Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 7, 2013
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMIrish Repertory Theatre's fall 2012 production of Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City — the 1974 play about political unrest in Ireland — begins a three…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 1, 2013
The national tour of Flashdance — The Musical, the fairy tale of a lady steelworker who dreams of legit dance while moonlighting as an exotic dancer, begins Jan. 1 in Pittsburgh, where…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSaturday, December 29, 2012
British producer Cameron Mackintosh, who shepherded the musical Les Misérables from its French album/arena roots to the London, Broadway and international stage, talks about the new m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, December 27, 2012
Academy 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 09:25AMTriad Stage, the ambitious resident Equity theatre in downtown Greensboro, NC, is racing to meet a Dec. 31 fundraising goal that would complete a $250,000 campaign that began Dec. 6 and has …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46AMWednesday, December 26, 2012
Tickets for the Broadway revival of Pump Boys and Dinettes go on sale exclusively to MasterCard cardholders beginning Dec. 26 through Jan. 8, 2013. This presale will be followed by a Gilt Ci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMMonday, December 24, 2012
No more window shopping. Tickets for the new Broadway play Breakfast at Tiffany's — about the New York City dreamer Holly Golightly, who loiters outside of jeweler Tiffany & Co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, December 21, 2012
Director Nicholas Martin's new staging of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion starring the previously announced Robert Sean Leonard as Prof. Henry Higgins will also star Charlotte Parry …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMThursday, December 20, 2012
A multiracial, nontraditional cast will take on the timeless Thornton Wilder play Our Town, featuring actress Portia as The Stage Manager, in a new 75th-anniversary production of the Pulitze…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMThe world-premiere run of Amy Herzog's critically acclaimed drama The Great God Pan, about a Brooklyn journalist recovering memories of possible past sexual abuse, will get a second exte…
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