Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The winners of the 33rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, recognizing excellence in Toronto's performing arts community, include War Horse, Topdog/Underdog, Tomasso's Party, Ride the C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMMagic Mike, the new Steven Soderbergh film about male strippers, opening June 29, might expose itself as a Broadway show, USA Today reported. Reid Carolin, the comedy's screenwriter, sai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMMonday, June 25, 2012
The first episode of Aaron Sorkin's new TV drama "The Newsroom," which premiered on HBO June 24, is available for free to "all audiences, including non-subscribers," …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PMTickets for the new Broadway production of Annie, which begins previews Oct. 3 at the Palace Theatre (1567 Broadway at 47th Street), go on sale to the general public June 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster stars as a rootless dancer who settles into a new life in "Bunheads," the ABC Family comedy-drama (with music and dance). She sent a dispat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMBare, the rock musical about teens coming of age in a Catholic school setting, gets a commercial Off-Broadway run starting Nov. 19 at New World Stages. Tickets are now on sale. Stafford Arim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PMNew Girl in Town, Bob Merrill's 1957 musicalization of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, about a prostitute with abuse in her past, will get a rare New York City revival beginning …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMStars of David, a new musical about Jewish identity, with a book by Charles Busch and songs by a collection of Broadway and Hollywood songwriters — from William Finn to Tom Kitt to Mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe winners of the 33rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, recognizing excellence in Toronto's performing arts community, get revealed June 25. The awards administered by the Toronto Allian…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 24, 2012
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario unveils a new production of Shakespeare's Henry V on June 24 at the flagship Festival Theatre. Artistic director Des McAnuff, whose 2011 Str…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMThe New York City production of Million Dollar Quartet, the musical that dramatizes the historic recording session of four American rock icons who came to light in the '50s, closes June …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmelia, actor-playwright Alex Webb's two-person Civil War drama about a wife disguising herself as a Union soldier to find her missing husband Down South — seen in a winter world-p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 22, 2012
Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, of "Dreamgirls" movie fame, will play a Tony Award-winning Broadway star in a multi-episode arc in the second season of the NBC-TV musical series &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28PMTwo-time Tony winner Patti LuPone, who had extended her critically acclaimed engagement at the new Manhattan nightspot 54 Below in order to fill in for an under-the-weather Andrea Martin, ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28PMThe 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PMThe Exorcist, the new stage adaptation of the horror novel by William Peter Blatty, has Broadway producers Ben Sprecher and Sonia Friedman attached for a possible commercial future of the Jo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMThursday, June 21, 2012
Manhattan Theatre Club announced two additions to its 2012-13 season, including Sharr White's play The Other Place, acclaimed when it first appeared in an Off-Broadway production by MCC …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PMTony nominee Bobby Cannavale will play the role of Ricky Roma opposite Al Pacino's Shelly Levene in the new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, according to The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMWill Eno's take on Henrik Ibsen's sprawling, picaresque fantasy Peer Gynt, freshly titled Gnit, will gets its world premiere in the 2012 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Acto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMThe Masterworks Broadway label will open its vault and release three albums this summer: the original 1978 Broadway cast recording of Working, a 1950 recording of Dinah Shore singing Call Me…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMThe Dorset Theatre Festival (DTF) in Dorset, VT, has snagged TV, film and Tony Award-winning theatre star Judd Hirsch ("Taxi," Talley's Folly, I'm Not Rappaport, Conversati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMOff-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre, a crucible for new works, will have two world premieres and one New York premiere, including the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph in its …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMThe San Francisco engagement of The Scottsboro Boys, the multiple Tony Award-nominated musical, begins previews June 21 at American Conservatory Theatre. Tony winner Hal Linden now stars as …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDan Martin and Michael Biello's Breathe, a musical made up of stories about the gay and lesbian experience, will get a private industry reading in Manhattan on June 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPat Sajak, of TV's "Wheel of Fortune," stars as fussy Felix Ungar opposite news anchor Joe Moore as sloppy Oscar Madison in the Connecticut Repertory Theatre production of Neil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
The 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, at the Stratford Shakespeare Festiv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMJill Paice will be the first-person lead known as "I," and Ryan Silverman will play her husband, Maxim de Winter, in Rebecca, the new Broadway musical that conjures the mysterious …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMHero, a new musical about a young comic-book artist, gets its world premiere on June 20 by Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL, following earlier development. Erich Bergen, of the national …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, MN, begins its ninth season of productions in the Upper Mississippi region on June 20 with the first preview of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, June 19, 2012
The song catalog of Victorian operetta masters W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan gets a comic airing in the world-premiere musical entertainment Gilbert & Sullivan in Brief(s), playing Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:51PMJoyce Chittick, the busy New York musical theatre actress who created the role of Virtue in Broadway's Anything Goes, steps into the role of Erma — who happens to get the show'…
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