Saturday, 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AMThe character actor Robert Creighton, currently playing the Purser (and Joel Grey's understudy) in Broadway's Anything Goes, talks about his new album of songs from the early 20th ce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMHorton Foote's Dividing the Estate, which reunites members of the 2008-09 Broadway cast, including Elizabeth Ashley, Tony nominee Hallie Foote and Penny Fuller, begins a run Jan. 14 at T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMusic of yore — and more — is performed by three-time Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn and the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra in a Jan. 14 musical tribute to New York City landmarks…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 13, 2012
Roundabout Theatre Company conjures the British "angry young man" of the 1950s starting Jan. 13 with the first performance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, directed by Sam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMStephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning Passion, the musical of romantic obsession, will return to New York City in 2013 in the intimate setting of Classic Stage Company&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMRobert Petkoff, of Broadway's recent Ragtime and Fiddler on the Roof, slips into the tweed of Britisher Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, a love interest for Sutton Foster's brassy Reno Sweeney,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Off-Broadway production of Rent at New World Stages welcomes Emma Hunton as performance artist Maureen starting Jan. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSandi Patty, known for her soulful belting soprano in gospel and pops concerts, plays Dolly Levi in a semi-staged concert version of Hello, Dolly! with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 12, 2012
The producers of the new musical Leap of Faith announced Jan. 12 that the musical comedy — starring Raúl Esparza as a flim-flam preacher and Jessica Phillips as a small-town she…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11PMBroadway's revised revival of the 1965 musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, starring Harry Connick Jr. as a conflicted shrink who uncovers a patient's past life in hypnos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:53PMMark Brokaw, the director who gave shape to productions of Paul Vogel's How I Learned to Drive and Douglas Carter Beane's As Bees in Honey Drown, will direct the first Broadway produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:19PMArena Stage's Washington, DC, engagement of John Logan's Red, produced in association with Chicago's Goodman Theatre, where this production bowed last fall, has been extended by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PMManhattan Theatre Club's annual Winter Benefit, an evening of cocktails and dinner followed by a special one-night-only cabaret-style show, will feature performances by Broadway's Si…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PMRoundabout Theatre Company's first Roundabout Underground Reading Series will give voice to new works by emerging writers Jordan Seavey, Laura Jacqmin, Joshua Elias Harmon, Emily Schwend…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City, MO, taps the keg of Beer for Breakfast, a new comedy by New York City playwright Sean Grennan Jan. 11. The world premiere, which began Jan. 6 and p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PMOne of the worst-kept secrets in New York City theatre this winter is the fact that quiet discussions are happening among producers and theatre owners about bringing the new musical Leap of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PMThe continuing development of the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots, based on the 2005 film about a failing British shoe company that becomes a fetish-footwear manufacturer, includes a planne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMThe performance schedule for the in-repertory appearances of Tony Award winners Denis O'Hare and Stephen Spinella in An Iliad — a 100-minute distillation of the Trojan War epic by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMLloyd Watts and Charlie Hudson III have joined the cast of the Signature Theatre Company world-premiere production of Hurt Village, the new play by Katori Hall, author of Broadway's The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMKeith Baker, Madi DiStefano, Jack Koenig and Anette Sanders will appear in the Bristol Riverside Theatre's world premere of A Raw Space, the new play by Jon Marans, the author of The Tem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMRed Hot Patriot:
The Kick-Ass Wit
of Molly Ivins, starring Kathleen Turner as the late journalist, opens Jan. 11 following previews from Jan. 3 at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angele…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Off-Broadway company of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, the drama about the race and change in an American neighborhood, reunites for a Jan. 11-Feb. 26 engagement at Center Theatre Gro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 10, 2012
Casting has been announced for Tony Award-winning director-adapter Frank Galati's The March, based on the Civil War-set novel by E.L. Doctorow, getting its world premiere by Steppenwolf …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30PMGary Morris, the country-music star and Broadway Les Misérables veteran, has parted ways with the producer of the new musical Soul Doctor: The Shlomo Carlebach Musical, a spokesperson…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PMGary Morris, the country-music star and Broadway Les Misérables veteran, has parted ways with the producer of the new musical Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rock-Star Rabbi, a spokesperson…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PMGary Morris, the country-music star and Broadway Les Misérables veteran, has parted ways with the producer of the new musical Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rock-Star Rabbi, a spokesperson…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:06PMAcademy Award winner Estelle Parsons, of the film "Bonnie and Clyde" and Broadway's August: Osage County, will join previously announced Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PMLloyd 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 12:47PMTony Award winner Jane Alexander, playing the title character in Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre this spring, will be joined by Catherine Cur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMAcademy Award winner Olympia Dukakis will play Prospero in a new production of Shakespeare's The Tempest as part of the 35th season of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, artistic di…
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