Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Irish Repertory Theatre's It's a Wonderful Life, The 1946 Live Radio Play begins Off-Broadway Dec. 5 prior to its Dec. 10 opening on Irish Rep's intimate second stage, the W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, a musical passion project by writer Kathie Lee Gifford, will close on Broadway Dec. 9, its producers announced on Dec. 4. The biogr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:45PM[SHARE]Stephen Kaplan's new play, A Real Boy, about an unusual teacher-student relationship, will get a private reading in New York City on Dec. 7. Brad Oscar (The Addams Family, The Producers)…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PM[SHARE]United States Artists, the not-for-profit organization that grants money to artists in multiple disciplines, announced its 2012 USA Fellows, including playwright David Henry Hwang.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PM[SHARE]Denver Center Theatre Company announced five plays to be explored in staged readings as part of the 8th Annual Colorado New Play Summit, to run Feb. 8-10, 2013. The playwrights are Catherine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's New York City premiere of Golden Age, four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally's play about the world of composer Vincenzo Bellini, opens Dec. 4 followin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The cast recording of the short-lived Broadway musical Leap of Faith, which features a score by composer Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, is released digitally Dec. 4 prior to an in-store relea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2012
George Morfogen, lately of Classic Stage Company's Ivanov, will step into the shoes of Italian composer Rossini in the New York City premiere of Terrence McNally's Golden Age startin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]Vineyard Theatre's Dec. 10 benefit reading of Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls, a standout title from the not-for-profit's 30 years of producing, will star Emmy Award winner Penny Ful…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PM[SHARE]Airswimming, the 1997 play by Charlotte Jones — known for Humble Boy and The Woman in White — will get its U.S. premiere by The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan beginning Jan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PM[SHARE]Murder Ballad, the new rock musical by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash, now getting its world premiere by Manhattan Theatre Club, will be preserved on a cast recording from Yellow Label Sound.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM[SHARE]Eclectic winter programming for Off-Broadway's 59E59 Theaters — the hive of intimate spaces on East 59th Street — was announced by artistic director Elysabeth Kleinhans and e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company's musical theatre producing arm benefits from a Dec. 3 Broadway reunion concert of the company's 2004 Tony Award-winning revival of Stephen Sondheim and Jo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2012
We Three Lizas, a "queer culture" musical twist on Christmas wishes, gets its world premiere Nov. 30-Dec. 23 in a staging by About Face Theatre in Chicago. Performances play The St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up!, a new marriage-minded comedy by Annabella Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn, begins its national tour at Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park with a Nov. 30-De…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2012
Dan Castellaneta, who voices Homer on TV's "The Simpsons," is among the comic performers in the world premiere of The Second City's A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company is extending the run of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson an additional three weeks, now to Jan. 13, 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PM[SHARE]Yank!, the musical about a young gay American soldier facing first love as he is swept into World War II, will have a cast album and a future licensing life rather than an imminent Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[SHARE]Students in the University of Northern Colorado's theatre program perform alongside guest artist Lucy Peacock, the Canadian theatre star revered for her work at the Stratford Festival, i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The new musical Amazing Grace, the backstory of the famous spiritual song of the title, will get a Manhattan reading Dec. 11-12 featuring Broadway and film star Robby Benson and Tony Award n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AM[SHARE]Coney Island Christmas, billed as a "Jewish Christmas show" for people of all ages and all faiths, by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, opens Nov. 28 following previews from …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Broadway Bares, the evening of steamy theatrical striptease that benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will return for its 23rd edition on Sunday, June 23, 2013, at Roseland Ballroom i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:56PM[SHARE]Hallmark Movie Channel presents the TV special "Annie's Search for Sandy," about the rescue of a pooch to play the role of "Sandy" in Broadway's Annie, at 7:30 PM…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PM[SHARE]Laura Osnes, the 2012 Tony Award-nominated actress who is becoming the go-to singer-actress for producers who want a sincere, plaintive and warm sound, sings the songs of Tony winner Maury Y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Neil Patrick Harris, a fan of magic since his childhood, directs Nothing to Hide, a unique theatrical event featuring sleight-of-hand artists Derek DelGaudio (2011 Close-Up Magician of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 26, 2012
Some of the best-known songs from theatre, pop and movies will be heard Off-Broadway this winter in the New York City premiere of The Wonderful Wizard of Song: The Music of Harold Arlen, a n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PM[SHARE]Ann, actress-writer Holland Taylor's biographical play about late Texas Governor Ann Richards, will begin Broadway previews Feb. 18, 2013, prior to the previously announced opening date …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM[SHARE]Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater, a Tony Award winner as Outstanding Regional Theatre, opens the world premiere of Failure: A Love Story, a "magical, musical fable" about the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 25, 2012
A starry Broadway concert to aid New York and New Jersey communities affected by Hurricane Sandy, scheduled for Nov. 26 at the Gershwin Theatre, has been moved to Dec. 10, organizers announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company's limited-engagement Broadway revival of Edmond Rostand's verse romance Cyrano de Bergerac — starring Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge as the nobleman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 24, 2012
Larry Hagman, the actor who shot to international fame by playing villainous oil baron J.R. Ewing on the 1980s TV soap opera "Dallas," died Nov. 23 at Medical City in Dallas after …
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