Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PMAn investor has pulled out of the in-rehearsal Broadway production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, but the capitalization shortfall of $1 million is expected to be filled and the show will go…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMFiorello!, the award-winning Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick musical that launched the City Center Encores! series in 1994, returns Jan. 30-Feb. 3 as the opening musical of the Encores! 20th-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 29, 2013
The producers of the scuttled fall 2012 Broadway production of Rebecca have identified the show's press agent, Marc Thibodeau, as the tipster who scared off what they characterize as an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMNominations for the 29th Helen Hayes Awards, representing excellence in Washington, DC-area professional theatre, were announced Jan. 28. Nationally-known names and respected resident artist…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMPS Classics, the two-time 2012 Grammy Award nominee for its cast albums of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess and Follies, releases Rebecca Luker's new album "I Got Love: Songs of Je…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJames 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 12:00AMAfter resting from a bout with bronchitis Jan. 22-28, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow is expected to again take the stage of the St. James Theatre Jan. 29, resuming his engagement of Manilow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 28, 2013
Airswimming, the 1997 play by Charlotte Jones — known for Humble Boy and The Woman in White — gets two extra weeks, now to Feb. 17, in its U.S. premiere by Irish Repertory Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:22PMCasting for the Broadway world premiere of Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg's new adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's will include Suzanne Bertish, Murphy Guy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMAn ailing Valerie Harper has stepped down from the national tour of Looped, Matthew Lombardo's Broadway comedy for which she was a 2010 Best Actress Tony Award nominee, to be replaced by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMTony Award nominee John Cariani (Fiddler on the Roof) will play detective Ellery Queen in a reading of Joseph Goodrich's play Calamity Town, inspired by Queen's 1942 mystery novel, J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMProducers of the Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? have announced that the critically praised production will end its run March 3, three weeks prior …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMPS Classics artists who are heard on two different releases that feature the music of Broadway composer Jerome Kern will appear 5 PM Jan. 28 at Barnes & Noble's Upper East Side locat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 27, 2013
Broadway Bares: Winter Burlesque, the steamy theatrical striptease show that benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, gets two performances, at 9 and 11 PM, Jan. 27 in midtown Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSaturday, January 26, 2013
A milestone previously unthinkable in American theatre becomes a reality on Jan. 26 when a Broadway show, The Phantom of the Opera, celebrates its 25th anniversary. A special curtain-call ev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMOff-Broadway's Mint Theater Company, which discovers forgotten plays about the beginning of modern life and holds them up to the light, launches the first resident American production of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 25, 2013
Bill Pullman of TV's "1600 Penn" and Broadway's The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? and Oleanna, will step into the role of the worried husband, Ian, in the final month of the Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMNominations for the 37th Annual Carbonell Awards, representing excellence in southeast Florida theatre for the 2012 calendar year, were announced Jan. 25. Resident productions of The Music M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMBroadway's new production of The Heiress will end its limited engagement with the 7 PM Saturday, Feb. 9 performance rather than Feb. 10, to enable Jessica Chastain, who plays the title c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMThe Jerome Robbins Foundation announced dancer-actress Chita Rivera, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director-producer Harold Prince — who worked with Robbins on West Side Story…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMSheldon Epps, artistic director of Pasadena Playhouse, will now direct Sleepless in Seattle — The Musical, taking over for the previously announced Lonny Price, whose other commitments…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMMinita Gandhi, Behzad Dabu, Kamal J. Hans, Arya Daire, Teresa Kuruvila, Owais Ahmed and Debargo Sanyal populate the American premiere of Anupama Chandrasekhar's Disconnect, a drama about…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA nontraditional cast takes on the timeless Thornton Wilder play Our Town, featuring actress Portia as The Stage Manager, in a new 75th-anniversary production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPS Classics artists who are heard on two different releases that feature the music of Broadway composer Jerome Kern will appear 5 PM Jan. 28 at Barnes & Noble's Upper East Side Locat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 24, 2013
To allow for his proper recovery from bronchitis, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow is resting this weekend. The Jan. 24-26 performances of Manilow On Broadway have been postponed to February.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMSignature Theatre Company's new production of alumni playwright Lanford Wilson's The Mound Builders, the story of archaeologists, will feature Zachary Booth, Janie Brookshire, David …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMRoundabout Theatre's Company's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, at Broadway's Studio 54, will welcome Andrew Samonsky to the troupe on Feb. 12. He'll play Neville Landless, a role…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM"Come hell or high water," the Wednesday statement read, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow is looking forward to celebrating the Jan. 24 opening night of Manilow On Broadway, his con…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDrury Lane Theatre's new Chicago-area production of Sunset Boulevard plays Jan. 24-March 24. Christine Sherrill is faded silent-film star Norma Desmond and Will Ray is hungry screen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Tom Sturridge, the British stage and film actor whose credits include the films "Being Julia," "Vanity Fair" and "On the Road," will make his Broadway debut in …
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