Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Academy 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMSignature Theatre's new Arlington, VA, production of Hairspray — starring national radio host Robert Aubry Davis, of WETA's "Around Town" and Sirius/XM Radio, as Edna…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AMMonday, January 9, 2012
Yes I Can, a new musical inspired by the life and times of African-American entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., is in the works from producers Arlie Cone and Steven Hayes, who are putting together …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:43PMThe current Off-Broadway company of the new musical Once will record a cast album of the unique ensemble-driven show based on the hit indie film. A March 2012 release will coincide with the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PMThe Chicago premiere of Mark St. Germain's two-character drama Freud's Last Session, about a meeting of opposite forces C.S. Lewis and Dr. Sigmund Freud, will feature the play's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PMRated P for Parenthood, the new Off-Broadway musical revue about joys and quirks of having kids, will feature Courtney Balan ([title of show], Cry-Baby), Chris Hoch (La Cage Aux Folles, Shre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMThe new hour-long musical drama "Smash" — the scripted TV series about theatre people putting together a new Broadway musical — will debut as planned 10 PM (ET) Feb. 6 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMSunday, January 8, 2012
Lysistrata Jones, the new Broadway musical comedy populated by characters who are college basketball players and their cheerleaders, ends its run Jan. 8 at 3 PM. The satiric pop show opened …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSaturday, January 7, 2012
Broadway's upcoming Nice Work If You Can Get It, the new musical inspired by a Jazz Age George and Ira Gershwin show, goes on sale to the general public Jan. 7. The show's official w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 5, 2012
Paul James, of TV's "Greek," will share the stage with Kim Rosen, Bethany Anne Lind, Danny Gavigan, Lauren Culpepper, Evan Casey and Jake Odmark for the world premiere of Reall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:11PMPaul James, of TV's "Greek," will share the stage with Kim Rosen, Bethany Anne Lind, Danny Gavigan, Lauren Culpepper, Evan Casey and Jake Odmark for the world premiere of Reall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PMTony Award nominee Kerry Butler, of Broadway's Catch Me If You Can, Hairspray and Xanadu, will complete the cast of the new Broadway production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, producer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMThe producers of the new Broadway production of The Heiress have found their title actress in Jessica Chastain, the Juilliard School alumna who has distinguished herself recently in such fil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMThe New York City premiere of Leslye Headland's Assistance, about those in service of nightmare bosses, will feature Tony Award nominee Bobby Steggert, Michael Esper, Sue Jean Kim, Virgi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMWriters' Theatre, the Glencoe, IL, Equity company committed to new works and reassessments of modern classics, gives Randall Colburn's Hesperia — a play about morality, past si…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMManhattan Theatre Club's Broadway production of Margaret Edson's Wit — the Pulitzer Prize-winning title's Broadway debut — begins performances Jan. 5 at the Samu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAmelia, Alex Webb's two-actor, multi-character play about a woman's epic journey across Civil War America in search of her soldier husband, gets its world premiere Jan. 5-29 by Washi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 4, 2012
Music of yore — and more — will be performed by three-time Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn and the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra in a Jan. 14 musical tribute to New York City land…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMMusic of yore — and more — will be performed by three-time Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn and the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra in a Jan. 14 musical tribute to New York City land…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMThe Off-Broadway cast of Gabe McKinley's CQ/CX, the fact-inspired drama about a journalism scandal, will include Larry Bryggman, Peter Jay Fernandez, Tim Hopper, Arliss Howard, Kobi Libi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:59PMAmanda Seyfried, who starred in the film version of Mamma Mia!, is in final negotiations to play Cosette in the film version of Les Misérables for Universal Pictures and Working Title…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PMDenver 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, wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMLife in a Marital Institution (20 Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Hour), monologist James Braly's show about "sex, love, family, betrayal, death…and dinner parties,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMHershey Felder, the pianist-actor known for appearing in musical biographies about George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and classical composers, will direct the California world premiere of Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMTuesday, January 3, 2012
The producers of Lysistrata Jones, the new Broadway musical comedy populated by characters who are college basketball players and their cheerleaders, announced that they will close the satir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43PMThe Off-Broadway production of Rent at New World Stages will welcome four new cast members — Emma Hunton, Aaron Lavigne, Justin Johnston and Josh Grisetti — in the coming weeks, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMPlaywright-director Athol Fugard's cast for his staging of Signature Theatre Company's Blood Knot, in a 2012 season devoted to the works of Fugard, includes Colman Domingo (The Scott…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMChicago Shakespeare Theater's company of A Midsummer Night's Dream — including Ron Orbach, Tracy Michelle Arnold,
Timothy Edward Kane, Elizabeth Ledo and Tim Kazurinsky &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMChicago Shakespeare Theater's company of A Midsummer Night's Dream — including Ron Orbach, Tracy Michelle Arnold,
Timothy Edward Kane, Elizabeth Ledo and Tim Kazurinsky &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PMComplete casting for Classic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as the persecuted scientist, has been announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AMRed Hot Patriot:
The Kick-Ass Wit
of Molly Ivins, starring Kathleen Turner as the late journalist, begins performances Jan. 3 at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. David Esbjornso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM 
