Friday, December 9, 2011
Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken has been tapped to compose the original score for the upcoming feature film "Mirror Mirror," a new take on Snow White, starring Julia Rob…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2011
Chris Hietikko, Deanne Lorette, Zoe Vonder Haar and Mark Emerson have joined the cast of Sunday in the Park With George, starring Ron Bohmer and Erin Davie, which will begin putting it toget…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane has been enlisted to author a new book for a Broadway-aimed production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1957 musical Cinderella, prod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PM[SHARE]Tickets are now on sale for the New York return of Gob Squad's Kitchen, a theatrical recollection of Andy Warhol's films, and the Public Forum event Sondheim/Kushner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PM[SHARE]Tickets are now on sale for the New York return of Gob Squad's the Kitchen, a theatrical recollection of Andy Warhol's films, and the Public Forum event Sondheim/Kushner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PM[SHARE]The National Alliance for Musical Theatre is now accepting submissions for the 24th annual Festival of New Musicals, which will take place in New York City in fall 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM[SHARE]Tom Hewitt has stepped into the role of Pontius Pilate in the La Jolla Playhouse engagement of Jesus Christ Superstar; the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical will arrive on Broadway later …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Roger Rees, who currently stars in the Broadway production of The Addams Family, will bring his solo show What You Will: An Evening By and About the Bard, to the Orlando Sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AM[SHARE]Academy Award-winning Wicked and Pippin composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz was celebrated by the ASCAP Foundation Dec. 7 for his lifetime contribution to musical theatre. The songwriting tea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AM[SHARE]Curtain up on four-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh, who stars as iconic stage mother Rose in the Broadway classic Gypsy, which officially opens Dec. 8 at the Bristol Riverside Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The LeVay family of Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly gather at their plush Martha's Vineyard home for a summer weekend of scrabble and secrets. Tony winner Ruben Santiago Hudson, Dul&eac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wearing Lorca's Bowtie, the new interdisciplinary work that unites contemporary artists with the world of Spanish poet-playwright Federico García Lorca, begins performances Off-Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Playwright Lydia R. Diamond has been getting a lot of buzz for her play Stick Fly, now at Broadway's Cort Theatre, in which class issues surface in a well-heeled family.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Wyeth family of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities adopts a new son Dec. 8. Understudy Matthew Risch steps into the role of Trip Wyeth for a three-week engagement.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2011
The national tour of the Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon will ring doorbells in Los Angeles for a limited 12-week engagement following its late summer 2012 launch in Denver.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:47PM[SHARE]Original cast member Cass Morgan will return to the role of Mama in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Memphis beginning Dec. 15 at the Shubert Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Paulo Szot and Christine Ebersole will return to the Café Carlyle with intimate evenings of song this winter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated Rock of Ages star Constantine Maroulis will save the day in the Alley Theatre production of The Toxic Avenger, the 2008 rock musical by Tony Award-winning Memphis writer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AM[SHARE]"Harry Potter" actress Katie Leung will head the cast of the world premiere of Wild Swans, which is based on Jung Chang’s best-selling memoir and will debut Feb. 11, 2012, at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AM[SHARE]The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, which was originally announced for a Nov. 14 release on DVD and Blu-ray, will now arrive Feb. 7, 2012. The date will also mark the DVD and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]Some Lovers, a new pop musical that takes a page from O. Henry's holiday-themed "The Gift of the Magi," with songs by music legend Burt Bacharach and Tony Award-winning lyricis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Balls… The Musical?, which was seen as part of the 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival, returns for a limited Off-Broadway run beginning Dec. 7 at the Lion Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Loretta Swit and Myra Lucretia Taylor join the Off-Broadway cast of Love, Loss, And What I Wore Dec. 7, prior to embarking on a national tour of the production in early 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim sits down with Anna Quindlen to discuss his latest book, "Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics," Dec. 7 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The American debut of British playwright Alan Ayckbourn's latest comedy, Neighbourhood Watch, about the ills of suburban living, officially opens Dec. 7 as part of the Brits Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's Farm Boy, the literary sequel to the Tony Award-winning hit War Horse, debuts Dec. 7 as part of the Brits Off-Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The world-premiere staging of Tony Award nominee Liz Swados' La MaMa Cantata, based on the life and words of late La MaMa founder Ellen Stewart, will return for two encore engagements in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PM[SHARE]Five-time Tony Award winner José Ferrer and legendary nine-time Tony-winning director-choreographer Bob Fosse will be honored by the United States Postal Service on 2012 "Forever…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]The film adaptation of Leslye Headland's dark comedy Bachelorette will premiere as part of the Sundance Film Festival's out-of-competition screenings in January 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]Mabou Mines founder Lee Breuer, Elevator Repair Service artistic director John Collins, Tony-nominated choreographer Donald Byrd and playwright Annie Baker have received $50,000 each as part…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]Four-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh takes her turn as Rose in the Arthur Laurents-Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim musical Gypsy, which begins performances Dec. 6 at the Bristol Riverside…
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