Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Goodspeed Musicals has stuffed The Bikinis — a musical bursting with pop standards from the '60s and '70s — to its 2012 season at the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMThe 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, honoring excellence in Washington, DC-area professional theatre, were handed out April 23 at the Warner Theatre. Ruined, Hairspray, Charlotte's Web an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMJosh Safran, an executive producer at CW's "Gossip Girl," will succeed Theresa Rebeck as "showrunner" — the person in charge of all aspects of story — for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMHershey Felder, the pianist-actor known for appearing in musical biographies about George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and classical composers, directs the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Columnist, David Auburn's character study about the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of the late political journalist Joseph Alsop, opens in its Broadway world pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
Filmmaker Justin Lin ("Fast and Furious" franchise) has acquired the film rights to David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, the recent Broadway comedy about an Ohio businessman navigati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMFolger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, has acquired the theatrical archive of actress and playwright Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010). The collection of professional and family papers docume…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMThe Chicago engagement of Mark St. Germain's Freud's Last Session at the Mercury Theater has been extended to July 15, the producers announced on April 24. Mike Nussbaum and Coburn G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMA new generation of Broadway theatregoer gets exposed to the classic songs of composer George Gershwin and lyricist Ira Gershwin with the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It — …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe Broadway cast album of Bonnie & Clyde gets its official release April 24 on the Broadway Records label. It has been available through digitial services in recent days. The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 23, 2012
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment announced a 2012-13 season that will include a 2013 visit by Shirley MacLaine, plus productions of Next to Normal, Sev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:41PMBarrington Stage Company's borrowed second-stage at a V.F.W. post in Pittsfield, MA, will become a permanent home for the resident Equity organization. BSC announced that a gift from lon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMThe dark tale of "Trainspotting," the novel about heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland, best known as a film by Danny Boyle, is being re-adapted as an American-set play written an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMThe Columnist, David Auburn's character study about the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of the late political journalist Joseph Alsop, will get an extra week on Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMA Civil War Christmas, written by Paula Vogel and directed by Tina Landau, will make its New York City premiere in the 2012-13 season of New York Theatre Workshop, the Off-Broadway theatre w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AMA Civil War Christmas, written by Paula Vogel and directed by Tina Landau, will make its New York City premiere in the 2012-13 season of New York Theatre Workshop, the Off-Broadway theatre w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMThe 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards ceremony, honoring excellence in the Washington, DC, theatre community, is April 23. The list of more widely-known performers nominated includes Euan Morto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Lyons, Nicky Silver's darkly comic dysfunctional-family play starring Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, opens on Broadway April 23 following previews from April 5 at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, April 21, 2012
The Broadway cast album of Bonnie & Clyde is now available for purchase on iTunes. The CD will be released April 24 on the Broadway Records label. The musical ended its short run on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMNathan Lane stars as Theodore Hickman in the new Robert Falls-directed production of Eugene O'Neill's epic The Iceman Cometh, beginning previews April 21 at the Goodman Theatre in Ch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 20, 2012
A technical glitch — dare we say a goblin? — halted the April 19 performance of Ghost: The Musical, a special effects-heavy production, for 25 minutes at Broadway's Lunt-Font…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03AMGoodspeed Musicals' new production of the Tony Award-winning Jerry Herman musical Mame begins blowing its bugle April 20 for a run to July 1 at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 19, 2012
Denver Center Theatre Company has added the world-premiere production of Sense & Sensibility The Musical, drawn from the Jane Austen novel, to its 2012-13 season. Tony Award nominee Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of artistic director Brian Kulick and executive director Greg Reiner, announced April 19 that award-winning actresses Judy Kuhn and Melissa Errico…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMThe sixth season of Roundabout Theatre Company's Roundabout Underground program of new works by emerging writers will launch Oct. 5 with the world premiere of Bad Jews, a comedy by Joshu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMOscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, the film actor known for such pictures as "Love and Other Drugs" and "Brokeback Mountain," will make his American stage debut starting in l…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMClybourne Park, Bruce Norris' humor-flecked play about racial and economic changes in a neighborhood over a 50-year period, opens on Broadway April 19 following previews from March 26. W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis will star as the Chorus Leader in Elektra, a specially commissioned new translation by London playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, in the 2012-13 season of San Fra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMThe leaders of Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven, NJ, are reaching out to the local community following an April 8 fire that left a housing unit for visiting personnel uninhabitable. There we…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMThe Broadway transfer of the popular West End comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, about a manservant pulled between two bosses — and his own voracious appetite — opens April 18 followin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, April 17, 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…
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