Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's comedy of cultural misunderstandings, Chinglish, will be directed by Leigh Silverman, who helmed the Broadway staging. The co-production by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMThe New York City premiere of The Train Driver, written and directed by Athol Fugard, will feature Leon Addison Brown as Simon and Ritchie Coster as Roelf at Signature Theatre Company's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMSarah Goldberg, the 2011 Olivier Award nominee for the playing dual roles of Betsy/Lindsey in Clybourne Park in London, joins the Broadway cast of the 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Play on Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSarah Goldberg, the 2011 Olivier Award nominee for the playing dual roles of Betsy/Lindsey in Clybourne Park in London, joins the Broadway cast of the 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Play on Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 16, 2012
The lights of Broadway's marquees will be dimmed for one minute at 8 PM July 18 as a tribute to theatre star Celeste Holm, who died July 15 at the age of 95.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PMCasting has been announced for the North American premiere of Backbeat: The Birth of the Beatles, the rock 'n' roll drama with music, to play Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMDogfight, the new musical that tells a tender and brutal tale of young people meeting in a situation certain to end in heartbreak, opens in its world-premiere run July 16 following previews …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, July 15, 2012
Annie Parisse, who created the roles of Betsey and Lindsey in the 2010 world premiere of Clybourne Park and reunited with the company for the 2012 Broadway premiere, exits the Broadway cast …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 13, 2012
Teal 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 04:15PMBroadway producer Robert Boyett was made an Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on July 13. The honor is in recogniti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMAll the Way, the new play by Robert Schenkkan, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Kentucky Cycle, will get its world premiere July 28 at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Jack Willis, t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario opens a new production of Shakespeare's Henry V on July 13 following previews from June 24 at the flagship Festival Theatre. Artistic direct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 12, 2012
Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park,a play that premiered at Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania prior to its 1963 Broadway run, returns to its Pennsylvania roots Aug. 7. Tony Award nom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PMAnnie Funke will join the previously announced Michelle Gomez, Tony Award winner Brían F. O'Byrne and Jake Gyllenhaal in the American premiere of Nick Payne's If There Is I Ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMTwo TV musicals — one of them original — by Tony Award-winning songwriters Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick will be seen July 28 at The Paley Center for Media in Manhattan. Lyricis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMThe Old Globe's West Coast premiere of Divine Rivalry — the tale of Renaissance art stars and a famed head of state — opens June 12. Sean Lyons plays Niccolò Machiavel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMAlan Ayckbourn directs the world premiere of his 76th play, Surprises, for The Stephen Joseph Theatre, his longtime artistic home in Scarborough, England. The co-production with Chichester F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario is shining a spotlight on one of its own late, great masters this summer in the one-man show Hirsch, a portrait of the Hungarian-born Canadian t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Diane Lane will star as Princess Kosmonopolis in Goodman Theatre's fall production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, the Chicago Tribune reported.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PMTony Award-winning composer-lyricist Maury Yeston (Titanic, Nine) gave New York audiences a vodka-shot of his new Russian-inspired work-in-progress July 9 in the New Mondays concert at 54 Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMThe producers of Chaplin, the new Broadway musical about the life of screen legend Charlie Chaplin, have broken their silence about casting.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMNick Payne, writer of the acclaimed London play Constellations, has been named the second recipient of the Harold Pinter Playwright's Award to support a new commission at the Royal Court…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMThe ladies and gentlemen populating The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, this summer and fall will include Helen Hayes Award winn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMAcademy Award winner Chris Cooper is in negotiations to join the cast of the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMThe hardscrabble life of Yukon gold-rush folk is conjured in the world premiere of the new Canadian musical Wanderlust, using the poems of Robert Service, opening July 11 at the Stratford Sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA stage version of William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Excorcist" has heads turning at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, where previews began July 3 leading to the July 11 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 10, 2012
Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Maury Yeston (Titanic, Nine) gave New York audiences a vodka-shot of his new Russian-inspired work-in-progress July 9 in the New Mondays concert at 54 Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:07PMFull casting has been revealed for The Nutty Professor, the new Rupert Holmes-Marvin Hamlisch musical based on the 1963 Jerry Lewis film comedy. The show is in rehearsal under the direction …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMThe new concert cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's score to Merrily We Roll Along is in stores July 10. PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway, recorded the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGore Vidal's The Best Man gives Cybill Shepherd and Kristin Davis their Broadway debuts July 10 when they — along with John Stamos — join the company of the star-package…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominees Bobby Steggert and Charlayne Woodard, plus Broadway's Corbin Reid, Aaron Serotsky, Eisa Davis, Jonathan Hammond and more populate a California developmental productio…
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