Friday, April 27, 2012
After a multi-city coast-to-coast search that spanned nine months and over 5,000 auditions, the upcoming Broadway revival of Annie has found its title player.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]Actor Simon Russell Beale, director/translator Jeremy Sams, composer Howard Goodall and singer Kerry Ellis will appear in an interview-and-song series, These Are A Few of My Favourite Songs,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Christine Andreas, most recently on Broadway in the acclaimed revival of La Cage aux Folles, is part of the cast of the York Theatre Company's production of Colette Co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony winner Donna Murphy, who will be seen in the Public Theater's summer staging of Into the Woods, and "Smash" star Brian d'Arcy James will announce the nominations for t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Tony Awards Administration Committee assembles for the fourth and final time during the 2011-12 season April 27.
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, April 26, 2012
Ashley Spencer (Grease, Priscilla...) will join the cast of Broadway's Rock of Ages in the role of Sherrie beginning May 10 at the Helen Hayes Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company will honor Tony Award-winning director and CSC veteran Walter Bobbie at its Annual Benefit Gala May 21 at Bridgewaters at South Street Seaport.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company will honor Tony Award-winning director and CSC veteran Walter Bobbie at its Annual Benefit Gala May 21 at Bridgewaters at South Street Seaport.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AM[SHARE]Original The Book of Mormon cast members Michael James Scott and Asmeret Ghebremichael will join forces for Fingerlickin' Fierce May 14 at the Canal Room.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AM[SHARE]"John Leguizamo's Tales from a Ghetto Klown," which offers a behind-the-scenes look at the versatile actor, will make its broadcast premiere on PBS July 13 at 9 PM ET as part o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AM[SHARE]Initial casting has been announced for the Barrington Stage Company's upcoming production of the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AM[SHARE]Canton Theatrical will present industry readings of the new musical Plop May 7 at 1 PM and 5 AM at S.I.R. (in Stage 1) in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AM[SHARE]A live reading of Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's script for the 1960 film "The Apartment" will be presented April 27 at 7:30 PM at Manhattan's TimesCenter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AM[SHARE]Amas Musical Theatre presents free performances of the new musical Marry Harry April 26-28 at Foxwood Rehearsal Studios, 214 West 43rd Street.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The Golden Globe-nominated STARZ series "Boss," which stars Tony nominee and Golden Globe winner Kelsey Grammer as fictional Chicago Mayor Tom Kane, will kick off its second season…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM[SHARE]McCarter Theatre Center has announced the final two productions of its 2012-13 season: Elevator Repair Service’s production of The Select (The Sun Also Rises) and Stephen Sondheim and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PM[SHARE]Tracy Shayne, whose Broadway credits include The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, A Chorus Line and Fosse, will step into the role of Roxie Hart in the Tony-winning revival of Chicago …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]Initial casting has been announced for the national tour of the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart — presented by special arrangement with Daryl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]Jed Bernstein, producing director of Pennsylvania's Bucks County Playhouse, has announced the 2012 summer season for the reopening of the landmark venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]The Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off-Broadway producers, theatres, general managers, press agents and marketing firms, has announced the nominees for the 2nd Annual Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]Falcon Theatre and The Mineral Theater Company will present the world premiere of Scott Caan's No Way Around But Through in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM[SHARE]Irish Repertory Theatre's 2012 Annual Benefit Gala, a concert performance of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, will be presented June 11 at 7 PM at Broadway's Shubert Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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]Filmmaker Justin Lin ("Fast and Furious" franchise) has acquired the film rights to David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, the recent Broadway comedy about an Ohio businessman navigati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PM[SHARE]A host of Broadway favorites will be instructors this summer for Making It on Broadway, a week-long intensive theatre and theatre-education series in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PM[SHARE]The Nederlander Organization and Disney's The Lion King have joined the United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign, a global grassroots movement to fight malaria in Africa.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Award-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz takes part in a post-show talkback following the April 24 performance of the revival of his early musical Godspell at the Circle in the Squar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM[SHARE]Broadway newcomer Raven-Symoné (Sister Act), Drama League nominee Megan Hilty (9 to 5, "Smash") and Justin Long (Seminar) announced the nominees for the 78th Annual Dra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]The May 7 episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash" is titled "Preview" and will air at 10 PM ET.
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