Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 30, 2011
"It's the play I've been waiting for all my life," said Sonia Friedman, the Tony Award-winning British producer who imported Jez Butterworth's epic play Jerusalem from …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The showgirls of Follies – Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's musical about four regretful lovers and a host of former Follies performers who reunite for one last look across the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 29, 2011
The starry Broadway revival of Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 drama That Championship Season, which boasted the Broadway debut of screen star Kiefer Sutherland, play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 28, 2011
"This man is a genius – what a filmmaker," was composer-lyricist David Yazbek's initial reaction to seeing Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-nominated 1988 film "Wo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 27, 2011
The Blank Theatre Company’s 19th annual Young Playwrights Festival will include appearances by cast members from "Modern Family," "Queer As Folk," "Nurse Jacki…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]Broadway's Jackie Hoffman will take part in a special June 13 benefit of A Night of a Thousand Judys, a special presentation of "The Meeting*" hosted by MAC nominee Justin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41PM[SHARE]The original Broadway cast album of the Tony-nominated musical The Book of Mormon has sold 13,000 copies since its digital release May 17 from Ghostlight Records, according to a report …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Julie Halston, Emily Bergl, Ashley Austin Morris and Zuzanna Szadkowski have been announced to join the summer cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PM[SHARE]Julie Halston, Emily Bergl, Ashley Austin Morris and Zuzanna Szadkowski have been announced to join the summer cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2011
The Manila production of Disney's The Little Mermaid, which will flip its fins this fall, will take a new approach to the musical, incorporating Eastern and Western styles of design and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PM[SHARE]Justin Bartha, David Wilson Barnes, Anna Camp and Krysten Ritter will star in the world premiere of Zach Braff's All New People, which will arrive Off-Broadway this summer at Second Stag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PM[SHARE]Justin Bartha, David Wilson Barnes, Anna Camp and Krysten Ritter will star in the world premiere of Zach Braff's All New People, which will arrive Off-Broadway this summer at Second Stag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PM[SHARE]Theater Breaking Through Barriers will stage Some of Our Parts, a collection of new ten-minute plays by Neil LaBute, Kate Moira Ryan and Bekah Brunstetter, June 22-30 at the Clurman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PM[SHARE]Tovah Feldshuh, Mario Cantone and Rachel Dratch will take part in a special Tony Awards-themed presentation of Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words June 6 at the Triad Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Richard Easton and Donna McKechnie as well as Maura Tierney and Steven Weber will appear at the Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]Maria Couch, Jim Poulos, Jamie Cordes and Dana Mierlak star in the Gregg Coffin musical right next to me, about a young military widow attempting to cope with the loss of her husband, which …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2011
The Broadway revival of Godspell, Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak's folk-rock ensemble musical based on the Gospel of Matthew, will begin Broadway previews Oct. 13 at the Circl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:33PM[SHARE]New Yorkers will now have the chance to haunt the hallways of the McKittrick Hotel through the summer. The critically acclaimed immersive theatre experience Sleep No More has extended throug…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award nominee Robin de Jesus will head the cast of Jason Mitchell's The Boys Upstairs, which will be presented June 9 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre as part of the New York…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PM[SHARE]The New York Musical Theatre Festival will present Madame X, a new work by Forbidden Broadway creator Gerard Alessandrini, as well as Time Between Us, Date of a Lifetime and a fresh take on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PM[SHARE]The world premiere of Evan M. Weiner's Captors and a revival of Noël Coward’s Private Lives have been added to the Huntington Theatre Company's 2011-2012 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Decca Broadway has revealed the tracklist for the Broadway revival cast album of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Daniel Radcliffe, which will hit stores June …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee John Malkovich will portray Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger in The Infernal Comedy as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PM[SHARE]The musical adaptation of A Christmas Story, based on the beloved Jean Shepherd stories and the 1983 film of the same title, will launch a five-city holiday tour in Hershey, PA, this Novembe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PM[SHARE]The Public Theater has announced the complete acting ensemble for the repertory Shakespeare in the Park productions of Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-nominated musical Catch Me If You Can, based on the film and autobiography about the life of former jet-setting conman Frank Abagnale Jr., will launch a U.S. national tour in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award-winning playwright Yasmina Reza is in talks to have her new play, How You Talk the Game, debut at the Comédie-Française, according to the New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening authors Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik are taking a page from Lewis Carroll. Their new musical Alice By Heart, inspired by the classic "Alice's Ad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Emmy Award nominee Amy Brenneman brings her autobiographical solo show Mouth Wide Open to the American Repertory Theater, beginning May 24 in Cambridge, MA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2011
The May 24 BBQ lunch event in Shubert Alley, hosted by the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, has been postponed to the afternoon of June 3 due to the weather forecast for New York City.
Th…
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