The 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMRoundabout Theatre Company announced a 17-week extension of the critically acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by and starring Bri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDan Olmstead plays bitter composer Salieri opposite Rob McClure's rambunctious Mozart in Walnut Street Theatre's new production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, opening Jan. 26 following previews…
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, opens Jan. 26 f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Phantom of the Opera, Broadway's longest-running musical, celebrates another milestone on Jan. 26, the 23rd anniversary of the opening of the Harold Prince production of the Andrew Lloyd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Atlantic Theater Company world-premiere adaptation of The New York Idea, a play about social change and those who can and cannot adapt, opens Jan. 26 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Gre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMA new hourlong dramatic TV series about the making of a fictional Broadway musical, once aimed for development at Showtime, has been greenlighted as a pilot for NBC. Some major Broadway play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles and Orange County theatre for the year 2010.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAmerican Conservatory Theater's new production of late Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, directed by A.C.T. artistic director Carey Perloff, will feature A.C.T. core acting comp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Atlantic Theater Company world-premiere adaptation of The New York Idea, a play about social change and those who can and cannot adapt, will get two extra weeks at the Lucille Lortel The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMJeff's Key's one-man show The Eyes of Babylon, based on his journals from his military experience in Iraq, will replace Arthur Miller's All My Sons at Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, P…
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