Thursday, August 25, 2011
Disney's Academy Award-winning animated feature "Beauty and the Beast" will be presented on the big screen in 3D for the first time at Hollywood's El Capitan Theater in Sep…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]Jackie Burns and Chandra Lee Schwartz are off to meet the Wizard in the Broadway production of the smash-hit Tony-nominated musical Wicked beginning Sept. 27 at the Gershwin Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Eden Espinosa, Kevin Kern, Ria Jones and Brad Little will celebrate the grand opening of China's Shanghai Culture Square Theatre with Ultimate Broadway this September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning Intiman Theatre, which shut down due to a major financial crisis in April, has enlisted 28-year-old associate producer Andrew Russell as consulting artistic director i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Mary Tyler Moore will join the Westport Country Playhouse in celebrating two-time Tony Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters, who will be presented with the Distingui…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PM[SHARE]F. Murray Abraham, Cynthia Nixon, Tony Shalhoub and Samuel L. Jackson are among the stars who will join the benefit presentations of Sarah Tuft's 110 Stories to commemorate the tenth ann…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PM[SHARE]Theatregoers at the Aug. 23 Broadway performance of Follies were witness to an event that hasn't happened on a New York stage since 1972. The iconic Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Levi Kreis and Tony nominees Chad Kimball and Brandon Victor Dixon will be among performers in New York's Finest: The Leading Men of Broadway Sept. 16 at the Ford Amphi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM[SHARE]Roland Topor's novel The Tenant comes to life in an ambitious, five-story staging by the Woodshed Collective. It opens Aug. 24 at the West-Park Presbyterian Church in Manhattan after pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The Amoralists' new site-specific double-bill Hotel/Motel will extend its stay at the Gershwin Hotel for an additional three weeks of performances through Sept. 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PM[SHARE]Theatre lovers will have more to explore during the 25th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will now expand into parts of the Times Square pedestrian plaza and stretch down…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PM[SHARE]After taking on the "Jersey Shore" gang with the cast of The Importance of Being Earnest earlier this year, Playbill has commissioned the divine ladies of Sister Act to spoof the p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]The Innovative Theatre Award-winning Astoria Performing Arts Center will stage the Tony-winning musical The Secret Garden, the drama A Hard Wall at High Speed and a workshop of the new music…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PM[SHARE]Obie Award-winning director Lee Breuer and puppeteer Basil Twist will give Provincetown, MA, audiences a look at their approach to Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie in Septemb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Andrea McArdle will try to recapture a magical summer in Greenwood, a new musical inspired by the French Woods performing arts camp, which will debut at the New York Music…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega and "The Wire" actor Wood Harris will join Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker in the spring 2012 multi-racial Broadway revival of T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AM[SHARE]Emmy Award-winning "One Life to Live" and "Guiding Light" veteran Kim Zimmer steps into the flickering light of a bygone era as Norma Desmond in the Barn Theatre producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Westport Country Playhouse production of Tennessee Williams' dark drama Suddenly Last Summer, starring Annalee Jefferies, Liv Rooth and Charlotte Maier, begins performances Aug. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The indelible screen performances of entertainment icon Judy Garland are celebrated in the new book "Judy: A Legendary Film Career" by John Fricke, which is due out Aug. 23 from Ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2011
Tony Award nominee Sahr Ngaujah, who originated the role of Nigerian musician and political figure Fela Anikulapo-Kuti on the New York stage, will reprise his performance in the national tou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52PM[SHARE]Teresa Deevy's 1923 morality play Temporal Powers, which is getting its first-ever revival, by Off-Broadway's Mint Theater Company, will get an additional week of performances, now t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PM[SHARE]Members of the Broadway community will gather Sept. 9 in Duffy Square to honor the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City. The event will replace the ann…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PM[SHARE]Ghost, the high-tech London pop musical based on the Academy Award-winning 1990 film, will materialize on Broadway in March 2012 at a Nederlander theatre to be announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM[SHARE]The Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, which was unmasked in a new staging last May, will end its Melbourne engagement Dec. 18 prior to re-opening in Sydney …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 21, 2011
A cast album for the new Broadway revival of Follies is shaping up to be the Rialto's worst-keep secret this week. Cast members have leaked the news via Tweets and Facebook postings. The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2011
R. Davis McCallum and Johnna Adams are among the 2011 recipients of the Princess Grace Awards. The honors, which include a residency for Neighbors playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, will be …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM[SHARE]The Prospect Theater Company will stage Tony Award winner Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns, a revised version of Cole Porter's Nymph Errant and the musical Iron Curtain as part of its …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Andrea Martin, seen on Broadway in Young Frankenstein and Exit the King, will bring her solo comedy show Final Days! Everything Must Go! to the Bay Street Theatre Aug. 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PM[SHARE]The Kansas City Repertory Theatre has assembled the members of the Weston family, the troubled clan who hash out their past and present in the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama August: O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tony Award winning actor John Lithgow, director Richard Nelson and Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton will appear at the New York Public Library this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AM[SHARE]The creative team and producers of A Christmas Story: The Musical are widening their scope to cast the youngsters in the upcoming holiday tour of the stage production based on the hit 1983 f…
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