg will also be part of the L.A. Theatre Works production of Becky Shaw, featuring Academy Award winner Marsha Mason.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award winner Judy Kaye will repeat her work as Grandma Kurnitz in Neil Simon's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning family play Lost in Yonkers. Performances will begin Feb. 26 at the Arizon…
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