Thursday, December 1, 2011
Complete casting has been confirmed for The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, a new vision of the classic American folk opera, which will arrive on Broadway Dec. 17 at the Richard Rodgers Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AM[SHARE]Jon Robin Baitz's crackling family drama Other Desert Cities will welcome a new member to the steely Wyeth clan of Palm Springs. "Weeds" star Justin Kirk will take on the role …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AM[SHARE]"Hairspray" and "Rock of Ages" director Adam Shankman will direct a new screen adaptation of the holiday classic "The Nutcracker" for New Line Cinema, according…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tony Award-nominated playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has taken issue with casting for the regional premiere of his play Motherf**ker with the Hat, which began previews at Hartford Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PM[SHARE]The Frank Wildhorn-Leslie Bricusse musical Jekyll & Hyde will be explored in a new adaptation, billed as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, which will receive a private New Y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]Oklahomo, Famous and Through the Door, the latter featuring Tony nominee Kerry Butler, will be presented as part of the 2011 TRU Voices New Musicals Reading Series beginning Dec. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PM[SHARE]Stage and screen actor Dan Butler will direct and star in a benefit performance of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart to commemorate World AIDS Day Dec. 1 in Randolph, VT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Denny Dillon will take on the role of omnipresent, no-nonsense maid Berthe in the Hartford Stage production of Marc Camoletti's Tony Award-winning comedy Boeing-Boeing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Daisy Eagan and Loretta Swit will join the Off-Broadway cast of Love, Loss, And What I Wore in December. A national tour is also on the horizon for 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Daisy Eagan and Loretta Swit will join the Off-Broadway cast of Love, Loss, And What I Wore in December. A national tour is also on the horizon for 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM[SHARE]A host of artists will conjure Federico García Lorca in the new interdisciplinary work Wearing Lorca's Bowtie, which will arrive Off-Broadway at the Duke on 42nd Street for a limi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Felicia Fields stars as Motormouth Mabel alongside Danielle Arci as Tracy Turnblad in the Fulton Theatre production of the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray, which begi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Cillian Murphy makes his U.S. stage debut in Misterman, the new dark solo play by Walworth Farce author Enda Walsh, beginning Nov. 30 at St. Ann's Warehouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Joe Cassidy, Patricia Noonan, Alex Brightman and young actress Angelina Wahler star in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden, which blossoms Nov. 30 at Palo Alto's TheatreWork…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated playwright Ken Ludwig's The Game’s Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays), starring Donald Sage Mackay and Patricia Kilgarriff, officially opens Nov. 30 at the Cle…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Les Waters will depart his position as associate artistic director of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre to succeed Marc Masterson as artistic director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PM[SHARE]Jeff McCarthy has replaced Mark Vietor in the Arena Stage production of Amy Freed's comedy You, Nero, which began previews Nov. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon, which has been fetching up to $477 a ticket, has recouped its Broadway capitalization, producers announced Nov. 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PM[SHARE]The French silent film "The Artist" has been awarded honors for Best Picture and Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle. Meryl Streep, Aaron Sorkin and Albert Brooks are…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]In the Heights star Chris Jackson and Fela! leading man Kevin Mambo will participate in a December workshop of the hip-hop musical Venice at the Public Theater, Playbill.com has learned.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]As if the titular role weren't challenging enough, Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming will take on all the roles in an upcoming production of Macbeth, which will debut at the National…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]Original London cast members Richard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy will re-create their performances in the Broadway production of Ghost The Musical, which will haunt the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM[SHARE]Christine Baranski, Michael Shannon, Julianna Margulies and Philip Glass will be part of the New York Times' 11th annual Arts & Leisure Weekend in January.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AM[SHARE]Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Alfred Uhry has teamed with Drama Desk Award-winning Garden of Earthly delights creator Martha Clarke for Angel Reapers, a new musical incorporatin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, which was originally slated to play the Long Wharf Theatre in 2008 starring Brian Dennehy, begins performances at the Connecticut venue Nov. 29 fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Public Lab production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, starring Jay O. Sanders as the famed Roman general, begins performances Nov. 29 Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2011
Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is the recipient of the 2011 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park playwright Bruce Norris and songwriter Georgia Stitt are among the artists selected for the 2012 Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at Ucross.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PM[SHARE]Zach Braff's All New People, the four-person comedy that debuted Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre last summer, is London-bound with Braff in the leading role, according to Deadline.c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Liz Callaway will descend the staircase of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award-winning musical Sunset Boulevard at Pittsburgh CLO in summer 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PM[SHARE]On Nov. 30 New Yorkers will finally get a look at The Visit, the new musical by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Terrence McNally that will get a one-night-only benefit staging at Broadway's Am…
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