Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me) will be the "obnoxious and disliked" John Adams opposite fellow Continental Congressman — and Tony nomine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMRated P for Parenthood, the new Off-Broadway musical revue about the joys and quirks of having kids, begins its Off-Broadway life Feb. 8 at the Westside Theatre, where Courtney Balan ([title…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new musical Amazing Grace, based on the life of John Newton, the former slave trader who wrote the famous hymn of the title, will launch Goodspeed Musicals' 2012 Norma Terris Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's short-lived but tuneful Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along plays the famed Manhattan venue Feb. 8-19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 7, 2012
Supporters of Roundabout Theatre Company are being invited to a starry presentation of director Jessica Stone's all-male production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMBasketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, formerly of Michigan State University and the Los Angeles Lakers, will make his Broadway debut this spring — sort of.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMBasketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, formerly of Michigan State University and the Los Angeles Lakers, will make his Broadway debut this spring — sort of.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMThe critically acclaimed theatre-inspired TV series "Smash," in its pilot airing at 10 PM (ET) Feb. 6, was a ratings hit, earning 11.5 million total viewers and scoring high with v…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMThe San Diego Theatre Critics Circle named The Old Globe's 2011 production of Tracy Letts' drama August: Osage County the Outstanding Dramatic Production in the 10th annual Craig Noe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMThe world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart), begins Feb. 7 at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Bill Pullman, Am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSignature Theatre Company's Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater in the new Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street is unveiled to the public Feb. 7 with the first performance o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMVenus in Fur, David Ives' dark comedy about a director auditioning a mysterious actress for a stage adaptation of an erotic novel, begins a commercial run at Broadway's Lyceum Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 6, 2012
The pilot episode of the new NBC drama-with-songs, "Smash," about the making of a Broadway musical, aired 10 PM (ET) Feb. 6. Full of spoilers, here's Playbill's look at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00PMThe new musical Kinky Boots, with a score by pop singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, was seen New York City workshop presentations Jan. 19-20 in anticipation of a Broadway bow sometime in 2012-1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PMAdditional casting has been announced for Leap of Faith, the new Broadway musical about a flim-flam preacher who blows into a small town, where he spars with a lady sheriff.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMA compromised slave auctioneer alone in the Mississippi swamps is at the mercy of a runaway slave in the world premiere of Jan Buttram's Lost on the Natchez Trace, opening Feb. 12 in an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Smash," the new hour-long musical drama series created by Broadway dramatists who dwell in the world they're writing about, premieres 10 PM Feb. 6 on NBC. In an era where &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNoël Coward's Semi-Monde — the playwright's frank look at gay lives — gets its American premiere in a Feb. 6 one-night-only benefit concert performance presented by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, February 4, 2012
Music Is, the short-lived 1976 Broadway musical based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, is getting its first revival in a concert version produced by the theatre school at Western Carolina…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmerican Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Richard Montoya's new work about a U.S. citizenship test and echoes from American history, opens at La Jolla Playhouse Feb. 4 following pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 3, 2012
The world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley, will get an extra week of performances at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PMAudiences at Broadway's Jersey Boys have been more at home than ever in the past month following the Jan. 8-10 installation of firmer seat cushions in the 1,250-seat auditorium of the Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PMTony Award winner Deanna Dunagan, the Chicago star who played the strained, cancerous and addicted matron Violet Weston in Broadway's August: Osage County, will be Madame Armfeldt in Ste…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM"Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," a new feature-film documentary about the life of Tony-winning Hello, Dolly! star Carol Channing, arrives in theatres in New York and San Francis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe New York City premiere of Leslye Headland's Assistance, about those in service of nightmare bosses, begins performances Feb. 3 with a cast that features Tony Award nominee Bobby Steg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 2, 2012
American Theater Company (ATC) and About Face Theatre will co-produce a resident Chicago production of Jonathan Larson's award-winning Rent, directed by MacArthur Fellow David Cromer, wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMPlaywrights Horizons announced complete casting for 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PMRoundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of Marc Camoletti's farce Don't Dress for Dinner, a sequel to Boeing-Boeing, will star Ben Daniels, Melora Hardin, Adam James, Os…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PMGoodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls announced full casting for the Chicago revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh starring the previously announced Tony Award winne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PMTony Award-winning Broadway producer Scott Rudin shed light on the circumstances that led him to abandon his plan to produce Bruce Norris' play Clybourne Park on Broadway this spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMThe New York-based Elevator Repair Service will bring Gatz, the eight-hour stage version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre,…
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