Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Joyce 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'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMBare, the rock musical about teens coming of age in a Catholic school setting, will get a commercial Off-Broadway run starting Nov. 19 at New World Stages. Stafford Arima (Carrie) will direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMBucks County Playhouse's new production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein revue A Grand Night for Singing, starring Erin Davie, Courtney Balan, Ron Bohmer, Greg Bosworth and Kenita R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMOff-Broadway's Signature Theatre will launch Signature Cinema, screening "films written by playwrights and films that explore the 'world of the play' currently in production…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMAcademy Award winner George Clooney and Grant Heslov have joined the producing team of the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, The Weinstein Co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMDr. Ruth, All the Way, the biographical play about the famous sex expert who broke ground with her frank talk on radio and television, begins a world-premiere engagement at Barrington Stage …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, June 18, 2012
Kelli O'Hara's brief summer absence from her turn in Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It, for which she was nominated for a 2012 Best Actress Tony Award, will be filled by Ton…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced the Nominating Committee for the 2012-2013 Broadway season. The committee will welcome newcomers Mary-Louise Parker, Cheyenne Jackson, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMMichelle Gomez and Tony Award winner Brían F. O'Byrne, the film, TV and stage actor, will join the previously announced Jake Gyllenhaal in the American premiere of Nick Payne'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAcademy Award winners Kevin Kline and Meryl Steep — both veterans of New York Shakespeare Festival — play star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, respectively, in the one-night-onl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 17, 2012
Patti LuPone's intimate new club act, Far Away Places, at the new theatre-district nightspot 54 Below will get an extra week, now to June 23, the operators of the venue announced on June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:38PMRoundabout Theatre Company ends its limited-engagement Broadway revival of Marc Camoletti's 1960-set sex farce Don't Dress for Dinner — a sort of sequel to Boeing-Boeing, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMBarrington Stage Company's Fiddler on the Roof, starring Brad Oscar as Tevye and Joanna Glushak as Golde, opens 5 PM June 17 on the BSC mainstage in Pittsfield, MA. Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMDr. Radio, a new musical with a book by Bill Castellino (Crash Club, Jolson at the Winter Garden, Some Kind of Wonderful) and music and lyrics by Christopher McGovern (Backwards in High Heel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMVenus in Fur, David Ives' 2012 Tony Award-nominated dark comedy about a director auditioning a mysterious actress for a stage adaptation of an erotic novel, folds her arms at Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, June 16, 2012
Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera will get a new permanent Meg Giry starting June 18, when Kara Klein assumes the role, succeeding longtime cast member Heather McFadden, who leaves the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 15, 2012
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival opens a new production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's bloody musical Sweeney Todd June 15, with Broadway's William Michals as the "demo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMJeremy Jordan, a 2012 Tony nominee for his performance in the new musical Newsies, will join the cast of NBC's "Smash" for its second season, according to TVline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMThursday, June 14, 2012
The Lyons, Nicky Silver's dysfunctional-family comedy starring Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, will close July 1 at Broadway's Cort Theatre, the producers announced …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00PMStars 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 05:07PMThe new Robert Falls-directed production of Eugene O'Neill's five-hour The Iceman Cometh, his drama of shattered illusions, now starring Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Brian Denn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMAl Pacino will play Shelly Levene in a new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the acidic comic-drama about desperate real-estate men, producers announced June 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMTheaterWorks, the resident Equity company in Hartford, CT, announced on June 13 that its executive director and founder Steve Campo has stepped down due to health issues.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company, the Washington, DC, company devoted to contemporary theatre and an off-beat sensibility, will present three world premieres — including the new piece by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMThe Roundabout Theatre Company's 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Anything Goes — the shipboard musical comedy — will end its Broadway voyage on Aug. 5 at the Stephen So…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AMHarvey, Mary Chase's 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about a man whose best friend is a 6-foot-tall rabbit, has hopped back to Broadway, opening at Studio 54 on June 14 following prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Nick Blaemire of Broadway's Godspell has joined the world-premiere production of Dogfight, completing the musical's cast at Second Stage Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:14PMProducers confirmed on June 13 that the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will play Broadway's intimate Booth Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMLouis Ozawa Changchien, Katharine Powell and David Rasche will star in the world premiere of Kenneth Lin's Warrior Class in Second Stage Theatre's Uptown Series. The play, billed as …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMThe 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 12:45PMAlan Ayckbourn will direct the world premiere of his 76th play, Surprises, for The Stephen Joseph Theatre, his longtime artistic home in Scarborough, England. The co-production with Chichest…
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