Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Gore Vidal, the American novelist, screenwriter, essayist and playwright, whose 1960 political drama The Best Man is currently enjoying a Tony Award-nominated revival on Broadway, died July …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:55AMJonathan 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 — sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTeal Wicks, an Elphaba of Broadway's Wicked, plays Julie Jordan to the Billy Bigelow of James Snyder, of Broadway's Cry-Baby, in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of Rodgers &am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 31, 2012
Broadway's End of the Rainbow, Peter Quilter's play with music about the final days of Judy Garland, starring the hailed-as-incandescent 2012 Tony Award nominee Tracie Bennett as the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:19PMRobert Egan will direct the West Coast premiere of John Robin Baitz's Tony Award-nominated Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum, replacing Joe Mantello, who dropped out due to sch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMThe complete cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People, starring the previously announced Boyd Gaines and Richard Thomas, was announced on July 3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PMUniversal Television and NBCUniversal International have signed a development deal with Storyline Entertainment's Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, executive producers of TV's "Smash&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMOff-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre will produce Brian Friel's Lovers and Anita Loos' Happy Birthday in its 2012-13 season, marking 20 years since the group was founde…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMSony Masterworks will release the 27-track Encores! concert cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1949 Broadway score by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, on Sept. 4. This is to be the mos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of The Nutty Professor, the new Rupert Holmes-Marvin Hamlisch musical based on the 1963 Jerry Lewis film comedy, opens in Nashville July 31 following previews from July 24…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 30, 2012
Anastasia, a new stage adaptation of the 1997 animated musical film, got a private industry reading in Manhattan the week of July 23, a spokesperson for Stage Entertainment confirmed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:19PMWill Chase will step into Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It Aug. 21-26 to take on the role of playboy Jimmy Winter while Matthew Broderick takes a vacation. The "Smash," H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMProducers Arlie Cone and Steven Hayes are continuing development of a new musical based loosely on the life and career of Sammy Davis, Jr., which is now entitled I Will, I Can.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMSoul Doctor, the musical about the real-life unconventional rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, his passion for pop music and his relationship with soul singer Nina Simone, plays New York City July 30-A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 29, 2012
A Separate Peace, the new musical by Warren Leight and Todd Almond, tracing the coming-of-age story of prep-school buddies, gets its first public presentation July 29 as part of the Vassar &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe East Coast premiere of The North Pool, the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, featuring Remi Sandri and Babak Tafti, opens July 29 following previews from July 26 at Barri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, July 28, 2012
The world premiere of All the Way, the new play by Robert Schenkkan, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Kentucky Cycle, opens July 28 following previews from July 25 at the Or…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 27, 2012
Caitlin Muelder, Erika Rolfsrud, Lucas Caleb Rooney and T. Ryder Smith are the parental foursome of the Old Globe production of Yasmina Reza's Tony-winning comedy God of Carnage, beginni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PMBob Fosse, the Tony Award-winning director and choreographer who changed the energy of Broadway dance by adding slinky sexuality and incorporating cocked, Chaplinesque limbs, appears on a ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMThursday, July 26, 2012
Sanaa Lathan will reprise her New York City role of a maid-turned-movie star in By the Way, Meet Vera Stark this fall when Lynn Nottage's satiric comedy makes its West Coast premiere at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PMLouis Ozawa Changchien, Katharine Powell and David Rasche star in the world premiere of Kenneth Lin's Warrior Class, which will play an extra week, now to Aug. 18, following its Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PMTwo-time Emmy and Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth will reunite with her Tony-winning Chicago director, Walter Bobbie, this fall when she stars in his staging of the New York City premiere of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMThe new musical Sleepless in Seattle has its new songwriters, producers announced on the show's website. Composer Ben Toth and lyricist Sam Forman will pen the score for the show based o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMFilm actor Isaiah Washington will star in Unspeakable, a "dramatic fantasia" inspired by the life of comedy star Richard Pryor, which will play an eight-week run at the Royal Georg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMThe East Coast premiere of The North Pool, the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, featuring Remi Sandri and Babak Tafti, begins July 26 at Barrington Stage Company's intim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNew Girl in Town, Bob Merrill's 1957 musicalization of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, about a prostitute with abuse in her past, gets a rare New York City revival opening July 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Christopher Plummer explores a few of his favorite literary things in a new solo show, A Word or Two, starting July 25 at the Stratford Festival in Canada. Artistic director and Tony Award w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:36PMThe producers of the North American premiere of Flashdance — The Musical will explore the show in a late-summer workshop directed and choreographed by Broadway's Sergio Trujillo, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:54PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth and Tony nominee Brian Murray will star in a reading of Noel Coward's 1968 showbiz comedy Star Quality — a play that was not produced in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:13PMTeal Wicks, a former Elphaba of Broadway's Wicked, will dismount from the role of Julie Jordan in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel. Wait…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PMNew casting and dates have been announced for the international tour of Green Day's American Idiot, the two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the Green Day album, with a …
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