Saturday, April 30, 2011
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson actor River Alexander and Dominic Cuskern head the cast of Lionel Bart's classic musical Oliver! at Brooklyn's Gallery Players, beginning April 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2011
Since its New York debut in the mid-1990's and subsequent life as a licensed property, Rent, Jonathan Larson's pioneering musical about struggling artists living in Manhattan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:24PM[SHARE]Neighbors playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has been named the recipient of the 2011 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]The theatre awards season is again upon us, and Playbill.com has compiled the latest information on award dates, presenters, nominations and top honors. Read below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PM[SHARE]Sam Waterston, Brian Murray and Shirley Knight will take part in a staged reading of Simon Gray's Broadway-aimed play The Old Masters June 27 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AM[SHARE]Portia, Rebecca Brooksher, Adam Green, Brian Reddy and James A. Stephens head the cast of the world premiere of The Monster at the Door, the latest work from Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Dallas Theater Center production of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, starring Kate Wetherhead as Sally Bowles opposite Wade McCollum as the Emcee, officially opens April 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Huntington Theatre Company announced April 28 that it has received a $10 million gift from the Calderwood Charitable Foundation, making it the largest donation in the history of the Bost…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PM[SHARE]The New Group will honor Aunt Dan and Lemon playwright and actor Wallace Shawn and former board member Fred Wistow at its 2011 gala, to be held May 9 at Capitale.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PM[SHARE]Bob Bartlett's Whales, Timothy J. Guillot's We Fight We Die, Alexander Maggio's Lost Cause and Ben Snyder's Shoe Story are the four play finalists of the Alliance Theatre'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PM[SHARE]Playwright and producer Arje Shaw and members of the Off-Broadway company of Blue Man Group will stop by the Borders Columbus Circle in May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AM[SHARE]"Glee Presents the Warblers," the 11th album from the hit Fox television musical franchise, debuted at number two, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM[SHARE]The high-definition film of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Memphis rocks cinemas across the country for a limited four-day engagement beginning April 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown and Tony-winning actress Anika Noni Rose unite for a three-concert engagement at the Abrons Arts Center beginning April 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Donmar Warehouse production of King Lear, starring Olivier Award winner Derek Jacobi, begins performances April 28 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The pop cult musical Carrie, about a high-school outcast with telekinetic powers, will receive a developmental lab beginning in late May under the aegis of MCC Theater, according to an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:41PM[SHARE]Patrice Covington and Wendy Fox will star in a one-night-only concert of the hit Motown musical Dreamgirls May 14 at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, NJ.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05PM[SHARE]The Broadway, Chicago and West End productions of the Tony-nominated musical Million Dollar Quartet will dim their lights the evening of April 27 to honor late producer John Cossette, who di…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PM[SHARE]Grandma is going strong. Addams Family cast member Jackie Hoffman has announced a third and final extension of her riotous cabaret Jackie Five-Oh!, which has added two more dates in May at J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PM[SHARE]Patina Miller, Sutton Foster, Daniel Radcliffe, Nick Adams and Aaron Tveit are among the nominees for the 2011 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, honoring excellence in dance on Broadway and i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AM[SHARE]Academy Award winner Shirley Jones will perform her solo concert, An Evening of Stories and Songs, as the opening event of the season at Central Pennsylvania's Gretna Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]"Two and a Half Men" star Conchata Ferrell and Tony Award nominee Anne Meara join the Off-Broadway cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore April 27 at the Westside Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley's Italian American Reconciliation begins performances April 27 at the Long Wharf Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Edward Hall's all-male theatre troupe Propeller will bring Shakespeare's Richard III and The Comedy of Errors (in repertory) to the Huntington Theatre Company in May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:28PM[SHARE]The American Repertory Theater production of The Blue Flower and the Huntington Theatre Company productions of Stick Fly and All My Sons took home a host of honors at the 2011 Independe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]The original Broadway cast album for The Book of Mormon, penned by "South Park" writers Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q's Robert Lopez, will be released digitally May 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Sam Waterston will tackle the role of King Lear during the Public Theater's 2011-2012 season. Also planned are David Henry Hwang's Chinglish and a new musical from Pass…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]Jeremy Peter Johnson and Nicole Lowrance co-star in the Westport Country Playhouse production of Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy, which launches the company's 2011 season April 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2011
Theatregoers hoping to see The Book of Mormon — the hottest-selling new Broadway musical of the year — have been arriving at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre with fraudulent t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15PM[SHARE]The American Repertory Theater has announced its full 2011-2012 season, which will launch with the previously announced production of Porgy and Bess, starring Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PM[SHARE]The Vineyard Theatre has extended the world-premiere production of Christopher Shinn's Picked an additional week through May 22 Off-Broadway.
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