Tuesday, September 25, 2012
"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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, September 24, 2012
Dorothy Ateca Carter, an African-American stage actress who starred in three pre-Civil Rights-era plays, including a Broadway adaptation of the novel "Strange Fruit," about an inte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMToronto's Mirvish Productions — known for big musicals in the Ontario metropolis — is packaging a collection of smaller, riskier productions produced by local and internation…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMAnn, actress-writer Holland Taylor's biographical play about late Texas Governor Ann Richards, will get a Broadway stage — and a big one — on March 7, 2013, when it opens at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMThe Shaw Festival on Ontario announced Sept. 24 that its 2013 season will include 10 productions, including George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, the musicals Guys and Dolls and The Light…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMThe Great American Mousical, the new musical to be directed by Julie Andrews, on whose children's book the show is based, will star Tony Award nominee Emily Skinner as a diva mouse named…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSam Bendrix at the Bon Soir, Keith Bunin's nightclub-set play with music about a gay singer in the decade before gay rights and identity began to blossom, get its West Coast premiere sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNew York Theatre Workshop's 2012-13 season-launching production of Red Dog Howls, Alexander Dinelaris' drama about family secrets shaken loose, opens Sept. 24 following previews from…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDavid Cromer's new production of Tennessee Williams' steamy Southern-set Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Diane Lane and Finn Wittrock, opens Sept. 24 following previews from Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 23, 2012
Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People opens Sept. 23 following previews from Sept. 13 for a run to Nov. 11, featuring Steppenwolf ensemb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDr. Ruth, All the Way, Mark St. Germain's biographical play about the life and work of sexpert Dr. Ruth Westheimer, which had a sold-out summer run by Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, September 22, 2012
There is light at the top of the staircase for the financially beleaguered Broadway musical Rebecca, whose rehearsals have been delayed by two weeks due to the summer death of a major invest…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMFriday, September 21, 2012
Sergio Trujillo, one of the busiest theatre choreographers working today, has added the Broadway musical Hands On a Hardbody to his plate. The producers of the new populist show announced Se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMLisa D'Amour's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play Detroit, about neighbors who form a codependent bond in the current economic downturn, opened Sept. 18 in its New York City debut at Play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMThursday, September 20, 2012
The North American touring production of the revised and redesigned musical Les Misérables, a road hit that launched in early 2011 and has recouped due to sellout crowds and bookings …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMLisa D'Amour's suburban-set play Detroit, a tale of codependence in the recession era, has earned some of the most enthusiastic reviews of recent seasons, prompting a two-week e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMMisery, a new stage version of the Stephen King novel about a novelist held captive and hobbled (literally) by his greatest fan, will get its world premiere at Bucks County Playhouse. The ad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMChristopher 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 12:00AMSugar Babies, the burlesque musical-comedy revue that earned a 1980 Tony Award nomination as Best Musical, has been revived in Manhattan workshop rehearsals leading to two industry presentat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe American premiere of Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, featuring Annie Funke, Michelle Gomez, Tony Award winner Brían F. O'Byrne and Oscar nominee Jake …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
Dr. Ruth, All the Way, Mark St. Germain's biographical play about the life and work of sexpert Dr. Ruth Westheimer, which had a sold-out summer run by Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMThe Philadelphia world premiere of the new musical song cycle Stars of David, featuring song contributions by major writers of the musical theatre, will star Nancy Balbirer, Alex Brightman, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMTony Award winner Hal Linden, of Broadway's The Rothschilds and TV's "Barney Miller," stars in the world premiere of the comedy Under My Skin, opening Sept. 19 following pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Old Globe production of Allegiance — A New American Musical, charting the lives of Japanese Americans who were placed in concentration camps on U.S. soil during World War II, opens…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, September 18, 2012
Portland Center Stage in Oregon will unveil 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-No…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:34PMSecond Stage Theatre has awarded its first Donna Perret Rosen Award for excellence in musical theatre to composer-lyricist Adam Gwon, the songwriter of Ordinary Days and other musicals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMThink of it as an Impressionist flash mob. Visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago got a musical surprise on Sept. 16 when at the top of the museum's Grand Staircase leading to the Impr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMDrama Desk Award nominee Jennifer Lim of Broadway's Chinglish, Julyana Soelistyo of Off-Broadway's The Glorious Ones are among cast members of the new Off-Broadway production of Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMThe musical On the Town and Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing will punctuate Barrington Stage Company's 2013 season in Pittsfield, MA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMSanaa Lathan reprises her New York City role of a maid-turned-movie star in By the Way, Meet Vera Stark starting Sept. 18 when Lynn Nottage's satiric comedy makes its West Coast pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe City Center Encores! concert cast recording of Pipe Dream, Rodgers & Hammerstein's tuneful 1955 oddity inspired by John Steinbeck's novel "Sweet Thursday," is in st…
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