Sunday, 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 11:16PMSaturday, January 21, 2012
Dori Berinstein, when she's not producing Broadway shows, directs feature film documentaries that celebrate theatre. Her latest, "Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," premieres t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMThe Recommendation, Jonathan Caren's provocative play about friendship, featuring Jimonn Cole, Brandon Gill and Evan Todd, begins a world-premiere run Jan. 21 at The Old Globe's inti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 20, 2012
Flashdance – The Musical, the stage adaptation of the 1983 pop-filled hit film, is aiming for a Broadway launch in fall 2012, but its producers have already announced a second company …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM"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 Los Angeles Jan. 20. New…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe Off-Broadway production of Rent at New World Stages welcomes Justin Johnston and Josh Grisetti as Roger and Mark, respectively, and Rashad Naylor as Benny, on Jan. 20.
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, pla…
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, begins previews Jan. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMYentl, the play about a Polish-Jewish girl who dresses like a boy in order to study holy teachings in a Yeshiva, gets an extra jolt of sexuality and energy with the addition of songs by pop …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 19, 2012
The Lyric Opera of Chicago's new production of Show Boat, the 1927 musical drama that was a watershed in American theatre, will star Nathan Gunn and Ashley Brown (Broadway's Mary Pop…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMNoël Coward's Semi-Monde — the playwright's frank look at gay lives — will get its American premiere in a one-night-only benefit concert performance presented by TAC…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMMasterworks Broadway's ongoing reissue campaign, offering classic cast recordings previously unavailable in the CD era, presents A Thurber Carnival (1960 Original Cast) and "David M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMRod Brogan, Patricia Conolly, Lucas Hall, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Aimee Laurence, Joanna Leister, Wrenn Schmidt, David Sitler and John Thomas Wait will be featured in Irish Repertory Theatre&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMHorton Foote's Dividing the Estate, which reunites members of the 2008-09 Broadway cast, including Elizabeth Ashley, Tony nominee Hallie Foote and Penny Fuller, opens Jan. 19 following p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2012
The complete cast of the Feb. 8-19 Encores! concert version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along was announced on Jan. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:16PMAcademy Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award nominee James Cromwell ("Babe," "L.A. Confidential," "The Queen," "Six Feet Under") will play Pozzo in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMAnything Goes, the shipboard musical comedy that won the Best Musical Revival Tony Award in 2011, will go full steam ahead, extending again, now to Sept. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PMMaltz Jupiter Theatre in Jupiter, FL, received the most 2011 Carbonell Award nominations — 25 — in the list of nominees that was announced on Jan. 15. The annual awards represent…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMBroadway's Aaron Tveit (Catch Me If You Can, Next to Normal) is to be student rebel-leader Enjolras in the coming film musical version of Les Misérables.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMNow. Here. This., the new work from the creators and cast of the cult-hit musical [title of show], will get its world premiere by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre starting March 7 prior t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMTuesday, January 17, 2012
Bucks County Playhouse (BCP), the New Hope, PA, theatrical tradition that has seen pre-Broadway shows, movie and stage stars, packed houses and hard times, will be reopened in summer 2012, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:14PMProfiles Theatre in Chicago will open its American-premiere production of Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep in the company's new 99-seat theatre space, The Main Stage, at 4139…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PMMagic/Bird, Eric Simonson's drama about the rivalry and friendship of basketball heroes Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, will begin previews at Broadway's Longacre Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMJay Records, with the support of The Kurt Weill Foundation, will release the first complete recording of composer Kurt Weill and lyricist Ogden Nash's score to the 1943 musical One Touch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMAdd two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz to the roster of Broadway performers who will pop up on NBC's new musical drama series "Smash" this spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMThe Off-Broadway company of the new musical Once gathers Jan. 17 to record a cast album of the unique ensemble-driven show based on the hit indie film. A March release will coincide wit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 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 12:00AMJulie Halston, the character actress whose arched eyebrows have punctuated many works of Charles Busch, boards the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Anything Goes, slipping into the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 16, 2012
The Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy about an Ohio businessman navigating misunderstandings of language and etiquette on an important business trip to China…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMThe new hour-long musical drama "Smash" — the scripted TV series about theatre people putting together a new Broadway musical — will make its network debut as planned 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, January 14, 2012
Goodspeed Musicals announced Jan. 14 that it will produce The Great American Mousical, directed by Julie Andrews, inspired by the best-selling children's book written by Andrews and her …
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