Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Playbill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the dreamers behind Broadway musicals. Here's a look a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05PMSteppenwolf Theatre Company's 2013-14 season in Chicago will feature the world premiere of The Qualms, a new play about partner-swapping among friends, by Clybourne Park Pulitzer Prize w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMIn a major show of good faith toward the new American play, four of eight productions in the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theatre Company's 2013-14 subscription season will be world …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMThe Irish Repertory Theatre's Donnybrook!, the Johnny Burke-scored 1961 Broadway musical about the code of masculinity in Ireland, will play an additional four weeks, now to April 28, th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PMThe 2013-14 season of Victory Gardens Theater — the Tony Award-winning Chicago company devoted to new works, many from its own Playwrights Ensemble — will include the co-world-pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMOff-Broadway's Signature Theatre is adding four weeks to the run of its world premiere, Old Hats, the praised new clowning revue-with-music by Bill Irwin and David Shiner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMCanadian dramatist George F. Walker gets a major American spotlight with the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) world premiere of his dark comedy Dead Metaphor. Directed by Irene Lewis, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStephen Barker Turner and Babak Tafti appear in the New York City premiere of Rajiv Joseph's The North Pool — a drama about tension between a high school principal and a Middle-Eas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
C.J. Wilson (Glengarry Glen Ross, A Steady Rain, Festen) has replaced Adam Rapp in Clifford Odets' drama of Hollywood secrets, The Big Knife, which will begin Broadway previews March 22 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30PMA cast album for the 35th anniversary Broadway revival of Annie, starring Lilla Crawford, Anthony Warlow and Tony Award winner Katie Finneran, will be released this spring on the Shout! Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PMRoundabout Theatre Company's new Off-Broadway production of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Talley's Folly, the delicate study of two disparate souls meant for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 4, 2013
Second Stage Theatre's new production of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years, which will star Adam Kantor (Mark in the final Broadway cast of Rent) and Betsy Wolfe …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PMClassic Stage Company has extended the critically acclaimed revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Passion, starring Judy Kuhn, Melissa Errico and Ryan Silverman, an additional…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMOld Hats is the name of the new work by clowning Tony Award winners Bill Irwin and David Shiner, who star in the world premiere by Signature Theatre Company. It opens March 4 following previ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world-premiere production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, adapted by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, conjures New York City in the 1940s starting March 4 at Broadway's Cort Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 3, 2013
The Tony Award-winning musical Once will launch a U.S. national tour in October at the Providence Performing Arts Center, in Providence, RI.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMThe Broadway premiere of Sharr White's character study The Other Place, starring Laurie Metcalf as a woman in crisis, ends its Broadway run March 3, as scheduled. At close, it …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe acclaimed Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ends its run March 3 at the Booth Theatre, three weeks prior to a previously announced extension…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 1, 2013
The Rattlestick Plawrights Theater world premiere of The Revisionist, Jesse Eisenberg's new play about an antsy young novelist seeking refuge at a distant relative's flat in Poland, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMHartford Stage opens the world-premiere production of Man in a Case, a movement-friendly stage adaptation of two stories by Anton Chekhov, March 1 following previews from Feb. 21 in Connecti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 28, 2013
The Goodman Theatre in Chicago announced three world premieres for its 2013-14 season, including Luna Gale by Rebecca Gilman, directed by Robert Falls; Smokefall by Noah Haidle, a Goodman co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMPassion, the Italian-set musical rumination on the light and dark nature of love — and the idea of unconditional love — opens Feb. 28 in its first New York City revival. Tony Awa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMCanadian dramatist George F. Walker gets a major American spotlight Feb. 28-March 24 with the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) world premiere of his dark comedy Dead Metaphor. Directed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAcademy and Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg co-star in the Rattlestick Plawrights Theater world premiere of The Revisionist, Eisenberg&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Playbill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the dreamers behind Broadway musicals. Here's a look a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:54PMNeil LaBute's new play, The Money Shot, billed as "an old-fashioned comedy about real family values, L.A.-style," will get a private Manhattan reading on March 13. Terry K…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMTuesday, February 26, 2013
Actors' Equity Association, the labor union representing more than 49,000 professional stage actors and stage managers in the U.S., received a national charter from the AFL-CIO on Feb. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMA new era in the American life of Andrew Lloyd Webber's megahit The Phantom of the Opera begins this fall with the launch of a national tour of a newly reimagined production of the roman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMEric Coble's The Velocity of Autumn, a new play starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, previously announced for a spring Broadway launch, will instead begin at Arena Stage in Was…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMEdie Falco plays a mother and teacher who sheds her life and moves to a rundown apartment building in the world premiere of The Madrid, Liz Flahive's comedy that opens Feb. 26 following …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMGoodspeed Musicals' new adaptation of the Jazz Age musical Good News!, about college romance, football and a certain dance called "The Varsity Drag," will feature Beth Glover, …
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