Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Goodspeed 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, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLooped, Matthew Lombardo's Broadway comedy for which Valerie Harper was a 2010 Best Actress Tony Award nominee, launches Feb. 26 on a national tour starring Emmy Award nominee Stefanie P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Noël and Cole," the new PS Classics studio cast album marrying the wit, sorrow and melody of songwriters Noël Coward and Cole Porter, gets released Feb. 26, offering 22 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLanford Wilson's The Mound Builders, a tale of archaeologists exploring the remains of an ancient culture, gets unearthed by Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company starting Feb. 26…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Northlight Theatre, the suburban Chicago resident theatre known for contemporary plays, will produce the world premiere of Irish writer Christian O'Reilly's Chapatti, featuring Emmy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMRoundabout Theatre Company's second annual Roundabout Underground Reading Series begins Feb. 25 with Jonathan Caren's The Recommendation, directed by Laura Savia. Tickets to presenta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMThe Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series this spring and summer will feature the world premiere of Erica Lipez's The Tutors and the New York premiere of the musical Murder for Two, a hit i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMDavid Henry Hwang's The Dance and the Railroad, his 1981 play about Chinese workers forging the American Transcontinental Railroad, opens Feb. 25 in an Off-Broadway revival by Signa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 24, 2013
Roundabout Theatre Company's limited-engagement production of Picnic, William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town women yearning for what's beyond, ends on schedule…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
The Brooks Atkinson Theatre opens Feb. 23 as the Broadway garage of Hands On a Hardbody, the new musical about a gaggle of American dreamers engaged in an endurance contest to win a pickup t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 22, 2013
PS Classics will record and release "Laura Osnes Sings Maury Yeston," drawing from the Tony Award-nominated actress' November 2012 turn at the cabaret 54 Below. This is the sec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 21, 2013
S. Epatha Merkerson, Howard McGillin, Jerry Dixon, Wally Dunn, Philip Hoffman, Jose Llana and Tyrah Skye Odoms are the latest names added to the cast of the Actors Fund's March 4 benefit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PMThe Rascals: Once Upon a Dream, a new concert event written by guitarist Steven Van Zandt, with music and lyrics by Felix Cavaliere & Eddie Brigati, will play a limited engagement at Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMComplete casting for Ford's Theatre's spring revival of Hello, Dolly! — featuring the previously announced Washington, DC actor Edward Gero as cantankerous Horace Vanderge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMHartford Stage launches the world premiere of Man in a Case, a movement-friendly stage adaptation of two stories by Anton Chekhov, Feb. 21 in Connecticut. The work stars Mikhail Baryshnikov,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 20, 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 04:30PMEmmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch, known for playing a bullying cheer coach on TV's "Glee," will take over the role of orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in Broadway's Anni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PMDarren Goldstein, of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, will join the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of The Madrid, in the role of Danny, starting Feb. 28, two days after ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMTony Award-nominated director Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) directs Mickey Sumner and Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Carol Kane in the worl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 19, 2013
David Henry Hwang's The Dance and the Railroad, the play about Chinese workers forging the American Transcontinental Railroad, has been extended one week, now to March 24, in its Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMProducer Cameron Mackintosh made official on Feb. 19 something he had all but promised in recent months: His 25th-anniversary production of Les Misérables, which features fresh scenic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PMA cast recording of the 2012 Off-Broadway production of the musical Dogfight — featuring a pop-rock score by rising theatre songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul — will be relea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMAmerican Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) revealed four of its seven 2013-14 season titles, including a new production of the musical 1776, directed by Tony Award winner Frank Galati, and B.D. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMThe Brits Off Broadway festival, offering an eclectic collection of the U.K. theatre in New York City, will return March 27-June 30 for its ninth season. Titles were announced on Feb. 18 by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMMonday, February 18, 2013
Playwright A. Zell Williams is the recipient of Philadelphia Theatre Company's Terrence McNally New Play Award for the research and development of his play, The Urban Retreat, PTC announ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:29PMRattlestick Playwrights Theater will present the world premiere of Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar, starring Michael Urie as a struggling Los Angeles actor working for a superstar, s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMAnn, actress-writer Holland Taylor's biographical play about late Texas Governor Ann Richards, begins Broadway previews Feb. 18 prior to opening March 7 at Lincoln Center Theater's V…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Jerome Robbins Foundation will fete dancer-actress Chita Rivera, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director-producer Harold Prince — who worked with Robbins on West Side Story…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 17, 2013
James Barbour and Jenny Powers star in Irish Repertory Theatre's new production of Donnybrook!, the Johnny Burke-scored 1961 Broadway musical about the code of masculinity in Ireland, op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 15, 2013
Laoisa Sexton's For Love, about the sexual adventures of three women in modern-day central Dublin, will begin performances March 13 as part of the Irish Repertory Theatre's season in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMThe board of the Foursquare Foundation — the charitable arm of The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, founded by evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson — has been "re…
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