Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The Lincoln Center Festival launches July 5 with Peter Brook's intimate, 90-minute staging of Mozart's A Magic Flute at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The national tour of the Tony Award-winning 2009 revival of Hair returns to Broadway for a limited engagement beginning July 5 at the St. James Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 2, 2011
We speak to Williamstown Theatre Festival artistic director Jenny Gersten, now enjoying her first summer as head of the renowned company in the Berkshires.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 1, 2011
Tony and Olivier Award-winning stage veteran Robert Lindsay may co-star with Tony nominee Joanna Lumley in a London staging of James Goldman's royal showdown, The Lion in Winter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PM[SHARE]The producer of the Off-Broadway rock musical The Magdalene has met with leaders of the New York Anti-Defamation League to address issues raised about offensive portrayals of Jews within the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]The new musical Black Sun, by Stephen Belber and Counting Crows front man Adam Durwitz, as well as plays by Bill Cain and Danai Gurira, will be developed during the 14th annual Ojai Playwrig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PM[SHARE]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, will be developed during the 14th annual Ojai Playwrigh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PM[SHARE]Broadway's The Book of Mormon is giving back to its fans July 1 with a free 2 PM performance of the nine-time Tony Award-winning musical at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]The 2011-2012 season at the LAByrinth Theater Company will feature new works by Tony Award-nominated actress Daphne Rubin-Vega and Tony-nominated playwright and co-artistic director Stephen …
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Veteran performers Hal Linden and Christina Pickles will co-star in Ernest Thompson's classic about parents and children, On Golden Pond, which will begin previews July 27 at the Colony …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:37PM[SHARE]Revised casting has been announced for the Broadway-bound American Repertory Theater production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, which will bow in Cambridge, MA, Aug. 17. Newly added to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated Avenue Q director Jason Moore has been enlisted to direct the new musical film comedy "Pitch Perfect" for Universal Pictures, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PM[SHARE]The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis has announced the three plays that will make up the 2011-2012 Studio Theatre season, as well as the launch of a new play festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]"True Blood" actress Carrie Preston will direct Tony winner Denis O'Hare in a reading of Ian Mairs' play Our David July 7 at the Samuel Beckett Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]World-premiere plays by Christopher Durang, Tina Howe, Neil LaBute and José Rivera will be featured in the fifth annual Summer Shorts Festival this August.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM[SHARE]A musical adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange" and new musicals by GrooveLily and the authors of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson will be the inaugural works developed as part of the new…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PM[SHARE]The Shakespeare in the Park repertory production of Measure for Measure, starring Danai Gurira, Michael Hayden, André Holland, Lorenzo Pisoni, Reg Rogers and Annie Parisse, officially…
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The American Repertory Theater production of the George Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera Porgy and Bess, which begins performances in August, will arrive on Broadway Dec. 17 at the Richard…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Joanna Lumley, who made her Broadway debut last season in the revival of David Hirson's La Bête, will graduate from princess to queen. The British stage and scre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PM[SHARE]The classic rock musical Million Dollar Quartet, which ended its Broadway run June 12 at the Nederlander Theatre, will resume performances Off-Broadway July 28 at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Blythe Danner and Tony nominee Lily Rabe will take part in the Williamstown Theatre Festival's Fridays@3 new play reading series. Playwrights Katori Hall (The Mountaint…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PM[SHARE]The Pearl Theatre Company has enlisted No Child… director Hal Brooks to stage Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist comedy The Bald Soprano, which will begin performances Sept. 13 O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning revival of Hair is returning to Broadway for a limited engagement this summer, and 100 fans will have the chance to snag a free ticket to the first performance on July…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Book of Mormon star Nikki M. James, Tony winner Cady Huffman and two-time Tony nominee Robin de Jesus will appear in Friends With Benefits: My High School Musical July 24 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]Maura Tierney and Steven Weber star in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Jon Robin Baitz's Three Hotels, which launches the main stage season June 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]It'll be Christmas in July at Ars Nova in Manhattan on July 25 when Naughty/Nice, a new musical comedy boasting darkly funny misfit-kids' letters to Santa Claus, gets a concert stagi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04AM[SHARE]F2M, a new play by "thirtysomething" and "Brothers & Sisters" actress Patricia Wettig, begins performances June 29 as part of the New York Stage and Film and Vassar C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Academy Award winner Stephen Schwartz's Children of Eden, a tuneful pop account of the biblical tales of Adam and Eve through Noah and the Arc, will receive a lush symphonic presentation…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PM[SHARE]Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys, who will make her Broadway producing debut this fall with Stick Fly, is offering a special surprise concert June 28 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PM[SHARE]The New York Philharmonic Orchestra will celebrate the 50th anniversary film release of West Side Story with a special screening and live performance of the score Sept. 7 and 8 at Avery Fish…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PM[SHARE]Michael Urie, Cheri Oteri, Roger Bart, Jennifer Tilly and Joy Behar will appear in upcoming presentations of Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words across the country.
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