Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Arena Stage in Washington, DC, has not yet revealed its full 2013-14 programming at its lavish Mead Center for American Theater, but a tease of two of the coming projects has surfaced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMMultidisciplinary theatre-maker Martha Clarke and Brooklyn playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins have joined Signature Theatre Company's Residency Five program, which provides five-year resi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PMSecond Stage Theatre's 2012-13 season will climax this summer with the New York City premiere of Nobody Loves You, the new Gaby Alter-Itamar Moses musical that looks at the pitfalls of b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMPulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes' "Elliot Trilogy" will be seen in a marathon made up of two readings — Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue and The Happiest So…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMThe 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…
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Joe 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 04:33PMPrince Music Theater, the Philadelphia venue that seemed a new hope for American musicals when it opened its doors in 1999 —but has been largely dormant in recent years — emerged…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMCanadian dramatist George F. Walker gets a major American spotlight Feb. 28-March 24 with the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) world premiere of his dark comedy Dead Metaphor. Directed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMThe national tour of Matthew Lombardo's Looped, about a fictional encounter between actress Tallulah Bankhead and a young recording editor, will kick off Feb. 26 in Fort Lauderdale rathe…
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The national tour of Matthew Lombardo's Looped, about a fictional encounter between actress Tallulah Bankhead and a young recording engineer, will play Boston's Majestic Theatre Apri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PMJo Bonney, a frequent creative partner of playwright Neil LaBute, will direct the writer's new adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles thi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMTickets for the Broadway revival of Pump Boys and Dinettes go on sale to the general public beginning Jan. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMMatt Polk, the theatrical press agent who has worked on high-profile stage productions as part of the team at Boneau/Bryan-Brown for the past 15 years, opens his own shop — Polk & …
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Airswimming, the 1997 play by Charlotte Jones — known for Humble Boy and The Woman in White — gets its U.S. premiere by Irish Repertory Theatre and Fallen Angel Theatre Company i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new Canadian production of London's popular The Wizard of Oz, featuring the classic movie score punctuated with new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and featuring Danielle …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPicnic, William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town women yearning for what's beyond, is back on Broadway, officially opening Jan. 13 in a Roundabout Theatre Company pr…
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Director Nicholas Martin's new staging of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, starring Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard as Prof. Henry Higgins and Charlotte Parry as Eliza, launche…
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Alex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten will star in The Flick, Annie Baker's new Off-Broadway play that reunites her with director Sam Gold. Playwrights Horizon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMMark St. Germain's two-character play Freud's Last Session begins a Los Angeles run Jan. 11 with its starriest cast yet — two-time Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch as Sigmund…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWomen'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…
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There are more opportunities to see Water By the Spoonful in New York City. Second Stage Theatre announced a two-week extension of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, now playing to Feb. 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PMDes McAnuff's new Stratford Festival staging of the rock musical Tommy, which he helped create for its Broadway life, will star Robert Markus as the gifted title character, Paul Nolan as…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PMOff-Broadway's Obie Award-winning The Play Company launches the U.S. premiere of Working On a Special Day, a stage version of the Oscar-nominated Ettore Scola film about Hitler's vis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMThe 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, will welcome Erin Davie to the fold beginning Feb.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSome of the best-known American songs from theatre, pop and movies are being heard Off-Broadway in the New York City premiere of The Wonderful Wizard of Song: The Music of Harold Arlen, a ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a medical researcher whose health, homelife and workplace are shaken, featuring Laurie Metcalf, reprising he…
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Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre will explore the Itamar Moses-Gaby Alter musical Nobody Loves You, a musical comedy about the pitfalls of reality-TV dating show, in a week-long readi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PMTwo weeks have been added to Manilow On Broadway, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow's new concert at the St. James Theatre. The man who writes the songs that make the whole world sing, as …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PMThe 9 PM Jan. 27 performance of Broadway Bares: Winter Burlesque, the evening of steamy theatrical striptease that benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, is nearly sold out, prompting t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMAirswimming, the 1997 play by Charlotte Jones — known for Humble Boy and The Woman in White — gets its U.S. premiere by Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan beginning Jan. 9. Joh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe New York City premiere of Rolin Jones' The Jammer — his 1950s-set play about roller derby — begins spinning Jan. 9 at Atlantic Theater Company's Atlantic Stage 2. Pat…
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