Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMLungs, British playwright Duncan Macmillan's play about prospective parents, gets its New England premiere starting May 23 at Barrington Stage Company's intimate St. Germain Stage in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMClybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Best Play, will stick around the Broadway neighborhood a little longer. Producer Jordan Roth announced May 23 that the Pulitzer Prize-winning co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMLos Otros, Michael John LaChiusa and Ellen Fitzhugh's chamber musical touching on the Mexican-American experience, begins a world-premiere run at Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles on May 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMeredith Willson's The Music Man, the Americana-striped musical comedy about a corrupt salesman who charms — and is charmed by — a small town in Iowa, opens May 23 in-the-rou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAtlantic Theater Company's world-premiere production of Fernanda Coppel's play Chimichangas and Zoloft, featuring Teddy Cañez, Zabryna Guevara, Alfredo Narciso, Xochitl R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 22, 2012
The second season of the NBC musical drama series "Smash" will get at least three new faces, according to an industry casting notice. The 15-episode first season concluded May 14.&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMMembers of Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) gathered on West 45th Street starting at 11 AM May 22 to voice their concern about a new midtown circ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMGentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1949 Broadway score by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, will get its most complete recording yet when Masterworks Broadway releases the Encores! concert cast recording…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AMSpiegelworld, the producer of tent-housed theatrical events that draw on circus, cabaret, variety and burlesque traditions, returns to New York City on May 22 for a 15-week run of a new show…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 2012 Second Stage Uptown season begins May 22 with the first preview of the world premiere of Alena Smith's The Bad Guys, about five pals from childhood who reunite one summer. Micha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPS Classics, the record label devoted to the American Songbook and the heritage of musical theatre, releases a studio cast album of George Gershwin and B.G. DeSylva's 1924 musical S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 21, 2012
Members of Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) will voice their concern about a new midtown circus-cabaret show's lack of union tech employees o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:31PMDogfight, the new musical getting its world premiere at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre, will feature Annaleigh Ashford, Becca Ayers, Steven Booth, Dierdre Friel, Adam Halpin, F. Mic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PMDavid Schwimmer and Amy Ryan will star as a suburban couple sharing barbecue with their new neighbors in the New York City premiere of Lisa D'Amour's Pulitzer Prize-finalist play Det…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PMThe producers of the new Broadway production of Annie announced the Palace Theatre as the musical's home starting this fall. Previews begin Oct. 3 prior to a Nov. 8 opening night.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMStevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, Diana Krall, Michael Feinstein and more appear in "In Performance at the White House: Burt Bacharach & Hal David: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMNew York City Center's Encores! concert series will return to its roots in 2013 — its 20th season — with a presentation of Fiorello!, the title that launched the popular orga…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMThe Araca Group's AracaWorks, a week-long series of play readings, runs May 21-25 in Manhattan. New plays by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich, Dorothy Fortenberry, Lila Feinberg, Andrew Dolan …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 20, 2012
Will Eno's Title and Deed, a new solo play about a mysterious traveler, opens in its American premiere May 20 following previews from May 8 as part of Signature Theatre Company's sea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSaturday, May 19, 2012
Porgy and Bess never had the subtitle or, Clara and Jake, but Nikki Renée Daniels and Joshua Henry make such a strong impression in the new Broadway "revisal" of the George …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, May 18, 2012
City Theatre in Pittsburgh will develop four new works in its Momentum Festival of New Plays May 31-June 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMHarvey, Mary Chase's 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about a man whose best friend is a 6-foot-tall rabbit, hops back to Broadway on May 18 in a Roundabout Theatre Company production …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Arian Moayed of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is among cast members of New York Theatre Workshop/Noor Theatre's Middle East-set play Food and Fadwa, about cooking an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Playwrights Horizons world premiere of Rapture, Blister, Burn, a play by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Gina Gionfriddo (Becky Shaw), begins Off-Broadway performances May …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 17, 2012
Tony Award nominee Kathleen Chalfant will star in the New York Theatre Workshop's 2012-13 season-launching production of Red Dog Howls, Alexander Dinelaris' drama about family secret…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:48PMPhiladelphia Theatre Company's production of Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty, May 25-June 24, will feature Daniel Abeles as Greg, a boyfriend tortured by his girlfriend after he m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMPhiladelphia Theatre Company's production of Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty, May 25-June 24, will feature Daniel Abeles as Greg, a boyfriend tortured by his girlfriend after he m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PMThe Gershwin score of Nice Work If You Can Get It, the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Best Musical, will be preserved on a cast album on the Shout! Factory label, the producers announced on May 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMThe producers of the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man announced May 16 that the run now continues to Sept. 9 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMEdward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will return to Broadway in September in an acclaimed new production seen in 2010-11 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and Arena Stage i…
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