Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes, a one-man show that recounts the true story of escaping prison, begins performances at the Barrow Street Theatre Sept. 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes, a one-man show that recounts the true story of escaping prison, begins performances at the Barrow Street Theatre Sept. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]TACT/The Actors Company Theatre presents the groundbreaking drama The Killing of Sister George, which explores sexual identity, power and politics in a changing world, beginning Sept. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: Cheek To Cheek," a new album featuring classic jazz standards in both vocal duets and solo performance, is released on Streamline/Columbia/Interscope R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, which celebrates Off-Off-Broadway, presents its annual awards Sept. 22 at Mason Hall at the Baruch Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Barnes and Noble celebrates the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof Sept. 22 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 21, 2014
Marjorie Prime, a new play by Jordan Harrison about a woman whose memory is fading, officially opens at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 21 following previ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya officially opens at the The Pearl Theatre Company Sept. 21 following previews that began Sept. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2014
Sir Tim Rice, a prolific, Tony-winning lyricist whose career spans several decades, has been named an icon of Broadcast Music, Inc.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]Sir Tim Rice, a prolific, Tony-winning lyricist whose career spans several decades, has been named an icon of Broadcast Music, Inc.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]"Jeremy Jordan: Breaking Character," featuring stage and screen star Jeremy Jordan performing songs that have defined his career, will be presented by the Levi Strauss Foundation O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM[SHARE]Heléne Yorke, last seen on Broadway as the ambitious aspiring performer Olive Neal in Bullets Over Broadway, will present Heléne Yorke: My Blossom Dearie at 54 Below Se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AM[SHARE]Jonathan Cake, who has appeared on Broadway in the classic dramas Medea and Cymbeline, will appear in the new USA drama "Stanistan," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AM[SHARE]Shirley Jones, who starred in the film of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" as Marian Paroo, returns to the musical in a concert production, co-starring with her son Patri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world-premiere production of Found, the original musical inspired by found letters and notes, begins at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater Sept. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2014
"Have you ever wanted to be me?" Neil Patrick Harris asks in the new trailer for his choose-your-own-adventure book "Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiogr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PM[SHARE]A rare revival 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, the scandalous play about incest, will be featured in Red Bull Theater's 2014-15 season, as well as a new season of the Revelation Rea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PM[SHARE]Cutting-edge political plays, as well as works that explore gender roles in present-day society, will be featured in the Goodman Theatre's New Stages Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Alison Bechdel, author of the graphic novel "Fun Home," and playwright Samuel D. Hunter have been named recipients of the 2014 MacArthur Fellowship.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Lisa Ramirez's politically charged drama To The Bone officially opens Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre Sept. 17 following prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]James Franco, the ubiquitous actor who was seen on Broadway in Of Mice and Men and who recently directed the Off-Broadway play The Long Shrift, is now starring in an online comedy series…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Center Theatre Group engagement of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful begins previews Sept. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Tony Award nominee Stephen Adly Guirgis, whose play Between Riverside and Crazy was recently presented by the Atlantic Theater Company, will be honored with the Steinberg Distinguished Playw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]Ismenia Mendes, who previously appeared at Playwrights Horizons in Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra, has joined the cast of the world-premiere production of Grand Concourse, a ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PM[SHARE]The Stratford Festival's productions of King Lear, King John and Antony and Cleopatra will be filmed and screened for international release and broadcast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]Bad Jews, Joshua Elias Harmon's comedy about family and faith, will make its midwest premiere at Chicago's Theater Wit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]As part of its "Globe on Screen" season, the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre's Tony-nominated all-male production of Twelfth Night, featuring Mark Rylance and Stephen F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2014
James Cromwell, who played media mogul William Randolph Hearst in the TV movie "RKO 281," will take on another media mogul when he stars in the Sydney production of the play Rupert…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PM[SHARE]The cult favorite musical Ruthless! has returned to New York for a limited run to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Playbill.com attended a performance of the show-business sati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PM[SHARE]Joe Calarco, who has helmed revivals of Gypsy, Side Show and Urinetown at the Signature Theatre, has been named the resident director/director of new works at the Washington, D.C.-based …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AM[SHARE]Brian d'Arcy James will star in "Spotlight," a new movie about the Boston priests scandal, Deadline.com reports.
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