Thursday, January 10, 2013
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 9, 2013
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 8, 2013
Seth Clayton and Brooke Ashley Laine will join the previously announced Edie Falco, Tony Award nominee John Ellison Conlee (Murder Ballad), Drama Desk Award winner Heidi Schreck (Circle Mirr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMMarsha Mason, Mary Steenburgen and Kristen Vangsness are among the women performing in a California staged reading of Ellen Simon's Aunt Stossie's Coming for Five Days as part of The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PMJames Barbour and Jenny Powers will star in Irish Repertory Theatre's new production of Donnybrook!, the Johnny Burke-scored 1961 Broadway musical about the code of masculinity in Irelan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMMarin Ireland, Chip Zien, Adam Rapp, Richard Kind, Brenda Wehle, Reg Rogers and more will join the previously announced Bobby Cannavale in Clifford Odets' drama of Hollywood secrets, The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:59AMThe first season of the Emmy Award-winning musical drama series "Smash" — created by Broadway's Theresa Rebeck, with songs by Tony Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArmando Riesco, Liza Colon-Zayas and Zabryna Guevara, who appeared in the 2011 Hartford Stage world premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Water by the Spo…
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Tony Award nominee Brad Oscar will step into the role of lovable mobster Cookie McGee in the Broadway production of the Tony Award-nominated Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It,&nbs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMAcademy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, who is currently performing the role of Catherine Sloper in the Broadway revival of The Heiress, has been nominated for a Golden Globe, Critic's C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, returns Jan. 7 following a summer 2012 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, January 6, 2013
The new Sheryl Crow-Barry Levinson musical Diner, which is based on the movie of the same name and had been scheduled to open on Broadway April 10, has been delayed until the fall, according…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22PMFriday, January 4, 2013
Casting has been announced for the American premiere of the Broadway-aimed musical Backbeat, about the birth of the Beatles, to begin Jan. 20 at the Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PMJames Van Der Beek, best known for his starring roles on "Dawson's Creek" and "Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23," will star in the American premiere of Australia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMRuy 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 12:53PMLove Makes the World Go 'Round, a new musical created from the song catalog of Broadway composer-lyricist Bob Merrill, of Funny Girl, Carnival!, Take Me Along and Sugar fame, will get it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMThursday, January 3, 2013
Stephen Bogardus, Jeffry Denman, Will Reynolds and more will join the previously announced Melissa Errico, Judy Kuhn and Ryan Silverman for the new Off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondhei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMWednesday, January 2, 2013
The once and future Broadway producers of Rebecca, The Musical have been granted an extension of the rights to stage the show in New York City, lead producer Ben Sprecher told Playbill.com o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PMWalnut Street Theatre's 2013-14 mainstage season in Philadelphia will include new productions of the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, plus Arsenic and Old Lace, Other Desert Ci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMThe 50th-anniversary production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which opened to critical raves Oct. 13, 2012, will get an additional month of performances, now pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMOff-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company is extending the run of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson one final time, now to Jan. 20. It had previously been extended three times, to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AMSekou Laidlow will play Dr. King and Amirah Vann will play the mysterious Camae in Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, her play that imagines …
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