Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Signature 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PMThe Broadway cast of Lysistrata Jones will give it up April 9 in a one-night-only concert version of the acclaimed Broadway score at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMComposer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim told The London Evening Standard that he is working on a musical with David Ives, the playwright known for Venus in Fur, All in the Timing and adaptations …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMThe organizers of the Tony Awards have announced the calendar for the upcoming 2011-2012 Tony Award season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMKathleen Turner reprises her Broadway turn as a tough-talking nun who counsels a young drug addict in a Ft. Lauderdale, FL, engagement of the three-character play High. Performances play The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRated P for Parenthood, the new Off-Broadway musical revue about the joys and quirks of having kids, opens Feb. 29 following previews from Feb. 8 at the Westside Theatre. Courtney Balan ([ti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Kate Baldwin, pianist Rob Berman and 19-year-old ragtime pianist Adam Swanson join singer-pianist Michael Feinstein for the Feb. 29 performance of Standard Time with Micha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 28, 2012
Viewership for NBC's "Smash" was up slightly in its fourth week, according to ratings company Nielsen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMNominees for the 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, representing excellence in the Washington, DC, theatre community, were announced Feb. 27. The list of more widely-known performers nominated …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMSecond Stage Theatre's world-premiere production of Paul Weitz's comedy Lonely, I'm Not will star Topher Grace ("That '70s Show") and Olivia Thirlby ("Juno,&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMHurt Village — the new work by Katori Hall, the Olivier Award-winning writer of The Mountaintop — which officially opened Feb. 27, has extended its engagement at Signature Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMThe Goodman Theatre's 2012-13 season will include The Jungle Book, a new musical based on the 1967 animated Disney film and the stories of Rudyard Kipling. Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMPS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American Popular Song, has begun pre-production on its next vintage restoration and studio recording: composer George Gershwi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMOnce, the new stage musical based on the independent film about an Irish singer-songwriter named Guy, who meets a muse in the person of a Czech immigrant named Girl, begins performances on B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBobby Steggert, Michael Esper, Sue Jean Kim, Virginia Kull, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe and Amy Rosoff play satellites spinning around an unseen, bullying international mogul in the world premiere…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 27, 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 11:04PMThe Imperial Theatre box office for the new Broadway musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It will open March 1 with special giveaways for early birds.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMHappy Leap Year! That's the message from producers of the new Broadway musical Leap of Faith, who are offering $29 seats in the orchestra and mezzanine for the first week of previews, Ap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMSignature Theatre Company's Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater in the new Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street is officially open for business Feb. 27 with the opening of t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 26, 2012
The London cast album of the inbound Broadway comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, featuring the band The Craze performing original songs by Grant Olding, and using original troupers including star …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRod Brogan, Patricia Conolly, Lucas Hall, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Aimee Laurence, Joanna Leister, Wrenn Schmidt, David Sitler and John Thomas Waite are featured in Irish Repertory Theatre'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSam Gold began his life in theatre as a young actor, appearing as a replacement understudy in Broadway's The Diary of Anne Frank in 1997-98. What a difference 15 years has made. He's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBilly Crystal hosts the 84th Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 26, honoring excellence for the 2011 year in film. Among the nominees for Best Picture are "War Horse," "The Artis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 24, 2012
The previously announced one-week extension of the Second Stage Theatre revival of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive has been canceled, the not-for-profit Off-Broadway company announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:56PMTony Award-winning directors Bartlett Sher (South Pacific) and Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) will direct classics in the 2012-13 season of the Metropolitan Opera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMThe annual New York Pops Gala benefit on April 30 will honor the Tony Award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. A 7 PM Carnegie Hall concert called Journey On, borr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMThe annual New York Pops Gala benefit on April 30 will honor the Tony Award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. A 7 PM Carnegie Hall concert called Journey On, borr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMThursday, February 23, 2012
Stephanie J. Block, the game leading lady who stepped into the tap shoes of Sutton Foster in Anything Goes in fall 2011, when Foster was filming a TV pilot, will permanently take over the ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:27PMMystery Writers of America announced two theatrical titles as nominees for its annual Edgar Awards, honoring the best in mystery, thriller and crime literature and nonfiction across multiple…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:23PMTony Award winner Chuck Cooper, Jeff Kready, Brenda Pressley and Margo Seibert will star in the world premiere of the New Year's Eve-set chamber musical In This House by Two River Theate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMTeam StarKid, the troupe behind the popular internet musical parody A Very Potter Musical will launch its new spoof — the comic-book-inspired Holy Musical B@man! — this spring wi…
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