Thursday, June 16, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PM[SHARE]Blair Underwood will make his Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, to be staged by Emily Mann next season, according to the Hollywood …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PM[SHARE]MCC Theater, which is developing an Off-Broadway revival of the infamous 1980's Broadway flop Carrie, will offer highlights and a discussion of the latest incarnation of the pop musical …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PM[SHARE]Mabou Mines' Lee Breuer, who recently staged a Japanese-influenced production of A Streetcar Named Desire for Comédie Française, will be part of the 6th annual Provincetown…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PM[SHARE]Other Desert Cities, Jon Robin Baitz's drama about a wealthy Republican family attempting to kick sand over its past, will arrive on Broadway at the Booth Theatre this fall, according to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]Los Angeles' Open Fist Theatre Company will stage Dear John Mayer, a new musical by Broadway's Shoshana Bean and Eydie Faye, as part of its two-month First Look Festival beginning in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Liz Callaway will be featured in the Andrew Lloyd Webber revue Love Changes Everything this summer at Pittsburgh CLO. Performances begin July 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AM[SHARE]Charles West, who has been seen on Broadway in The Scarlet Pimpernel and Show Boat, will temporarily step into the role of El Gallo in Off-Broadway's The Fantasticks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AM[SHARE]The Shakespeare on the Sound production of Much Ado About Nothing, featuring a score by Tony Award-winning Passing Strange writer Stew and collaborator Heidi Rodewald, begins performances Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2011
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced that Laura Eason, Gabriel Barre, May Adrales and Joe Calarco will shepherd new musicals at the 2011 National Music Theater Conference.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PM[SHARE]Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the Tony Award-winning songwriters behind Catch Me If You Can, will stop by the 92nd Street Y Tribeca June 28 to discuss their work on the new Broadway musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PM[SHARE]Academy Award and Grammy Award winner Barbra Streisand duets with "America's Got Talent" contestant Jackie Evancho on her new album "Dream With Me," which is now avai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]Elevator Repair Service, the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, the Civilians and the Lark Play Development Center are among the 2011 recipients of the Tony Randall Theatrical Fund grants.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is among the fastest-growing religions in the world, and it looks like its cast album is too. The original Broadway cast album of The Book of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AM[SHARE]Dates of production have been announced for the world premiere of Dark Sisters, a new opera by Speech and Debate playwright Stephen Karam and composer Nico Muhly that concerns a young woman …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Dates of production have been announced for the world premiere of Dark Sisters, a new opera by Speech and Debate playwright Stephen Karam and composer Nico Muhly that concerns a young Mormon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Hartford Stage will celebrate outgoing artistic director Michael Wilson with special performances by Betty Buckley, Elizabeth Ashley, Penny Fuller and Hallie Foote, June 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PM[SHARE]Sarasota's commercial Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, which has been in operation since 1971, may be among the latest professional theatres in Florida to close its doors due to financial wo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PM[SHARE]Danielle Arci, William Thomas Evans, Felicia Finley and Alex Michael Stoll will star in the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray at the Engeman Theater on Long Island.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PM[SHARE]The Fix, John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe's rock musical about the grimy underbelly of American politics, will receive a staged reading at the International City Theatre in Los Angeles June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PM[SHARE]Cedric Sanders, Emily Swallow and Michael Weston will join Tate Donovan in the L.A. Theatre Works production of Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]David Garrison, last seen in the Second Stage Theatre production of By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, is the final actor to join the cast of the new Charles Busch comedy Olive and the Bitter Herb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]James Olm and J.C. Hanley's The Magdalene, a new musical inspired by the Gnostic gospels that portray Mary Magdalene in a new light, begins previews Off-Broadway June 14 at the Theatre a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Charles Dickens classic "Oliver Twist" takes a new turn as the funky musical Twist, starring Tony Award winner Cleavant Derricks, "American Idol" finalist Tamyra Gray…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Pittsburgh CLO production of Jekyll & Hyde, staged by its original Tony-nominated star Robert Cuccioli, officially opens June 14 at the Benedum Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2011
Broadway actors Gregg Edelman and Liz McCartney will co-star in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd for Chicago-area audiences beginning Aug. 11 at the Drury Lane Theatre in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:33PM[SHARE]Playwright A. Rey Pamatmat, whose work Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them received its world premiere at the Humana Festival last March, has been named the Lark Play Development Center'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PM[SHARE]Casting is now complete for the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Jessica Hecht, Sam Rockwell and Ana Reeder, which will begin performances June …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PM[SHARE]Audiences are going to have to pay a bit more if they want to see the nine-time Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon on Broadway. The top non-premium ticket price now stands at $155.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Ben Vereen performs highlights from his new album "Steppin' Out Live" June 13 at the Apple Store on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2011
Playbill.com staff writer Adam Hetrick is blogging live to give readers a first-hand account of all the goings-on in the Tony Awards press room.
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