Tuesday, August 2, 2011
The Pretty Trap, Tennessee Williams' one-act precursor to The Glass Menagerie, starring Katharine Houghton, begins performances Off-Broadway Aug. 2 at the Acorn Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 14th annual Ojai Playwrights Conference, featuring the new musical Black Sun, by Stephen Belber and Counting Crows front man Adam Duritz, as well as plays by Bill Cain and Danai Gurira, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2011
Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, whose play Chinglish will arrive on Broadway this fall, will be honored during the 31st Annual William Inge Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:37PM[SHARE]The Consequences, the new musical about once lovers who reunite ten years later and wonder "What if?," will premiere at Dayton, Ohio's Encore Theater Co. as part of the 2011 Fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[SHARE]"Glee" star Darren Criss will take a field trip from the Dalton Academy in early 2012 to star in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed With Business Without Really Trying for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PM[SHARE]John Lithgow, Florence Henderson and Jane Lynch will appear at Barnes and Noble retailers across New York City in September. Late playwright Wendy Wasserstein will also be celebrated.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Daisy Eagan has been cast in Ghostlight, a backstage musical set within the world of the Ziegfeld Follies, which will premiere as part of the New York Musical Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]Neighbors, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ unconventional comedy which uses minstrelsy to confront tensions in "post-racial" America, will open the 2011-2012 season at Mixed Blood Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM[SHARE]"Carnage," the Roman Polanski film of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning comedy God of Carnage, starring John C. Reilly, Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz, will ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]The Roman Polanski film of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning comedy God of Carnage, starring John C. Reilly, Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz, will open the New York Film F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57AM[SHARE]The creative team and stars of the upcoming Off-Broadway revival of Carrie, the dark pop musical based on Stephen King's novel about a teen with telekinetic powers, offer audiences a sne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony and Academy Award-winning actor Joel Grey joins Other Desert Cities playwright Jon Robin Baitz for a special Aug. 1 conversation at the Museum of the City of New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 31, 2011
Rain – A Tribute to The Beatles on Broadway, the musical celebration of the iconic British band that changed the look and sound of rock 'n' roll, ends its Broadway run July 31 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world-premiere musical adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, the literary series that traces a group of colorful San Francisco residents during the 1970's, conclude…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 30, 2011
Next to Normal, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical about a woman's struggle with mental illness and a family left hanging in the balance, ends its national tour July …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Shakespeare in the Park repertory productions of All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure end their summer runs July 30 with an 8 PM performance of the latter at the Delacor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Ernest Thompson's poignant family drama about the relationship between parents and adult children, On Golden Pond, starring Hal Linden and Christina Pickles, officially opens July 30 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2011
Tour De Fierce, a new revue by the Broadway Dolls, the oratorio Tut and an evening of songs by Drift songwriter Jeremy Schonfeld have been added to the New York Musical Theatre Festival'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PM[SHARE]Justin Bartha may be lining up back-to-back Off-Broadway roles. The current star of Second Stage's All New People told the L.A. Times that he's planning another Off-Broadway venture …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PM[SHARE]Annabella Sciora, Melvin Van Peebles, Chloe Webb and Laurie Anderson will celebrate late author, poet and illustrator Shel Silverstein Aug. 6 in Central Park.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PM[SHARE]Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee will be honored with the 2011 Edward MacDowell Medal, which will be presented by Mike Nichols Aug. 14 in Peterborough, NH.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM[SHARE]Geoff Packard and Lauren Molina, who starred in earlier regional stagings of Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman's Candide, will again search for the best of all possible worlds in the Leon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM[SHARE]Finian's Rainbow, the 1947 Yip Harburg-Burton Lane musical about race relations in the fabled land of Missitucky, has been streamlined into a new hour-long package as part of the Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2011
Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas will take on late playwright Tennessee Williams in the Westport Country Playhouse's one-night-only presentation of A Distant Country Called Youth,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PM[SHARE]Hello! My Baby, by original Sister Act co-librettist Cheri Steinkellner, as well as Lizzie Borden and Trails will be developed during the Village Theatre's 11th annual Festival of New Mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PM[SHARE]Mos Def, Ted Sperling, Leslie Uggams and Sufjan Stevens will participate in the Brooklyn Philharmonic's 2011-2012 season, which will celebrate music from the classics to Harold Arlen, Ri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PM[SHARE]Jessica Hendy and Mark Hardy will be parents living on the edge in the professional regional premiere of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, which opens the Ens…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]After more than a year-long run on Broadway, Million Dollar Quartet, the jukebox musical that conjures an iconic moment in rock 'n' roll history, begins performances Off-Broadway Jul…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2011
The Broadway production of Lydia R. Diamond's comedy Stick Fly, about a well-to-do African American family's tense summer holiday, will now bow at the Cort Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:33PM[SHARE]Kendra Kassebaum and Louis Hobson will join the Seattle-based theatre company Contemporary Classics to showcase the work of new musical theatre writers Aug. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the fifth annual Summer Shorts Festival of new plays, including works by Neil LaBute, Tina Howe and Christopher Durang.
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