Christopher Plummer Recreates Tony-Winnning Barrymore Turn in Film; Will Go Wide Following Canadian Screenings by Kenneth Jones

The film "Barrymore," starring 2012 Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer in the role that won him a Tony Award, will be shown at select cinemas in Canada beginning in May 2012 …

SOURCE: Playbill at 3:36pm on March 13, 2012☆⚑

La Jolla's Hands on a Hardbody Musical Will Star Keith Carradine, Hunter Foster, Jarrod Emick and More by Kenneth Jones

The world premiere of Hands on a Hardbody, the new musical about a Texas-set endurance competition, will star Tony Award winner Jarrod Emick and Tony nominees Keith Carradine, Hunter Foster …

SOURCE: Playbill at 2:23pm on March 13, 2012☆⚑

"Falling Slowly," Again: Once Cast Album Strums Its Way Into Stores March 13 by Kenneth Jones

Masterworks Broadway releases the cast album of Once: A New Musical on March 13, five days before the delicate Dublin-set musical opens at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Previews …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 13, 2012☆⚑

Lost in Yonkers, Revised With the Permission of Neil Simon, Begins NYC Run; Cynthia Harris Stars by Kenneth Jones

Cynthia Harris is the imperious immigrant grandmother in The Actors Company Theatre/TACT revival of Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers, beginning March 13 at Off-Br…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 13, 2012☆⚑

Milwaukee Rep Plans Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park, Assassins and Mountaintop in 2012-13 by Kenneth Jones

Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2012-13 season will include the musicals Assassins, Ring of Fire, Blues in the Night and Gutenberg!; Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, a fantastical look a…

SOURCE: Playbill at 8:59pm on March 12, 2012☆⚑

Sunday in the Park With George, David Ives, National Theatre of Scotland Will Play Chicago Shakespeare Season by Kenneth Jones

Chicago Shakespeare Theater will produce Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park With George, plus David Ives' The School for Lies and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar …

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:26pm on March 12, 2012☆⚑

Fly, A Christmas Carol, Our Town Will Play Ford's Theatre in 2012-13 by Kenneth Jones

Joining the previously revealed Hello, Dolly! in Ford's Theatre's 2012-13 season will be a 75th-anniversary production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and new play about African-Am…

SOURCE: Playbill at 4:43pm on March 12, 2012☆⚑

Off-Broadway's Man and Superman to Star Brian Murray, Janie Brookshire, Max Gordon Moore by Kenneth Jones

Irish Repertory Theatre and Gingold Theatrical Group will present a co-production of George Bernard Shaw's complete four-act Man and Superman — his 1903 comedy set in England, Spai…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22pm on March 12, 2012☆⚑

Second Stage's Lonely, I'm Not Premiere Will Feature Lisa Emery, Mark Blum, Christopher Jackson by Kenneth Jones

Mark Blum, Lisa Emery, Christopher Jackson and Maureen Sebastian will join the previously announced Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby for the world premiere of Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49am on March 12, 2012☆⚑

Happy Birthday, Little Theatre: Helen Hayes Theatre Is a Century Old March 12 by Kenneth Jones

Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre on West 44th Street turns 100 on March 12. Martin Markinson and Jeff Tick, who own and operate the venue — first called The Little Theatre back in 19…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 12, 2012☆⚑

Bernadette Peters, Martin Short, Boyd Gaines and Richard Gere Star in March 12 Gala Celebrating Rob Marshall by Kenneth Jones

Golden Globe Award winner Richard Gere, star of the Rob Marshall film "Chicago," and two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters are on the list of performers honoring director an…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 12, 2012☆⚑

We Got a Kick Out of Her: Sutton Foster Disembarks From Broadway's Anything Goes March 11 by Kenneth Jones

The company of Anything Goes says farewell to Sutton Foster at the March 11 matinee of the Broadway hit that earned the star her second Best Actress Tony Award. Following a year of performan…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01am on March 11, 2012☆⚑

Canada's Stratford Festival Names Antoni Cimolino as Artistic Director; Des McAnuff's Tenure Ends in Fall 2012 by Kenneth Jones

Antoni Cimolino, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's current general director — who rose from being a young actor at the world-renowned Canadian theatre — has been named its…

SOURCE: Playbill at 7:08pm on March 10, 2012☆⚑

Anna Christie, Eugene O'Neill's Early Pulitzer Winner, Begins Old Globe Run; Jessica Love and Bill Buell Star by Kenneth Jones

Jessica Love plays Anna Christie, the estranged prostitute daughter of a crusty sailor in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starting March 10 at The Old Globe in San Dieg…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 10, 2012☆⚑

A Room With a View, a Musical Romance With Karen Ziemba, Ephie Aardema, Kyle Harris, Opens in CA by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba stars as Charlotte Bartlett, the overbearing chaperone of the young Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch, in the new musical A Room With a View, based on the E.M. For…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 10, 2012☆⚑

Des McAnuff's Stratford Twelfth Night, Starring Brian Dennehy, Gets Canadian Cinema Release March 10 by Kenneth Jones

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2011 pop-rock-infused production of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night gets a cinematic release March 10 and March 21 at Cineplex Entertainment t…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 10, 2012☆⚑

God of Carnage in Arlington Gets a Cast of DC Favorites; Joe Calarco Directs by Kenneth Jones

The Washington, DC, premiere of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, will feature a cast of DC performers including Helen Hayes Award winners Naomi Jacobs…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56pm on March 9, 2012☆⚑

Bill English Is "Billy" in Broadway's Anything Goes in March; Colin Donnell Shooting Superhero Pilot by Kenneth Jones

Bill English, the game actor who previously stepped into the dancing shoes of romantic lead Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, is back in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, now through Ap…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58am on March 9, 2012☆⚑

Emily Donahoe and Nelson Lee Will Go Back in Time in West Coast Premiere of Maple and Vine by Kenneth Jones

American Conservatory Theater's West Coast premiere of Jordan Harrison's Maple and Vine, about modern people who escape to the past by joining a group of 1950s reenactors, will play …

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:54am on March 9, 2012☆⚑

Ford's Theatre's 1776, With Robert Cuccioli, Brooks Ashmanskas, William Diggle, Begins March 9 by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me) is the "obnoxious and disliked" John Adams opposite fellow Continental Congressman — and Tony nominee &md…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 9, 2012☆⚑

Bernadette Peters and Richard Gere Among Stars to Shine at Roundabout's Gala Celebrating Rob Marshall by Kenneth Jones

Golden Globe Award winner Richard Gere, star of the Rob Marshall film "Chicago," and two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters have joined the list of performers honoring direct…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:30pm on March 8, 2012☆⚑

A Room With a View, the Musical, Gets Extra Week at Old Globe; Karen Ziemba Stars by Kenneth Jones

The Old Globe has added a week to the run of its world-premiere musical A Room with a View, now playing to April 15 in San Diego.

SOURCE: Playbill at 3:35pm on March 8, 2012☆⚑

Public Theater Confirms Park Dates for Into the Woods and As You Like It; Steve Martin Will Provide Twang by Kenneth Jones

Grammy and Emmy Award-winning actor-comedian-musician Steve Martin will compose original music for The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of As You Like It, the dates of…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55pm on March 8, 2012☆⚑

Desert Divorce: Regrets, With Alexis Bledel, Adriane Lenox and Ansel Elgort, Premieres at MTC by Kenneth Jones

The world-premiere production of British playwright Matt Charman's Regrets, about men biding their time at a Nevada ranch while waiting for quick divorces in the 1950s, begins previews M…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 8, 2012☆⚑

IL Writers' Theatre Reveals Sweet Charity, Hamlet, Liar, Yellow Moon and More for 2012-13 by Kenneth Jones

Writers' Theatre in suburban Chicago announced a 2012-13 season to feature Hamlet, the Midwest premiere of John W. Lowell's play The Letters, the musical Sweet Charity, the Midwest p…

SOURCE: Playbill at 4:33pm on March 7, 2012☆⚑