Tuesday, August 7, 2012
The New York City-aimed production of Big Maybelle: Soul of the Blues, starring Tony Award winner Lillias White as late blues singer Maybelle Smith, debuts Aug. 7 at the Bay Street Theatre.
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David Mamet's The Anarchist, starring Tony Award winner Patti LuPone and Academy Award nominee Debra Winger, which was previously announced for Broadway's Lyceum Theatre, will now pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PM[SHARE]Cloris Leachman, Amy Madigan, Wendie Malick and Jean Smart will star in a staged benefit reading of the new comedy Recipe, which will take place Aug. 26 at Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PM[SHARE]In a break of tradition in honoring living theatre writers, the 2013 William Inge Theatre Festival will honor its late namesake playwright, who authored such works as Come Back Little Sheba,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM[SHARE]Gay Camp, a new farce about a gay reform camp that seeks to cure people of their homosexuality, will begin performances Aug. 11 at HERE as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins will star in a special engagement of Ethel Waters: His Eye Is On the Sparrow, beginning Aug. 16 at Luna Stage in West Orange, NJ.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]The cast of the Tony Award-winning musical Once appear in an Aug. 6 benefit concert at Ars Nova to celebrate the organization's 54/10 Music Marathon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tickets for Running On Empty, the latest politically charged show by comedian Lewis Black, are now on sale to the general public. The show will play a week-long Broadway engagement this fall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Following a free, city-wide tour, the Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare Unit production of Richard III begins a three-week run Aug. 6 at the Off-Broadway company's downtown Lafayet…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Freddie Gershon, Stephen Sondheim, Jeanine Tesori and Stephen Schwartz share their junior-sized dreams for shaping the future of Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The cast of the Tony Award-winning musical Once, including Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, appear in an Aug. 6 benefit concert at Ars Nova to celebrate the organization's 54/10 Music Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2012
The Skivvies, comprising actors Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, perform Stripped Down, an evening of covers and original songs, at Joe's Pub Aug. 5. Tony Award nominee Will Swenson and S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Zachary Quinto, Mo Gaffney, Ann Cusack, Kathy Baker and Perry King are part of the Road Theatre Company's Summer Playwrights Festival, which begins Aug. 5 in North Hollywood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The LCT3 world-premiere production of Greg Pierce's Slowgirl, an intimate two-actor play starring Željko Ivanek and Sarah Steele, ends its extended run Aug. 5 in the Claire Tow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Memphis, the four-time Tony Award-winning musical about a soulful, white radio DJ and his love for a black singer at the dawn of the Civil Rights movement, ends its run on Broadway Aug. 5 af…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 4, 2012
The York Theatre Company's limited New York revival of composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World, a collection of pop songs exploring people on the verge of life-c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Berkshire Theatre Group world premiere of Kelly Masterson's Edith, starring Tony nominee Jayne Atkinson as First Lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, officially opens Aug. 4 aft…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Tony-winning Broadway musical Fela!, which explores the life of Nigerian musician and political figure Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, ends its limited 32-performance run Aug. 4 at the Al Hirschfel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2012
Tony Award nominee Bobby Cannavale will star in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Dustin Lance Black's acclaimed gay marriage drama 8, which features performers from the fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]The first national tour of Catch Me If You Can, which launches this fall in Providence, RI, will star 21-year-old actor Stephen Anthony as suave con-man Frank Abagnale, Jr. opposite Merritt …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]London's First Night Records is now accepting pre-orders for new cast albums of the West End productions of Singin' in the Rain and the Irving Berlin musical Top Hat.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PM[SHARE]Relativity Media has signed an agreement with MediaWeaver Entertainment to develop new theatrical and live productions for the stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AM[SHARE]Tickets are now on sale to the general public for the Chicago world premiere of Kinky Boots, the new musical featuring a score by Grammy Award winner Cyndi Lauper, which will arrive on Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2012
Manhattan Concert Productions will present a one-night-only concert staging of the Tony Award-winning Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty-Terrence McNally musical Ragtime in February 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PM[SHARE]92YTribeca will host a concert presentation of the new musical Fiction in Photographs, featuring Lauren Pritchard, Cole Burden and more, on Aug. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PM[SHARE]The Keen Company will present the two-person Stephen Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little as the opening production of its 2012-13 season, which will also feature A.R. Gurney's The Old Boy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PM[SHARE]After a nearly three-year run, the Aug. 5 closing of the Tony Award-winning hit Memphis is a bittersweet moment for writers Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, but the Tony-winning duo are current…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PM[SHARE]The five-time Tony Award-winning play Peter and the Starcatcher, which imagines the origins of Neverland and the character of Peter Pan, has released a new block of tickets through Jan. 6, 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]Triassic Parq The Musical, which will go extinct Off-Broadway Aug. 5 when its limited run concludes, will be preserved in an original Off-Broadway cast album to be released in September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PM[SHARE]Huey Calhoun and Felicia Farrell, the two leading characters at the center of the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, have been immortalized as collectible dolls by the Tonner Doll Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]The Public Theater has received a $4 million gift from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust to provide support for free productions of Shakespeare in the Park and the renovation of …
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