Friday, December 23, 2011
Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken is at work penning new songs for the Broadway production of Newsies, which will arrive at the Nederlander Theatre March 15, 2012, for a limited eng…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PM[SHARE]The 2010 British film "Made in Dagenham," about the 1968 Ford factory women's strike, is being adapted as a West End musical, according to the Daily Mail.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]Porgy and Bess stars Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis will join WNYC Public Radio "Soundcheck" host John Schaefer Jan. 17, 2012, at the Greene Space.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM[SHARE]"Brady Bunch" star Eve Plumb will again play a limited engagement in the Off-Broadway cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, beginning Jan. 4, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 22, 2011
Klea Blackhurst, who was heralded for her Ethel Merman tribute show Everything The Traffic Will Allow, will take on the Merm's iconic role of Rose in the Drury Lane Theatre production of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PM[SHARE]Recent Wonderland star Kate Shindle will take on the role of Sally Bowles in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre production of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, beginning Jan. 10, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PM[SHARE]For audiences accustomed to pre-show announcements requesting that they turn off their cell phones, the first performance of Gob Squad's Kitchen (You Never Had It So Good) may have some …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM[SHARE]The cast of the hit musical series "Glee," including Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch, sat down with host James Lipton Dec. 18 for an upcoming episode of "Inside t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PM[SHARE]After an extended run at London's National Theatre, Daniel Kitson will bring his latest solo piece, It's Always Right Now, Until It’s Later, an homage to the unacknowledged mom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]Much of the original Stratford Shakespeare Festival cast of Jesus Christ Superstar will repeat their work in the Broadway production of the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice rock opera, which…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]The cast of the Tony-winning musical The Book of Mormon has kept audiences laughing with jaw-dropping off-color humor and good old-fashioned musical comedy gold since those charismatic missi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Philadelphia Theatre Company has named a new $10,000 playwriting Award in honor of Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally, the organization announced Dec. 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05PM[SHARE]Jack Klugman, the Tony-nominated actor and original cast member of the 1957 film "Twelve Angry Men," will star in the stage adaptation of the landmark courtroom drama at the George…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]The 35-year history of Soho Rep, the Off-Broadway company that delivered the American premiere of Sarah Kane's Blasted and, most recently, David Adjmi’s Elective Affinities, is chr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner and Kennedy Center Honoree Bill T. Jones and the Arnie Zane Dance Company will premiere Story/Time at Montclair State University beginning Jan. 21, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PM[SHARE]The Fred Ebb Foundation has contributed $1.2 million to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the organization announced Dec. 21. It marks the largest single donation in BC/EFA's 22-year hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PM[SHARE]The cast album of the Broadway revival of Godspell, which was released Dec. 20 for digital download, has reached the number one spot on iTunes' soundtrack chart.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PM[SHARE]Yvette Freeman will star in the Huntington Theatre Company production of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which will begin performances March 9, 2012, in Boston.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]"CBS Early Show" contributor Katie Lee and fashion expert Fern Mallis will complete the January cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason, Tony winner Stephen Spinella, Everett Quinton and David Greenspan will take part in the Red Bull Revelation Reading of Nikolai Gogol's The Government …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM[SHARE]The cast of Broadway's Sister Act and veteran producer Mitchell Maxwell are among the guests who will appear at the 92YTribeca in January.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Zayd Dohrn's dark comedy Outside People, starring Matthew Dellapina, Nelson Lee, Li Jun Li and Sonequa Martin-Green, begins previews Dec. 21 at the Vineyard Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Blondel, the 1983 London musical by Tony, Olivier and Academy Award-winning lyricist Tim Rice and late composer Stephen Olivier, will strum its songs anew as Lute!, a retitled and revised pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PM[SHARE]PBS' "Great Performances" will air Anna Deavere Smith's solo play about the U.S. healthcare system and the resilience of the human body, Let Me Down Easy, Jan. 13, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18PM[SHARE]The ghosts of Chanukah past, present and future will linger for an encore performance of Jackie Hoffman’s A Chanukah Charol on Jan. 8, 2012 at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM[SHARE]The spring 2012 programming for Works & Process at the Guggenheim will feature Denis O'Hare and Stephen Spinella in An Iliad and a concert of music from Rufus Wainwright's Prima …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PM[SHARE]New films starring Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Paul Giamatti, Jesse Eisenberg and Melissa Leo have been added to the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Ithaca, NY's Hangar Theatre will stage the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical Next to Normal and Maury Yeston's epic Titanic as part of its 38th summer season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AM[SHARE]Christopher Jackson, whose Broadway credits include In the Heights and The Lion King, will join the cast of the Tony-winning Best Musical Memphis in January 2012 at the Shubert Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]The cast album of the Broadway revival of Godspell, featuring Hunter Parrish, Lindsay Mendez, Telly Leung and Wallace Smith, is available for digital download from Ghostlight Records beginni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2011
The Off Broadway Alliance has announced the return of 20at20, a discount ticket offer for Off-Broadway productions including Rent, Million Dollar Quartet and Silence! The Musical.
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