Friday, May 18, 2012
Tony Award winners Stockard Channing and John Larroquette host the 78th Annual Drama League Awards ceremony May 18 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square. Winners will be announced on Playbill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The company of the first North American tour of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Wicked welcomes Nicole Parker in the role of Elphaba May 18 in Denver, CO. PJ Benjamin joined the ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2012
Casting has been announced for playwright John Pielmeier’s The Exorcist, a stage adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s famous 1971 novel, which will begin performances at the Geff…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10PM[SHARE]Cover art has been released for Scott Alan's newest CD, which was recorded live in April at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PM[SHARE]Stage and screen stars Brooke Shields and Brian d’Arcy James will host the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards June 3 at 8 PM at The Town Hall in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PM[SHARE]Tom Bergeron of "Dancing with the Stars" fame will host the Independence Day celebration "A Capitol Fourth," which airs on PBS stations around the country July 4 at 8 PM …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PM[SHARE]Several tour dates have been announced for An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, the critically acclaimed concert act that reunited Tony winners Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]The Carlyle Hotel announced May 17 that 2012 Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes, who will return to Broadway in a revised version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, will make her cabar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Norm Lewis, a 2012 Tony nominee for his performance in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, will join Michael McElroy and the Broadway Inspirational Voices for special concerts May 20-21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]Theatreworks USA, the nation's leading not-for-profit professional theatre for young audiences, will present the premiere of the new children's musical Skippyjon Jones this summer at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AM[SHARE]Christopher Ashley, who helmed the 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Memphis, will direct the screen adaptation of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's 1988 musical Lucky Stiff.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]The producers of the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man announced May 16 that the run now continues to Sept. 9 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will return to Broadway in September in an acclaimed new production seen in 2010-11 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and Arena Stage i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Tony Award-winning production of Bette Midler's Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which celebrated its one-year anniversary on Broadway March 20, will play its final performance at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning American tragedy Death of a Salesman, which stars Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PM[SHARE]Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark welcomed its one-millionth audience member at the May 16 matinee performance at the Foxwoods Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:38PM[SHARE]Joop van den Ende, chairman of Stage Entertainment, and Thomas Schumacher, producer and president of Disney Theatrical Productions, have announced two international productions of The Little…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PM[SHARE]"Theater Talk," the series devoted to the world of the stage, will spotlight the new, Tony-nominated musical Newsies May 20 at 5 AM ET on WNET/13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]The Last Smoker in America, a new musical comedy, will make its New York premiere July 11 upstairs at the Westside Theatre with an official opening Aug. 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]The Broadway company of the Tony-winning musical The Lion King welcomes Dashaun Young back to the cast May 16 at the Minskoff Theatre (200 West 45th Street).
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AM[SHARE]Tony nominee Elizabeth Swados' Jewish Books Cooking, a new musical based on Jewish-themed children’s books, will premiere at The JCC in Manhattan May 20 and play throughout New Yor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AM[SHARE]Henry Winkler, who is best known for his work as The Fonz on the long-running situation comedy "Happy Days," may be heading back to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AM[SHARE]Playbill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share ten of the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]York Theatre Company presents developmental lab presentations of the new musical In Love with Jobim May 16 at 3 PM and 7 PM and May 17 at 3 PM at The York Theatre at Saint Peter’s.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Following its current tour, Bring It On: The Musical, the new stage production set in the world of competitive cheerleading, will begin a limited engagement at Broadway's St. James Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tony nominee Mark Bramble, who directed the 2001 Tony-winning revival of 42nd Street, will direct a U.K. tour of that tap-happy musical, which launches June 1 at the Rhyl Pavilion.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Mark Wolper, David Geha, Steve Sunshine, Spencer Proffer and Phillipa Sledge will present an industry workshop production of the new musical comedy Serrano – Poet, Lover…Hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PM[SHARE]New principal casting has been announced for the Broadway production of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' international hit musical Mamma Mia!, which continues to play the Winter G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Stage and screen stars Kevin Kline and Dianne Wiest will take part in a staged reading of Carol Rocamora's I take your hand in mine ... the love letters of Anton Chekhov to Olga Knipper …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AM[SHARE]New Dramatists will honor two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters, recently on Broadway in the critically acclaimed revival of Follies, with the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 63rd A…
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