Monday, December 24, 2012
Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Janeane Garofalo and Kristen Johnston will take part in a Jan. 14, 2013, performance of Celebrity Autobiography at Stage 72.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 22, 2012
An Ohio high school that fired the woman hired to direct its musicals is reassessing the goals of its drama program after school administrators expressed concerns over a production of the To…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2012
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle has announced the nominees for the 2012 Craig Noel Awards. New musicals including The Scottsboro Boys, Allegiance, Hands on a Harbody and Nobody Loves Yo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PM[SHARE]Chasing the Song, the new musical from Tony Award-winning Memphis writers Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, will receive a January staged reading as part of La Jolla Playhouse's DNA New Work…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]The single-disc highlights album of Tom Hooper's film adaptation of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Les Misèrables is released digitally Dec. 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]Michael Laurence, who performed his solo show Krapp 39 at the SoHo Playhouse in 2009, will return to the Off-Broadway venue with Hamlet in Bed, which will begin performances Jan. 16, 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM[SHARE]Playbill staffers and contributors share favorite theatregoing memories from the year 2012. Broadway, Off-Broadway, London, cabaret, plays, musicals and more find a place on our subjective l…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2012
Carson Elrod, Jenn Harris and Matthew Saldivar will be part of the Primary Stages 20th anniversary revival of David Ives' All in the Timing, which will begin previews Jan. 23, 2013, at 5…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM[SHARE]Robert Petkoff, Margaret Loesser Robinson and Sean MacLaughlin complete the royal love triangle of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, which will begin performances Jan. 22, 2013, at Houston'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal) and Wesley Taylor ("Smash") will join Lauren Molina (Marry Me a Little) and Nick Cearley (All Shook Up) of The Skivvies for a Jan. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AM[SHARE]Far Away Places, the new live album from Tony Award winner Patti LuPone, which was recorded during her acclaimed 54 Below concerts, will now be released Jan. 15, 2013, the Broadway Records l…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita, Gabriel Ebert, Lauren Ward and Karen Aldridge will be part of the Broadway premiere of the hit London production Matilda The Musical, which will begin …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff will join Tony Award winner Idina Menzel and Kristin Bell for the new Disney animated musical "Frozen," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PM[SHARE]Stick Fly, Lydia R. Diamond's comedic drama about an affluent African American family who share a shattering weekend on Martha's Vineyard, is being developed for HBO, according to th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba, Claybourne Elder, Katie Rose Clarke and Rob Bartlett will be part of an industry lab presentation of the new musical Beyond the Music, which will take place i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]For producer Cameron Mackintosh, the next "Movie in His Mind" may be an adaptation of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's 1989 musical Miss Saigon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon, penned by "South Park" writers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and Avenue Q songwriter Robert Lopez, officially opens in Chi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Veteran Chicago stage actress Kate Buddeke, who appeared on Broadway in the 2003 revival of Gypsy and the 2009 premiere of Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, will take on the role of Mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PM[SHARE]Bowman Wright and Joaquina Kalukango will co-star in Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning play The Mountaintop, which will begin performances Jan. 11, 2013, at the Alley Theatre in Housto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PM[SHARE]New Yorkers are having a hard time saying goodbye to Fuerza Bruta, the visually-arresting spectacle that first was announced to end its five-year run on Nov. 10 at the Daryl Roth Theatre. It…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PM[SHARE]A family of working theatre actors — Timothy Shew, Jane Brockman and Jonathan Shew — speaks with Playbill.com about what daily life is like inside their own showbiz troupe.&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Grammy and Emmy Award-winning musical director, conductor and arranger John McDaniel has been named the new artistic director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Cabaret and Perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' 1955 drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker, begins previews Dec. 18 at the Richard Ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2012
Tony Award-winning actress Priscilla Lopez will star in the regional premiere of Somewhere, a new dance-centered drama set against the filming of "West Side Story," which will begi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PM[SHARE]TheaterWorks artistic team member Rob Ruggiero, who also staged the Broadway productions of Looped and High, has been appointed the producing artistic director of the Hartford theatre compan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning hit The Book of Mormon will play a summer 2014 engagement at the newly opened Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]The Broadway League and the union representing porters, cleaners, elevator operators and matrons working in Broadway theatres have reached a tentative agreement on a new, three-year contract…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]Director Christopher Renshaw (The King and I, We Will Rock You) and Olivier Award-nominated choreographer Rafael Amargo will reunite for the Alliance Theatre staging of Zorro, the musical sc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]The Broadway Theatre box office for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, starring Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, opens Dec. 17. The engagement marks the Broadway premiere of the class…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 16, 2012
Giant, the ambitious Michael John LaChiusa-Sybille Pearson musical based on Edna Ferber's sweeping Texas-set novel about love, greed and power that spans generations, ends its extended O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The short-lived Broadway world premiere of Tony Award-nominated and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet's two-woman drama The Anarchist, starring Patti LuPone as an inmate serv…
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