Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMGreen Day's American Idiot, the two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the Green Day album, with a story crafted by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and director Michael Maye…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAfter a sold-out July engagement, nightlife performer Tori Scott is back at Joe's Pub Aug. 29 for an evening of songs by Donna Summer, Cee-Lo Green, Whitney Houston and Cyndi Lauper. The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 28, 2012
Obie Award winner Lisa Emery will play drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite David Chandler as aging actor James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMLinda Lavin, the Tony Award-winning actress-singer who famously sang "You've Got Possibilities," is still reaching for the possible. She'll appear in two Manhattan engageme…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PMSam Shepard is in talks to play the gone-missing patriarch Beverly Weston in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, Variety reported.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PMComplete casting has been announced for David Cromer's new production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, starring the previously mentioned Diane Lane and Finn Wittrock.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMAudra McDonald, who earned her fifth Tony Award for her portrayal of a passionate and haunted Bess, returns to an eight-performance schedule in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess beginning Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 27, 2012
This October a 70-piece orchestra will begin recording the musical tracks for the anticipated film adaptation of the worldwide musical phenomenon Les Misérables, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PMBend in the Road, a new family-friendly musical based on the youth novel "Anne of Green Gables," will play a limited engagement Sept. 14-Oct. 7 at the Carrie Hamilton Theatre at Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMThe new Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man — about candidates seeking the presidential nomination of their political party at a convention — has recouped its inves…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMThe new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress goes on sale to the general public starting Aug. 27. The revival starring Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMSean Palmer, who played Prince Eric in Broadway's The Little Mermaid, will get his feet wet again: He'll play the Gene Kelly-originated role of Don Lockwood in the stage musical Sing…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMA 2013 Baltimore booking of the sports play Lombardi has been replaced by a visit by Matthew Lombardo's Looped starring Valerie Harper. Rob Ruggiero (the regionally popular Ella, Goodspe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMA 2013 Baltimore booking of Matthew Lombardo's lurid drama High has been replaced by a visit by the author's Looped starring Valerie Harper. Rob Ruggiero (the regionally popular Ella…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMThe new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress goes on sale to the general public starting Aug. 27. The revival starring Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, directed by Daniel Aukin for New York City's Signature Theatre Company, already extended by two weeks, officially opens Aug.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, August 26, 2012
The West Coast premiere of Elephant Room, a unique entertainment about three semi-pro magicians — starring magicians Louie Magic, Daryl Hannah (not that Daryl Hannah) and Dennis Diamon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMHelsinki Hudson, the upstate New York venue that offers eclectic music programming in a complex that also serves drinks and fine dining, gets a dose of Broadway star quality starting Aug. 26…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway company of One Man, Two Guvnors, the acclaimed London import that recently announced it had recouped its $3.25 million capitalization, offers a special performance to benefit Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, August 24, 2012
The Los Angeles debut of the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar will star Aya Cash, Patrick Heusinger, Jennifer Ikeda and Greg Keller, who join the previously announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMOlivier Award winner Benedict Cumberbatch has joined the cast of the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, according to the Hollywood R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMThe producers of Soul Doctor, the musical about the real-life unconventional rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, his passion for pop music and his relationship with soul singer Nina Simone, are seeking …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMOff-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre announced casting for its upcoming revival of Brian Friel's Lovers, made up of two related one-acts, to begin Sept. 18 prior to a Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's comedy of cultural misunderstandings, Chinglish, directed by Leigh Silverman, who helmed the Broadway staging, begins Aug. 24 in Berkeley, …
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 nom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner John Cullum, Darren Pettie, Sarah Sokolovic, Tony nominee Amy Ryan and David Schwimmer star in the New York City premiere of Lisa D'Amour's acclaimed suburban-set p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, August 23, 2012
Colony Music, the Times Square-area institution where show-tune lovers, theatre performers and a range of singers and musicians sought sheet music, piano-vocal scores, Broadway cast albums a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMAudra McDonald will return to an eight-performance schedule in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess beginning Aug. 28, producers of the Tony Award-winning Best Revival announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMTony Award winner Jefferson Mays will star in Hartford Stage's world-premiere production of the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, to play Oct. 11-Nov. 11. The nimble st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMRed Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, starring Kathleen Turner as the late Texas-bred political columnist, begins Aug. 23 at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. David Esbjornson direc…
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