Thursday, August 23, 2012
Red 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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Center Theatre Group's 2013 season at Mark Taper Forum will include the Los Angeles premiere of director David Cromer's acclaimed staging of Nina Raine's family drama Tribes, plu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PMMadame Tellier's Establishment, Jim Cairl's new adaptation of a short story by Guy du Maupassant, is getting a brief Off-Off-Broadway run though Aug. 24 at Theater for the New City o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMBob Boyett and the National Theatre of Great Britain said on Aug. 22 that their acclaimed Broadway production of One Man, Two Guvnors, which won star James Corden the 2012 Best Actor Tony Aw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMLisa Howard, Alysha Umphress and Michael Winther will sing the work of a respected music director and composer in Carmel's Candy Store: The Sweet Songs of Carmel Dean Aug. 23-25 at Barri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMSatchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play about jazz musician Louis Armstrong, appears at Shakespeare & Company's Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox, MA, Aug. 22-Sept. 16, prior to a run in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 21, 2012
Arden Theatre Company's resident Philadelphia production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal will feature a unique video design that will "take us into the minds of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:28PMHighlights from Grumpy Old Men: The Musical will be seen in a Manhattan industry reading aimed at venue operators interested in booking the show on its upcoming national tour. The Sept. 17 p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PMThe 2013 Australian premiere of The Addams Family, the Broadway musical, will feature Australian TV, film and stage star John Waters as Gomez, stage star Chloe Dallimore (Ulla in The Produce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMDanny Breen, William Dick, Molly Glynn, Marc Grapey, Bruce Jarchow and Katherine Keberlein will be in the company of the previously announced Tim Kazurinsky and George Wendt for Northlight T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMNominations for the Jeff Awards, celebrating excellence in Chicago-area Equity theatre, were announced Aug. 21. A dozen new plays or adaptations are in the mix, pointing to Chicago as a cont…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMRoundabout Theatre Company's musical theatre producing arm will benefit from a Dec. 3 reunion concert of the company's 2004 Tony Award-winning revival of Stephen Sondheim and John We…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 20, 2012
Film and stage actress Karen Allen will star in the American premiere of Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, translated and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde. The Rattlestick Pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PM"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, will get additional episodes, Michael Riley, presid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AM"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, will get additional episodes, according to publishe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMThe world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, directed by Daniel Aukin for Signature Theatre Company, will get two extra weeks, now to Sept. 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMJonathan Groff, a Tony Award nominee for playing the rebellious and experiment-friendly German lad Melchior Gabor in the musical Spring Awakening, talks about past lessons and new challenges.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03AMBroadway's John Herrera and Natalie Toro are among cast members of the Utah premiere of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical In the Heights, now in rehearsal by Pioneer Theatre Company fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTickets for the new Broadway musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, by Kathie Lee Gifford (book and lyrics) and David Friedman and David Pomeranz (music), are on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"The Outdoor Museum (not your usual images of New York)," a unique coffee-table book featuring the photographs of former Broadway actress Margery Gray Harnick and related poems by …
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Dogfight, the new musical that tells a tender and brutal tale of young people meeting in a situation certain to end in heartbreak, ends its limited, world-premiere run Aug. 19 at Off-Broadwa…
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Andrew Samonsky, a late-run Lt. Cable in Lincoln Center Theater's South Pacific, has joined the cast of the new Broadway musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMThe world-premiere staging of the Broadway-aimed The Nutty Professor — written by Tony Award winners Marvin Hamlisch and Rupert Holmes, and directed by Jerry Lewis — plays its fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMThursday, August 16, 2012
Dermot Mulroney will join his "My Best Friend's Wedding" co-star Julia Roberts in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage Count…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMChristopher Innvar, Mary McCann, Mary Beth Peil, Jordan Lage, Madeleine Martin, Gareth Saxe and more will bring Simon Stephens' tale of Harper Regan to life for Atlantic Theater Company …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMThe Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia announced nominees for the 2012 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre. Resident productions earning the most nominations include Twelfth Nig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PMAnnie Golden, Jason Hite, Ben Platt, Harrison Chad, Will Roland and Sarah Cetrulo appear in a workshop production of The Black Suits, the musical by Joe Iconis and Robert Emmett Maddock, in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of Rupert Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood will open earlier than first reported. The revival of the Tony Award-winning musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMThe new Broadway-bound musical Hands on a Hardbody will have a fall "developmental lab" in New York City prior to a Broadway launch in early 2013. The Oct. 1-13 lab is expected to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMSteppenwolf Theatre Company's production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, to run Sept. 13-Nov. 11, will feature Steppenwolf ensemble members Alana Arenas, Mariann Mayberry and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMGeva Theatre Center has snagged Emmy Award winner Robert Vaughn, star of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "Washington: Behind Closed Doors," to play Martin Vanderhof in You …
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