Producer 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 11:24AMPlaywright 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 12:00AMJames 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 12:00AMLaoisa 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AMOne Night with Janis Joplin, a popular attraction at Arena Stage in fall 2012, will return for a summer 2013 engagement, June 21-Aug. 11. Mary Bridget Davies, a 2013 Helen Hayes Award nomine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAlex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten are featured in The Flick, Annie Baker's new Off-Broadway play that reunites her with director Sam Gold. Playwrights Hori…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTanya Barfield's foreign-adoption drama The Call, a world-premiere co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages, will feature Kelly AuCoin, Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler, O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMStormy Weather: The Lena Horne Story, the biographical musical about the stylish actress and singer, is aiming for Broadway this fall, according to participants in the project. No official a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMDirector Scott Schwartz's ensemble cast for the Philadelphia resident premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar will feature Rufus Collins as salty editor and literary lion Leonard, plus …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBrighid Fleming, Adam Haas Hunter, Robert Joy, Dakin Matthews and Jeanne Syquia will star in Jennifer Haley's The Nether, about the addictive world of virtual reality, getting its world …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PMThe affenpinscher Banana Joe, the "Best in Show" winner of the 2013 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Feb. 12, will make a cameo appearance in the Feb. 13 evening performance of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PMOld Jews Telling Jokes, the Off-Broadway evening of comedy whose title says it all, will get an offshoot Chicago production this fall. Marc Bruni will again direct the revue by Peter Gethers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMRamin Karimloo, star of London's The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies, will play Jean Valjean in the new Canadian-cast company of the 25th-anniversary edition of Les Misér…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMManhattan Theatre Club will give voice to dramatists Ayad Akhtar, Greg Pierce, Jonathan Caren, Ethan Lipton, Ben Ockrent, Janine Nabers, Sharon Kenny and Rachel Bonds in its spring Ernst C. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PMTom Hooper's hit film Les Misérables, starring Academy Award nominees Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, will be released March 22 on Blu-ray and DVD from Universal Studios Home Ente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMThe Lake Effect, a new drama of family secrets by 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, will get its world premiere by Silk Road Rising in Chicago April 23-May 26. Joseph's Bengal T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMOld Hats is the name of the new work by clowning Tony Award winners Bill Irwin and David Shiner, who appear in the show's world premiere by Signature Theatre Company starting Feb. 12, fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe troupers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of the best-reviewed musicals of the 2012-13 Broadway season, and now extended to March 10, welcome Andrew Samonsky and Erin Davie into the fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the family drama starring the previously reported Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, began rehearsals Feb. 11. Jona…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:19PMLa Jolla Playhouse will present the world premiere of The Tallest Tree, a new play with music about the performer and civil rights icon Paul Robeson, written and performed by Daniel Beaty, d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PMThe box office at Broadway's Cort Theatre opened noon Feb. 11 for ticket sales for the new world-premiere production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, adapted by Tony Award winner Richard G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PMEpisodes of "It Could Be Worse," a new showbiz-minded, scripted web comedy series co-created and written by longtime actor-collaborators Mitchell Jarvis (Rock of Ages) and Wesley T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PMThe Broadway cast recording of Once was named Best Musical Theater Album in the 2013 Grammy Awards on Feb. 10. The winner, among nominees that included Newsies, Follies, The Gershwins' P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:22PMThe troupers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of the best-reviewed musicals of the 2012-13 Broadway season, and now extended to March 10, say goodbye to Andy Karl and Betsy Wolfe on Feb. 1…
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