Friday, November 1, 2013
The creative team has been announced for the Broadway premiere of John Cameron Mitchell and Steven Trask's landmark rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Emmy Award winner Nei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
It all sounds like something from a play. A nonprofit theatre is being harassed with a flood of online bullying, which they suspect might be coming from a colleague in the theatre industry. …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:50PMTuesday, October 15, 2013
The Last Goodbye, the new Broadway-aimed musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet that uses the music of late singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley for its score, will likely have another develo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AMSunday, October 13, 2013
Pearl Theatre Company's production of George Bernard Shaw's You Never Can Tell, presented in collaboration with Gingold Theatrical Group, plays its final performance Off-Broadway Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 11, 2013
The Vineyard Theatre's production of John Kander's three-part musical The Landing, which was recently extended through Nov. 24, will be recorded by Jay Records, Playbill.com has…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, October 7, 2013
Theatregoers, consider yourself warned. Long after exiting the Booth Theatre, where the achingly beautiful revival of The Glass Menagerie is currently in performances, this play will stay wi…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:14AMFriday, October 4, 2013
An interview with Sara Montgomery, founding member of The New Ateh Theater Group, and Francesca Day and Marta Kuersten, co-founders of Cake Productions, whose theatre companies are teaming u…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:08AMFriday, September 27, 2013
Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof begins performances at the 8th Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival Sept. 27. The theme of this yea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, September 12, 2013
Well Go USA has picked up all U.S. rights (theatrical, non-theatrical, home video, television and digital/electronic) from Bleiberg Entertainment for "McCanick," the final fil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Canadian director Gia Milani received the Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival for her film "All the Wrong Reasons," which stars late "Glee&quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AMMonday, September 2, 2013
When Lauren LoGuidice met Greta Garbo, it was a match made in Heaven. LoGuidice, an actor, writer and producer, had recently completed performing one solo show titled Queens Girl and wasn’…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:26PMThursday, August 15, 2013
Love is many things in this musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost – a gun, a game and most of all, a puzzlement. Written and directed by Alex Timbers and compo…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:17AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
The Surflight Theatre has extended its production of Les Misérables through Aug. 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMSaturday, August 10, 2013
I’m not a big fan of sitcoms – I don’t subscribe to cable or get any TV stations at my apartment – so I was a little disappointed in finding a combination of a sitcom…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 06:51PMMonday, August 5, 2013
Tony and Academy Award nominee Ed Harris will join Ethan Hawke for the new film adaptation of Shakespeare's Cymbeline, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMSunday, August 4, 2013
When did being busy become such a bad thing? Ever since I got my driver’s license and could get around on my own, I have been busy. In high school, I was busy with school, an internshi…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:51PMFriday, July 26, 2013
“Together/Far Apart showcases 3 pairs of poets and their journey together as they navigate a myriad of relationships while negotiating art-making, time, family, space and dreams. Can t…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 07:39PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
I’m just going to say it: I don’t care about the royal baby. I’m glad the baby and his mother are healthy in the context that I’m impersonally happy that any baby and…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 07:22PMSunday, July 21, 2013
I was so motivated after seeing The Future Has Spoken: A Celebration of Emerging Young Artists at Women Center Stage. Featuring the talents of Girl Be Heard, viBe Theater Experience and Urba…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:39PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
Dominique Fishback performs Subverted, a one-woman show of spoken word, by the poet and first time playwright. Subverted portrays the destruction of Black identity through the eyes of Eden. …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:08PMMonday, July 15, 2013
Dina Vovsi directs everything’s whispered (for now). “Joann is late for her first day of work, she’s recently divorced, and she’d really like to get her 8 year-old da…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:35PMSaturday, July 13, 2013
Golden Globe and Tony Award-nominated "Glee" star Matthew Morrison, who played a three-show engagement at 54 Below in June, returns to the Manhattan nightspot July 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 9, 2013
Golden Globe and Tony Award-nominated "Glee" star Matthew Morrison, who played a three-show engagement at 54 Below in June, will return to the Manhattan nightspot July 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMSaturday, July 6, 2013
Tracy Bersley directs For Immediate (and timely) Release, By Daniel Piper Kublick, Dorothy Abrahams and Bersley. Important up-to-date information for Bunker AA 6-4-2-0! Only essential person…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:52PMLauren Whitehead directs her original work A Tribe Called Blessed: Songs toward the Advancement of (T)history. Every story has a point of origin and a different point of origin depending on …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:10AMThursday, July 4, 2013
Sherri Eden Barber directs Only You Can Prevent Wildfires Conceived by Barber and written by Harrison David Rivers. In 2002, the Hayman Fire burned 133 homes, 138,114 acres and forced the ev…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:54PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Madeline Sayet directs Daughters of Leda, which she also wrote. Leda was raped by a swan. Later, her swan-babies, Helen and Clytemnestra, became just as infamous as she. How many glitches oc…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:21PMMonday, July 1, 2013
I am proud to announce I am an official press partner for Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival. For the next week, CareyPurcell.com will feature interviews with the participan…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:29PMSaturday, June 22, 2013
I left the Seeing Place Theater’s production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with my head full of questions. What exactly had happened? What was this play trying to say? And why h…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:07AMThursday, June 20, 2013
It’s hard to be outraged when laughing this hard. But the delightfully entertaining production of The Comedy of Errors, currently playing as part of Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacort…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:18PMThursday, June 13, 2013
What would happen if everyone woke up tomorrow and loved the body they were in? That is a good question. And one that is being asked in the upcoming documentary theatre production Good Shape…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:14PM 
