Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The 5th Avenue Theatre production of Damn Yankees, starring Christopher Charles Wood, Chryssie Whitehead, Hans Altwies, Patti Cohenour and Nancy Anderson, officially opens April 25 in S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY, has extended the lease at its East End location for another decade while executives continue the search for a permanent residence.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM[SHARE]Pioneer Theatre Company's 2012-13 season, the first under new artistic director Karen Azenberg, will launch with the resident Utah premiere of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical In the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Donna Murphy and Mary Louise Wilson and Tony nominee Laura Linney have joined the Juilliard School's April 30 gala tribute to Mary Rodgers Guettel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Stagedoor Manor alumni Julia Murney and Jeff Blumenkrantz will celebrate the prestigious performing arts summer camp during the April 30 Theatre Museum Awards gala at the Players Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]The track listing has been revealed for the two-disc Broadway revival cast album of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, featuring Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, which will b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PM[SHARE]In 1964 Funny Girl opened on Broadway, officially solidifying the growing star status of a young girl from Flatbush, Brooklyn, named Barbra Streisand. Since then, it is nearly impossible to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]A three-song sampler from the national tour of Bring It On: The Musical, the new stage production set in the world of competitive cheerleading, is released digitally April 24 from Sh-K-Boom …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2012
A Brazilian actor, who accidentally hanged himself while portraying Judas in a public presentation of the Passion of the Christ on Good Friday, has died, according to the Associated Press.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PM[SHARE]Sally Struthers and Jennifer Cody co-host the Theatre Communications Group's April 23 gala at Espace, honoring Tony Award-nominated director Kenny Leon (Stick Fly, The Mountaintop), Play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Daniel Davis will star as Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest, which will storm into Hartford Stage beginning May 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PM[SHARE]Actors' Equity Association, the union that represents professional stage actors and stage managers across the U.S., is preparing for a centennial celebration in April 2013 with a year-lo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner James Naughton and singer-songwriter Johnny Rodgers have joined the May 15-16 performances of the Jazz and Popular Song series, which will celebrate the music of Cy Coleman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AM[SHARE]Tony nominees Constantine Maroulis and Andrea McArdle lead the industry readings of the new Air Supply musical Lost In Love, which begin New York presentations April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Ghost The Musical, the London pop musical based on the Academy Award-winning 1990 film about a romance that reaches into the afterlife, opens on Broadway in a visually-arresting staging Apri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2012
Two-time Golden Globe Award nominee Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker have a volatile date with destiny in the multi-ethnic Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Tony Roberts and Golden Globe Award winner Richard Benjamin co-star in a benefit reading of Neil Simon's comedy The Sunshine Boys April 22 at Luna Stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 21, 2012
Christopher Charles Wood, Chryssie Whitehead, Hans Altwies, Patti Cohenour and Nancy Anderson are on the team for the 5th Avenue Theatre production of Damn Yankees, which begins performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2012
Disney's Tony Award-winning musical The Lion King will heat things up with a new Portuguese-language production premiering in Brazil next year. A Spanish-language production of Mary Popp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:10PM[SHARE]Academy Award-nominated playwright Jose Rivera will join the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production his Off-Broadway drama Massacre (Sing to Your Children) for the April 23 and 25 perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Lillias White will star in the world premiere of Big Maybelle: Soul of the Blues at the Bay Street Theatre this summer. The season will also include Geraldine Aaron's M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad and Mekhi Phifer will star in the True Colors Theatre production of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner under the direction of Tony nominee Kenny Leon in Atlan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PM[SHARE]John Hill and Cole Escola are part of Justin Sayre Is Alive and Well... Writing, an evening of short plays, April 20-21 at the Ars Nova.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM[SHARE]William Michals, Maria Eberline and Daniel Marcus will tilt at windmills in the Pioneer Theatre production of the Tony Award-winning musical Man of La Mancha, beginning May 4 in Salt Lake Ci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PM[SHARE]Original Titanic Broadway cast members Alma Cuervo, William Youmans and Drew McVety will again set sail in the Tony Award-winning musical for a summer production at Ithaca, NY's Hanger T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Dan Domenech, Haley Carlucci and Edward Juvier will take a magic carpet ride in the Tuacahn Amphitheatre production of Disney's Aladdin this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AM[SHARE]Joseph Medeiros and Ashley Blanchet star in Little Shop of Horrors, which puts down poisonous roots April 20 at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Johanna Day, Glenn Fitzgerald, Tracy Letts and Parker Posey are The Realistic Joneses in the world premiere of Will Eno's new play, which begins performances April 20 at the Yale Re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]TR Warszawa's Festen (The Celebration), a theatrical feast adapted from the 1998 Danish film by Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov, begins performances April 20 at St. Ann's Warehous…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
Tony Award-winning actress Beth Leavel will star in the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma production of Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam this July.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PM[SHARE]On April 19, 1945, New York audiences watched Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan kiss under a blossomed bower for the first time when the original Broadway production of Carousel opened at the M…
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