Monday, May 25, 2015
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 05:58PMThe 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 05:58PMLou 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 05:58PMBest 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 05:58PMMoscow 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 05:58PMSanaa 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Druid and Atlantic Theater Company's production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan takes its first step in a 16-week U.S. tour on Feb. 2 at Boston's Paramount Center for the A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMCharming Billy, Blake Robison's adaptation of Alice McDermott's novel about a community's memory of a dead man, gets its world premiere by Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD, Feb. 2-20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award winner Alan Cumming will appear in a one-night-only staged reading of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Feb. 13 at Cla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMFurious Theatre Company and The Pasadena Playhouse have mutually agreed to the end of Furious troupe's residency in the Carrie Hamilton Theatre in Pasadena, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAlexander Gemignani, Nicole Parker, Christopher Innvar, Lewis J. Stadlen, Chip Zien and more will join two-time Tony Award winner Donna Murphy in the new Broadway musical The People in the P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe box office of Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre opens 10 AM Feb. 4 for the spring launch of Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, starring Robin Williams as the title feline n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Whipping Man, Matthew Lopez's historical drama about a Confederate Jewish solider returning home to his former slaves, who are also Jewish, earned encouraging reviews following its Feb. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMJeffrey Tambor, of "Arrested Development" and "The Larry Sanders Show," has a song in his heart as the next Georges in Broadway's La Cage aux Folles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe box office at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre opens Feb. 5 for ticket sales to the new musical Baby It's You! starring Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone, Elf, Mamma Mia!) as record produce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMNew family will pour through the door of Broadway's The Addams Family on March 8. The producers announced that Heidi Blickenstaff, Adam Grupper, Brad Oscar, Rachel Potter and Jesse Swenson w…
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, gets a benefit concert reading o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMCharming Billy, Blake Robison's adaptation of Alice McDermott's novel about a community's memory of a dead man, gets its world premiere by Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD, Feb. 7-20. Pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMFinding Neverland, the musical about the children who inspired J.M. Barrie to create Peter Pan, will get its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in the 2011-12 season. Scott Frankel (music)…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMGood People, David Lindsay-Abaire's play about characters from his old neighborhood -- the working-class "Southie" section of Boston -- begins performances on Broadway Feb. 8 in a production…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMClassic Stage Company's acclaimed new production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Josh Hamilton, Jessica Hecht, Marin Ireland, Juliet Rylance and Peter Sarsgaard,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Los Angeles run of Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations, directed by the author and featuring the 2009 Broadway engagement's Jane Fonda and Zach Grenier, opens Feb. 9 following previews…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Marquis Theatre box office for Broadway's Wonderland - A New Alice. A New Musical will open Feb. 14 in anticipation of a March 21 first preview. The first 100 people in line get a discou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThere will be an anything-goes quality to the Feb. 14 box-office opening for tickets to Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. Expect $10 tickets, free stuff and a chance to win an o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM"Sex and the City" star Kim Cattrall will repeat her London role of Amanda in Noel Coward's Private Lives in Toronto in a September-October engagement billed as "prior to Broadway."
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAmerican Conservatory Theater's world-premiere run of the musical Tales of the City, inspired by the novels of Armistead Maupin, will get two extra weeks in San Francisco this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMGoodman Theatre in Chicago announced part of its 2011-12 season, to include the Chicago premieres of John Logan's Red and David Mamet's Race, plus the world-premiere co-production of Danai G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard (The Invention of Love, TV's "House") will play the reporter Paul Verrall in the new Broadway production of Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, the producers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMInterviewing the Audience, Zach Helm's new interactive piece inspired by the work of monologist Spalding Gray, opens Feb. 10 at the Vineyard Theatre in Manhattan. Previews began Feb. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMPuma, the new play about the love affair between actress Marlene Dietrich and writer Erich Maria Remarque, with Hollywood's Golden Age as the backdrop, gets its world premiere by New Jersey …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe nonfiction book "Nine Lives," a biography of nine New Orleans residents and their relationship with the fabled city, has inspired a song cycle and forthcoming album. Broadway actor and f…
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