Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Bruce Norris, whose play Clybourne Park features white and African-American characters — to Pulitzer Prize-honored, Tony Award-winning effect — stripped a German theatre company …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, has enlisted Stratford Shakespeare Festival favorites Sara Topham and Bruce Dow to be among the woods-dwelling characters in A Midsummer Ni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMThe Philadelphia world premiere of the new musical song cycle Stars of David, featuring song contributions by major writers of the musical theatre, begins Oct. 17. The cast features Nancy Ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMClassic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov, already extended by two weeks to Dec. 9, begins its run Oct. 17 at CSC's home on East 13th Street. Ethan Ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Los Angeles debut of the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar, starring Aya Cash, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Jennifer Ikeda and Greg Keller, all circling Academy A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, October 16, 2012
The 50th season of two-time Tony Award-winning Goodspeed Musicals will include revivals of the Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Good News! and The Most Happy Fella, all at the historic Goods…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PMThe Clive Barnes Foundation nominated four actors and three dancers for its 2012 Clive Barnes Awards. One artist from each discipline will be named later this year. Joaquina Kalukango of Off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PMTony Award nominee Jonathan Groff revealed a new side of himself in the midwest on Oct. 13 when he sang two sold-out cabaret performances that featured pop music, show tunes and specialty nu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMThe Long Wharf Theatre staging of the one-man Louis Armstrong play Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson, has extended its run an additional four performances through Nov. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMThe Goodman Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and Chicago Shakespeare Theater's revival of Follies each took six Joseph Jefferson Awards at the Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMMonday, October 15, 2012
Tony Lo Bianco will play late, beloved New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in a new solo play The Little Flower, written and directed by the actor, in a brief Off-Broadway engagement t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PMThe 25th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will be celebrated as a Special Gala Performance on Jan. 26, 2013. Exact details of the 6:3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PMSimon Stephens' Harper Regan earned a handful of glowing reviews in recent days, including praise for Mary McCann in the title role, prompting Atlantic Theater Company to announce an ext…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMThe F.B.I. and the U.S. Attorney's office charged Long Island businessman Mark Hotton with defrauding the producers of the Broadway show Rebecca – The Musical "by fabricating …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMThe Jeff Awards, celebrating excellence in Chicago-area Equity theatre, will be given out Oct. 15. A dozen new plays or adaptations are in the mix, pointing to Chicago as a continuing breedi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, October 13, 2012
Sex, drugs, religion, celebrity, music and romance are swirled together in the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, co-written by Kathie Lee Gifford, beginn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGeorge and Martha, the English-speaking theatre's most contentious married couple since Katharina and Petruchio, are back on Broadway in a new production of Edward Albee's Who's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 12, 2012
Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Roundabout Theatre Company's Cyrano de Bergerac.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PMMiriam Margolyes' Olivier Award-nominated one-woman show, Dickens' Women, an intimate evening of indelible characters that has been presented around the world, will play two Manhatta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Anthony LaPaglia plays Richard M. Nixon opposite Tony nominee Kathryn Erbe as wife Pat in Douglas McGrath's new political-minded play, Checkers, beginning Oct. 12 at Of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMShuler Hensley, who won a Tony Award for playing brooding Jud Fry in Oklahoma!, stars in the New York City premiere of Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale, about a 600-pound m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 11, 2012
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's new production of Sunday in the Park With George, embraced by critics and selling briskly, will get an extra week, now to Nov. 11, the Tony Award-winning th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMThe U.S. premiere of Nick Payne's humor-kissed dysfunctional-family drama If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, at Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway home at the Laura Pels …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PMThe creative team of the new musical Diner, based on the movie of the same name, began a four-week workshop Oct. 8 in Manhattan to prepare for the show's spring 2013 Broadway bow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMSignature Theatre in Arlington, VA, continues it commitment to developing new works with a one-weekend-only concert of Crossing, a musical by Matt Conner (Nevermore; The Hollow) and Grace Ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMObie Award winner Lisa Emery plays drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite David Chandler as aging actor James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night, opening Oct. 11 at Actors Theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAs if performing in an animated Baroque-era painting, Clémence Poésy, Patrick Page, Bill Buell, Kyle Soller and Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge star in the new Broadway product…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, October 10, 2012
Carol Channing's Oct. 20 public Q&A at The Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts on the Campus of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, has been postponed to a later date owing…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PMLaunching a new musical is complicated. In order to allow for the sharpening of the technical aspects of the world-premiere production of the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PMTruman Capote's indelible little-girl-lost, Holly Golightly, will appear on Broadway in early 2013 in a new Richard Greenberg adaptation of the novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's.&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMElla Minnow Pea, a musical fantasy about disintegrating language on an island, by Larson Award-winning writers Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel, will get private performances in Manhattan Oct. …
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