Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Academy Award nominee Sam Waterston stars as King Lear in the Public Theater staging of Shakespeare's tragedy about a feeble monarch attempting to weather a familial storm, officially op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Patti LuPone: A Memoir," the behind-the-scenes book from the Tony and Olivier Award-winning actress, is released in paperback Nov. 8 from Three Rivers Press.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A Christmas Story, The Musical!, based on the Jean Shepherd stories and the beloved 1983 film of the same name, unwraps a melodic holiday gift for audiences Nov. 8 in Hershey, PA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2011
Broadway goes Hollywood in the Weinstein Company's "My Week With Marilyn," starring Michelle Williams as blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe and Tony winner Eddie Redmayne as a young man caught …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05PM[SHARE]Patrick Willingham, former president and chief operating officer of Blue Man Productions, which oversees the global performance art hit Blue Man Group, has been named the new executive …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM[SHARE]A cast album of A Christmas Story, The Musical!, featuring original cast members Clarke Hallum and John Bolton, as well as Tony nominees Liz Callaway and Tom Wopat, will be available in thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PM[SHARE]The piano/vocal selections from the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit The Book of Mormon will be released by Alfred Publishing Nov. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway world premiere of Asuncion, the new comedy by Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg, has extended its run an additional three weeks of performances through Dec. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PM[SHARE]Aaron Tveit, Jesse L. Martin, John Benjamin Hickey, Becky Ann Baker and LaChanze will serve up drinks as guest bartenders for Stockings with Care's Celebrity Bartending Night Nov. 16 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PM[SHARE]The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will stage a benefit performance of In A Daughter’s Eyes, the award-winning drama by A. Zell Williams, Nov. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]"My Week With Marilyn," the new Adrian Hodges film starring Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne as a hopeful British filmmaker and Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams as the blond…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Other Desert Cities playwright Jon Robin Baitz and Tony Award winner Alice Ripley will be part of MCC Theater's post-performance talkback series for the world premiere of Thomas Higgins&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AM[SHARE]A family is thrown into disarray when the daughter becomes the star quarterback of her high school in All-American, the world-premiere play by Julia Brownell, which officially opens Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Pop singer Aaron Carter returns to the New York Stage in the long-running Off-Broadway production of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's The Fantasticks, beginning Nov. 7 at the Snapple Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Emily Padgett steps back into the role of Sherrie in the Tony Award-nominated Broadway production of Rock of Ages, beginning Nov. 7 at the Helen Hayes Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons and Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris lead the Red Bull Theater staged reading of The Aeneid Nov. 7 at the Theater at St Clement's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2011
The New York Musical Theatre Festival honors How to Succeed in Business… and "Chicago" producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan during its 8th annual Awards for Excellence gala…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Mary Testa stars in Queen of the Mist, the world-premiere Michael John LaChiusa musical about a female turn-of-the-century daredevil who survived the plunge over Niagara F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 5, 2011
Academy Award winner Shirley Jones, David Burnham, Ace Young and Lea Thompson lend their voices to Broadway Rocks Anaheim Nov. 5 at the Heritage Forum.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler and Jarrod Spector perform in the Landmark on Main Street's Spotlight Gala, Nov. 5 in Port Washington, NY.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2011
Casting has been announced for the world-premiere of Tony Award nominee Liz Swados' La MaMa Cantata, based on the life and words of late La MaMa founder Ellen Stewart, which will premier…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Nathan Lane and Cheyenne Jackson have signed on to star in the new USA Network pilot from "SNL" and "Bullets Over Broadway" co-author Douglas McGrath, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]Rags, the short-lived Broadway musical about immigrants forging their way in America, authored by Charles Strouse, Stephen Schwartz and the late Joseph Stein, is looking toward a "Brand…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PM[SHARE]The original Chicago production of Million Dollar Quartet will continue to rock the Apollo Theatre through May 31, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]Kenny Ortega, who provided Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze their signature moves in the iconic film "Dirty Dancing," has signed on to direct and choreograph a remake of the 1987 h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Alice Ripley and Patrick Breen are parents presiding over a game of teenage cat and mouse in Wild Animals You Should Know, the new world-premiere play by Thomas Higgins tha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2011
Broadway veteran Mary Stout will take on the role of Mrs. Dexter in the Peccadillo Theater Company’s Off-Broadway staging of Kaufman and Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:42PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Patti LuPone and Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf will spar in the new David Mamet play The Anarchist, which will arrive on Broadway in fall 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PM[SHARE]The songwriting team of Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk have canceled a musical theatre master class at a private, faith-based Georgia university, after the school instituted a policy req…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PM[SHARE]The Hollywood Reporter will honor two-time Academy Award winner Jane Fonda with the 2011 Sherry Lansing Leadership Award Dec. 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Quiara Alegría Hudes, whose latest play, Water By the Spoonful, is receiving its world premiere at Hartford Stage, is also assembling ingredients for the new musica…
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