Friday, January 25, 2013
The 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:33PMTony Award winner Julie Taymor (The Lion King) will direct and longtime collaborator Elliot Goldenthal (The Green Bird) will compose original music for a new fall 2013 production of William …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PMSinger-songwriter Barry Manilow, struggling with bronchitis, cancelled the Jan. 23 performance of Manilow On Broadway, the concert event boasting "the songs that make the whole world si…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMFriends and colleagues of late composer Marvin Hamlisch performed his pop, film and stage hits in a Jan. 21 concert at the McCallum Theater in Palm Desert, CA. David Zippel, Hamlisch's c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMThe world premiere of Liz Flahive's The Madrid — featuring Seth Clayton, Brooke Ashley Laine, Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Edie Falco ("Nurse Jackie"), Tony n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMSinger-songwriter Barry Manilow, struggling with bronchitis, cancelled the 7 PM Jan. 22 performance of Manilow On Broadway, the concert event boasting "the songs that make the whole wor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMThe York Theatre Company is dusting off and giving voice to two short operas, Mardi Gras and The Last Word, with book, lyrics and music by Mildred Kayden, best known for Ionescopade, in a wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMLove Makes the World Go 'Round, a new book musical created from the song catalog of Broadway composer-lyricist Bob Merrill, of Funny Girl, Carnival!, Take Me Along and Sugar fame, gets i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe world premiere of Marriott Theatre's Now and Forever, a theatrical exploration of the lush songs of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — featuring Linda Balgord, a veteran of Cats, S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, struggling with bronchitis, cancelled the 7 PM Jan. 22 performance of Manilow On Broadway, the concert event boasting "the songs that make the whole wor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24PMTony Award-nominated director Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) will direct actress Mickey Sumner in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMJordan Roth, president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns and operates five theatres — including those housing The Book of Mormon and Jersey Boys — is now majority shareholder in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMThe New York City premiere of Rolin Jones' The Jammer — his 1950s-set play about roller derby — opens Jan. 22 following previews from Jan. 9 at Atlantic Theater Company's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 21, 2013
The Toronto engagement of The Wizard of Oz, a new production based on the beloved MGM film with new music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, has extended its run to June 2 at the Ed Mirvish Theatre.&nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMSierra Boggess, who originated the role of Christine in London's Love Never Dies, the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, joins the Broadway company of Pha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStephen Wallem, the 6-foot-3-inch actor who plays the sweet-natured nurse Thor on TV's "Nurse Jackie," moonlights as a cabaret singer on Jan. 21 at Birdland, singing the songs …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe TV musical soap opera "Smash" returns for a second season Feb. 5 with a two-hour episode that features new characters and twists, under the guidance of new "showrunner" and executive pro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 20, 2013
Women's Project Theater's world premiere of Laura Marks' dark comedy Bethany, starring America Ferrera, Emily Ackerman, Kristin Griffith, Ken Marks, Tobias Segal and Myra Lucreti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sharks in a real-estate office, plays its final performance at the Gerald Schoenfe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, January 19, 2013
Goodspeed Musicals will present Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook, an intimate six-character musical that borrows from the catalog of Stephen Schwartz songs, this fall at the Norma Terris Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMFriday, January 18, 2013
Despite an ongoing strike by the IATSE stagehands union Local 8, the first preview performances of Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's drama a…
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