Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Playwright Christopher Durang and director Nicholas Martin will discuss the new comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike as part of Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series on Nov. 1. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Tyne Daly, Jamie deRoy and Ted Snowdon will be honored during Primary Stages' Nov. 14 gala at the Edison Ballroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM[SHARE]The American premiere of Christopher Shinn's political drama Now or Later, about a college party that sets off a religious and political firestorm, officially opens Oct. 17 at the H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Fun Home, a new musical by Tony Award nominees Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, begins performances Off-Broadway Oct. 17 at the Public Theater as part of the Public Lab programming. Tony Award …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Catherine Porter, who understudied the role of Diana Goodman in the Broadway production of Next to Normal, takes on the leading role in the Alliance Theatre staging of the Tony and Pulitzer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 2005 film "Kinky Boots," about a struggling shoemaker who reinvents his business by creating footwear for drag performers, struts into Chicago as a new stage musical by Grammy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Film actor Val Kilmer will bring his solo show Citizen Twain, about American literary giant Mark Twain, to the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles for two performances Oct. 19-20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]Audiences will witness Shakespeare's Roman Tragedies up close in the Toneelgroep Amsterdam productions of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra, which will put theatregoer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]Grammy Award winner Bette Midler has accepted an invitation from Ryan Murphy to guest star on the Fox musical series "Glee," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]The world premiere of Amandine, a new musical exploring gender through the real-life story of 19th century hermaphrodite Herculine Barbin, will play a limited winter engagement beginning Jan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PM[SHARE]The Long Wharf Theatre staging of the one-man Louis Armstrong play Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson, has extended its run an additional four performances through Nov. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PM[SHARE]Cast members from the recent reading of One for My Baby, including Tony Award nominee Vivian Reed, Luba Mason and Anastasia Barzee, will celebrate the music of Harold Arlen as part of the&nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Sam Buntrock, who staged the multimedia-flecked revival of Sunday in the Park With George, will direct the world premiere of Kara Manning's Sleeping Rough, which will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]The Toronto production of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning international hit War Horse, which opened to acclaim last winter, will end its extended run Jan. 6, 2013, after 368 performances …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]"Broadway: The American Musical," the six-part documentary chronicling the history of the American art form featuring Carol Channing, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Harvey Fierstein, Ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The original Off-Broadway cast recording of February House, Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley's new musical about Brooklyn bohemians in the 1940s, is released digitally Oct. 16 prior to a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2012
The Producers stars Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane are among the actors featured in the PBS "American Masters" documentary about Academy and Tony Award winner Mel Brooks, which …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Drowsy Chaperone writer and star Bob Martin has been tapped to create a new television series in a partnership between ABC and Shaw Media, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PM[SHARE]The new stage musical Secondhand Lions, based on the 2003 movie starring Michael Caine and Robert Duval, will debut at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre in August 2013, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PM[SHARE]Producers of the long-running Off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks have announced that pop singer Aaron Carter has extended his contract with the production for a fourth time into 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PM[SHARE]Matt Kopec will star as Buddy in the mini-holiday tour of the musical Elf, which launches Nov. 4 in Providence, RI. The cast will also feature Julia Louise Hosack, Gordon Gray, Kate Hen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated Memphis star Chad Kimball, Jessica Phillips and Chester Gregory will perform in the Engeman Theater's Nov. 2 Broadway Concert Series in Northport, Long Island.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]Five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, who recently concluded an acclaimed run in the Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, is honored Oct. 15 by PFLAG NYC at the organ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PM[SHARE]Plans are underway for a U.K. tour of the well-received Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to his hit musical The Phantom of the Opera, according …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PM[SHARE]Cabaret star Marilyn Maye, Colleen McHugh, Santiago Venegas and Tori Scott will belt out signature tunes from Funny Girl as part of the Oct. 18 installment of Justin Sayre's The Meeting*…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Mitchel Butel, Shane Bourne, Hugh Sheridan and Christie Whelan will join Academy and Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush in the Australian staging of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the For…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM[SHARE]Memphis, which won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Musical, is heading to the silver screen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AM[SHARE]Material from Flashdance — The Musical is performed during a special private event Oct. 15 at 54 Below. The evening promises hits from the film and new material penned for the sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 14, 2012
Tony Award nominee Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Nick Adams, Max Von Essen, Kara Lindsay and Nikki Rene Daniels are among the performers participating in the Oct. 14 "Broadway Gets Out the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Stephen Belber's Don't Go Gentle, about a retired conservative judge who struggles to maintain order in his personal life, opens Off-Broadway Oct. 14 at MCC The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 13, 2012
The stage adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's autobiographical essay "House for Sale" begins its Off-Broadway world premiere Oct. 13 under the wings of the Transport Group at the …
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