Michael Esper, Virginia Kull Offer Assistance, a Play About a Nightmare Boss, Opening in NYC by Kenneth Jones

Bobby Steggert, Michael Esper, Sue Jean Kim, Virginia Kull, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe and Amy Rosoff play satellites spinning around an unseen, bullying international mogul in the world premiere…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 28, 2012☆⚑

THE "SMASH" REPORT: Episode 4, Or, What a Swell Party This Is by Kenneth Jones

Playbill's weekly overview, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC series "Smash," about the people behind the creation of a new Broadway musical. Here's …

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04pm on February 27, 2012☆⚑

Prizes and Giveaways Will Greet Nice Work If You Can Get It Ticketbuyers at B.O. Opening by Kenneth Jones

The Imperial Theatre box office for the new Broadway musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It will open March 1 with special giveaways for early birds.

SOURCE: Playbill at 3:28pm on February 27, 2012☆⚑

Leap of Faith Offers a Leap Year Sale on Feb. 29; Tickets Are $29 for Special Week by Kenneth Jones

Happy Leap Year! That's the message from producers of the new Broadway musical Leap of Faith, who are offering $29 seats in the orchestra and mezzanine for the first week of previews, Ap…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14am on February 27, 2012☆⚑

Mountaintop Writer Katori Hall's Hurt Village Opens Feb. 27 in World Premiere by Kenneth Jones

Signature Theatre Company's Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater in the new Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street is officially open for business Feb. 27 with the opening of t…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 27, 2012☆⚑

Swinging "Skiffle" Rock of One Man, Two Guvnors Will Be Heard on U.S. Release of Cast Album by Kenneth Jones

The London cast album of the inbound Broadway comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, featuring the band The Craze performing original songs by Grant Olding, and using original troupers including star …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 26, 2012☆⚑

Irish Rep's Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer-Winning Work, Opens Off-Broadway Feb. 26 by Kenneth Jones

Rod Brogan, Patricia Conolly, Lucas Hall, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Aimee Laurence, Joanna Leister, Wrenn Schmidt, David Sitler and John Thomas Waite are featured in Irish Repertory Theatre'…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 26, 2012☆⚑

PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Sam Gold, Director of Seminar and Look Back in Anger by Kenneth Jones

Sam Gold began his life in theatre as a young actor, appearing as a replacement understudy in Broadway's The Diary of Anne Frank in 1997-98. What a difference 15 years has made. He's…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 26, 2012☆⚑

Michael Mayer Will Make Metropolitan Opera Debut in 2013; Bartlett Sher, Robert Lepage Will Also Direct by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award-winning directors Bartlett Sher (South Pacific) and Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) will direct classics in the 2012-13 season of the Metropolitan Opera.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08pm on February 24, 2012☆⚑

Rhythm and Rhyme: NY Pops Gala Benefit Will Feature Songs of Broadway's Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty by Kenneth Jones

The annual New York Pops Gala benefit on April 30 will honor the Tony Award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. A 7 PM Carnegie Hall concert called Journey On, borr…

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:56am on February 24, 2012☆⚑

Rhythm and Rhyme: NY Pops Gala Benefit Will Feature Songs of Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty by Kenneth Jones

The annual New York Pops Gala benefit on April 30 will honor the Tony Award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. A 7 PM Carnegie Hall concert called Journey On, borr…

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:56am on February 24, 2012☆⚑

Times Have Changed! Stephanie J. Block Is New "Reno" of Broadway's Anything Goes by Kenneth Jones

Stephanie J. Block, the game leading lady who stepped into the tap shoes of Sutton Foster in Anything Goes in fall 2011, when Foster was filming a TV pilot, will permanently take over the ro…

SOURCE: Playbill at 7:27pm on February 23, 2012☆⚑

Ken Ludwig and Jeffrey Hatcher Are 2012 Edgar Award Nominees for Their Mystery Plays by Kenneth Jones

Mystery Writers of America announced two theatrical titles as nominees for its annual Edgar Awards, honoring the best in mystery, thriller and crime literature and nonfiction across multiple…

SOURCE: Playbill at 6:23pm on February 23, 2012☆⚑

In This House, a New Musical, Will Star Chuck Cooper, Brenda Pressley, Jeff Kready and Margo Seibert by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award winner Chuck Cooper, Jeff Kready, Brenda Pressley and Margo Seibert will star in the world premiere of the New Year's Eve-set chamber musical In This House by Two River Theate…

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:30pm on February 23, 2012☆⚑

Very Potter Musical Troupe's Next Parody Is Holy Musical B@man!, for April Launch by Kenneth Jones

Team StarKid, the troupe behind the popular internet musical parody A Very Potter Musical will launch its new spoof — the comic-book-inspired Holy Musical B@man! — this spring wi…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33am on February 23, 2012☆⚑

Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, Starring F. Murray Abraham, Opens Off-Broadway by Kenneth Jones

Classic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as the persecuted scientist, opens Feb. 23 following previews from…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 23, 2012☆⚑

Songbook Classics To Get Fresh Listen in Michael Feinstein Tin Pan Alley Concert, With Kate Baldwin, Adam Swanson by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin, pianist Rob Berman and 19-year-old ragtime pianist Adam Swanson will join singer-pianist Michael Feinstein for the Feb. 29 performance of Standard Time with …

SOURCE: Playbill at 6:32pm on February 22, 2012☆⚑

Barbra Streisand's Relationship With Columbia Records Going Strong; DVD Set Planned by Kenneth Jones

Barbra Streisand and Columbia Records announced on Feb. 22 that Streisand's recording contract with the label has been extended, and revealed that Columbia will release a 12-set DVD, &qu…

SOURCE: Playbill at 4:26pm on February 22, 2012☆⚑

How I Learned to Drive Extended Off-Broadway by Kenneth Jones

The Second Stage Theatre revival of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive will get an extra week, now to March 18, the not-for-profit Off-Broadway company announced.

SOURCE: Playbill at 2:56pm on February 22, 2012☆⚑

Blood and Gifts Joins La Jolla Playhouse Lineup This Summer; Lucie Tiberghien Directs by Kenneth Jones

La Jolla Playhouse announced the addition of J.T. Rogers' Blood and Gifts, the play about international military intervention in Afghanistan, as part of its 2012-13 season. Lucie Tibergh…

SOURCE: Playbill at 2:37pm on February 22, 2012☆⚑

Jessica Love, Bill Buell, Kristine Nielsen, Austin Durant Will Bring Anna Christie To Life at Old Globe by Kenneth Jones

Jessica Love will play Anna Christie, the estranged prostitute daughter of a crusty sailor in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, March 10-April 15 at The Old Globe in San …

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:07pm on February 22, 2012☆⚑

Design for Living Is First in NYC Noël Coward Series; Steve Ross, Keith Merrill, Amy Rutberg, Kevin Collins Perform by Kenneth Jones

The works of playwright-songwriter Noël Coward — and his contemporaries and U.K. successors — will be presented in Manhattan in a monthly reading series dubbed Noël and…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51pm on February 22, 2012☆⚑

Kinky Boots Musical Will Kick It Up in Chicago in October, Prior to Broadway by Kenneth Jones

The musical Kinky Boots, about a shoe company that finds new life when its owner is inspired to switch to manufacturing fetish footwear, will get a pre-Broadway tryout this fall at Chicago&#…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43am on February 22, 2012☆⚑

A Catered Affair Opens Feb. 21 in Chicago Premiere by Kenneth Jones

The Chicago premiere of librettist Harvey Fierstein and composer-lyricist John Bucchino's musical A Catered Affair, produced by Porchlight Musicals, opens Feb. 21 following previews from…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 21, 2012☆⚑

THE "SMASH" REPORT: Recapping Episode 3, Or, This Is a Fine Showmance by Kenneth Jones

Playbill's weekly overview, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC series "Smash," about the people behind the creation of a new Broadway musical. Here's …

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00pm on February 20, 2012☆⚑