Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tony Award winner Alice Ripley, who won her Tony for her performance as bipolar mom Diana in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, will next tackle the role of religious fanatic Margare…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PM[SHARE]The world premiere of Neil LaBute's new play Reasons to Be Happy, which follows the characters of his Tony Award-nominated drama Reasons to Be Pretty, opened Off-Broadway June 11. Jenna …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]The glamour, the glitter and the dust are settling across the theatre district this week as Broadway basks in the Tony Awards afterglow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]The new musical Kinky Boots, which recently stomped away with six Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Choreography and Best Actor, will launch a national tour in Las Vegas i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]The downtown theatre troupe The Amoralists stage the New York premiere of Mark Roberts' Rantoul and Die, beginning June 12 at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Disney Theatrical Productions is exploring a stage production featuring The Muppets, according to Variety. Tony Award-nominated Peter and the Starcatcher co-director Alex Timbers is attached.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PM[SHARE]Heidi Blickenstaff, Ashley Brown and Josh Strickland are among the performers who will take part in Broadway and Beyond, a new event from Disney Theatrical Productions, Aug. 9 at the Anaheim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PM[SHARE]Tony nominee Ethan Hawke may star in this year's second Broadway revival of Macbeth. Entertainment Weekly reports that Lincoln Center Theater will produce Shakespeare's bloody drama …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[SHARE]Academy Award-winning actor-director Clint Eastwood is looking to cast stage actors in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning hit Jersey Boys, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AM[SHARE]Acting couple Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen will co-star in a benefit reading of A.R. Gurney's poignant work Love Letters for the Vineyard Playhouse in July.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AM[SHARE]Drama Desk Award nominee Will Rogers and Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdyshell lead the Westport Country Playhouse production of George Kelly's The Show-Off, which begins previews June 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Mamie Parris (Wicked) and George Dvorsky (The Scarlet Pimpernel) star in Pittsburgh CLO's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, which begins performances June 11 at the Benedum Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Tony Award winner John Guare's 3 Kinds of Exile, which features the playwright in his Off-Broadway acting debut, officially opens June 11 at the Atlantic Theater Co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Neil LaBute's new play Reasons to Be Happy, which follows the characters of his Tony Award-nominated drama Reasons to Be Pretty, opens Off-Broadway June 11. Jenna F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
A new musical based on the 1988 film "Bull Durham" will receive a New York City lab this month. The film's original director and writer Ron Shelton is collaborating with folk s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PM[SHARE]In his fourth time as host, Neil Patrick Harris opened the 67th Annual Tony Awards with a new specialty song penned by Tony Award winners Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]Inclement weather has forced the Public Theater to postpone its starry June 10 gala performance of The Pirates of Penzance, starring Kevin Kline, Glenn Close and Jonathan Groff. The event wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PM[SHARE]Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play, has extended its Broadway run for a final time through Aug. 25 at the John Golden T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PM[SHARE]During the 67th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, a handful of Broadway stars took a moment to celebrate, lament and come clean about why they love performing on television shows.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AM[SHARE]The Benj Pasek-Justin Paul stage production A Christmas Story, The Musical, which played a Tony Award-nominated Broadway run during the 2012 holiday season, will return to New York with a De…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Audra McDonald and Alan Cumming are among the 2013 recipients of the "Made in NY Awards," which are presented June 10 at Gracie Mansion.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Laura Benanti, Rory O'Malley, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Morgan James join the Skivvies for their June 10 engagement at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Christian Coulson, George Morfogen and Jonathan Hogan star in the Mint Theater Company's American premiere of N.C. Hunter's A Picture of Autumn, which officially opens June 10 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Jarrod Spector, Orfeh, Anika Larsen and Patti Murin are among the performers who interpret the songs of Adele during the June 10 installment of The Pop Show at Birdland Jazz Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tickets to the Toronto pre-Broadway premiere of Disney's Aladdin, a new stage adaptation of the 1992 Academy Award-winning animated film, go on sale June 10 to the general public.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony and Academy Award winner Kevin Kline returns to the role of the Pirate King in the Public Theater's one-night-only June 10 gala concert of the acclaimed 1980 production of The Pirat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2013
Tony Award-winning Pippin producers Barry and Fran Weissler have two projects on their plate for American audiences.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37PM[SHARE]Stephen Oremus, who took home the 2013 Tony Award for the Best Orchestrations of Kinky Boots, arranged music for the upcoming Disney animated feature "Frozen," which takes a p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30PM[SHARE]Playbill.com editor in chief Adam Hetrick is live blogging from the Tony Awards press room June 9. Read his first-hand account of winners' reactions and breaking news from the press room…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 8, 2013
In 2007 actor-playwright Tracy Letts made his Broadway playwriting debut to Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning acclaim with the epic family drama August: Osage County. Five years later, h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo stars in his play Wild With Happy, which receives its West Coast premiere at TheatreWorks' Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. The production …
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