Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Tony Award-winning actress Elaine Stritch, a celebrated icon of the stage and New York City itself, performs her final engagement at the Café Carlyle beginning April 2. The octogenari…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2013
Tony Award-nominated composer Andrew Lippa will star as late gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk in his new oratorio I Am Harvey Milk, which will receive its world premiere with the San Francisco…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PM[SHARE]San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater has announced two additional productions for its 2013-14 season, including Academy Award nominee David Strathairn in Underneath the Lintel a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Austin Pendleton, who is directing the New York premiere of Robert Brustein's The Last Will, has stepped into the leading role of Elizabethan playwright William Shakes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]Orlando Bloom ("The Lord of the Rings") and Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad (Stick Fly, The Trip to Bountiful) will be the star-crossed lovers of a new Broadway revival of Romeo …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim has been named the 54th recipient of the MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement, according to the New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]Academy Award winner Tom Hanks portrays late Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mike McAlary in the Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, a fast-paced drama that takes audiences int…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award-winning actress Patti LuPone works with aspiring performers from across the U.S. in the April 1 episode of the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary series "Masterclass.&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2013
In the new series Playbill Video Week in Review, Playbill.com recaps its weekly coverage of Broadway performances, celebrity interviews, web series and opening nights – in case they we…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 30, 2013
The Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' 1955 family drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker as a couple grappling with ghosts o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]MCC Theater's New York premiere of Paul Downs Colaizzo's college-set drama Really Really, starring Matt Lauria, Zosia Mamet and Evan Jonigkeit, ends its Off-Broadway run March 3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Vandal, a new dark comedy by actor-playwright Hamish Linklater, ends its return week-long engagement at the Flea Theater March 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2013
Rafe Spall is in final negotiations to star alongside Daniel Craig and Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz in a Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's three-person drama Betrayal, according t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PM[SHARE]Whitney Bashor, Damon Duanno and Michael McCormick will be part of the Dallas Theater Center staging of Fly By Night, a new musical about the New York City blackout of 1965, which will begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PM[SHARE]Asmara Songsang (Abnormal Desire), a new anti-gay propaganda stage production about the perceived dangers associated with the LGBT lifestyle, is currently touring schools and universities in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Alan Cumming, Frances McDormand and Cynthia Nixon are among the actors who read the work of "Tales of the City" novelist Armistead Maupin in a new audio book ser…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM[SHARE]Catch Me If You Can and "Les Misérables" film star Aaron Tveit will play a four-performance solo engagement at 54 Below in May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2013
Rebecca Naomi Jones, Adam Chanler-Berat and Janet Dacal will be part of Broadway Unplugged, a concert of acoustic contemporary Broadway music, beginning March 29 at the South Miami Dade Cult…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PM[SHARE]Jenny Sterlin and Brendan Titley will portray the hospital staff who keep watch on Tony and Olivier Award winner Alan Cumming in his one-man production of Macbeth, which begins Broadway prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PM[SHARE]Tony, Academy and Olivier Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has penned a new radio play based on the landmark Pink Floyd album "The Dark Side of the Moon," according to the BBC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PM[SHARE]The Thomas Meehan-Martin Charnin-Peter Sipos musical Robin Hood, which premiered in an earlier incarnation at the Village Theatre in Washington State, will receive a New York staged reading,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PM[SHARE]A Great Wilderness, a new play by Samuel D. Hunter about a Christian camp that seeks to treat young gay men, will receive a staged reading as part of the 32nd Annual William Inge Theatre Fes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PM[SHARE]Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Tuck Everlasting songwriters Nathan Tysen and Chris Miller will be part of broadwayUNLOCKED, a benefit for the Crime Victims Treatment Center, April 22 at The Greene…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM[SHARE]The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center is now accepting applications for the 2013 summer Cabaret & Performance Conference, which will feature a performance by Tony Award winner Tommy Tune.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Casting has been announced for Bull, the companion piece to British playwright Mike Bartlett's three-person drama Cock, which will receive its American premiere as part of the Brits Off …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:41PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Frank Wood, Amanda Quaid and Brian Sgambati will join the previously announced Larry Pine in the Soho Rep world premiere of Lucas Hnath's A Public Reading of an Unprodu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PM[SHARE]Producers of the Broadway premiere of The Testament of Mary, starring Olivier Award winner and Tony nominee Fiona Shaw as the mother of Jesus, have announced a limited student rush ticket po…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PM[SHARE]After starring in the 1988 film adaptation "Dangerous Liaisons," John Malkovich will direct a stripped-down stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses featuring young actors from…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning playwright John Logan has joined the creative team of the new Brian Yorkey-Sting musical The Last Ship, which will receive a New York staged reading later this spring, acc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PM[SHARE]The Broadway world premiere of Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary, which depicts the mother of Jesus as a solitary skeptic in the days following her son's crucifixion,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]The Public Theater showcases the work of playwrights participating in the 2012-13 Emerging Writers Group with a series of free performances beginning March 27 at the company's downtown h…
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