Tuesday, June 7, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Ben Vereen will perform highlights from his new album "Steppin' Out Live" June 13 at the Apple Store on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]Stephanie Umoh, Will Blum, Josh Tower, Donna English and Jim Brochu have joined the summer season at Pittsburgh CLO, which includes Jekyll & Hyde, The Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Sup…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]The original Broadway cast album of the 14-time Tony Award-nominated musical The Book of Mormon, by "South Park" writers Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q's Robert Lopez,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Andrea McArdle will join columnist and "It Gets Better" campaign founder Dan Savage for the June 23 Better & Better benefit at The Gramercy Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason and Tony Award nominee Paxton Whitehead co-star in the Westport Country Playhouse production of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle, which begins previews…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway revival cast album of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Tony Award nominee John Larroquette, arrives in stores June 7 on the Decca …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2011
Two-time Tony Award-winning actress Christine Ebersole will lead a tribute to Tony-winning composer Charles Strouse June 25 as part of the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project in Evanston, IL.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:49PM[SHARE]The Public Theater is now accepting submissions for its 2013 Emerging Writers Group, a two-year program nurturing up-and-coming playwrights.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PM[SHARE]The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has announced plans for "Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward," an exhibit showcasing the life and work of the late playw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PM[SHARE]The Public Theater's Broadway revival of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino, has been named the recipient of the Actors' Equity Association's Extraordinary Excellence in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards are less than a week away and theatre lovers are making plans to toast the winners all over New York City and around the U.S. Playbill.com offers a guide to festivities celeb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PM[SHARE]The cast of Broadway's Catch Me If You Can, including Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz and Aaron Tveit, will perform at the Upper East Side Barnes and Noble June 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Mary Louise Wilson and Gabriel Ebert star in the world premiere of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, exploring the relationship between a heartbroken young man and his fiery gra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway's Maddie Corman and Jim Stanek are the titular Desperate Writers of the Joshua Grenrock-Catherine Schreiber comedy, which officially opens Off-Broadway June 6 at the U…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Public Theater welcomes summer with the Shakespeare in the Park repertory production of Measure for Measure, which begins previews June 6 at the Delacorte Theater. Danai Gurira, Michael …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A group of strangers board a westbound train for a life-altering voyage in Rachel Crothers' 1918 Broadway play, A Little Journey, which officially opens Off-Broadway June 6 at the Mint T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 5, 2011
The new musical Once, based on the 2006 independent film about an Irish busker and a Czech musician who form a tentative collaboration and romance in Dublin, will get its premiere at Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 4, 2011
Playbill.com catches up with prolific director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, who put a spring in the step of the cheery Elders of The Book of Mormon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A revised version of Cary Hoffman's solo show My Sinatra, seen at the Triad Theater and as a PBS concert special, opens June 4 at the Midtown Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks' explosive family drama The Book of Grace, about a diner waitress who journals her hopes and dreams, officially opens under the direction of the pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2011
St. Ann's Warehouse, which had been poised to relocate to a Civil War-era tobacco warehouse near its current home in Brooklyn, may be searching for a new home after community groups gain…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PM[SHARE]Patricia Richardson, Dee Hoty, Josh Grisetti and Bradley Dean will appear in the summer productions at the Cape Playhouse, which will launch with An Evening With Lucille Ball directed by Luc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PM[SHARE]The Tony-nominated musical Sister Act will be a pulpit for politics later this month. The June 23 performance of the disco-kissed musical will serve as a fundraiser for Barack Obama'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks directs the Texas premiere of her play The Book of Grace, which debuts June 2 at the Zach Theatre in Austin, TX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Maggie Gyllenhaal, who last appeared Off-Broadway in the acclaimed revival of Three Sisters, returns to the New York Stage for a one-night-only presentation of Alan Alda's Radiance: The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The Public Theater's Spotlight Series, a month-long showcase of new plays by members of its Emerging Writers Group, begins June 1 with Laura Marks' Mine.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Cue the pig's blood! Off-Broadway's MCC Theater confirmed details about its 2011-12 season, to feature Marin Mazzie and Molly Ranson as mother and daughter, respectively, in a revisi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:28PM[SHARE]A Midwestern transplant named Maryann Singleton answers an ad to rent a secluded one-bedroom apartment on Russian Hill and is handed the keys to a new life at the mythical address of 28 Barb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway revival cast album of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring "Harry Potter" actor Daniel Radcliffe and Tony Award nominee John Larroquette, is avai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Bay Street Theatre launches its 20th season with Jay Presson Allen's Tru, starring "Saturday Night Live" veteran Darrell Hammond, which begins previews May 31.
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