Grey 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe marquees of Broadway theatres will be dimmed for one minute at 7 PM Jan. 25 to honor the work and life of Tony Award-winning costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge, who died Jan. 21 at the …
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