Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:40PMPlaybill'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 03:01PMThe producers of the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man announced on May 9 that the run now continues to July 22 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMManhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere production of The Columnist by David Auburn has been extended for a second time at Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, now to July 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMBroadway dancers stud the new musical Heat Wave: The Jack Cole Project, about the father of theatrical jazz and musical-theatre dance, in its world premiere, opening May 9 following previews…
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 12:00AMGoodspeed Musicals' new production of the musical Mame, starring Tony Award nominee Louise Pitre, opens May 9 at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT. The run was recently extended b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
The Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying — first a vehicle for Daniel Radcliffe, and now starring Nick Jonas — will close up shop on May 20, the p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:46PMThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One, launching the company's 2012 50th-anniversary season, will feature Derek Wilson as Prince …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PMNice Work If You Can Get It, the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical that marries a new screwball-comedy plot to old Gershwin songs, will spawn a national touring company, the produce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PMLeap 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, will close on May 13, the produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMJohn Pankow will replace previously announced David Pittu in the cast of the Off-Broadway world-premiere production of Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play by Signature Theatre Company. Pitt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMThe fifth annual Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, administered by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre, will go to emerging playwright Erika Sheffer, who penned Off-Broadway's Russian Trans…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMWill Eno's Title and Deed, a new solo play about a mysterious traveler, begins its American premiere May 8 as part of Signature Theatre Company's season at the new Pershing Square Si…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSomewhere in heaven, Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers, Charlie Chaplin and a long line of storytellers who loved to create physical comedy are smiling down on Tom Edden, the 33-year-old British …
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 12:00AMMonday, May 7, 2012
The New York Drama Critics' Circle named Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet the Best Play of the 2011-12 season following a meeting of its members on May 7. The 77th annual awards a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:27PMJudy McLane will shed the spandex of thrice-married man-eater Tanya to begin playing mother-of-the-bride Donna in the Broadway company of Mamma Mia! on June 4. McLane has played Tanya at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PMLike the wandering troubadour at its core, Once, the 11-time Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical, will travel. The producers announced that a national tour of the acclaimed show will begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PMSomewhere in heaven, Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers, Charlie Chaplin and a long line of storytellers who loved to create physical comedy are smiling down on Tom Edden, the 33-year-old British …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMMario Cantone hosted the 27th annual Lucille Lortel Awards May 6, when Sons of the Prophet, The Cherry Orchard, An Iliad and the musical Once were honored in production categories. The Off-B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:33AMTopher Grace, of TV's "That '70s Show," plays a fallen corporate millionaire coming out of a funk in Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm Not, opening May 7 in its world-premie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 6, 2012
Irish Repertory Theatre and Gingold Theatrical Group open a co-production of George Bernard Shaw's complete four-act Man and Superman — his 1903 comedy set in England, Spain and He…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway run of Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's comedy about a caustic editor and a group of young novelists, ends following the May 6 matinee at the Golden Theatre. At close, the world-pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, May 5, 2012
Newsies choreographer Christopher Gattelli, nominated for a 2012 Best Choreography Tony Award, talks about collaborating with his young cast to tell story through dance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe Scottsboro Boys, the Tony Award-nominated musical inspired by a Depression-era miscarriage of American justice, makes its West Coast debut, officially opening May 5 following previews fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 4, 2012
Tickets are now on sale for the Nov. 9-Dec. 30 engagement of the 2012 production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. The opulent holiday musical revue, complete…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMRoundabout Theatre Company's new production of Simon Gray's comedy-drama The Common Pursuit, about college friends who are changed over the years, begins May 4 at RTC's Off-Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 3, 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 02:16PMRebecca, the musical based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier, about mysterious doings in an English estate called Manderley, will begin Broadway previews on Oct. 20 at the Broadhurst…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMBroadway dancers stud the new musical Heat Wave: The Jack Cole Project, about the father of theatrical jazz and musical-theatre dance, in its world premiere May 3-20 at Queens Theatre in Flu…
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