Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Playbill'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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PMZoe Lister-Jones will succeed Lily Rabe in Broadway's Seminar, the Theresa Rebeck comedy about young novelists whose work is judged by a waspish editor. Rabe and original cast members Al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PMNew York Theatre Workshop's New York City premiere of Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's Homer-inspired one-man play An Iliad, gets two opening nights this week. Tony Award winners…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMSignature Theatre Company's new production of Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque, widely praised by critics as a rediscovery following its March 5 opening night, has been extended …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PMThe Best Man, Gore Vidal's 1960 play about a U.S. presidential election, gets its second Broadway revival — and a starry one, at that — beginning previews March 6 at the Gera…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDana Rowe and John Dempsey, the writers of the musicals The Fix and The Witches of Eastwick, have crafted a new pop-rock musical called Brother Russia, about the life and times of Rasputin, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 5, 2012
Helen Hayes Award winner and Tony Award nominee Helen Carey will play drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite Peter Michael Goetz as husband and aging actor James Tyrone, Sr., in Arena Stage'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30PMGoodspeed Musicals, the two-time Tony Award-winning Connecticut company devoted to new and vintage musicals, will honor Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth as the recipient of The Goodspeed …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PMPrior to its March 13 release on the Masterworks Broadway label, the cast album of Once: A New Musical is now getting a "first listen" on National Public Radio's website at npr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMIf the sour and intolerant Dean Wormer of the hit film comedy "Animal House" sang a song, what might it sound like? Probably something like a Barenaked Ladies pop song, if Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PMGeffen 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 11:18AMTony Award winner Jane Alexander is the enigmatic title character in Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque — the acclaimed actress' first-ever role in an Albee play —…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe works of playwright-songwriter Noël Coward — and his contemporaries and U.K. successors — get presented in a monthly Manhattan reading series dubbed Noël and Compan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 4, 2012
The Broadway premiere of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, his three-actor play about an expressive, inspirational South African artist, played by Rosemary Harris, and the forces that wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, March 3, 2012
Tickets for Broadway engagement of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, a play about race and real estate, will be available to the general public starting March 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 2, 2012
The Broadway cast album of Bonnie & Clyde will be released April 24 on the Broadway Records label. The musical ended its short run on Broadway Dec. 30, 2011, but the Frank Wild…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PMTony Award winner David Zippel, who wrote frisky lyrics for City of Angels, The Goodbye Girl and the regionally-seen Princesses, has adapted Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PMTony Award winner Karen Ziemba stars as Charlotte Bartlett, the overbearing chaperone of Lucy Honeychurch, in the new musical A Room With a View, based on the E.M. Forster novel, getting its…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAlley Theatre's production of John Logan's popular two-character play Red, directed by Jackson Gay, featuring Tony Award nominee Scott Wentworth as painter Mark Rothko and Jay Sulliv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, March 1, 2012
Roundabout Theatre Company's annual 2012 Spring Gala on March 12 will celebrate Academy Award, Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Rob Marshall, who has roots in RTC productions. His sis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05PMJustin Long, the young actor who has played a number of charming and hapless roles in TV ("Ed," "New Girl") and film ("He's Just Not That Into You," "T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMHunter Foster and Rick Crom's satiric musical treatment of the criminal lives of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow has a cast — and a new title — for a new Atlanta-area producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMThe original Off-Broadway company of Nicky Silver's dark comedy The Lyons will make the leap to Broadway, producers announced on March 1. Performances begin April 5 prior to an April 23 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMMusicians are in a studio with composer-lyricist Lewis Flinn March 1 to begin recording the cast album of Broadway's Lysistrata Jones, according to @LyssieJ, the official Twitter account…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMTony Award nominee Stephen Kunken (Enron), Grace Gummer (Arcadia) and Brian J. Smith (Come Back, Little Sheba) will join previously announced John Lithgow, Margaret Colin and Boyd Gaines for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMBerkeley Repertory Theatre's 2012-13 season in Berkeley, CA, will include the world premiere of Dan LeFranc's comedy and the West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMTony Award winner Chita Rivera (The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, West Side Story) will step into the world of the British Music Hall this fall for the first Broadway revival of the Tony A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaywrights Horizons serves the New York City premiere of Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, a play that spans 80 years in the life of a family in one setting — a restaurant — start…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Imperial Theatre box office for the new Broadway musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It opens March 1, and the first in line will have access to prizes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 29, 2012
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announced six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PMSignature Theatre Company has announced a one-week extension for Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque, starring Tony Award winner Jane Alexander in the title role, which will officially …
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