Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Elevator Repair Service's Gatz, an imaginative six-hour theatrical epic reading of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," which was staged to acclaim in 2010, retu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Yvette Freeman stars as the "Mother of the Blues" in the Huntington Theatre Company production of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which officially opens March 14 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Complete casting has been announced for the New York City Center Encores! production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, starring the previously announced Leslie Uggams, Will Chase …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:46PM[SHARE]Academy Award-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes has been enlisted to adapt the screen remake of Gypsy, the iconic showbiz musical by Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, whic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PM[SHARE]A host of theatre artists will perform selections from Broadway in a March 31 concert at the Engeman Theatre in Northport, Long Island.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]Kelly D. Felthous will star as determined fashionista-turned-law student in the Westchester Broadway Theatre production of Legally Blonde, which will begin performances March 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]Tribes, Nina Raine's acclaimed, Olivier Award-nominated family drama that opened to raves Off-Broadway March 4, is now available from Theatre Communications Group.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Angels in America, Wicked and Book of Mormon producer Jon B. Platt is honored with the Commercial Theater Institute's Robert Whitehead Award March 13 at Sardi's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2012
Casting has been announced for the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production of Academy Award nominee Jose Rivera's Massacre (Sing to Your Children), which will begin performances April…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:34PM[SHARE]Twisted Sister front Man Dee Snider duets with Tony Award winners Patti LuPone, Bebe Neuwirth, Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper and more on his new album of show tunes "Dee Does Broadway,&quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:11PM[SHARE]Producers of Ghost The Musical announced that lottery tickets for a limited number of seats in the first two rows of the orchestra will be available for $25, beginning with the first Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PM[SHARE]A lucky actress may have "Magic to Do" in the upcoming Diane Paulus-helmed revival of Pippin, which will be unveiled at the American Repertory Theater in December.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominees Josh Gad, Rory O'Malley and Jan Maxwell, as well as Norm Lewis and Nicole Parker, have joined MCC Theater's March 26 Miscast gala at The Hammerstein Ballroom (311…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PM[SHARE]Original Memphis leading lady Montego Glover and her current co-star Adam Pascal have extended their contracts with the Tony-winning musical through October, producers announced March 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]The Broadhurst Theatre box office opens March 12 for the new revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, starring Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker and Daphne Rubin-Vega.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]The cast of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess gathers in a Manhattan recording studio March 12 and 13 to record the new cast album of the classic American opera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Christine Ebersole re-creates her Tony Award-winning performance as Grey Gardens' Little Edie during the Sundance Institute's March 12 gala at the Bowery Hotel in Manhattan. Academy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Vineyard Theatre's March 12 gala, honoring Tony Award winner Linda Lavin and celebrating the work of Lyons playwright Nicky Silver, takes place at the Hudson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 11, 2012
Shinsai: Theatres for Japan, a benefit commemorating the devastating earthquake that struck the country one year ago, is presented March 11 at the Great Hall at Cooper Union.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]End of the Rainbow, Peter Quilter's music-filled drama about the final months of Judy Garland's life, ends its pre-Broadway run March 11 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 10, 2012
The world premiere of the new musical First Date, starring Eric Ankrim and Kelly Karbacz as the central young lovers, begins performances March 10 at Seattle's A Contemporary Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2012
The songwriting team of Julianne Wick Davis and Dan Collins, whose musical Southern Comfort received a New York run last fall, are the recipients of the 2012 Jonathan Larson Grant.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]The Drama Desk's spring luncheon, "It's A Hard Act To Follow," will feature Cynthia Nixon, Hunter Parrish, Blair Underwood and more March 30 at Sardi's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PM[SHARE]Sony Masterworks Broadway will release "Liza Minnelli: Live at the Winter Garden" digitally and on compact disc May 8 for the first time since its original 1974 LP release.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PM[SHARE]Yvette Freeman stars as the "Mother of the Blues" in the Huntington Theatre Company production of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which begins performances March …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2012
Grammy Award winner Bette Midler will receive the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award at the 43rd Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony on June 14 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06PM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated Hair and Porgy and Bess director Diane Paulus will stage a new production of Stephen Schwartz's Tony Award-nominated musical Pippin at the American Repertory Theater…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PM[SHARE]For theatregoers who managed to catch one of the 21 performances of Carrie the musical during its short-lived Broadway run in 1988, several things stand out: the blood, the belting, the camp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PM[SHARE]"Joe Papp in Five Acts," a new documentary film by Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen about the late founder of the Public Theater, will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PM[SHARE]Tituss Burgess, Lady Rizo and Spencer Day will be part of The Meeting*, hosted by Justin Sayre, which will celebrate Diana Ross March 15 at the Duplex.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM[SHARE]Marcia Gay Harden, Megan Mullally, Zachary Quinto and Steven Weber will be part of the 2012 Ojai Playwrights Conference benefit gala, honoring playwright Bill Cain and actress Dana Delany.
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