Monday, May 25, 2015
On Jan. 25, while many Americans were watching President Obama’s State of the Union address, a large audience at Alice Tully Hall was hearing the political views of Knickerbocker Holid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Frankie and Johnny...and Rose, a new ballet by Tony Award-winning choreographer Susan Stroman, with music by composer Duke Ellington, premieres Jan. 28 in a performance by New York City Ball…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, CA, presents the world premiere of Allison Moore's Collapse, directed by Jessica Heidt, Jan. 28-March 6 as part of the National New Play Network program.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Full productions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and At Home at the Zoo are the centerpieces in a buffet of Edward Albee plays being laid out by Arena Stage in Washington, DC, this late w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald's 18th-century adaptation of a play by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, will get its first professional staging in 250 years at Classic Stage Company's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]A 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables, with a fresh production team, is touring North America. Producer Cameron Mackintosh explains it all for us.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Trista Baldwin's American Sexy, a look at American college kids and sexuality in the digital age, opens Jan. 29 in its New York City premiere at the Flea Theater in lower Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Methtacular!, a new musical solo show by actor-writer Steven Strafford, charting his addiction to crystal methamphetamine, will be seen in two public presentations Jan. 31 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The world premiere of Lookingglass Theatre's Ethan Frome, Laura Eason's adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel, will feature Lookingglass company members Philip R Smith, Andrew White, Louise …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Casting for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's new production of Lanford Wilson's The Hot L Baltimore is complete with the announcement of Broadway's de'Adre Aziza (Women on the Verge of a Nervou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Time Stands Still, Donald Margulies' Tony Award-nominated play about war correspondents returning home, ends its run at Broadway's Cort Theatre Jan. 30, when the contracts of its four princi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Irish Repertory Theatre stages the first major New York City revival of Tony Award-winning playwright Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney, the story of a blind woman who undergoes an operation to re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, a rarely seen title about a wealthy, aging Southern eccentric barking her memoirs to a secretary as a harbinger of death climbs …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Sex With Strangers, Laura Eason's new play about relationships, sex, identity and authenticity in the age of the Internet, opens in a world-premiere production Jan. 30 following previews fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Adult brothers retreat to their childhood bedroom in the Victory Gardens Theater world premiere of Joel Drake Johnson's The Boys Room, opening Jan. 31 following previews from Jan. 21 in Chic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The New York premiere of Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries, featuring Jennifer Carpenter of TV's "Dexter" and Pablo Schreiber, a Tony Award nominee for Awake and Sing!, opens Jan. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Renaissance Italy was not an easy place for a girl in love. Ask Shakespeare's Juliet. Better yet, ask Veronica Franco, the poet-lover of the new musical Dangerous Beauty, beginning a world-p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Whipping Man, Matthew Lopez's historical drama about a Confederate Jewish solider returning home to his former slaves, who are also Jewish, opens Feb. 1 in its New York City premiere by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Casting for the new Off-Broadway production of the 1935 comedy Three Men on a Horse, by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott, was announced by TACT/The Actors Company Theatre on Jan. 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Hands on a Hardbody, a new musical commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse, will get a three-week Manhattan workshop by the California company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]David Grindley will take over directorial duties for Stratford Shakespeare Festival's summer production of The Misanthrope, which was to be directed by Brian Bedford, who also stars.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Annie Hendy's comedy The Catholic Girl's Guide to Losing Your Virginity, a popular title in several regional theatres, begins a run Feb. 2 at the Falcon Theatre, the Burbank, CA, company kno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]English Theater of Vienna opens Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Feb. 2 in Austria. The English-language staging features six performers from the United States, under the direction …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Kevin Anderson plays the modern-day prophet John Smith in the Los Angeles leg of the world premiere of Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon, opening Feb. 2 following previews from Jan. 25 at Geff…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Marvell Repertory Theatre, a rare American company that presents work in rotating repertory, launches its inaugural Off-Off-Broadway season with four works from the international stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Pittsburgh Public Theater's 2011-12 season will include six productions, including two two-character dramas -- the hot Broadway title Red and Off-Broadway's popular Freud's Last Session.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The ten finalists for the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, honoring female playwrights and chosen from over 100 nominated plays, were announced on Feb. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Lou Stancari, a Washington, DC, scenic designer was found dead on the tracks of the Farragut North Metro station in DC on Jan.15. Police are sill investigating the incident.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Best Plays Theater Yearbook editor Jeffrey Eric Jenkins has accepted the position of director of theatre studies in the department of drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Moscow is far out of reach -- again -- in a new Off-Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, opening Feb. 3 following previews from Jan. 12. The Classic Stage Company's staging …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Sanaa Lathan, a Tony Award nominee for the 2004 revival of A Raisin in the Sun, will play the title character in the world premiere of Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, for Second …
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