Thursday, April 21, 2011
Music veteran Cowboy Jack Clement, who served as the engineer for the infamous 1956 Sun Records recording session that united Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Harvey Fierstein, Sutton Foster, Daniel Radcliffe, Robin Williams, Kathleen Turner and Josh Gad are among the Broadway stars who will participate in the 25th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:32PM[SHARE]Joe Hortua's 2004 Off-Broadway drama Between Us is being adapted into a film, with Julia Stiles, Taye Diggs, Melissa George and David Harbour attached to star, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM[SHARE]Here's Playbill.com's weekly "Last Chance" reminder to catch Broadway, Off-Broadway and world-premiere productions before they take a final bow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PM[SHARE]The Public Theater will celebrate the life of late Hair and A Chorus Line costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge at a May 9 memorial in the Newman Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:12PM[SHARE]The Broadway musical Fela! comes full circle April 20 when the story of the Nigerian musician and political figure Fela Anikulapo-Kuti begins performances in Lagos.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]Tony and Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo has joined the lineup for the New York Times' TimesTalks series in midtown Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for Richard III, the final production of Sam Mendes' Bridge Project. Tony nominees Haydn Gwynne and Maureen Anderman, Olivier Award winner Chuk Iwuji,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]The Dalton Academy Warblers will be part of the upcoming summer tour of "Glee Live! In Concert!," which has added additional dates and cities to its itinerary.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Tracy Letts' volatile family drama August: Osage County, starring Atlanta actors Brenda Bynum, Jill Jane Clements and Tess Malis Kincaid, officially opens April 20 at the Alliance Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's Be a Good Little Widow, a new comedy about grieving like a grown up, starring Jill Eikenberry and Wrenn Schmidt, begins performances April 20 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega's solo show Carson McCullers Talks About Love, an intimate musical look into the life of the late American writer, begins previews April 20 at Rattles…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Following a 2009 London premiere, the disco musical Sister Act is born again in New York City. The retooled Broadway production, featuring a score by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, new direct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Tyne Daly, Tom Wopat, Gregg Edelman, Aaron Lazar, Tony DeSare, Michele Lee and Jamie Barton have joined the New York Pops' May 2 Carnegie Hall gala celebrating late entertainer Bob Hope.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06PM[SHARE]Portia, Rebecca Brooksher, Adam Green, Brian Reddy and James A. Stephens will star in the Alley Theatre world premiere of The Monster at the Door, the latest work from Bengal Tiger at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:53PM[SHARE]Punchdrunk's immersive film-noir-kissed theatrical experience Sleep No More will haunt Chelsea a bit longer. Producers have now released tickets through June 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Stew, Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and Liesl Tommy will serve as artistic advisors for the Sundance Institute's second annual theatre lab in East Africa.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PM[SHARE]The National Theatre production of War Horse, which has settled into an open run on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, is saddling up for a Toronto debut and a national tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning director Joe Mantello will stage a starry one-night-only presentation of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues April 23 in East Hampton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival cast album of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will be released digitally May 24 by Decca Broadway, prior to its June 7 in-store arrival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AM[SHARE]The original Broadway cast album of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, featuring Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott, Laura Benanti and Brian Stokes Mitchell, is available for digital do…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM[SHARE]The New York premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon, the new opera by Tony nominee and Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz, debuts April 19 at the New York City Opera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2011
Despite $450,000 in recent donations, the financially beleaguered Intiman Theatre in Seattle is shutting its doors in an effort to be prudent and plan for the future, according to a statemen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway production of Michael Frayn's Benefactors, starring Tony Award nominee Daniel Jenkins, Vivienne Benesch, Deanne Lorette and Stephen Barker Turner, has been extended at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]The Belarus Free Theatre productions of Being Harold Pinter, staged in repertory with Zone of Silence and Discover Love, officially open at La MaMa e.t.c. April 18 after previews that began …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2011
Composer Stephen Schwartz has earned two Academy Awards for his film songs, five Tony Award nominations for his Broadway musicals and is about to make his New York City operatic debut with S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Composer Stephen Schwartz has earned two Academy Awards for his film songs, five Tony Award nominations for his Broadway musicals and is about to make his New York City operatic debut with S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2011
The Off-Broadway run of debbie tucker green's [sic] Olivier Award-winning play Born Bad, which officially opened April 7 after previews that began March 31 at Soho Rep, has been extended…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AM[SHARE]Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal co-creator Brian Yorkey will stage the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Jesus Christ Superstar for the Village Theatre in Issaquah, W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]Casting is now complete for the American Repertory Theater production of the George Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera Porgy and Bess.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:04AM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater announced April 15 that the limited-engagement run of the National Theatre of Great Britain production of War Horse, which had been scheduled to run through June 26, h…
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