Monday, May 25, 2015
Harmony, 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe eight-week Chicago run of White Noise, the new rock musical about a pop sister act that performs White Supremacy-laced songs, will feature Broadway's Luba Mason, Rodney Hicks, MacKenzie …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe commercial producers of SCKBSTD are prepping the next steps for the musical by Bruce Hornsby following a popular world-premiere run by Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk, VA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe world premiere of Lookingglass Theatre's Ethan Frome, Laura Eason's adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel, begins Feb. 23 in Chicago.
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 Tony Award-winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater will present two musicals -- including a world-premiere show by the writers of Broadway's The Story of My Life -- at its home on Navy Pier …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe new Old Globe Theatre production of Groundswell, Ian Bruce's psychological drama set in South Africa, will feature Antony Hagopian, Mfundo Morrison and Ned Schmidtke.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Tony Award-winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater will open its 2011-12 season this fall with Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's musical Follies, directed by Gary Griffin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMSecond Stage Theatre artistic director Carole Rothman announced Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents and Anna Kerrigan's The Talls as the two world-premiere plays in the company's nint…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe producers of Broadway's American Idiot confirmed the expected on Feb. 23: The rock musical based on Green Day's Grammy Award-winning album will be launched on a national tour this fall. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe cast of Broadway's extended production of The Importance of Being Earnest will welcome Brian Murray, Jayne Houdyshell and Jessie Austrian to the American Airlines Theatre on March 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe critically embraced Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has moved from the frigid Windy City to the more moderate Mid-Atlantic. It be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBathsheba Doran's Kin, about the connection between a scholar and a personal trainer, begins a world-premiere engagement at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons Feb. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMRoundabout Underground launches David West Read's new play, The Dream of the Burning Boy, about a high school tragedy, on Feb. 25. The Off-Broadway staging features Reed Birney, Josh Caras, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMax Wilk, a novelist, a nonfiction chronicler of show business subjects, playwright, screenwriter -- and a dramaturg for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Cen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTom Hooper, the Oscar-nominated director of "The King's Speech," has been offered to direct the film version of the musical Les Miserables, according to the "24 Frames" blog in the Los Angel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award winner James Earl Jones has been picked to play the former President of the United States in the upcoming Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMCasting has been announced for Liberty Smith, the musical comedy about a fictional patriot's encounters with figures from the American Revolution. Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, will prod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMFollowing in the tradition of recent Playbill magazine features in which directors of Broadway shows interviewed their famous collaborators, Playbill Video debuts "Director's Cut" this week.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBrooks Ashmanskas, Ken Barnett, Zabryna Guevara and Adam Rothenberg will star in Center Theatre Group's new production of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, now in rehearsal under the direction of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMObie Award winner Lisa Banes, Obie nominee Tim Hopper and Tony Award nominee Stephen Bogardus are among the players who will join David Greenspan in the world premiere of his comedy Go Back …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMChristian Borle, a Tony Award nominee for Legally Blonde, has snagged the central role of a composer in the NBC pilot for "Smash," a proposed series about the making of a Broadway musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMIn anticipation of the March 1 release of "Now," the new album that reunites singer-actress Linda Eder with Broadway and pop songwriter Frank Wildhorn, Sony Masterworks offered Playbill Vide…
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, getting exposure Feb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe 35th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville begins Feb. 27 with the first preview of the world premiere of Anne Washburn's A Devil at Noon, directed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThey've had the time of their lives, but it's time to say goodbye. Billie Joe Armstrong and original cast members John Gallagher, Jr. and Michael Esper exit Broadway's American Idiot after t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award winner Frank Wood, Tony nominees Terry Beaver and Michael McGrath, plus Patricia Hodges, will join the previously announced Jim Belushi, Nina Arianda and Tony winner Robert Sean L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMManhattan Theatre Club's Ernst C. Stiefel "7@7" Reading Series, testing new works in front of the public, begins Feb. 28 with Reverberation, a new play by Matthew Lopez, who penned MTC's cur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMichael Kuchwara, the respected late theatre critic for the Associated Press, will be celebrated by the Broadway showfolk that he wrote about in a benefit on Feb. 28, which would have been h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDavey Havok, the lead singer of the rock band AFI, steps into the role of St. Jimmy in Broadway's American Idiot starting March 1. He's one of several new leads at the St. James Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMNominations for the 2011 Helen Hayes Awards, representing excellence in the Washington, DC-area theatre community, were announced Feb. 28.
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