Thursday, May 31, 2012
Spiegelworld, the producer of tent-housed theatrical events that draw on circus, cabaret, variety and burlesque traditions, opens its new show, Empire, May 31 following previews from May 22 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCity Theatre in Pittsburgh develops four new works in reading form in its Momentum Festival of New Plays May 31-June 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, May 30, 2012
The 2012-13 Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre season will feature Jeff Goldblum in the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar; the American premiere and pre-Broadway run of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PMBucks County Playhouse's new production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein revue A Grand Night for Singing will star Erin Davie, Courtney Balan, Ron Bohmer, Greg Bosworth and Kenita R. Mil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMManhattan Theatre Club will produce a new version of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People starring Boyd Gaines and Richard Thomas in the 2012-13 Broadway season. The nonprofit also anno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMBarrington Stage Company announced complete casting for its Fiddler on the Roof, starring the previously mentioned Brad Oscar as Tevye and Joanna Glushak as Golde. Performances play June 13-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMThe Importance of Being Earnest (in New York), David Zippel's reinvention of Oscar Wilde's classic Victorian comedy, will get a June 11 reading in Manhattan, with Tony Award winner C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMTeal Wicks, an Elphaba of Broadway's Wicked, will play Julie Jordan to the Billy Bigelow of James Snyder, of Broadway's Cry-Baby, in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of Rodgers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe days when tulips were bought and sold as gold are conjured in the new musical Tulipomania: The Musical, with book, music and lyrics by Barrymore Award winner Michael Ogborn, opening May …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 29, 2012
Hands on a Hardbody, the new musical about a Texas endurance competition, will open on Broadway in the 2012-13 season, producers Broadway Across America (John Gore, Thomas B. McGrath, Beth W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PMSignature Theatre Company's new production of Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa! will get an extra week Off-Broadway, now to June 17. The production directed by Ruben Santiago-Hu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMTriad Stage, the Equity company that performs on a thrust stage carved out of a former department store in downtown Greensboro, NC, will present the world premiere of Tennessee Playboy &mdas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival's new production of the showbiz fable 42nd Street opens May 29 following previews from April 12 in Ontario. Chicago and Broadway director Gary Gri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 27, 2012
Lungs, British playwright Duncan Macmillan's play about prospective parents, gets its New England premiere, opening May 27 following previews from May 23, at Barrington Stage Company'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, May 26, 2012
The Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime, first developed in Toronto prior to Broadway, is now getting a major resident Canadian production on the opposite side of Lake Ontario, at the Shaw Fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmelia, Alex Webb's two-person Civil War drama about a wife disguising herself as a Union soldier to find her missing husband Down South, gets its New York City premiere May 26-June 17 i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 25, 2012
Katie Finneran, who won Tony Awards for her turns in revivals of Promises, Promises and Noises Off, will play orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in the new Broadway production of Annie, the prod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:16PMMr. Finn's Cabaret, an intimate nightspot in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, is inaugurated May 25-26 with the songs of Joe Iconis. The new venue operated by Barrington Stage Company is…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMPhiladelphia Theatre Company's production of Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty begins performances May 25, for a run to June 24. Daniel Abeles plays Greg, a boyfriend tortured …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 24, 2012
The 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, will close o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:01PMFord's Theatre Society's black-tie Annual Gala on June 3 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, will include the presentation of the Lincoln Medal to actor Morgan Freeman and human…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PMProducers Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel and Thomas Viertel are picking up the reins of Prince of Broadway, the new musical retrospective of the work of Harold Prince, after the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMShakespeare in the Park alumni Raúl Esparza, Jesse L. Martin, Jerry Stiller, Christopher Walken, Sam Waterston and Jeffrey Wright have joined the one-night-only gala staged reading of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PM"Over the Rainbow," a CBC television talent competition this fall, will decide who gets cast as "Dorothy" — and her little dog, too — in the Canadian premiere…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMThe days when tulips were bought and sold as gold are conjured in the new musical Tulipomania, with book, music and lyrics by Barrymore Award winner Michael Ogborn, beginning a world-premier…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMStars 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 09:43AMSignature Theatre's new production of Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa!, the tale of race and achievement, teachers and students, freedom and apartheid — featuring new mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRoundabout Theatre Company's new production of Simon Gray's comedy-drama The Common Pursuit, about literary-minded college friends who are changed over the years, opens May 24 follow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
The 51st season of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, officially begins May 23 at the Festival Theatre with the opening night of Noel Coward's Present Laughter, directed …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMJames Lecesne will step into the role of Dick Jensen, the role regularly played by Michael McKean, in the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMThe world premiere of Noah Haidle's Smokefall will appear in South Coast Repertory's first season under new artistic director Marc Masterson. A second new play in the 29th season wil…
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