Wednesday, August 29, 2012
A new DC-area revival of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas began performances Aug. 14 at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. Helen Hayes Award winner Sherri L. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PMChristopher Plummer, Lucy Peacock, Seana McKenna, Aaron Krohn and others trod the boards at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, this year celebrating its 60th anniversary and its final seaso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PMThe cast of The York Theatre Company's developmental lab of the new disco musical, Last Dance, which features the songs of Grammy winner Paul Jabara and a book by Shaun McKenna, held a m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMTuesday, August 28, 2012
The American premiere of Love Story, the musical, based on the best-selling Erich Segal novel, will star Alexandra Silber (Broadway's Master Class) as Jenny Cavilleri and Will Reynolds (…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45PMThe Marriott Theatre's production of Dreamgirls, featuring Raena White, Britney Coleman and Rashidra Scott, officially opens Aug. 29, following previews that began Aug. 22, at the c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23PMSunday, August 19, 2012
The Broadway production of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' international hit musical Mamma Mia!, which plays the Winter Garden Theatre, welcomed a new roster of leads June 4. Fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMFriday, August 17, 2012
On Aug. 11, Alan Cumming accepted The Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical theatre on behalf of honoree Kristin Chenoweth. Chenoweth (Wicked, You're a Good Man Charlie…
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The New York City premiere of The Train Driver, written and directed by Athol Fugard and featuring Leon Addison Brown as Simon and Ritchie Coster as Roelf, plays Signature Theatre Company…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMThe stars came out for Victor Garber's opening night at 54 Below. Garber's "Alias" co-star Jennifer Garner, "American Pie" star Eugene Levy and Tony Award-winners…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMMauckingbird Theatre Company, the Philadelphia troupe committed to gay-related plays and issues, offers a gender flipped production of Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing through…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMMonday, August 13, 2012
The world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, at Signature Theatre Company, began previews Aug. 7. The production features Lois Smith, Gary Cole and More.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMThursday, August 9, 2012
The Broadway Dreams Foundation presented the Philadelphia engagement of Express Yourself, the 2012 Broadway Dreams Foundation Summer Performing Arts Intensive Tour, Aug. 4 at the Kimmel…
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Broadway actresses Jacquelyn Piro Donovan and Julia Murney recently joined the cast of The York Theatre Company's critically acclaimed revival of Closer Than Ever.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMMonday, August 6, 2012
Jonathan Groff and Alfred Molina star in John Logan's Red, opening August 12, as Tony Award-winning play makes its West Coast premiere as part of Center Theatre Group's season at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMChess "In Concept" Concert, which benefitted the Actors Fund, was presented July 30 at LaGuardia Arts at Lincoln Center and starred Robert Cuccioli, Natascia Diaz and Drew Sarich.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMThe Last Smoker in America, billed as a "raucous, irreverent, and unfiltered new Off-Broadway musical," officially opened its New York premiere Aug. 2 upstairs at the Westside Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMFriday, August 3, 2012
Teal Wicks plays Julie Jordan to the Billy Bigelow of James Snyder in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel, July 13-Sept. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMThe fourth concert of this season's Broadway in Bryant Park series was presented Aug. 2 with performances by Chaplin: The Musical, Mamma Mia!, One Man, Two Guvnors, and Silence: The Musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMWednesday, August 1, 2012
Last week the stars came out to 54 Below, the new performance venue located just beneath the legendary Studio 54, to catch Jenifer Lewis in concert with Marc Shaiman, Andrea McArdle and Lea …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:21PMTony Award nominee Hunter Foster stars as The Pirate King in The Muny production of Pirates! in St. Louis. Broadway veterans Ed Dixon, Kathy Fitzgerald and Jay Armstrong are among Foster'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMTuesday, July 31, 2012
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) celebrated its 2012 Season with a closing night party and awards ceremony on July 30 at Hudson Terrace in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMJoan Rivers and Santino Fontana stopped by to catch the York Theatre Company’s Closer Than Ever this past weekend. Following the performance they went backstage to meet the cast and Ri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMBreak the Floor Productions in association with N+N Productions present Happy We'll Be, a dance narrative by Al Blackstone, July 26-30 at New York City's Roseland Ballroom featuring …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMThursday, July 26, 2012
The North American premiere of Backbeat: The Birth of the Beatles, the Broadway-aimed rock-'n'-roll drama with music, directed by David Leveaux , began performances at Toronto's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMThe TRL Generation: Broadway Sings the '90s, a one-night-only benefit concert for Broadway Impact featuring late-'90s classics, was offered July 8 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Spend a day with three-time Tony Award nominee Marc Kudisch as he works his way through rehearsal and tech for Westport Playhouse's production of Tartuffe. Marketing Intern Leslie Datsis…
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Tony Award nominees Daniel Breaker and Will Swenson are among the actors who have been cast in the Powerhouse Theater workshop production of the new indie rock musical Murder Ballad by Julia…
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The Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare Unit production of Richard III, directed by Amanda Dehnert, will play a three-week run at the Off-Broadway company's downtown Lafayette Street…
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The 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced July 194, and the list of nominees includes a number of theatre regulars and actors with stage roots. Playbill.com provides a photo slideshow of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:53PMNorth Carolina Theatre's production of Oliver!, with Kevin Gray as Fagin, began performances July 17 in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Teal Wicks plays Julie Jordan to the Billy Bigelow of James Snyder in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel, July 13-Sept. 23. The cast held a pa…
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