Thursday, August 2, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AM[SHARE]The new Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, starring Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, tries on its glass slipper in a private workshop beginni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman will direct Bob Glaudini's A Family for All Occasions for the LAByrinth Theater Company's 2012-2013 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis will serve as the master of ceremonies at the third-annual Broadway Salutes event, celebrating the professionals working on Broadway's stages and behind the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PM[SHARE]50 Things I Love About Frank, a new comedy about a gay high school freshman, his boyfriend and his Italian family, will debut Sept. 1 at the Theater for the New City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PM[SHARE]Young Playwrights Inc., the non-profit organization founded by Stephen Sondheim in 1981 to nurture the work of playwrights 18 and under, will reopen its doors this month after losing its hom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PM[SHARE]Tony Danza and Mario Cantone will be part of Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter Aug. 20 at the Triad Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PM[SHARE]One for My Baby, a new musical showcasing the music of Harold Arlen, will receive an October industry workshop starring two-time Tony Award nominee Vivian Reed as a nightclub singer who perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM[SHARE]Pop singer Aaron Carter has extended his engagement in the Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks for a third time, through Oct. 21, producers announced Aug. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AM[SHARE]The Independent Theater Fund, which was established in February by the League of Independent Theater, whose members include Mabou Mines, The Living Theatre, PS 122, HERE Arts Center, the Amo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]The Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country, which debuts a new translation by Tony Award winner Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Vol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway steps up its game with Bring It On: The Musical, the new muscular, pop-fueled musical inspired by the popular film franchise about rival cheerleading teams, officially opening Aug. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Tickets will go on sale Aug. 3 for the Chicago world premiere of Kinky Boots, the new musical featuring a score by Grammy Award winner Cyndi Lauper, which will arrive on Broadway later this …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Jon Kern's Laurents/Hatcher Award-winning play Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want To Kill Us and How We Learn To Love Them, which wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM[SHARE]The cast album of Ryan Scott Oliver's 35mm: A Musical Exhibition, featuring Lindsay Mendez, Betsy Wolfe, Alex Brightman, Ben Crawford and Jay Armstrong Johnson, will be released Aug. 14 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PM[SHARE]Jesse Liebman, Nicole Rodenburg and Karis Danish will star in the FringeNYC world premiere of #MormonInChief, a new play by Brigham Young University graduate Matthew Greene, which will debut…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Bobby Steggert and Emmy Award nominee Paul Anthony Stewart will co-star in the world premiere of Tony nominee Chad Beguelin's Harbor, beginning Aug. 28 at the Westport…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM[SHARE]The 2008 musical web series "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," which starred Broadway actor Neil Patrick Harris, will make its television debut Oct. 9 at 9 PM ET on the CW netwo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway production of Jim Henry's new dramatic mystery 7th Monarch, starring Tony Award winner Michael Rupert, will end its run a month early on Aug. 12 at the Acorn Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AM[SHARE]The Berkshire Theatre Group world premiere of Edith, starring Tony nominee Jayne Atkinson as First Lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, begins previews July 31 in Stockbridge, MA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2012
Roxanna Hope will star in the Hartford Stage production of Hedda Gabler, adapted by Tony Award nominee Jon Robin Baitz (Other Desert Cities), which will begin performances Aug. 30 under the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Venus in Fur star Nina Arianda will play actress Giulietta Masina, the wife of iconic Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, in the new Henry Bromell film "Fellini Black…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PM[SHARE]A transcript of the March 22 panel discussion about the ethics of monologist Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is now available; panelists included Taylor Mac, Adam F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]Constantine Rousouli, Allison Blackwell and Julia Mattison will be part of Half Hour: A Last Minute Concert, featuring performances by Broadway understudies, Aug. 19 at the Laurie Beechman T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PM[SHARE]The Public Theater is inviting families to attend a special Aug. 22 Shakepeare in the Park matinee performance of Into the Woods, where the "happily ever after" first act of the To…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM[SHARE]With 1,166 Broadway performances under its belt, the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis is set to recoup its $12 million investment when it ends its run Aug. 5 at the Shubert Theatre, produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM[SHARE]The Skivvies, comprising actors Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, will perform Stripped Down, an evening of covers and original songs, at Joe's Pub Aug. 5. Tony Award nominee Will Swenson …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Christopher Fitzgerald has joined the cast of MCC Theater's Small Engine Repair, while actors David Wilson Barnes and Michael Cristofer will appear in Stephen Belber&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]Veteran actor John Davidson, who recently performed a 19-performance engagement in the long-running musical, returns to The Fantasticks for a five-week stint beginning July 30. Davidson…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2012
Jersey Boys actor Daniel Robert Sullivan, who played Tommy DeVito in the Toronto production of the Tony-winning musical, has released a memoir about his experience, titled "Places, Plea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PM[SHARE]Caitlin Muelder, Erika Rolfsrud, Lucas Caleb Rooney and T. Ryder Smith are the parental foursome of the Old Globe production of Yasmina Reza's Tony-winning comedy God of Carnage, beginni…
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