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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46AM[SHARE]Playwrights Horizons' world premiere of Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan, with Jeremy Strong (Broadway's A Man for All Seasons) playing a young Brooklyn journalist shaken by a reve…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Misery, a new stage version of the Stephen King novel about a novelist held captive and hobbled by his greatest fan, gets its world premiere starting Nov. 24 in an adaptation by two-time Aca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 23, 2012
The Old Globe's 15th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! in San Diego, starring Steve Blanchard (Broadway's Beauty and the Beast) as the green villain…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]In anticipation of Roundabout Theatre Company's Dec. 3 Broadway reunion concert of the Tony Award-winning production of Assassins, Playbill revisits our exclusive look at the nine title …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Cleavant Derricks and the company of the play-with-music Pullman Porter Blues — seen earlier this fall in Seattle — gather again Nov. 23 at Arena Stage in Washi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 22, 2012
Minita Gandhi, Behzad Dabu, Kamal J. Hans, Arya Daire, Teresa Kuruvila, Owais Ahmed and Debargo Sanyal will populate the American premiere of Anupama Chandrasekhar's Disconnect, a drama …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Matthew Montelongo will join the national tour of Looped starring the previously announced four-time Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Valerie Harper and Brian Hutchison. Montelongo w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PM[SHARE]Demand for tickets has prompted a second and final extension of the New York City premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The run w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PM[SHARE]The cast recording of the short-lived Broadway musical Leap of Faith, which features a score by composer Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, will be released digitally Dec. 4 and physically Dec. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]The track list has been announced for the original cast recording of the Off-Broadway musical Now. Here. This.; funding for the CD was raised through Kickstarter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]Terminus, a "spoken-word Irish rap-opera" that was acclaimed in Toronto's SummerWorks Festival, gets a unique transfer — the cast and the audience of 200 inhabit the stag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A new resident Chicago-area production of the musical Annie, produced by Paramount Theatre, begins Nov. 21 in Aurora, IL, starring Gene Weygandt (Broadway's Big, Chicago's Wicked) as…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Edie Falco, previously announced to star in Liz Flahive's The Madrid for Manhattan Theatre Club, will be joined by Tony Award nominee John Ellison Conlee (Murder Ballad at MTC), Drama De…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PM[SHARE]Totem, the new Cirque du Soleil show written and directed by visionary international director Robert Lepage, will make its New York City debut in a Big Top on the grounds of Citi Field &mdas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM[SHARE]Coney Island Christmas, billed as a "Jewish Christmas show" for people of all ages and all faiths, by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, begins Nov. 20 in what's hoped to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2012
Irish Repertory Theatre's new production of Brian Friel's Freedom of the City will get a three-week extension, resuming performances after the holidays. A hiatus begins Nov. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PM[SHARE]The producers of the coming national tour of Flashdance — The Musical revealed complete casting on Nov. 19. The previously announced Emily Padgett as Alex, Matthew Hydzik as Nick and R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Signature Theatre Company staging of the late August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, legacy and ghosts, has …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]Broadway stars will perform in a benefit to aid New York and New Jersey communities affected by Hurricane Sandy Nov. 26 at the Gershwin Theatre. City of Hope: Broadway Blows Back will featur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 18, 2012
Drew Sarich, the American actor who has had a busy career performing musicals in Europe, plays iconic underdog boxer Rocky Balboa in Rocky the Musical, opening in its world premiere Nov…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tommy Tune is getting his act together, shrinking it to cabaret size and singing and dancing in Manhattan again. We get the lowdown on Taps, Tunes and Tall Tales, plus an update about his ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Signature Theatre Company staging of the late August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, legacy and ghosts, open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, in an adaptation by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, ends its limited engagement on schedule Nov. 18 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 17, 2012
The Old Globe's 15th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! in San Diego, starring Steve Blanchard (Broadway's Beauty and the Beast) as the green villain…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2012
Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash's Murder Ballad, a new rock musical starring John Ellison Conlee, Rebecca Naomi Jones,
Karen Oli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company will produce a new Broadway production of Philip Barry's comedy of class, manners and marriage, The Philadelphia Story, directed by two-time Tony Award nominee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PM[SHARE]The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) announced on Nov. 15 that director John Tiffany and choreographer Steven Hoggett are winners of the Joe A. Callaway Awards for excell…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PM[SHARE]Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater, a Tony Award winner as Outstanding Regional Theatre, launches the world premiere of Failure: A Love Story, a "magical, musical fable" about t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 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 02:46PM[SHARE]Producers Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo will bring a third sports-oriented play to Broadway following earlier productions of Lombardi and Magic/Bird, and the subject is close to home: The Ne…
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