Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Portland 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, October 1, 2012
Viswa Subbaraman, artistic director and founder of Opera Vista in Houston and former assistant conductor of the Orchestre National de France, was named the new artistic director of Skylight …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMElla, the musical biography of American singer Ella Fitzgerald, a popular title in regional theatres, is currently making its New York City premiere at Queens Theatre, now to Oct. 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMThe Princess of Wales Theatre, which opened in Toronto in 1993 to house Canadian sitdowns of major musicals like Miss Saigon, the inaugural show there, will be demolished to make way for new…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMSunday, September 30, 2012
"Last night I dreamt I wentto Manderley again," the opening line of Daphne du Maurier's novel, "Rebecca," will not be sung on Broadway this fall. Producers Ben Sprech…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PMSaturday, September 29, 2012
The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story, a popular and sold-out Chicago-area title in 2006, gets revived by First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook, IL, opening Sept. 29. Christian Gray plays …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 28, 2012
P.J. Benjamin, Naomi Brockwell, Stephen R. Buntrock, Rachel de Benedet, Nancy Johnston and Robert Petkoff will star in a three-performance staged concert performance of the chamber musical M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMThe Old Globe production of Allegiance – A New American Musical, telling the story of Japanese Americans forced into concentration camps on U.S. soil during World War II, will get an a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AMMilwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) opens the world-premiere production of Broken and Entered by Madison, Wisconsin-based playwright Kurt McGinnis Brown on Sept. 28. The play, which examines cha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMVince Pesce, choreographer of Goodspeed Musicals' in-rehearsal production of the mystery musical Something's Afoot, has taken over the direction of the show. Due to a critical illnes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMMark St. Germain's two-character play Freud's Last Session will star two-time Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh (of TV's "Ed") as C. S. Le…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59AMThursday, September 27, 2012
The Canadian Theatre Critics Association have named Judith Thompson, "one of Canada's darkest and most daring playwrights," as recipient of the 2012 Herbert Whittaker-CTCA Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PMThe New York City premiere of Terrence McNally's Golden Age, the backstage story of the Bellini opera I Puritani, will feature "Pushing Daisies" star Lee Pace as the 19th-centu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMDirector-choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge's creative team for the world premiere of Sense & Sensibility The Musical will include Tony Award-nominated set designer Allen Moyer, Tony…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PMThe new Off-Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, part of Signature Theatre Company's 2012-13 Hwang residency, will get an added week, now to Dec. 9. There is &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMClassic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov will get two additional weeks, to Dec. 9, at CSC's home on East 13th Street. Ethan Hawke plays the title role, so…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMGeorge and Martha, the English-speaking theatre's most contentious married couple since Katharina and Petruchio, are back on Broadway Sept. 27 for the first preview of the 50th-anniversa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMManhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People, adapted by British dramatist Rebecca Lenkiewicz and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes, opens Sept. 27 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOff-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre officially opens its 2012-13 season on Sept. 27 with Brian Friel's Lovers, made up of two related one-acts. Previews began Sept. 18 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 26, 2012
The cast of the rehearsal-delayed new Broadway musical Rebecca was informed by producers in a Sept. 26 email that rehearsals would commence on Oct. 1, indicating that the show's previous…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:57PMAndy Williams, the smooth vocalist who was the epitome of the "easy listening sound" of the 1960s and '70s, singing songs by Henry Mancini and others, died Sept. 25 of complica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PMColony, the Times Square-area music store variously referred to as Colony Records, Colony Music or just The Colony since 1948, is now a memory. Owner Richard Turk confirmed that the last day…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PMQueen for a Day: The Musical, inspired by the radio and TV reality show of yesteryear, gets its world premiere in a 12-performance run in Toronto starting Sept. 26. TV's Alan Thicke (&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSanaa Lathan reprises her New York City role of a maid-turned-movie star in Lynn Nottage's satiric comedy By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, opening Sept. 26 following previews from …
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 12:00AMTuesday, September 25, 2012
The new Pasadena Playhouse production of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel, directed by artistic director Sheldon Epps, will star Kristy Johnson, Dawnn Lewis, Angel Reda, Adam J. Smith, Da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:03PMClifford Odets' groundbreaking 1935 agitprop play, Waiting for Lefty, about union members on the brink of a strike during hard times, received a private reading presentation Sept. 24 as …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PMSatchmo at the Waldorf, Terry Teachout's new play about musician Louis Armstrong, will make its Philadelphia debut Nov. 16-Dec. 2 in an engagement at The Wilma Theater. The Philly stagin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44PMWinners of the 2012 Barrymore Awards, celebrating excellence in Philadelphia-area theatre, were announced Sept. 25. Productions of The Scottsboro Boys, Twelfth Night and Body Awareness are a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AMCasting has been announced for director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Signature Theatre Company staging of the late August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AM"The Carlyle Set," the 2003 solo album by two-time Tony Award winner Christine Andreas, which has gone out of print, is being re-released by PS Classics, the label devoted to the h…
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