Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Casting has been announced for the fifth annual Summer Shorts Festival of new plays, including works by Neil LaBute, Tina Howe and Christopher Durang.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM[SHARE]Michael Esper, Ann Harada, Javier Munoz, Patrick Breen and Annie Golden have been cast in the second set of new play and musical readings presented as part of the New York Stage and Film and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AM[SHARE]Rob Ashford, Kathleen Marshall, Casey Nicholaw and Susan Stroman, 2011 Tony nominees for Best Director and Best Choreography, discuss their double-duty careers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Hal Linden and Christina Pickles head the cast of Ernest Thompson's poignant classic about parents and children, On Golden Pond, beginning previews July 27 at the Colony Theatre in Calif…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, starring Brooks Ashmanskas, Richard Easton, Kristine Nielsen and Paxton Whitehead, begins performances July 27 at the Williamstown Theatre Festi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre announced July 27 that Betsy King Militello has been appointed the new executive director of the organization dedicated to developing musical theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43PM[SHARE]Actor Ravi Roth, who appeared Off-Broadway in the final cast of Altar Boyz, will offer his solo show Moments with Ravi, Aug. 1 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello will return to the role of Jazz-Age evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson in the Kathie Lee Gifford-David Friedman-David Pomeranz musical Saving Aime…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PM[SHARE]Duane Nelsen's musical thriller Ripper, based on the Jack the Ripper murders that gripped London in the late 1800's, will get its world premiere staging in Tigard, OR, at the Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PM[SHARE]The HD-film of the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, starring Tony Award nominees Chad Kimball and Montego Glover, is now available for instant streaming on Netflix.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PM[SHARE]Complete creative duties have been announced for the Williamstown Theatre Festival premiere of Bess Wohl's comedy Touched(ed), which will begin performances Aug. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Alec Baldwin will moderate a Public Forum event following the Sept. 8 performance of Richard Nelson's Sweet and Sad, a world-premiere drama about the events of Septemb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PM[SHARE]David Coffee and Jennifer Foster will be the zaftig mother and daughter duo in Hairspray at the Casa Mañana Theatre beginning Aug. 13 in Ft. Worth, TX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PM[SHARE]The Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrates legendary entertainer Judy Garland with "All Singin', All Dancin', All Judy," beginning July 26 at the Walter Reade Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Olive and the Bitter Herbs, the new Charles Busch comedy about a woman contacted from "beyond" and from the apartment next door, begins performances Off-Broadway July 26 at 59E59 T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2011
The Transport Group will present a one-night-only performance of the Laguna Playhouse production of I Loved Lucy, Lee Tannen's valentine to late comedian Lucille Ball, Aug. 8 at the Duke…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PM[SHARE]The Twelve, the rock musical by Pulitzer Prize-winning Kentucky Cycle playwright Robert Schenkkan and songwriter Neil Berg, will get a one-night-only concert Aug. 9 at B.B. King Blues Club i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:53PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Elizabeth Swados will pen an oratorio based on the words of late La MaMa founder Ellen Stewart as part of the Off Off-Broadway company's 2011-2012 season, which will a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PM[SHARE]Jose Llana and Merle Dandridge will be part of the East West Players' On Broadway benefit concert Aug. 20 in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PM[SHARE]The Select (The Sun Also Rises), Elevator Repair Service's take on Ernest Hemingway's classic, will begin previews Aug. 19 at the New York Theatre Workshop.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM[SHARE]A bachelor's winter getaway to mend a broken heart is disrupted by a band of misfits in the world premiere of All New People, penned by "Scrubs" star Zach Braff and starring Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Christmas in July turned out hotter than expected. Naughty/Nice, a concert reading of a new musical comedy of darkly funny original letters to Santa Claus — featuring adult Broadway st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Nikki M. James, Beth Leavel and Tony nominee Andrew Rannells take part in Broadway Stands Up for Freedom, a benefit concert for the New York Civil Liberties Union, July 25…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway community celebrates Marriage Equality in New York State July 25. Several couples, including Follies star Terri White and jewelry designer Donna Barnett, will be wed on the stag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway's original Sweeney Todd, Len Cariou, joins Sarah Rice for the July 25 installment of Sondheim Unplugged at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Bradley Dean, who most recently starred opposite Bernadette Peters in the Broadway revival of A Little Night Music, rejoins the Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks July 25 at the Snap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 24, 2011
Tony Award-winning Book of Mormon star Nikki M. James and two-time Tony nominee Robin de Jesus recall their high school musicals in the July 24 benefit concert Friends With Benefits: My High…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2011
Tony Award nominee Andrea McArdle, who made her Broadway debut as Annie at the age of 13, will mentor young performers in the Broadway Dreams Foundation's upcoming workshops in Philadelp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:16PM[SHARE]For the second year in a row an American musical has taken the top honor at the Daegu International Musical Festival in South Korea. Keith Varney's I Got Fired was awarded the 2011 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PM[SHARE]The Rattlestick Theater has announced the ten plays that will comprise its F*!cking Good Plays (festival, II), which will run Aug. 1-7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]Peace and love will steer the stars following the July 25 performance of Hair on Broadway. A host of same-sex couples will be wed on the stage of the St. James Theatre following the passage …
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