Monday, May 25, 2015
Interviewing 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBefore it was a Broadway hit and film sensation, Grease was a gritty 1971 play with music performed in Chicago that reflected the lives of Chicago teens in the 1950s.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award-winning director-choreographer Susan Stroman will be honored and entertained at a gala fundraiser for Vineyard Theatre Feb. 28 in Manhattan. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, her…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMHarry Groener, the three-time Tony nominee of Cats, Crazy for You and 1980's Oklahoma!, as well as many non-musical works, will play the title role in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater product…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBroadway and stage star Matthew Morrison — teacher Will Schuester of TV’s "Glee" — will headline Goodman Theatre's May 21 Gala that celebrates One Enchanted Decade …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMArt Manke, a five-time Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) Award-winning director, directs and choreographs Lucky Duck, Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's pop musical version of "The Ugly…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTulipomania, the musical about the real-life Netherlands tulip craze of the 1600s, developed in a 2009 workshop by Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company, is sprouting anew with a shift in per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDramatists Matthew Lopez, Alfred Uhry, Jonathan Caren, Kelly Younger, D.C. Jackson, Michael Elyanow, Steve Cosson and Michael Friedman will hear their new works read in Manhattan Theatre Clu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBroadway and stage star Matthew Morrison — teacher Will Schuester of TV’s "Glee" — will headline Goodman Theatre's May 21 Gala that celebrates One Enchanted Decade …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBen Vereen, the man who sang "Magic to Do" as the Leading Player of Bob Fosse and Stephen Schwartz's musical Pippin, has more magic up his sleeve, after all these years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMGreen Day fans around the country who cannot get to New York City won't have to ask, "Are we the waiting?," starting this fall. American Idiot, the Green Day-scored Broadway musical fantasia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award winner Alan Cumming appears 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 Classic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMRenaissance 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, opening Feb. 13 in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMyra Lucretia Taylor, of Broadway's Nine and Macbeth, plays the title servant role in the Chicago world premiere of Thomas Bradshaw's absurdist comic drama Mary, opening Feb. 14 at Goodman T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBen Vereen, the man who sang "Magic to Do" as the Leading Player of Bob Fosse and Stephen Schwartz's musical Pippin, has more magic up his sleeve, after all these years.
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 05:58PMThe Marquis Theatre box office for Broadway's Wonderland - A New Alice. A New Musical opens Feb. 14 in anticipation of a March 21 first preview. The first 100 people in line get a discount d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe winner of the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album is American Idiot, produced by Billie Joe Armstrong.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMA fresh adaptation of the 1978 Broadway musical Working, inspired by Studs Terkel's best-selling collection of oral histories about vocations, punches in at the Broadway Playhouse at Water T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWilliam Finn and James Lapine's new musical comedy Little Miss Sunshine, featuring Broadway's Hunter Foster, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Malcolm Gets and Tony Award winner Dick Latessa, begins …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMKate Baldwin, the Best Actress Tony Award nominee for Finian's Rainbow, will blend a little contemporary pop into her repertoire for her Feb. 19 show in Lincoln Center's American Songbook se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe musicals Dogfight and Gloryana are the recipients of the 2011 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater, the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced on Feb. 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMKatharine McPhee, the one-time "American Idol" contestant, has joined the cast of the NBC pilot of "Smash," the proposed hour-long drama with songs about the making of a Broadway musical. Sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMLooks like Sierra Boggess -- who plays the tragic soprano Christine of Love Never Dies, the London sequel to The Phantom of the Opera -- will face another terrifying musical genius this spri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe world premiere of the pre-Broadway musical Like Water for Chocolate will be among productions on the 2011-12 schedule at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. Artistic director Molly Smith anno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMGore Vidal's The Best Man, the 1960 play about presidential candidates, will return to Broadway in spring 2012, producer Jeffrey Richards announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMaggie Siff of "Mad Men" and Polly Draper of "thirtysomething" will star in the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of Jane Anderson's The Escort, a play that "combines the two oldest profession…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMHarmony, Kansas, the new musical about a gay men's chorus that forms in rural Kansas, will get an invitation-only Manhattan reading Feb. 22. Jonathan Rayson, Zak Resnick, Chris Hoch, Howie M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMA Number, Caryl Churchill's acclaimed play about human cloning and identity, will get a fresh Off-Broadway production by the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) March 12-April a…
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