Monday, May 25, 2015
A 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe acting company of the world-premiere production of And the Curtain Rises, the musical about the creation of a new American form called musical comedy, has been announced by Signature The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTheatre Development Fund (TDF), the not-for-profit service organization which runs the TKTS Discount Booths, released the The Official TKTS iPhone app in December. Starting Feb. 15, theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMSnapshots, a long-aborning show billed as a "musical scrapbook" that borrows songs by Wicked, Pippin and Godspell composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz, will play Northlight Theatre in Skokie, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMRoundabout Theatre Company confirmed its commitment to reviving Bob Fosse's Dancin' by announcing that Studio 54 would house the dance revue of Fosse's choreography in fall 2011. Two Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDebra Ehrhardt's solo show Jamaica, Farewell, "based on a mostly true story" about her journey to the U.S. from Jamaica in the turbulent 1970s, will get a run at the Falcon Theatre, the Burb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMChristine Evans' play Can't Complain will get a free public reading 3 PM Feb. 18 in the Irish Repertory Theatre's New Works Reading Series, which celebrates emerging playwrights.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe nominees of the 25th annual Carbonell Awards, recognizing excellence in South Florida professional theatre, were announced Feb. 15. Miss Saigon at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMLeaders of Surflight Theatre, the Beach Haven, NJ, theatre with 60 years of Jersey shore theatre under its belt, announced on Feb. 15 that they have filed for protection under Chapter 11 of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe New York Theatre Workshop production of Peter and the Starcatcher, telling the origin of kid-lit hero Peter Pan in a bare-bones staging that encourages the audience to use its imaginatio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBen Vereen, the Tony Award-winning song-and-dance man of Pippin, Jesus Christ Superstar and Wicked, will sing, dance and reminisce about his life and career Feb. 18 at The Town Hall in midto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award winner John Gallagher, Jr. of Spring Awakening and American Idiot, will be among cast members populating Jerusalem on Broadway. Complete casting for the Jez Butterworth play, star…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMarc Masterson, artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Tony Award-winning company known for its embrace of new work, will exit the theatre after 11 seasons in order to take t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMPublic Theater artistic director continues his commitment to new plays by staging Rinne Groff's Compulsion, about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMKate Baldwin, the Best Actress Tony Award nominee for Finian's Rainbow, blends a little contemporary pop into her repertoire for her Feb. 19 show in Lincoln Center's American Songbook serie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMLucky Duck, Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's popular pop musical version of "The Ugly Duckling," opens at South Coast Rep Feb. 19 following previews that began Feb. 11. Art Manke, a five-tim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMichael Kuchwara, the respected late theatre critic for the Associated Press, will be celebrated by Broadway showfolk that he wrote about in a benefit on Feb. 28, which would have been his 6…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMKristen French makes her New York City cabaret debut Feb. 20-21 at Don't Tell Mama with a Cole Porter evening called All Right With Me, directed by Amy Coady, with musical direction by Geral…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMJim True-Frost directs Academy Award winner Chris Cooper in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's one-night-only presentation of Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class Feb. 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMArena Stage's acclaimed, sold-out fall 2010 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! will return in summer 2011 for an encore that will feature many of the same cast members.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMHarmony, Kansas, the new musical about a gay men's chorus that forms in rural Kansas, gets an invitation-only Manhattan reading Feb. 22. Jonathan Rayson, Zak Resnick, Chris Hoch, Howie Micha…
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