Friday, August 5, 2011
Godspell, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, is coming back to Broadway with its first revival, beginning performances Oct. 13 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, prior to an offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMBroadway in Bryant Park, the annual free concert series featuring the stars of Broadway and Off-Broadway, showcased the stars of Off-Broadway’s Rent and Broadway’s Wicked, among …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMFrank Galati’s stage adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath is directed by Antoni Cimolino and currently plays in repertory at the Stratford Shakespeare Festiva…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:09AMThursday, August 4, 2011
Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk’s The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown officially opens Aug. 4 at Goodspeed Musicals’ Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT.
Meghann …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMThe 2011 Tony Award-nominated musical Catch Me If You Can, currently playing at the Neil Simon Theatre, will offer a “blogger” performance Aug. 18.
The creative team is looking f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMJerusalem, directed by Ian Rickson, officially opened on Broadway April 21 at the Music Box Theatre and will conclude its extended limited engagement Aug. 21.
The three-hour drama opened at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMEighties pop icon Tiffany made her way to Broadway July 26 to perform “I Think We’re Alone Now” on stage at the Helen Hayes Theatre after the 7 PM performance of Rock of Ag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:17AMWednesday, August 3, 2011
Lauren Ambrose, who has been seen on Broadway in Awake and Sing! and Exit the King, will soon take on the role of Fanny Brice in the Center Theatre Group production of Funny Girl, which plan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PMTony Award winner Nikki M. James, along with her co-stars and Tony nominees Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad and Rory O’Malley, recently sat down on the “CBS Early Show” to talk a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMJonathan Larson’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Rent, has made its way back to New York City for an Off-Broadway revival at New World Stages. The newly conceived production …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMVoca People, the intergalactic new musical that combines vocal sounds, a capella singing, comedy and the art of beat box, officially opened Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre July 12.
Here…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival recently announced that William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, directed by Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff (The Who’s Tommy), will receiv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AMTuesday, August 2, 2011
Broadway in Bryant Park, the annual free concert series now in its 11th year, features performances from the stars of Broadway and Off-Broadway Thursdays throughout the summer from 12:30 PM-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMMark and Roger, along with their fellow bohemian friends, have made their way back to New York City for the Off-Broadway revival of Jonathan Larson’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMSilence! The Musical, Off-Broadway’s new musical described as the "unauthorized parody of ‘The Silence of the Lambs’,” officially opened July 9 at Theater 80 for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMMatthew Morrison, Tony Award nominee and star of the Fox hit series “Glee,” made his way back to New York City, a place that he likes to call home, performing his solo concert Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMMonday, August 1, 2011
The Old Globe’s 2011 Shakespeare Festival includes Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus and Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing, which are currently running in repertor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PMThe cast of Rock of Ages, along with other members of the Broadway community, spent an afternoon with photographer Adam Bouska, spreading the love and the message of equality at the NOH8 pho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMTony Award nominee Andrew Lippa has released his new song, “It Gets Better,” featuring musical theatre students from Texas State University, to aide the efforts of the It Gets Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMSunday, July 31, 2011
Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of July 17-23, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
“Glee” Star Darren Criss in Talks to Succeed Daniel Radcl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PMMarissa Jaret Winokur, the Tony Award-winning actress who created the role of Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray on Broadway, will be back in Hairspray when she reprises her role in the Hollywood B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:17AMSaturday, July 30, 2011
Tony Award nominee John Tartaglia (Avenue Q) and Judy Gold (Off-Broadway’s The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom) are the newest Givenik Ambassadors, joining Anything Goes‘ Joel Gre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMBroadway in Bryant Park, the annual free concert series featuring the stars of Broadway and Off-Broadway, showcased the stars of Broadway’s Anything Goes and Phantom of the Opera, amon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:44AMFriday, July 29, 2011
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of July 18-24, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,882,731
The Lion King (Minskoff Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:41PMNancy Opel, currently in the cast of the Broadway musical Memphis, sat down with Seth Rudetsky on the latest episode of Playbill Video’s “Obsessed!”
Here, Opel talks about …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMAcademy Award nominees Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett will be coming to Broadway this fall when The Mountaintop begins previews Sept. 22 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, with an offic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMPriscilla Queen of the Desert, the Broadway musical that celebrates everything from fabulous drag queens to individuality and equality, is congratulating New York State on the recent advance…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:56AMThursday, July 28, 2011
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, the new Broadway musical at the Foxwoods Theatre, features a rock score by Bono and The Edge and Reeve Carney in the title role. Here, Carney and the composers …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMThe Mad Show, a musical based on MAD Magazine, is one of the productions in the York Theatre Company’s Summer 2011 Musicals in Mufti Concert Series, which presents musical theatre gems…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMLarry Kramer, playwright of the Tony Award-winning play The Normal Heart, feels that his words regarding same-sex marriage have been misinterpreted by The New York Times and publications aro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMWilliam Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, starring Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Death of a Salesman) as Toby Belch and Stephen Ouimette (Broadway…
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