Friday, February 8, 2013
Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Talley's Folly, the delicate study of two disparate souls, played by Danny Burste…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 7, 2013
The major musicals of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II will find a home at Lyric Opera of Chicago between 2013 and 2017, the Lyric's general director Anthony Freud announced on F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:48PMCats is not returning to Broadway, but felines are being sought in an open call for the world-premiere Broadway production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, in which a cat plays a supporting ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PMJason Loewith, the librettist, director, theatre administrator and new-plays advocate who most recently served as executive director of the National New Plays Network, has been named artisti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMJames 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. Of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Tony Award-honored Washington, DC, theatre, will stage plays by Noël Coward, William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde in its 2013-14 season, artistic directo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PMPlaybill'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 02:58PMCasting is complete for the Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the family drama starring the previously reported Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, Manhat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PMJames Van Der Beek, best known for his starring roles on TV's "Dawson's Creek" and "Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23," stars in the American premiere of Aust…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 5, 2013
The company of the short-lived 2012 Broadway musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson reunited to make a joyful — for a cast recording — on Feb. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMJoe Calarco's popular all-male Shakespeare's R&J, refracting Romeo and Juliet through the story of four boys at a boarding school where the classic is banned, has been revised by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRuy Iskander and Yuekun Wu are at the center of David Henry Hwang's The Dance and the Railroad, the play about Chinese workers forging the American Transcontinental Railroad, in a new Of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBill Pullman of TV's "1600 Penn" and Broadway's The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? and Oleanna, steps into the role of the worried husband, Ian, in the final month of the Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Liz Flahive's The Madrid, featuring Tony Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Edie Falco as a teacher and mom, begins Feb. 5 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 4, 2013
Daniel Goldstein, director of the recent Broadway revival of Godspell, will direct the new Goodspeed Musicals production of Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's Hello, Dolly!, taking over …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:14PMThe producers of the new Broadway revival of The Heiress said on Feb. 4 that by the time the limited engagement ends on Feb. 9, the production will recoup its $3 million capitalization.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMThe Drama League will honor five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald at its 29th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway, which will be presented Feb. 11 at the Pierre Hotel. Newly announce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMSunday, February 3, 2013
The Barrymore Award-winning musical comedy Chasing Nicolette, seen regionally, will get a Manhattan reading at 7 PM Feb. 4, under the direction of Gordon Greenberg. The cast includes John Bo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMFriday, February 1, 2013
An agreement has been reached with IATSE Local 8, the union representing the stagehand employees, and the not-for-profit Philadelphia Theatre Company, the troupe announced on Feb. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMA documentary about American Idiot's road to Broadway, entitled "Broadway Idiot," will debut at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Texas.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's fall world-premiere production of Cathy Tempelsman's A Most Dangerous Woman, about the Victorian-era writer George Eliot, will be directed by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMNick Verina, Jeremiah James, Ruth Gottschall, Stephanie Rothenberg, Mary Michael Patterson, Robert Petkoff and Ed Dixon are among the players in the Denver world premiere of Sense & Sens…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMThe fall 2012 Hartford Stage company of the new musical comedy A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder will reunite this spring at The Old Globe in San Diego. Tony Award winner Jefferson …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMDrury Lane Theatre's new Chicago-area production of Sunset Boulevard opens Feb. 1 following previews from Jan. 24. Christine Sherrill is faded silent-film star Norma Desmond and Wil…
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, will feature 22 tracks, including &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 31, 2013
Holly Golightly's Broadway future is assured. The producers of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's revealed on Jan. 31 that they have successfully secured complete funding for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:13PMBad Jews, Joshua Harmon's popular comedy that appeared in an extended run in the 62-seat Black Box Theatre in the Roundabout Underground series in fall 2012, will move upstairs this fall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMClassic Stage Company will present a private reading of a new musical comedy A Doctor in Spite of Himself, with book, music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Sheldon Harnick, who drew from Mol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMChris Henry Coffey will replace Bill Heck in the final extension week of the Off-Broadway run of 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Water By the Spoonful at Second Stage Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMThe Broadway cult-hit musical [title of show] makes its Danish debut Jan. 31 in an American-directed, Danish-language staging opening at the Fredericia Teater in the city of Fredericia, Denm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Brigadoon, the musical fantasy of two Americans stumbling onto a Scottish village lost in time, will get a major revival by Goodman Theatre in Chicago in summer 2014. With permission from th…
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