Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Following acclaimed openings in Washington and New York, the Kennedy Center's Broadway production of the award-winning musical Follies, which was recently nominated for eight Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[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]Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Josh Young, who is currently making his Broadway debut in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, recently earned a 2012 Tony nomination for Best P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]The 2012 Theatre World Award winners for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2011-12 theatrical season were announced May 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PM[SHARE]On June 3 The Blank Theatre will present a starry evening featuring scenes, songs and speeches from 20 years of The Blank's Young Playwrights Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AM[SHARE]The Actors Fund's nearly-100 member team at the May 5 Revlon Run/Walk for Women in Times Square raised nearly $25,000 to fight women’s cancers; the team placed sixth overall in fun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]Laura Osnes, a 2012 Tony nominee for her performance in Bonnie & Clyde, will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox May 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AM[SHARE]A host of Broadway talent will be heard on Scott Alan's newest CD, which was recorded live in April at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]"Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project," a two-CD, 26-song set of lullabies composed and sung by some of Broadway's finest, arrives May 8; a lavishly illustrated book and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2012
In Masks Outrageous and Austere, the final full-length play by the late Tennessee Williams, starring Shirley Knight, Alison Fraser and Sam Underwood, will end its run earlier than expected, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]At This Performance, the ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies, continues May 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actresses Stockard Channing (nominated again for her current performance in Other Desert Cities) and Laura Benanti star in a one-night only reading of Pulitzer Prize winne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Playbill magazine editor Blake Ross hosts "Success on Broadway: The Un-Broadway Way," a panel discussion presented May 7 as part of the fourth annual Creative Week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Tony-winning revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's Chicago welcomes the return of Broadway favorites Terra C. MacLeod and Roz Ryan May 7 in the roles of, respectively, merry murderes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The New Group's one-night-only benefit reading of Tom Eyen's Women Behind Bars, featuring Cynthia Nixon, Natasha Lyonne, Charles Busch and Rosie O’Donnell, gets booked May 7 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 6, 2012
Tony winner Linda Lavin, recently nominated for Broadway's highest honor for her performance in the current Nicky Silver comedy The Lyons, plays the Metropolitan Room May 6-7 at 9:30 PM.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway company of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Wicked offer a special performance to benefit The Actors Fund May 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 5, 2012
Tony Award winner John Larroquette, who is currently back on Broadway in the revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, and "Eyewitness News" anchor Michelle Charlesworth co-host &q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Playbill.com's series features brief chats with actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, via e-mail, we he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2012
Hero Theatre will present a benefit staged reading of William Shakespeare’s King Lear May 21 at 7:30 PM at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre/Laura Pels Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]When the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Rachel Potter, who is currently portraying the Mistress in the Broadway revival of Evita, will play the intimate stage of Joe's Pub May 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Betty Buckley, who received rave reviews for her April concerts, Ah Men! The Boys of Broadway, in her hometown of Fort Worth, will offer encore performances later this mont…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AM[SHARE]Producer Richard Stevens, in association with David Holmes, will present a reading of the new musical Black Diamond May 7 at 7 PM at Screenland Studios in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]At This Performance, the ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies, will continue May 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AM[SHARE]Following the nationwide vote, finalist Skylar Laine was eliminated on the May 3 broadcast of the famed singing competition "American Idol."
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]Entertainment has been announced for the 57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards, which will be held May 21 at Webster Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AM[SHARE]Casting is now complete for the national tour of the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart — presented by special arrangement with Daryl Roth, and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Melanie Griffith has replaced the previously announced Lainie Kazan in Falcon Theatre and The Mineral Theater Company's upcoming presentation of the world premiere of Scott Caan's No…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]Two-time Tony winner Andre De Shields brings his theatrical concert Black By Popular Demand to The Laurie Beechman Theatre beginning May 4 at 11 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Canadian actor Paul Gross, seen in the recent Broadway revival of Private Lives, heads the cast of the McCarter Theatre Center's world premiere of John Guare's Are You There, McPhee?…
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