Nominations for the 2011 Helen Hayes Awards, representing excellence in the Washington, DC-area theatre community, were announced Feb. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAfter exploring the idea of extending its sold-out and acclaimed production of Three Sisters, the leaders of Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company will rest on their success. The run will end…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe stars of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark will appear on CBS's "The Early Show" the morning of March 1 in anticipation of their appearance that night on "The Late Show."
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDavid Garrison, a Tony Award nominee for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, completes the cast of Lynn Nottage's new play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, which gets its world premiere …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMRob McClure, late of Avenue Q, will sing the Frank Loesser classic "Once in Love With Amy" as romantic lead Charley in the March 17-20 City Center Encores! concert of Where's Charley?
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe playwright of Shrek the Musical, Fuddy Meers and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole drew on his old neighborhood to write Broadway's Good People.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe new adaptation of the 1978 Broadway musical Working, inspired by Studs Terkel's best-selling collection of oral histories about vocations, opens in Chicago March 2 following previews fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMLeaders of Centerstage, Baltimore's resident Equity theatre company, announced that they will welcome British playwright, director, actor, singer and broadcaster Kwame Kwei-Armah as the thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMNominees for the 35th annual San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, representing local theatrical excellence in 2010, were announced Feb. 28. The ceremony will be held 7…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMLady Bracknell is ready for her close-up. Roundabout Theatre Company's extended Broadway production of The Importance of Being Earnest will be filmed in high-definition for future screenings…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe leaders of Northlight Theatre in Skokie, IL, announced their 2011-12 season, which will feature the previously announced Stephen Schwartz musical Snapshots.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe revised revival of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, once aimed for Off-Broadway, has been bumped to Broadway and will star Tony Award nominee Harry Connick, Jr.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe 2011-12 subscription season at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles will include the national tours of Come Fly Away, Wicked, La Cage aux Folles, Memphis and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMGulfshore Playhouse in Naples, FL, is reviving Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, the tragedy about an Italian-American longshoreman's passion for his niece, March 3-20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe PS Classics CD "Love on a Summer Afternoon: Songs of Sam Davis" will come to life in an all-star performance at New York City's Birdland on March 21 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMAmerican Conservatory Theater's new production of late Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, directed by A.C.T. artistic director Carey Perloff, plays March 3-27, featuring A.C.T. c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMGood People, David Lindsay-Abaire's humor-laced drama about a paycheck-to-paycheck single mom reaching out to an old flame, who is now a success, opens on Broadway March 3. Frances McDormand…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe national tour of American Idiot will play the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles March 14-April 22, 2012, Center Theatre Group announced on March 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe box office at Broadway's Booth Theatre opens 10 AM March 4 for tickets to High, the new Matthew Lombardo drama starring Kathleen Turner as a nun reaching out to a kid at risk.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Stephen Joseph Theatre, playwright Alan Ayckbourn's longtime artistic home in Scarborough, England, will produce the world-premiere productions of his plays Dear Uncle and Neighbourhood …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMSurflight Theatre producer Roy Miller announced that the Beach Haven, NJ, company's summer 2011 season will include stars from film, television and Broadway performing in titles ranging from…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Yazbeck, of Broadway's recent White Christmas, A Chorus Line and Gypsy, will play love-struck aviator Captain Billy Buck Chandler in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of My One and Onl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMSteppenwolf Theatre Company's 2011-12 season in Chicago will include plays by Bruce Norris, Enda Walsh and Donald Margulies, plus adaptations of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and E.L. Doctor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMary Beth Fisher, Keith Kupferer, Beth Lacke and David Pasquesi begin their bickering in Chicago on March 5 as the badly behaved parents of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, at the Goodman Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe world premiere of Lookingglass Theatre's Ethan Frome, Laura Eason's adaptation of the New England-set Edith Wharton novel, opens March 5 following previews from Feb. 23 in Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDetroit Repertory Theatre will give William Missouri Downs' Forgiving John Lennon, the story of a Somali Muslim woman clashing with two American professors, its world premiere March 31-May 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe new Court Theatre production of George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward's folk music Porgy and Bess has its title lovers. The all-Chicago cast will be headed by Alexis Rogers (The Piano Lesso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWonderland, the new Broadway musical that reinvents "Alice in Wonderland" for the 21st century, will get a cast album from Masterworks Broadway. The score by composer Frank Wildhorn and lyri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe mansion of Broadway's The Addams Family gets de-populated, but not for long, after the March 6 matinee at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Nathan Lane, Kevin Chamberlin, Carolee Carmell…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMary Beth Fisher, Keith Kupferer, Beth Lacke and David Pasquesi begin their bickering in Chicago on March 5 as the badly behaved parents of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, at the Goodman Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe world premiere of Lookingglass Theatre's Ethan Frome, Laura Eason's adaptation of the New England-set Edith Wharton novel, opens March 5 following previews from Feb. 23 in Chicago.
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