Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]The 92YTribeca will celebrate the life of Wendy Wasserstein, as well as Broadway songwriters Rodgers and Hammerstein as part of its fall programming lineup.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]The new actor-musician musical Ten Cents a Dance, created by Tony Award-winning director John Doyle that incorporates the songs of Rodgers and Hart into its love story, is serenading audienc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AM[SHARE]Charles Busch's world-premiere comedy Olive and the Bitter Herbs, starring Marcia Jean Kurtz, Julie Halston and Dan Butler, officially opens Off-Broadway Aug. 16 at 59E59 Theaters. Mark …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2011
Producers of Bring It On: The Musical, which is set to launch a U.S. national tour in Los Angeles this October, are facing a claim from the Writers Guild of America that the musical exploits…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Next to Normal star Alice Ripley has joined Tony nominee Kathleen Chalfant in the new independent black comedy "Isn't It Delicious?," which is currently film…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PM[SHARE]The musical adaptation of the 1982 film "An Officer and a Gentleman," which has been adapted by original Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Douglas Day Stewart, will premiere in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning In the Heights author and star Lin-Manuel Miranda has joined former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres in the upcoming romantic comedy "200 Cartas."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]The HOLA Awards, which honor the achievements of Latino actors in theatre and the entertainment industry, will be presented Oct. 17 at New York City's Battery Gardens. Rubén Blade…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]Kendra Kassebaum and Louis Hobson join the Seattle-based theatre company Contemporary Classics to showcase the work of new musical theatre writers Aug. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 14, 2011
Tickets are now on sale for the Broadway engagement of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, starring Stacy Keach, Stockard Channing and Judith Light, which will begin performances Oct.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company, which offered a six-week, five-play residency in a custom-made theatre constructed within the Park Avenue Armory, concludes its New York engagement Aug. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Mike Nichols presents Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee with the 2011 Edward MacDowell Medal Aug. 14 in Peterborough, NH.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 13, 2011
David Coffee and Jennifer Foster are the zaftig mother and daughter duo in Hairspray at the Casa Mañana Theatre beginning Aug. 13 in Ft. Worth, TX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Yeast Nation (The Triumph of Life), the new musical by the Tony-winning authors of Urinetown, starring Tony-winning actress Harriet Harris, begins performances Aug. 13 as part of the 15th an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2011
The authors of Chasing Heaven, a new play with music debuting at the New York International Fringe Festival Aug. 13, are touching on a hot topic following recent discussions in the press abo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PM[SHARE]The New York return of Joey Arias and Basil Twist's dreamy evening of song and illusion, Arias With a Twist, will officially open Sept. 18 at the Abrons Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]The Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to the international hit The Phantom of the Opera, will be captured on film Sept. 15 at 8 PM for a future w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Fans of Stephen Sondheim (and world history) can go on "A Little Jurassic Treasure Hunt," a special evening created by the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-lyricist, which …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]The 15th annual New York International Fringe Festival, with titles ranging from Yeast Nation and The Jersey Shoresical to The Legend of Julie Taymor, officially launches Aug. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The students of McKinley High appear on a much larger screen beginning Aug. 12. "Glee Live! 3D!," a film of the U.S. summer concert tour, arrives in theatres across the globe.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Village Theatre's 11th annual Festival of New Musicals, featuring Hello! My Baby, Lizzie Borden and Trails, begins Aug. 12 in Issaquah, WA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Theresa Rebeck's comedy The Understudy, starring Jayne Paterson, Matthew Montelongo and Andrew Benator, officially opens Aug. 12 at Hartford TheaterWorks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2011
End of the Rainbow, Peter Quilter's West End drama with music that traces the final months of legendary entertainer Judy Garland, will arrive on Broadway in March 2012, according to an E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:03PM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated director Diane Paulus, who is staging a new Broadway-bound production of Porgy and Bess at the American Repertory Theater, has responded to criticism from Tony Award-win…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PM[SHARE]Christina Anderson's Good Goods, which was recently developed as part of the Eugene O'Neill Center's National Playwrights Conference, will receive its world-premiere production a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PM[SHARE]Justin Bartha, who currently stars in the Second Stage Theatre production of All New People, has been confirmed to co-star opposite Jesse Eisenberg in the world premiere of Asuncion Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PM[SHARE]Conservative radio host and Fox News contributor Mike Gallagher will make his Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis for one week only this September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM[SHARE]The Santa Fe Opera has commissioned a new opera based on the life of playwright Oscar Wilde, which will debut in 2013, as well as works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PM[SHARE]David Rimmer's New York, which investigates the emotional trauma of people affected by the events of 9/11, will receive a limited New York run in honor of the tenth anniversary of the at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM[SHARE]Emmy Award winner Ian Buchanan, Emrhys Cooper, Olivia D'Abo and Robin Gammell reunite for an encore run of Entertaining Mr. Sloane, beginning Aug. 11 at Los Angeles' Actors Company T…
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