Monday, May 25, 2015
Off Broadway's MCC Theater has announced that associate artistic director Will Cantler has been promoted to the title of artistic director alongside founders Robert LuPone and Bernard Telsey.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDrag artist Joey Arias, who earned acclaim for the extended New York run of Arias with a Twist, will make his Town Hall debut April 21. The evening will benefit Lifebeat.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe story of the Broadway musical Fela! will come full circle in April. The musical about the Nigerian musician and political figure Fela Anikulapo-Kuti will debut in Lagos, producers offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe know there's a lot of news going on with Spider-Man and everyone is just dying to know who will join Harvey Fierstein in La Cage on Broadway after Jeffrey Tambor exited last week. But if …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMHarry Connick, Jr. In Concert on Broadway, which was filmed live at the Neil Simon Theatre last summer, airs March 2 on PBS' "Great Performances" in the New York metropolitan area.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAcademy Award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine will sign copies of her latest book "I'm Over All That: And Other Confessions" April 13 at the Tribeca Barnes and Noble in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick will be honored at the 2011 Theatre Museum Awards, which will be presented May 16 at the New York Players Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMHere's Playbill.com's weekly "Last Chance" reminder to catch Broadway, Off-Broadway and world-premiere productions before they take a final bow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMEmmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas stars in the title role of Shakespeare's rarely produced morality play, Timon of Athens, which officially opens March 1 at the Public Theater after pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe cast of the national tour of Hair will offer a one-night-only "Be-In" concert March 14 in Chicago to benefit Broadway Impact.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Kate Baldwin, Tituss Burgess and Lauren Kennedy will perform the music of songwriter Jonathan Reid Gealt March 30 at the Upper East Side Barnes and Noble.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMNeil Patrick Harris, Stacy Keach and Ron Rifkin will honor playwright Jon Robin Baitz at the Ojai Playwrights Conference's Substance and Desire benefit March 26 in California.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe know there's a lot of news going on with Spider-Man and everyone is just dying to know who will join Harvey Fierstein in La Cage on Broadway after Jeffrey Tambor exited last week. But if …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Boston Conservatory stages Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash's rarely-seen 1943 musical One Touch of Venus, about a window dresser who brings the goddess of love to life with a kiss, beginning M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe National Theatre of Scotland's Iraq War ensemble drama Black Watch, which sold out both of its previous New York engagements, will return to St. Ann's Warehouse in April, the New York Ti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMRinne Groff's Compulsion and the Broadway-aimed Lisa D'Amour play Detroit are among the finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWashington State's Village Theatre, which aided in the development of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, will debut two new musicals as part of its 2011-2012 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Brian Murray has joined the cast of the Westport Country Playhouse reading of the 1941 Broadway thriller Angel Street, which will take place March 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMLong Story Short, former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Colin Quinn's one-man comedy about the decline of the world's great empires, concludes its extended Broadway engagement March 5 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Tom Hewitt captains B.H. Barry's stage adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson adventure classic Treasure Island, which officially opens March 5 at the Irondale Center in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWriter-musician Kyle Jarrow's new play with rock music, Hypochondria, will debut in April at Columbia University.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMObie Award winner Eve Ensler will stage her theatre piece Swimming Upstream, about women in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as a one-night-only benefit March 21 at the Alley Theatre in H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMColin Quinn Long Story Short, the former "SNL" cast member's solo comedy about the rise and fall of the world's greatest empires, will debut April 9 on HBO at 10 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Dallas Theater Center will stage Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning comedy God of Carnage, Geoffrey Nauffts' Tony-nominated drama about faith and love Next Fall and Michael John LaChiusa'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDaniel Radcliffe will make a quick trip from the World Wide Wicket Company to the world of wizards this summer. The Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award-winning director John Doyle, who staged the Broadway revivals of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Company, will take on the composer-lyricist's short-lived musical Merrily We R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMLong Story Short, former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Colin Quinn's one-man comedy about the decline of the world's great empires, concludes its extended Broadway engagement March 5 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Tom Hewitt captains B.H. Barry's stage adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson adventure classic Treasure Island, which officially opens March 5 at the Irondale Center in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe marathon theatre event, The 24 Hour Musicals, featuring Kristoffer Diaz, Mandy Gonzalez, America Ferrera and Anthony Rapp, culminates in a one-night-only March 7 performance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe British theatre company Punchdrunk invites New York audiences to enter the haunting world of Sleep No More, an immersive theatrical event inspired by Shakespeare's Macbeth, beginning Mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWonderland star Janet Dacal and Hugh Panaro join the Young People's Chorus of New York City for a special one-night-only concert March 7 at the Rose Theater within Frederick P. Rose Hall.
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