Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The cast album of the Michael John LaChiusa-Sybille Pearson musical Giant, based on Edna Ferber's Texas-set novel, is released in a two-disc set May 21 by Ghostlight Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, which musicalizes a flashpoint in American Civil Rights history, begins its Los Angeles premiere engagement May 21 at the Center Theatre G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2013
Tony Award nominee Shalita Grant, who is currently making her Broadway debut in Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, as well as pianist Alessio Bax, are the&nbs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:08PM[SHARE]Drama Desk Award nominee Will Rogers will join Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdyshell for the Westport Country Playhouse production of George Kelly's The Show-Off, which will begin previews…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominees Carolee Carmello and Justin Vivian Bond, along with Lea DeLaria and Telly Leung, are among the artists who have joined the lineup for Night of a Thousand Judys, which wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PM[SHARE]A theatregoer at the May 19 matinee performance of The Nance had to be rescued by members of the New York City Fire Department after he fell onto the marquee of the Lyceum Theatre when a win…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AM[SHARE]Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Carole King, who is the 2013 recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, will perform at the White House May 28 in a concert …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti begins a seven-show engagement at 54 Below May 20 with an all-new evening of song.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Stephen Schwartz, Norm Lewis, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Leslie Uggams are among the artists celebrating Tony Award-winning entertainer Ben Vereen in Magic to Do May 20 at LaGuardia Arts High Sch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2013
Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the British import Matilda, as well as the revivals of Pippin and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? are among the winners of t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28PM[SHARE]Emmy Award winner John Turturro stars in a new production of Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, which officially opens May 19 after previews that began May 12 at the Brooklyn Academy of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2013
Vincent Kartheiser, best known for playing advertising executive Pete Campbell in the hit AMC series "Mad Men," will star as Mr. Darcy in the Guthrie Theater production of Jane Aus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PM[SHARE]Lucky Guy, the new play by late writer Nora Ephron, may be London-bound with its Academy Award-winning star, Tom Hanks, according to the Daily Mail.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM[SHARE]Alan Alda, Lily Rabe, Vanessa Redgrave and Liev Schreiber are among the actors who will read from Shakespeare's plays as part of the Public Theater's "What Are We Worth? Shakesp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44PM[SHARE]Olivier Award-winning actress Fiona Shaw, who recently appeared on Broadway in The Testament of Mary, will bring The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM[SHARE]The Kennedy Center board of trustees has announced a key revision to the selection process for the esteemed Kennedy Center Honors, which will now allow members of the public to participate v…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AM[SHARE]The Chicago production of The Book of Mormon, which opened to acclaim in December 2012, will play its final performance Oct. 6 at the Bank of America Theatre. The production will then tour t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AM[SHARE]Casting for the film adaptation of Into the Woods continues to take a starry turn. Tony Award winner Christine Baranski and Golden Globe Award winner Emily Blunt are the latest actors report…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2013
Daisy Eagan, the Tony Award-winning star of The Secret Garden, and her boyfriend, writer Kurt Bloom, welcomed their first child, Monty Harrison Eagan-Bloom, May 11 in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PM[SHARE]Soho Rep has extended the world premiere of Lucas Hnath's A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, starring Larry Pine, Amanda Quaid, Brian Sgamb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]After well-received regional engagements at Hartford Stage and the Old Globe Theatre this past season, the new musical comedy A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder will arrive on B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway premiere of Far From Heaven, the new musical by Scott Frankel, Michael Korie and Richard Greenberg, has sold out its run at Playwrights Horizons, a representative for the pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AM[SHARE]The American Repertory Theater production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, starring Tony winner Cherry Jones, Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger and Zachary Quinto, will begin B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM[SHARE]Christopher Durang's Tony Award-nominated comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, starring Sigourney Weaver, Kristine Nielsen and David Hyde Pierce, has extended its Broadway run to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AM[SHARE]Singer-songwriter Jewel may be looking to add the role of Cinderella to her crown. The performer recently tweeted about Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods and an upcoming audition.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Emmy Award-nominated "The Office" star Jenna Fischer, Josh Hamilton, Leslie Bibb and Fred Weller star in the MCC Theater world premiere of Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy, wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00PM[SHARE]Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss and Tony Award winner Joe Mantegna star in the L.A. Theatre Works production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, which begins May 16 at the James …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00PM[SHARE]A revised production of In the Company of Men, an early play by Neil LaBute better known for its controversial film version, officially opens May 16 at Chicago's Profiles Theatre after p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00PM[SHARE]Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Dave Malloy’s critically praised "electro-pop opera" based on "War and Peace," which played an extended Off-Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00PM[SHARE]Eric Simonson's Bronx Bombers, which will premiere this fall at Primary Stages, is among three plays to be developed during the 16th annual Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival in Steamboa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Justin Sayre's The Meeting* will continue May 16 with a tribute to Tony Award nominee Justin Vivian Bond at the Duplex. Molly Pope will be among the performers at the early show.
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