Sunday, September 9, 2012
The Off-Broadway production of Rent, representing a rethought approach to the material by members of the Broadway creative team, including director Michael Greif and music supervisor and arr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe new Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man — about candidates seeking the presidential nomination of their political party at a convention — ends its limited run o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe New York City premiere of The Train Driver, written and directed by Athol Fugard and featuring Leon Addison Brown as Simon and Ritchie Coster as Roelf, opens Sept. 9 at Signature Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, September 8, 2012
Rebecca, the new musical based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier, has delayed the start of its rehearsals by two weeks due to the death of a key investor responsible for a $4.5 milli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMWe snagged a few minutes with two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster to get a post-mortem on her newly renewed TV series, "Bunheads," and her fall concert schedule.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, September 7, 2012
The New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment is expected to announce recipients of Spotlight Awards in tribute to theatre people who contribute to the richness of the Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:16PMVeterans of director Des McAnuff's international and Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar will punctuate the rockin', other-worldly production of his new musical Yoshimi Battle…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:50PMTony Award winner Anthony LaPaglia will play Richard M. Nixon opposite Tony nominee Kathryn Erbe as wife Pat in Douglas McGrath's new play, Checkers, beginning Oct. 12 at the Vineyard Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PMThe 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, begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
A new take on Anton Chekhov's play about passionate artists and those in their orbit surfaces in Long Island City, Queens, Sept. 5-15 when Wandering Bark Theatre Company presents the New…
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, begins Sept. 5 toward a Sept. 27 openi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMVincent Kartheiser, widely known as ambitious ad man Pete Campbell on TV's "Mad Men," turns a new page with the world-premiere production of Jonathan Marc Feldman's Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, September 4, 2012
Angelica Page has taken over the role of potential First Lady Alice Russell in the Broadway production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man. She steps in for Cybill Shepherd, who has departed th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PMSony Masterworks releases the 27-track Encores! concert cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, featuring the 1949 Broadway score by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, on Sept. 4. This is the mos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe American premiere of Love Story, the musical, based on the best-selling Erich Segal novel, starring Alexandra Silber (Broadway's Master Class) as Jenny Cavilleri and Will Reynolds (M…
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, begins performa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 2, 2012
Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular, director Harold Prince's revised staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber's internationally popular musical — putting the audience in an immers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMThe acclaimed Broadway production of the British farce One Man, Two Guvnors, which won star James Corden the 2012 Best Actor Tony Award, end its limited engagement at the Music Box Sept…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMClybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Play, ends its limited Broadway run (already extended) on Sept. 2 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. By close, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-dra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe muscular Off-Broadway spectacle Traces, a collision of acrobatic feats and circus-inspired elements, concludes its Off-Broadway run Sept. 2 at the Union Square Theatre, prior to the laun…
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Hal David, the pop, movie and musical theatre lyricist who wrote words to composer Burt Bacharach's music in the Broadway musical Promises, Promises — and for a slew of hit songs &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:26PMThursday, August 30, 2012
The countdown to the Sept. 4 release of the 27-track Encores! concert cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has begun, and Sony Masterworks is giving Playbill.com an exclusive first-lis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMSurflight Theatre in Beach Haven, NJ, opens the New Jersey premiere of the musical comedy Once Upon a Time in New Jersey on Aug. 30 for a run through Sept. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMVincent Kartheiser, widely known as ambitious ad man Pete Campbell on TV's "Mad Men," turns a new page starting Aug. 30 with the first preview of the world-premiere production …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, August 29, 2012
Through an August fundraising drive on the Kickstarter.com website, the creators of the Off-Broadway musical Now. Here. This. have raised $86,769 toward a $75,000 goal to support the origina…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:38PMA resident Chicago production of Keith Huff's hit two-actor crime thriller, A Steady Rain, will end Sept. 2 at Chicago Dramatists, but will resurface in engagements in Wisconsin and Mich…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PMAdditional cast members populating Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People have been announced. Rehearsals lead to a Sept. 4 first preview at the Samue…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMPlaywrights Horizons' world premiere of Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan will feature Becky Ann Baker, Tony Award nominee Peter Friedman, Oliver Award nominee Sarah Goldberg, Keith Nob…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PMIrish Repertory Theatre's upcoming 25th season will offer the work of Brian Friel and Harold Pinter, songs by Phil Coulter, and the artistry of actor Julian Sands and directors Ciar&aacu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMCandy Buckley completes the final piece of the casting puzzle for the new Broadway musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, which begins previews Oct. 13 at the Nei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMThe West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's comedy of cultural misunderstandings, Chinglish, directed by Leigh Silverman, who helmed the Broadway staging, opens Aug. 29 following prev…
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