Thursday, February 23, 2012
Team 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMAsk Playbill.com answers a question about the music that you hear when you're leaving the theatre after a performance of a musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMClassic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as the persecuted scientist, opens Feb. 23 following previews from…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 22, 2012
Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin, pianist Rob Berman and 19-year-old ragtime pianist Adam Swanson will join singer-pianist Michael Feinstein for the Feb. 29 performance of Standard Time with …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PMBarbra Streisand and Columbia Records announced on Feb. 22 that Streisand's recording contract with the label has been extended, and revealed that Columbia will release a 12-set DVD, &qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PMThe Second Stage Theatre revival of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive will get an extra week, now to March 18, the not-for-profit Off-Broadway company announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMLa Jolla Playhouse announced the addition of J.T. Rogers' Blood and Gifts, the play about international military intervention in Afghanistan, as part of its 2012-13 season. Lucie Tibergh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PMJessica Love will play Anna Christie, the estranged prostitute daughter of a crusty sailor in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, March 10-April 15 at The Old Globe in San …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMThe works of playwright-songwriter Noël Coward — and his contemporaries and U.K. successors — will be presented in Manhattan in a monthly reading series dubbed Noël and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PMThe musical Kinky Boots, about a shoe company that finds new life when its owner is inspired to switch to manufacturing fetish footwear, will get a pre-Broadway tryout this fall at Chicago&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMTuesday, February 21, 2012
The Chicago premiere of librettist Harvey Fierstein and composer-lyricist John Bucchino's musical A Catered Affair, produced by Porchlight Musicals, opens Feb. 21 following previews from…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 20, 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 11:00PM"Mr. and Mrs. Smith," the latest show tune to be revealed from Marilyn the Musical — the show-within-a-show in the NBC series "Smash" — is available for downl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 19, 2012
The acclaimed City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's short-lived but tuneful Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along ends its limited engagement at the fam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSaturday, February 18, 2012
The Chicago premiere of librettist Harvey Fierstein and composer-lyricist John Bucchino's musical A Catered Affair, produced by Porchlight Musicals, begins previews Feb. 18 toward a Feb.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 17, 2012
Sleepless in Seattle – The Musical, in need of more time and work, is being moved from its world-premiere June-July slot at The Pasadena Playhouse to a 2012-13 season date to be determ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11PMTony Award winner Stephen Spinella begins performances in An Iliad, Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's 100-minute, solo-actor distillation of the Trojan War epic by Homer, on Feb. 17. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMThursday, February 16, 2012
Richard Chamberlain will play Dr. Sloper in Pasadena Playhouse's new production of The Heiress, also featuring Heather Tom as spinster daughter Catherine and Julia Duffy as Aunt Lavinia.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11PMThe Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher, the new "Peter Pan"-inspired play by Rick Elice (Jersey Boys), will star its original Off-Broadway cast, including Lucille Lor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMCasting is complete for the Broadway transfer of the popular West End comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, about a manservant pulled between two bosses — and his own voracious appetite. As pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PMCaldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton, FL, is "reviewing various options of reorganization" in light of its mortgage lender's $6 million foreclosure lawsuit, artistic director…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMMeryl Streep will play cancer-ridden, pill-poppin' matriarch Violet opposite Julia Roberts as confrontational daughter Barbara in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMPlaywright-director Athol Fugard's staging of his Blood Knot — launching the Signature Theatre Company's new home, The Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMPittsburgh Public Theater's 2012-13 season will feature titles under the umbrella of "Made in America," sheltering works "by American writers and composers and set in citi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 15, 2012
The complete company of the new Broadway production of Harvey starring Jim Parsons includes Larry Bryggman, Peter Benson, Tracee Chimo, Holley Fain, Angela Paton, Rich Sommer, Morgan Spector…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PMManhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of Wit, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow, will get an extra week at MTC's Samuel J. Friedm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMThe couch of Off-Broadway's Freud Last Session will get two new occupants — George Morfogen as Freud and Jim Stanek as C.S. Lewis — starting March 16 at New World Stages. Ori…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMThe couch of Off-Broadway's Freud Last Session will get two new occupants — George Morfogen as Freud and Jim Stanek as C.S. Lewis — starting March 16 at New World Stages. Ori…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMArena Stage's 2012-13 subscription season at The Mead Center for American Theater will include the world premiere of Cheryl L. West's Pullman Porter Blues, the Washington, DC, premie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMThe world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart), officially opens Feb. 15 following previews that began Feb. 7 in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMRod Brogan, Patricia Conolly, Lucas Hall, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Aimee Laurence, Joanna Leister, Wrenn Schmidt, David Sitler and John Thomas Wait are featured in Irish Repertory Theatre's…
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