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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]Playwright Tony Kushner's dynamic family drama studded with politics and American union fervor, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scrip…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Tony Award-nominated musical Million Dollar Quartet, about the legendary 1956 recording session that united Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, ends its Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 11, 2011
The Shakespeare in the Park repertory production of All's Well That Ends Well, starring Tony Award winners Tonya Pinkins and John Cullum, begins performances June 11, joining Measure for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated actress Amy Morton and Trinity Repertory Company founding artistic director Adrian Hall are honored with the 2011 Pell Awards June 11 in Cranston, RI.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2011
Tony-winning lyricist Tim Rice and playwrights Christopher Shinn and Neil LaBute will be among 66 writers who will unite to pen a biblical stage epic based on the King James Bible, according…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Daisy Eagan, Gay Marshall and Emily Bergl have joined the lineup for A Night of a Thousand Judys, a special presentation of "The Meeting*" hosted by MAC nominee J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PM[SHARE]Last October Donyale Werle made her full-fledged Broadway debut as the scenic designer of the emo-rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. After designing the production downtown at the Pu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]Producer Mark Rubinstein will succeed Nica Burns as the president of the Society of London Theatre, the trade association that represents the producers, theatre owners and managers of major …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Fans who waited until a latter day to purchase the original Broadway cast album of The Book of Mormon can now rejoice. The digital album is currently available for $1.99 on Amazon.com for a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2011
Harriett D. Foy and Talia Balsam have joined the cast of F2M, a new play by "thirtysomething" and "Brothers & Sisters" actress Patricia Wettig, which will be presente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PM[SHARE]Mrs. Jones and the Man from Dixieland by Tony Award winner Steven Sater officially opens June 9 as part of the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s 33rd annual marathon of one-act plays.
The 20-m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM[SHARE]Producers of A Christmas Story: The Musical! are seeking young performers to play the ragtag gang of children in the upcoming five-city national tour of that production, which will launch th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PM[SHARE]Tituss Burgess, Marty Thomas and Kristy Cates will join Kate Pazakis and Ethan Paulini for Gaylebrity, a new musical comedy chat show that will play Provincetown, MA, this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PM[SHARE]Colin Quinn will bring his Broadway solo evening, Long Story Short, to Chicago audiences for a late summer run, beginning Aug. 24 at the Broadway Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PM[SHARE]Color Purple star and "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino will explore the life of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in a new biographical film based on the Jules Schwerin book &qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]A Chorus Line Broadway revival cast member Jessica Lee Goldyn and David Elder head the cast of the Michael Bennett dance musical, which runs through July 3 at Stages St. Louis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tennessee Williams' unproduced screenplay One Arm comes to life June 9 when the new stage adaptation by Moisés Kaufman, which features Claybourne Elder and Noah Bean, officially o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Stephen R. Buntrock, Erin Dilly, Mia Dillon, Ray Bay Jones, Jenny Powers and Jen Cody have joined the Berkshire Theatre Festival's summer productions of The Who's Tommy, Sylvia, A Pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:25PM[SHARE]Andre De Shields, Leslie Uggams, La Chanze and Bill Irwin will appear in a New York reading of Alice Childress’ 1955 drama Trouble in Mind as part of the nationwide June 20 event 1 Voi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PM[SHARE]Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal composer Tom Kitt is in talks to bring the story of Beatles manager Brian Epstein to life in a new stage musical, according to the Hollyw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]Four-time Tony Award nominee Jan Maxwell will reunite with PTP/NYC as part of the company's summer repertory season, which will include productions of works by Howard Baker, Steven Dykes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PM[SHARE]Pull up a Chairry, and turn on your Magic Screen. The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway, which was taped live at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York in January and debuted March 19 on HBO…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]The new musicals Maren of Vardø, Pregnancy Pact and The Profit of Creation will be developed as part of the third annual summer workshops at the Yale Institute for Music Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM[SHARE]In their own words, 2011 Tony Award nominees Scott Pask (scenic design) and Ann Roth (costume design) share their vision for the skewed world of The Book of Mormon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Didi Conn steps into the Off-Broadway run of Love, Loss, and What I Wore June 8 for a limited six-performance engagement.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AM[SHARE]As previously reported, Tony Award-winning producer Darren Bagert plans to bring a revival of William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic to Broadway this season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater's Off-Broadway production of A Minister's Wife, the musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Candida with a score by Joshua Schmidt and Jan Tranen, will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Million Dollar Quartet, the Broadway jukebox musical about the infamous 1956 recording session that united Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, will end its run June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:27PM[SHARE]Million Dollar Quartet, the Broadway jukebox musical about the infamous 1956 recording session that united Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, will end its run June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:26PM[SHARE]The Center Theatre Group revival of Funny Girl could prove to be a star-making vehicle for an unknown young actress. An online talent search is being launched to find the next Fanny Brice, p…
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