Monday, March 12, 2012
Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2012-13 season will include the musicals Assassins, Ring of Fire, Blues in the Night and Gutenberg!; Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, a fantastical look a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59PMChicago Shakespeare Theater will produce Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park With George, plus David Ives' The School for Lies and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PMJoining the previously revealed Hello, Dolly! in Ford's Theatre's 2012-13 season will be a 75th-anniversary production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and new play about African-Am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMIrish Repertory Theatre and Gingold Theatrical Group will present a co-production of George Bernard Shaw's complete four-act Man and Superman — his 1903 comedy set in England, Spai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMMark Blum, Lisa Emery, Christopher Jackson and Maureen Sebastian will join the previously announced Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby for the world premiere of Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMBroadway's Helen Hayes Theatre on West 44th Street turns 100 on March 12. Martin Markinson and Jeff Tick, who own and operate the venue — first called The Little Theatre back in 19…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGolden Globe Award winner Richard Gere, star of the Rob Marshall film "Chicago," and two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters are on the list of performers honoring director an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 11, 2012
The company of Anything Goes says farewell to Sutton Foster at the March 11 matinee of the Broadway hit that earned the star her second Best Actress Tony Award. Following a year of performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSaturday, March 10, 2012
Antoni Cimolino, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's current general director — who rose from being a young actor at the world-renowned Canadian theatre — has been named its…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:08PMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2011 pop-rock-infused production of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night gets a cinematic release March 10 and March 21 at Cineplex Entertainment t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJessica Love plays Anna Christie, the estranged prostitute daughter of a crusty sailor in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starting March 10 at The Old Globe in San Dieg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Karen Ziemba stars as Charlotte Bartlett, the overbearing chaperone of the young Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch, in the new musical A Room With a View, based on the E.M. For…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 9, 2012
The Washington, DC, premiere of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, will feature a cast of DC performers including Helen Hayes Award winners Naomi Jacobs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMBill English, the game actor who previously stepped into the dancing shoes of romantic lead Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, is back in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, now through Ap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMAmerican Conservatory Theater's West Coast premiere of Jordan Harrison's Maple and Vine, about modern people who escape to the past by joining a group of 1950s reenactors, will play …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMTony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me) is the "obnoxious and disliked" John Adams opposite fellow Continental Congressman — and Tony nominee &md…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, March 8, 2012
Golden Globe Award winner Richard Gere, star of the Rob Marshall film "Chicago," and two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters have joined the list of performers honoring direct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMThe Old Globe has added a week to the run of its world-premiere musical A Room with a View, now playing to April 15 in San Diego.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMGrammy and Emmy Award-winning actor-comedian-musician Steve Martin will compose original music for The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of As You Like It, the dates of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMJean Banks, the senior director of jazz and musical theatre at BMI and an unseen but influential figure in the theatre world, will be remembered at a gathering of friends and colleagues 5:30…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMThe world-premiere production of British playwright Matt Charman's Regrets, about men biding their time at a Nevada ranch while waiting for quick divorces in the 1950s, begins previews M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, March 7, 2012
Writers' Theatre in suburban Chicago announced a 2012-13 season to feature Hamlet, the Midwest premiere of John W. Lowell's play The Letters, the musical Sweet Charity, the Midwest p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PMThe Tony Award-wining Denver Center Theatre Company in Colorado will give voice to two world premieres, plus Other Desert Cities, The Three Musketeers, Fences, Romeo and Juliet and more in i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMThe Bruce Hornsby-scored musical formerly known as SCKBSTD has been retitled Stranger, and will appear March 20 in the Developmental Reading Series of York Theatre Company in Manhattan. Lanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PMThe Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, will stage The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Company, Dreamgirls and a new in-the round production of Joe Calarco's Shakespe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMSteppenwolf Theatre Company's 2012-13 subscription season in Chicago will feature the world premiere of the Tina Landau-directed Steppenwolf commission Head of Passes by ensemble member …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AMNow. Here. This., the new work from the creators and cast of the cult-hit musical [title of show], gets its world premiere by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre starting March 7 prior to an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Philadelphia Theatre Company announced Equivocation author Bill Cain as the first recipient of the Terrence McNally New Play Award to aid in the research and development of Cain's new pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PMDue to health issues, Jack Klugman has withdrawn from the George Street Playhouse's upcoming production of Twelve Angry Men in New Brunswick, NJ.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PMViewership for NBC's "Smash" was up 17 percent for its March 5 episode, according to published reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMPlaybill's weekly overview, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC series "Smash," about the people behind the creation of a new Broadway musical. Here's …
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