Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:38PMHalley Feiffer, of Broadway's recent The House of Blue Leaves, and C.J. Wilson, of Signature Theatre Company's just-closed The Lady From Dubuque, complete the cast of the Signature O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PMAtlantic Theater Company's world-premiere production of Fernanda Coppel's play Chimichangas and Zoloft will feature Teddy Cañez, Zabryna Guevara, Alfredo Narcisco, Xochitl Rom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMAcademy Award winners Kevin Kline and Meryl Steep — both veterans of New York Shakespeare Festival — will play the famous balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet as the Shakespeare cla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMThe Marvelous Wonderettes, the regional and Off-Broadway musical revue about a high-school pop foursome in the 1960s, gets a sequel this summer with the California world premiere of Marvelou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMThe Washington, DC-area premiere of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage opens April 17 at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, boasting a cast of DC performers including Helen Hayes Award …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHershey Felder, the pianist-actor known for appearing in musical biographies about George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and classical composers, directs the California world premiere of The Pi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 16, 2012
Water by the Spoonful, by Quiara Alegría Hudes, is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, recognizing an outstanding stage work that premiered during the 2011 calendar year.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PMClassic Stage Company's spring 2012 "open rehearsal series," in which Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is explored by different actors and directors in a unique reading s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PMTony 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 10:49AMComplete casting has been announced for Arena Stage's production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man starring the previously announced Kate Baldwin as Marian and Burke Moses as Harol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMTony Award winner Laura Benanti, Howard McGillin, Joseph Thalken and Natascia Diaz are among performers who'll appear at the April 16 presentation of Signature Theatre's third Stephe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNoël and Company, the new Manhattan company that celebrates the plays of Noël Coward, his contemporaries and artistic descendants, presents The Vortex, a rarely-seen sex-and-d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 15, 2012
Tony Award-winning director-adapter Frank Galati's The March, based on the Civil War-set novel by E.L. Doctorow, opens in its world premiere by Steppenwolf Theatre Company on April 15 fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, April 14, 2012
Joe DiPietro, the Tony Award-winning librettist and co-songwriter of Memphis, gets in touch with his screwball-comedy passion for Broadway's "new" Gershwin musical Nice Work If…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 13, 2012
The Pasadena Playhouse's 2012-13 season will feature the world premiere of what's billed as a Broadway-bound comedy, Under My Skin, by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMGeffen Playhouse in Los Angeles will produce three world premieres, including a new commission by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies and an adaptation by Neil LaBute in the 2012-13 seaso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMConor Lovett's turn in the U.S. premiere of Middletown playwright Will Eno's Title and Deed, a new solo play about a mysterious traveler, will be seen an extra two weeks, Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMTeam StarKid, the company behind the popular internet musical parody A Very Potter Musical, unveils its new spoof — the comic-book-inspired Holy Musical B@man! — 9 PM (ET) April …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMProfiles Theatre in Chicago opens the doors of a new venue April 13 with the first preview of its American-premiere production of Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep. The company…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 12, 2012
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's new production of the showbiz fable 42nd Street begins preview performances in Ontario on April 12. Chicago and Broadway director Gary Griffin (The C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMSignature Theatre's DC-area premiere of the musical Xanadu, the stage adaptation of the disco-era movie musical, will feature Erin Weaver as the Greek muse Kira and Charlie Brady as arti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMThe Vineyard Theatre's Developmental Lab of The Landing, the new triptych musical by composer John Kander, with book and lyrics by Greg Pierce, will be directed by Walter Bobbie. Julia M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMNoël and Company, the new Manhattan company that celebrates the plays of Noël Coward, his contemporaries and descendants, will present The Vortex, a rarely-seen sex-and-drugs famil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMWednesday, April 11, 2012
Adirondack Theatre Festival will stage five events this summer between June 26-July 28 at the Charles R. Wood Theater in Glens Falls, NY. Works by A.R. Gurney, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, Woo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:33PMThe San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle announced recipients of its Excellence in Theatre Awards on April 2. The honors are for work seen in California's Bay Area in 2011.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMGeffen Playhouse veterans Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle") and Jon Tenney ("The Closer") play former high school lovers in the West Coast premiere of David Lindsa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMagic/Bird, Eric Simonson's highly theatrical drama about the college-to-Olympics rivalry and friendship of basketball heroes Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, opens at Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, April 10, 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 06:58PMTony Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad will direct Paul Oakley Stovall's Immediate Family, a new comedy about secrets revealed at a family reunion, to play a Chicago run beginning Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMThe Signature Theatre world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play will star Anthony Arkin, Heather Burns, Tate Donovan, Kevin Geer, Josh Hamilton, David Pittu and others to be ann…
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