Thursday, April 19, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PM[SHARE]Stockard Channing, Judith Light, Nick Jonas, Nina Arianda, Hugh Dancy, Lisa Lampanelli and Corbin Bleu are among the celebrities who will appear at the 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the Alley Theatre production of Theresa Rebeck's What We're Up Against, a new dark comedy about a female architect who hits the workplace glass ceiling…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PM[SHARE]Jane Lynch, William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman will host a benefit engagement of Jason Robert Brown's pop musical The Last Five Years May 4-6 at the Third Street Theatre in Hollywood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim will be joined by Christine Ebersole and Brian Stokes Mitchell for a special evening of story and song July 14 at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AM[SHARE]Five-time Tony Award-winning actress Angela Lansbury is honored during the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards April 19 on the historic Ellis Island.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2012
4000 Miles director Daniel Aukin will stage the world premiere of Derek Ahonen's The Bad and the Better, a new dark detective tale from The Amoralists, which will debut Off-Broadway June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:49PM[SHARE]Fela! star Saycon Sengbloh will be part of the Soho Rep Studio presentations of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon April 27-28 at the New Ohio Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated "Smash" star Brian d'Arcy James and Wicked's Ana Gasteyer will perform One Night, Two Voices, Three Cheers May 26 at the Bay Street Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM[SHARE]A re-imagined revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, which will debut on Broadway during the 2012-13 season, has cast Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana as its royal couple, produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning epic drama War Horse, which galloped away with five Tony Awards last season, including Best Play, may be on the move, according to the New York Post.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PM[SHARE]Tony nominees John Ellison Conlee and Daniel Jenkins, as well as Rebecca Naomi Jones, will perform as part of an April 23 benefit for New York City's investigative theatre company The Ci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PM[SHARE]Grammy Award-winning performer Usher will hit the treadmill of the Off-Broadway spectacle Fuerza Bruta for two special performances in late April.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM[SHARE]A new song by Tony Award-winning Avenue Q and Book of Mormon songwriter Robert Lopez will be featured on the April 29 episode of "The Simpsons."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]New plays by Theresa Rebeck, Laura Lacqmin and Dominic Taylor will be developed this summer at the Tony Award-winning Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]Alexander Gemignani is part of the world premiere of Patrick Link's drama Headstrong, about the risks associated with one of America's favorite sports, which begins previews April 18…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]New York audiences are treated to Chekhov's Three Sisters, performed in its native Russian by the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg, beginning April 18 at the Brooklyn Acade…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The long-running Off-Broadway thriller Perfect Crime, which first opened in 1987, celebrates its 25th anniversary April 18 at the Snapple Theater Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Bob Glaudini and Kevin Corrigan are a father and son grappling with their past, present and uncertain future in the world premiere of Brett C. Leonard's Philadelphia-set drama Ninth and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Annalee Jefferies and Nicole Lowrance co-star in William Inge's Off the Main Road, presented April 18 at the Inge Theatre Festival in Kansas. Michael Wilson (Broadway's The Best Man)…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Actor Ravi Roth, who appeared Off-Broadway in the final cast of Altar Boyz, will premiere a new solo show, Moments with Ravi: Tales of a Misfit, April 30 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]A new five-track Broadway cast album EP of the 50th anniversary revival of How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, featuring current star Nick Jonas, will be released May 8 from Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PM[SHARE]Four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will join the New Jersey Symphony Chamber Orchestra for an April 20 concert at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PM[SHARE]Jim Poulos will play Bobby in the Geva Theatre Center production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Tony-winning musical Company, which will begin performances May 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PM[SHARE]Cast members from the original 1987 Broadway production of Into the Woods, including Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien, Danielle Ferland and Lauren Mitchell, will reunite for a special May 6 discuss…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PM[SHARE]LaMaMa will debut Tony Award winner Scott Wittman's Jukebox Jackie, a new musical revue based on the songs of Warhol icon and glam rock pioneer Jackie Curtis, which will begin previews d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Nikki M. James, Tony nominee Brian D'Arcy James, Norm Lewis and Rachel York will join the New York Pops for Journey On, an April 30 gala concert celebrating the Tony Aw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]The cast of the revised Off-Broadway production of Carrie, including leading ladies Molly Ranson and Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie, assembles in a Manhattan recording studio April 17 to re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2012
Life of the Party, a new musical by Tony Award-nominated Legally Blonde writers Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, will debut at the LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts in May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PM[SHARE]Josh Young, who had been out of the Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar due to illness, rejoined the cast of the rock opera April 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Chad Kimball, Kenita Miller, Morgan James and Logan Marshall-Green are among the performers to be featured in the April 30 benefit concert The Bridge: Where Hope and Respe…
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