Friday, August 19, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]Ben Vereen, who received his first Tony Award nomination for playing Judas in the Broadway premiere of Jesus Christ Superstar, returns to the iconic rock musical as Pilate beginning Aug. 19 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Elevator Repair Service, which last dazzled New York audiences with Gatz, its treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," returns Aug. 19 with The Select (The Sun Al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2011
James Barbour, who was announced to star as Frank 'N' Furter in The Old Globe's new production of The Rocky Horror Show, has exited the cult favorite due to family matters, it wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Ruby Dee and veteran dancer-choreographer Carmen DeLavallade will alternate in Post Black, a new short play by Regina Taylor, which will be staged as part of the Ensemb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Randy Graff, Mary Bacon, James Lecesne and Saidah Arrika Ekulona have been cast in the Primary Stages production of Motherhood Out Loud, which will have its New York premi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PM[SHARE]The New Group has confirmed that Tony Award nominee Lily Rabe will star in the Off-Broadway world premiere of her father David Rabe's play An Early History of Fire, to be directed by Jo …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PM[SHARE]Plays by Tony Award nominees Lisa Kron and Colman Domingo will be presented as part of the Public Theater's play reading series, New Work Now! this September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]Plays by Tony Award nominees Lisa Kron and Colman Domingo will be presented as part of the Public Theater's play reading series, New Work Now! this September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]The Seattle Repertory Theatre will open its 2012 season with Pullman Porter Blues, a new play with music by Play On! writer Cheryl L. West, set in 1937 on the Panama Limited train.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]Emmy Award-winning producer Ben Silverman, who helped deliver "The Office" and "Ugly Betty" to American audiences, is at work on a new culinary musical series, according …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]The Judy Garland drama with music End of the Rainbow, starring Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett, will begin Broadway previews March 19, 2012, towards an April 3 opening at a Shubert theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Casting has been announced for the Hartford Stage world premiere of Tony Award nominee Quiara Alegría Hudes' Water by the Spoonful, which will begin previews Oct. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PM[SHARE]Terri White, who is currently starring in the Broadway revival of Follies, will join original Road Show cast member Claybourne Elder for the Aug. 29 installment of Sondheim Unplugged at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14PM[SHARE]Stephen Belber's acclaimed three-person drama Tape, which was also adapted into a 2001 film, will make a New York return in September at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PM[SHARE]Seattle stage veterans Anne Allgood and Suzanne Bouchard will duel as Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart at A Contemporary Theatre, beginning Sept. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PM[SHARE]Maeve Yore will give her all for her client in the Gallery Players' production of Douglas Carter Beane's Tony Award-nominated comedy The Little Dog Laughed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PM[SHARE]Morgan Freeman, Marisa Tomei, Cheyenne Jackson, Christine Lahti, Rob Reiner, Yeardley Smith and Anthony Edwards will appear in the one-night-only Broadway staging of 8 by Academy Award-winni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Book of Mormon authors Trey Stone and Matt Parker will give fans a glimpse into the creation of their Emmy-winning series "South Park" in a new documentary on Co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Punchdrunk's six-story, interactive theatre event Sleep No More, which opened to acclaim in April, has released another block of tickets through Sept. 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AM[SHARE]Stew, Heidi Rodewald and Jon Spurney will help celebrate the reopening of Joe's Pub, the intimate cabaret located within the Public Theater, this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning musical Sweeney Todd, starring Gregg Edelman and Liz McCartney, officially opens Aug. 17 at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world-premiere stage musical adaptation of the World War II-set, big-band film For the Boys, starring Michele Ragusa and Timothy Gulan, begins performances Aug. 17 at the Marriott Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, a new look at the George and Ira Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera, starring Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald, bows at the American Repertory Theater Aug. 17…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel will exit her position as chair of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year, according to The New York …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:19PM[SHARE]Sister Act producer and original film star Whoopi Goldberg, "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf and veteran casting director Meg Liberman will be honored during the 27th Annual Art…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM[SHARE]Melissa Leo, who earned the Academy and Golden Globe awards for her performance in "The Fighter," has joined Naked Angels' one-night-only benefit presentation of Warren Leight&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PM[SHARE]Though the Tony Award-winning Intiman Theatre ceased operations in April, its stage will continue to offer theatrical riches to the Seattle community. The Seattle Shakespeare Company has ann…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Chuck Cooper and recent Wonderland star Janet Dacal will appear at the Engeman Theater in Broadway Journey, an evening of songs and stories from the stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Dick Latessa, Kate Jennings Grant and Brenda Pressley have joined the world-premiere cast of Nicky Silver's The Lyons, a new dark comedy which will begin performances O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]Actor-playwright Brian Dykstra will star as expressionist painter Mark Rothko in the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis production of John Logan's Tony Award-winning drama Red.
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