Ella 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. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMThe 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 12:01AMThe Gate Theatre Dublin's production of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape starring John Hurt opens Oct. 10 in a Los Angeles run through Nov. 4 at Center Theatre Group's Kirk…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMChristopher Innvar, Mary McCann, Mary Beth Peil, Jordan Lage, Madeleine Martin, Gareth Saxe and more bring Simon Stephens' tale of Harper Regan to life for Off-Broadway's Atlantic Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe American premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, starring stage and film actress Karen Allen, dawns Off-Broadway Oct. 10 at the Cherry Lane Theatre under the wings of the Rattlestick P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Thomas Sadoski, lately a star of TV's "The Newsroom," appears with Laura Heisler and Peter Katona in the world premiere of Michael Golamco's play about r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMObie Award winner Lisa Emery plays drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite David Chandler as aging actor James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night at Actors Theatre of Louisville starting…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMThe attorney representing the lead producers of the stalled Broadway musical Rebecca said in a statement released the evening of Oct. 7 that following "an extensive inquiry in New York …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36AMA Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago will present the world premiere of Brett Neveu's The Opponent, about the world of small-time boxing, directed by Karen Kessler, Oct. 18-Dec. 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway stars Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess, Ragtime, Master Class, A Raisin in the Sun, Carousel) and Will Swenson (Hair, Priscilla Queen of the Desert) were married on Oct. 6 at their ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMLord of the Flies, Nigel Williams' stage adaptation of William Golding's harrowing novel about children creating a brutal society after being stranded on an island, opens Oct. 7 in a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMNovember, David Mamet's comedy set in the White House, opens Oct. 7 in a new production starring Ed Begley, Jr., as the incumbent U.S. President, at Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress begins previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre Oct. 6. Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain ("The Help")…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMManhattan Theatre Club's Murder Ballad, a new rock musical that launches the company's new Studio at Stage II Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series, will get an extra week of per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMThe Hartford Stage cast of the spring 2013 world-premiere stage adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Man in a Case, featuring the previously announced Mikhail Baryshnikov, will also feature Jes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMThe musical murder-mystery spoof Something's Afoot begins Oct. 5 as the final mainstage show of Goodspeed Musicals' 2012 season. The riff on Agatha Christie tales, with a lady d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMarc Bruni, the busy regional, Off-Broadway and concert director, will direct the Manhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere production of Nell Benjamin's comedy The Explorers Club star…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMThe Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's world-premiere staging of Mia Chung's You for Me for You, a fantasy about North Korean sisters facing the regime there, will feature Kimberly Gil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMJulianne Nicholson, best known for her television work on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," has joined the cast of the film version of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AMThe collapse of the $12 million musical Rebecca in the days before rehearsals were to begin on Oct. 1 was mourned by the cast and staff at a meeting called by the producers. The suddenly une…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMThe Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a doctor whose life is shaken, will feature the previously announced Laurie Metcalf, reprising her earlier O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMArden Theatre Company's resident Philadelphia production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, featuring a unique video design that takes audiences "into the mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJason Danieley, of Broadway's Candide, Curtains, The Full Monty and Next to Normal, plays George in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's new production of Sunday in the Park With Georg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAnnie, the show that introduced generations of children to the tuneful optimism of traditional Broadway musicals, is back on Broadway starting Oct. 3. The 35th anniversary revival of the tal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe rolling world premiere of Terry Teachout's one-man play Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson, launches the Long Wharf Theatre's 2012-2013 season Oct. 3 in New H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCurt Hansen, of Broadway's Hairspray and Next to Normal, will play Snow White's Prince in an English-flavored "panto" production of A Snow White Christmas at Pasadena Playh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PMThe Brooks Atkinson Theatre will be the Broadway garage of Hands On a Hardbody, the new musical about a gaggle of American dreamers engaged in an endurance test to win a pickup truck. Produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMThe 2012 Henry Hewes Design Awards recipients are David Korins (Chinglish), Gregg Barnes (Follies), Brian MacDevitt (Death of a Salesman) and Daniel Kluger (Tribes), the HHDA committee annou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMRachel York is good company on the national tour of Cole Porter's Anything Goes, launching Oct. 2 in Cleveland. Her shipmates in the transatlantic-set show include Fred Applega…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSignature Theatre's staging of Christopher Shinn's homefront drama Dying City, featuring Thomas Keegan and Helen Hayes Award nominee Rachel Zampelli under the direction of Matthew Ga…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPortland Center Stage in Oregon unveils the world premiere of The Body of an American, about a war photographer haunted by the spirit of the soldier whose body he photographed, Oct. 2-Nov. 1…
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