Thursday, June 23, 2011
The Tony-nominated musical Sister Act offers up its sold-out June 23 performance as a fundraiser for Barack Obama's 2012 Presidential re-election campaign.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Daisy Eagan joins columnist and "It Gets Better" campaign founder Dan Savage for the June 23 Better & Better benefit at The Gramercy Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tony Award winner Daisy Eagan, Erin Davie and Sarah Rice will take part in the June 27 installment of Sondheim Unplugged at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:33PM[SHARE]Robert Eli, Nisi Sturgis and Loren Dunn will join Katharine Houghton for a limited Off-Broadway run of The Pretty Trap, Tennessee Williams' one-act precursor to The Glass Menagerie.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Patti LuPone will give New York-area residents an insider's look at Lincoln Center in "Treasures of New York," which will debut on PBS July 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PM[SHARE]The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity playwright Kristoffer Diaz has been named the inaugural recipient of the Public Theater's Gail Merrifield Papp Fellowship.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PM[SHARE]The LCT3 production of Amy Herzog's world-premiere play 4000 Miles, which opened to strong critical notices June 20, will extend its current run through July 9 at the Duke on 42nd Street…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Jim Dale and Lillias White will perform solo evenings of song during the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2011 Cabaret and Performance Conference.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM[SHARE]Catch Me If You Can songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman will join Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz and Aaron Tveit for a special performance and signing of the original Broadway cas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AM[SHARE]Fat Camp, the musical by Randy Blair, Timothy Michael Drucker and Matthew roi Berger, will receive a developmental production at Cleveland's PlayhouseSquare under the eye of the Tony-win…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]Jessica Hecht and Sam Rockwell share a sweltering summer in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, staged by in-demand director David Cromer (Our Town, The House of Blue Leaves, B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Artistic director Gregory Boyd and managing director Dean R. Gladden have signed five-year contracts with Houston's Tony Award-winning Alley Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PM[SHARE]The European tour of the Golden Globe Award-winning series "Glee," with Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Amber Riley and Chris Colfer in tow, begins performances June 22 in Manchester, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PM[SHARE]The musical adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, penned by Avenue Q Tony Award winner Jeff Whitty and Jake Shears and John "JJ" Garden of the Scissor Sisters, ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PM[SHARE]Brooklyn's theatrical collective The Foundry will re-examine Pins and Needles, the 1937 Broadway revue first written for the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, for a cont…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee John Ellison Conlee, Jenn Gambatese, Chris Henry Coffey and Maggie Lacey will share a rocky holiday weekend in the Westport Country Playhouse production of Terrence McNall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actor Richard Easton will lead the cast of David Ives’ New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2011
Andre De Shields, Leslie Uggams, La Chanze and Bill Irwin appear in a New York reading of Alice Childress’ 1955 drama Trouble in Mind as part of the nationwide June 20 event 1 Voice, 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sam Waterston, Brian Murray and Shirley Knight take part in a staged reading of Simon Gray's Broadway-aimed play The Old Masters June 20 and 27 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Public Theater honors board member Gail Merrifield Papp, widow of late New York Shakespeare Festival founder Joseph Papp, during its June 20 summer gala in Central Park.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The LCT3 production of Amy Herzog's world-premiere play 4000 Miles, starring Tony Award winner Mary Louise Wilson and Gabriel Ebert, officially opens Off-Broadway June 20 at the Duke on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 19, 2011
Chris Jackson, Bill Sherman, Michael Park, Willie Reale, Martin Short and Brian Kerwin are among the nominees for the 2011 Daytime Emmy Awards, which are presented June 19 in Las Vegas.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's century-hopping work Arcadia, starring Tony Award winner Billy Crudup, Raúl Esparza and Margaret Colin, ends its Broadway engagement June 19…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 18, 2011
Tony and Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey stars in Richard III, the final production of Sam Mendes' Bridge Project, which begins performances June 18 at the Old Vic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2011
The Irish Repertory Theatre production of Tony Award-winning playwright Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney, directed by Charlotte Moore, will play the Long Wharf Theatre this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PM[SHARE]L.A. Theatre Works will produce Next Fall, Frost/Nixon, Copenhagen and Buried Child as part of its 2011-2012 season, which will include appearances by Jean Smart, Patrick Breen, Stacy Keach,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Harriet Harris will join Michael Esper in Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's The Nightingale this summer as part of New York Stage and Film and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Harriet Harris will join Michael Esper in Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's The Nightingale this summer as part of New York Stage and Film and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PM[SHARE]Casting is now complete for Lewis Black's comedy One Slight Hitch, starring Mark Linn-Baker and Justin Long, which will begin performances July 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2011
The new David Shire musical My History of Marriage is among titles in the New York Music Theatre Festival's 2011 Invited Works series, which will also include the Ellen Fitzhugh musical …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PM[SHARE]Actress-playwright Heidi Schreck and Tony Award nominees Celia Keenan-Bolger, Veanne Cox and Bobby Steggert have been announced to star in the Bay Street Theatre production of the Christophe…
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