Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Geva 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PMThe second season of the musical drama series "Smash" will feature Sheryl Lee Ralph guest-starring as the mother of a stage diva played by the previously announced new cast member …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PMMauckingbird Theatre Company, the Philadelphia troupe committed to gay-related plays and issues, offers Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing through a new lens, now through Aug. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMAfter a sold-out July engagement, nightlife performer Tori Scott will return to Joe's Pub Aug. 29 for an evening of songs by Donna Summer, Cee-Lo Green, Whitney Houston and Cyndi Lauper.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 14, 2012
Joan Roberts, the soprano who originated one of the major leading-lady roles in American musical theatre — Laurey in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! — died in Stamford,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22PMTony 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, to play Sept. 11-Oct. 7 at Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMA new DC-area revival of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas begins performances Aug. 14 at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. Helen Hayes Award winner Sherri L.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMThe 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, plays Signature Theatre Company…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 13, 2012
Sam 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, will get its West Coast premier…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMAnnie Golden, Jason Hite, Ben Platt, Harrison Chad, Will Roland and Sarah Cetrulo will appear in a workshop production of The Black Suits, the musical by Joe Iconis and Robert Emmett Maddock…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth and Tony nominee Brian Murray star in a reading of Noël Coward's 1968 showbiz comedy Star Quality — a play that was not produced in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSoul Doctor, the musical about the real-life unconventional rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, his passion for pop music and his relationship with soul singer Nina Simone, opens Off-Broadway Aug. 13 fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA new take on Anton Chekhov's play about passionate artists and those in their orbit will surface in Long Island City, Queens, Sept. 5-15 when Wandering Bark Theatre Company presents the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, August 12, 2012
Barrington Stage Company's new production of Philip King's farce See How They Run, directed by Jeff Steitzer, opens Aug. 12 following previews from Aug. 9 on the BSC mainstage in Pit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJonathan Groff and Alfred Molina create the canvas that is John Logan's Red, a play about art and artists, fathers and sons, teachers and pupils — and the march of time — ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
Alan Cumming accepts The Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre on behalf of honoree Kristin Chenoweth on Aug. 11 in Connecticut. Tony Award winner Chenoweth (You…
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Edward Watts (Finian's Rainbow) and Roz Ryan (Chicago, The Pajama Game, Dreamgirls) have joined the cast of the upcoming new Broadway musical, Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMSatchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play about jazz musician Louis Armstrong, will appear at Shakespeare & Company's Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox, MA, Aug. 22-Sept. 16, prior to a ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMMr. Finn's Cabaret, the intimate music series presented by Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, presents Quentin Earl Darrington — Coalhouse in the 2009 Broadway revival of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, August 9, 2012
The Marriott Theatre, the popular Chicago-area theatre known for musicals, will present Disney's Mary Poppins in fall 2013, marking the apparent beginning of regional licensing for the B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43PMVaishnavi Sharma, Patrick Jones, Zarah Mahler and Amy Pietz will join
Vincent Kartheiser, widely known as ambitious ad man Pete Campbell on TV's "Mad Men," in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMFollowing six days of fundraising on the Kickstarter.com website, the creators of the Off-Broadway musical Now. Here. This. have raised $46,625 toward a $75,000 goal to support the original …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMThe new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, starring Al Pacino, goes on sale to the general public Aug. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMTony Award nominee Daniel Sunjata, of Broadway's Take Me Out, will play a recurring role in the second season of the NBC TV series "Smash."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AMLori Hammel, Meghan Duffy, Karyn Quackenbush and Regina LeVer are The Bikinis, shaking the sand out of their sneakers starting Aug. 9 at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBarrington Stage Company's new production of Philip King's farce See How They Run, directed by Jeff Steizterm, begins Aug. 9 on the BSC mainstage in Pittsfield, MA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Jason Danieley, of Broadway's Candide, Curtains, The Full Monty and Next to Normal, will play George in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's fall production of Sunday in the Park With Georg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMThe American premiere of Love Story, the musical, based on the best-selling Erich Segal novel, will star Alexandra Silber (Broadway's Master Class) as Jenny Cavilleri and Will Reynolds (…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PMNew Girl in Town, Bob Merrill's 1957 musicalization of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, about a prostitute with abuse in her past and hope in her heart, will get an extra week of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMQueen for a Day: The Musical, inspired by the radio and TV reality show of yesteryear, will get its world premiere in a 12-performance run in Toronto starting Sept. 26. TV's Alan Thicke …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMThe new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress goes on sale to American Express cardholders starting 10 AM Aug. 8 prior to a general sale that begins A…
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