Friday, January 27, 2012
Producers Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and INFINITY Stages announced that tickets for Gore Vidal’s The Best Man will go on sale to the general public Jan. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMAmerican Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Richard Montoya's new work about a U.S. citizenship test and echoes from American history, plays La Jolla Playhouse starting Jan. 27. Jo B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 26, 2012
Director David Cromer's intimate, unsentimental street-clothes version of Our Town, a hit in Chicago and New York City, will play New England — the Pulitzer Prize-winning play'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:38PMShakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present its first musical since 2004 this fall when artistic director Bonnie J. Monte stages Man of La Mancha starring Broadway's Robert Cuccioli i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMBarrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, revealed its complete 2012 programming, which will include the world premiere of Mark St. Germain's new play Dr. Ruth, All the Way starring De…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMBroadway music and stars will punctuate the 2012-13 of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, music director Steven Reineke announced on Jan. 26. Paulo Szot, Kelli O'Hara and the work of&nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMNorm Lewis, of Broadway's Sondheim on Sondheim and the most recent Les Miserables, is plenty of something in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMBroadway's The Phantom of the Opera, already the longest-running show in Broadway history, hits another milestone Jan. 26. It's the 24th anniversary of its opening night.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Recommendation, Jonathan Caren's provocative play about friendship, featuring Jimonn Cole, Brandon Gill and Evan Todd, opens Jan. 26 following previews from Jan. 21 at The Old Globe&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDenver Center Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Lisa Loomer's Passover Seder-set comedy Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner, directed by Wendy C. Goldberg, ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArena Stage's Washington, DC, engagement of John Logan's Red, produced in association with Chicago's Goodman Theatre, where this production bowed last fall, opens Jan. 26 followi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMManhattan Theatre Club's Broadway production of Margaret Edson's Wit — the Pulitzer Prize-winning title's Broadway debut — opens Jan. 26 following performances f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2012
Cynthia Harris will be the imperious grandmother in The Actors Company Theatre/TACT revival of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, beginning March 13 at Off-Broadway's Beckett Theatre. Ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMLloyd Suh's Jesus in India, billed as "a contemporary reimagining of a wild stretch in the lost years of Jesus Christ" in his teen years, gets its world premiere beginning Jan.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGabe McKinley's CQ/CX, the fact-inspired drama about a journalism scandal, begins preview performances Off-Broadway Jan. 25. Atlantic Theater Company produces the world premiere, opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe original 2010 Off-Broadway company of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park — the drama about race and change in an American neighborhood — reunites for a Los Angeles engagem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPhiladelphia Theatre Company presents the multiple Tony-nominated musical The Scottsboro Boys, opening Jan. 25 in its first post-Broadway staging, at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2012
The pilot episode of the new hour-long musical drama "Smash" — the scripted TV series about theatre people putting together a new Broadway musical — is now available vi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PMAmelia, Alex Webb's two-actor, multi-character play about a woman's epic journey across Civil War America in search of her soldier husband, has been extended through Feb. 12 at Washi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMThe producers of Rebecca, the new musical based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, announced on Jan. 24 that the show's Broadway run is being postponed until the 2012-13 season. It turns…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMNominations for the 84th Academy Awards, honoring excellence for the 2011 year in film, were announced Jan. 24. Among the nominees for Best Picture are "War Horse," "The Artis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AMGoodspeed Musicals' spring revival of Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Mame will star Louise Pitre, the Canadian actress and concert star who was Tony Award-nominate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMPetula Clark, the Grammy Award-winning singer-actress with one foot in pop and one in musicals, performs in an intimate nightclub setting — Feinstein's at Loews Regency in Manhatta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new Off-Broadway production of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, her dark Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age play, begins Jan. 24 prior to a Feb. 13 opening at Second Stage The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKeith Baker, Madi DiStefano, Jack Koenig and Anette Sanders appear in Bristol Riverside Theatre's world premere of A Raw Space, the new play by Jon Marans, the author of The Temperamenta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 23, 2012
An arbitrator has ruled that the producers of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark failed to post the required bonds for the employment of director Philip W. McKinley and choreographe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:40PMPrince of Broadway, the new musical celebrating the work of Broadway director and producer Harold "Hal" Prince will open directly on Broadway in November 2012 and will forgo the pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMThe pilot episode of the new NBC drama "Smash," set for a Feb. 6 network TV premiere, was released Jan. 16 on digital services as an effort to create buzz for the musical series. F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMOpen your pocketbooks, true believers! Tickets for the new Broadway musical Leap of Faith, starring Tony Award nominee Raul Esparza as a flim-flam preacher, go on sale starting Jan. 23. Prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 22, 2012
"All things beautiful must die," sings the aging soprano Heidi in Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, the 2011-12 Kennedy Center revival of which took its last breath…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19PM"All things beautiful must die," sings the aging soprano Heidi in Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, the 2011-12 Kennedy Center revival of which took its last breath…
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