Thursday, May 17, 2012
Edward 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AMChris Peluso, Dennis Parlato, Whitney Bashor, Chris Hoch, Harriet D. Foy and more bring the story behind the famed spiritual "Amazing Grace" to life in a new musical, aptly titled …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Old Globe's world-premiere production of the pop-flavored Nobody Loves You — a musical comedy set in the world of reality television, with music and lyrics by Gaby Alter and bo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Newsies, the Broadway musical now contending for Best Musical in the 2012 Tony Awards race, is now playing an open-ended run, Disney Theatrical Productions announced on May 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:48PMWater By the Spoonful, the 2012 Pulizter Prize-winning play by Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jon Kern's Modern Terrorism, the 2012 winner of the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, are two o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PMAmerican Theater Company, the Chicago troupe that found success with a staging of the original, gritty version of Grease in 2011, will unearth the original Off-Broadway script of Hair in 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PMAmerican Theater Company, the Chicago troupe that found success with a staging of the original, gritty version of Grease in 2011, will unearth the original Off-Broadway script and score of H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PMPlays and directors are lined up for The Araca Group's AracaWorks, a week-long series of play readings May 21-25 in Manhattan. New plays by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich, Dorothy Fortenberr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AMThe Magic Theatre in San Francisco will offer the world premieres of Octavio Solis' Se Llama Cristina and Anna Ziegler's Another Way Home in the 2012-13 season. Plays by Sharr White …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMJohn Patrick Shanley directs the world premiere of his Bronx-set Storefront Church, the third play of his trilogy that began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt, which begins performances …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 15, 2012
Playbill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the creation of a new Broadway musical about Marilyn Monro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06PMTony Award winner Jennifer Holliday, one of the original Dreamgirls, is heard on a bonus track on the cast album of Broadway's Lysistrata Jones, which gets released May 15 by Broadway Re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSignature Theatre's DC-area premiere of the musical Xanadu, the stage adaptation of the disco-era movie musical, featuring Erin Weaver as the Greek muse Kira and Charlie Brady as artist …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Off-Broadway world-premiere production of Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play by Signature Theatre Company begins May 15. It's set "against the classic comic background of late…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Vineyard Theatre's Developmental Lab of The Landing, the new triptych musical by Tony Award-winning composer John Kander, with book and lyrics by Greg Pierce, plays Off-Broadway May …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Trunk and Disorderly: Songs from the Deep Dark Trunk of Jeff Blumenkrantz, celebrating the music of the 2011 Fred Ebb Award-winning songwriter, is presented May 14 at the York Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMMarcelo Pereira, Anthony Reimer, Randy Schein, Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh, Zoe Winters and Remy Zaken join Tony nominee Valerie Harper in the May 14 industry reading of Sherri Heller&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe New York Drama Critics' Circle hands out its 2011-12 awards on May 14 at a cocktail reception at Angus McIndoe restaurant. Presenters include Andrew Garfield, John Guare and Lin-Manu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 13, 2012
Dan Stevens, known to millions of international TV viewers as romantic lead Matthew Crawley on the period drama series "Downton Abbey," will play suitor Morris Townsend in the new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PMLeap of Faith, the new Broadway musical about a con-man preacher who blows into a depressed, drought-plagued Kansas town, where he spars with a lady sheriff, closes on May 13. Despite its so…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, May 12, 2012
The world premiere of Hands on a Hardbody, the new musical about a Texas endurance competition, starring Jim Newman and Tony nominees Keith Carradine, Hunter Foster and Mary Gordon Murray, o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMagic/Bird, Eric Simonson's sports biography about the rivalry and friendship of basketball stars Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, plays its final performance on Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 11, 2012
Marcelo Pereira, Anthony Reimer, Randy Schein, Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh, Zoe Winters and Remy Zaken complete the cast of the May 14 industry reading of Sherri Heller's new comedy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM"Do No Harm," the TV medical drama created by playwright David Schulner, about a gifted neurosurgeon with a secret life, has been picked up for series at NBC. Broadway's Tony A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMBroadway star and Philadelphia native Hugh Panaro is celebrated May 11 with the presentation of the 2012 Edwin Forrest Award at Walnut Street Theatre's annual benefit gala in Philadelphi…
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, begins performances in-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 10, 2012
The White House echoed with the popular songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David — known for hit tunes, including those from the Broadway musical Promises, Promises — on May 9, when…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PMHero, a new musical about a young comic-book artist, will get its Equity world premiere on June 20 by Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL, following earlier development. Erich Bergen, of th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMTony Award winner Deanna Dunagan, the Chicago star who played the strained, cancerous and addicted matron Violet Weston in Broadway's August: Osage County, is Madame Armfeldt in Stephen …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
The Second Stage Theatre run of Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm Not, starring Topher Grace of TV's "That '70s Show," has been extended by one week, now to June 3. The worl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMThe new musical Flashdance will not play a pre-Broadway Toronto engagement this summer, the producers announced on May 9. The show was expected to move to Broadway following a five-week Augu…
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