Monday, May 25, 2015
The complete cast of eight in The Pitmen Painters ring up their collective Broadway debuts Sept. 30 when Lee Hall’s biographical drama bows at the Samuel J. Friedman, but one of their …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMGrey Gardens and 42nd Street Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole will appear in the 7 PM Oct. 27 "Selected Shorts" evening called Fairy Tales: Classic and Reimagined hosted by Grego…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMComposer John Kander had been working on songs and Broadway musicals with his lyricist Fred Ebb for more than 40 years when Ebb died in 2004, leaving a handful of unfinished musicals on thei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMComposer John Kander had been working on songs and Broadway musicals with his lyricist Fred Ebb for more than 40 years when Ebb died in 2004, leaving a handful of unfinished musicals on thei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThere is no evidence that Dr. Sigmund Freud ever said that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” a quote that is attributed to the psychoanalyst. And there is no word about the sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe sold-out Nov. 15 Merkin Hall presentation of the conceptual concert All the Things You Are: Jerome Kern, part of the Broadway Close Up series there, proved that any New York City theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMStephen Sondheim took a surprise bow at the Nov. 19 New York Pops concert at Carnegie Hall. The evening's encore, "Old Friends," was completed with the introduction of Sondheim, who …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMarilyn Maye was such a showstopper at the recent New York Pops Sondheim birthday concert at Carnegie Hall that we could not resist catching her intimate new show, Her Kind of Broadway, at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMarilyn Maye was such a showstopper at the recent New York Pops Sondheim birthday concert at Carnegie Hall that we could not resist catching her intimate new show, Her Kind of Broadway, at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMPhil Lord and Chris Miller, the director-writers of the 3-D animated film "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," are in talks to direct the movie musical “Bob the Musical,”…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe third annual New York City Christmas, a benefit concert at Joe’s Pub at 7 PM Dec. 20, will not be a mere repeat of previous years, or just a rehash of the lively album of the same …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Paramount Theatre, an 1,800-seat touring house in suburban Chicago, will expand its mission in 2011 to become a producing theatre, offering a four-show subscription series of Broadway mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAn eight-week Chicago run of White Noise, the new rock musical about a pop sister act that performs White Supremacy-laced songs, will be co-produced by Whoopi Goldberg and directed and chore…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMLuminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, will offer an eclectic array of theatre and dance this June. The 2011 festival's theatre and dance program was announced on Jan. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe 29th season of the New York Pops will welcome a handful of theatre artists, including Hugh Panaro, Cheyenne Jackson and Ashley Brown, and will celebrate the work of Irving Berlin and Geo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMNew Zealand native Hayden Tee, a star in Australia, ascends the throne as King Arthur in the new Pittsburgh Public Theater production of Camelot, directed by producing artistic director Ted …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Manoel Felciano is among residents of the West Coast premiere of Clybourne Park, the acclaimed Bruce Norris play inspired by A Raisin in the Sun, about a white neighborhoo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMChicago Shakespeare Theater welcomes back Funk It Up About Nothin', the hip-hop adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, on Jan. 21. An engagement in Australia follows.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAdult brothers retreat to their childhood bedroom in the Victory Gardens Theater world premiere of Joel Drake Johnson's The Boys Room, starting Jan. 21 in Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMFord's Theatre's new production of Horton Foote's The Carpetbagger's Children, his play about three daughters of a Union soldier who settled in Texas following the Civil War, begins Jan. 21 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMSCKBSTD, a new musical about a stranger who upsets lives in a Virginia town, opens Jan. 21 in its world premiere production, directed by Tony Award winner John Rando at Virginia Stage Compan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Triangle Factory Fire Project, the 2004 Off-Broadway theatrical event that used public documents to tell the true story of an American workplace tragedy, will get a benefit concert readi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMA new feature-length film about the life and work of late Tony Award-winning dancer-director-choreographer Bob Fosse is in the works from producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, whose new "Foo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMJim True-Frost will direct Academy Award winner Chris Cooper in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's one-night-only presentation of Sam Shepard's Buried Child.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Jeffrey DeMunn, freshly noticed for his elder-survivor role in the hot TV series "The Walking Dead," plays Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of Salesman starting Jan. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMFrank Wildhorn, the composer of The Scarlet Pimpernel and Jekyll & Hyde, takes on a new literary source for the Broadway musical Wonderland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Jan. 24 performance of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, readings of one-act plays in Los Angeles, will feature Caroline Aaron, Julie Hagerty, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Gale Haro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMArt Manke, a five-time Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) Award-winning director, will direct and choreograph Lucky Duck, Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's pop musical version of "The U…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAmerican Conservatory Theater artistic director Carey Perloff revealed three titles of the company's 45th subscription season in San Francisco.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMOld Globe Theatre's production of Jane Austen's Emma - A Musical Romantic Comedy, by Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon, starring Patti Murin as Emma Woodhouse and Adam Monley as Mr. Knightley, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMSean McNall, a resident actor with Pearl Theatre Company, plays the title character of The Misanthrope in the new Off-Broadway staging of the 17th-century verse comedy by Molière. It …
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