Wednesday, October 31, 2012
When Disney buys the characters who populate the "Star Wars" franchise, can a Broadway musical set in "a galaxy far, far away" be far behind?
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AM[SHARE]The new resident Chicago-area production of the musical Annie, produced by Paramount Theatre this fall, will star Gene Weygandt (Broadway's Big, Chicago's Wicked) as Daddy Warbucks, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's Murder Ballad, a new rock musical that launches the company's new Studio at Stage II Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series, begins previews Oct. 31 &mdas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Hurricane Sandy, downgraded to a tropical storm as it made landfall the evening of Monday, Oct. 29, left a lasting mark on New York City. A blackout south of 38th Street in Manhattan on Mond…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:57PM[SHARE]Actor George Wendt has left the in-rehearsal company of The Odd Couple at the Chicago-area's Northlight Theatre due to medical reasons, the not-for-profit announced on Oct. 30. Marc Grap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]Playbill.com reached out to housebound theatre people in New York City and surrounding states to ask what they were doing Oct. 29-30 as Hurricane Sandy lashed the area. Here's what we le…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PM[SHARE]Hurricane Sandy, downgraded to a tropical storm as it made landfall the evening of Monday, Oct. 29, left its mark on New York City, and the effects will be felt for days to come. A blackout …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PM[SHARE]Vineyard Theatre, one of thousands of downtown tenants in the shadow of a blackout following the Oct. 29 landfall of Hurricane Sandy, is suspending performances of its world-premiere product…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PM[SHARE]Neil Patrick Harris, a fan of magic since his childhood, will direct Nothing to Hide, a unique theatrical event to feature sleight-of-hand artists Derek DelGaudio (2011 Close-Up Magician of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PM[SHARE]Hurricane Sandy, downgraded to a tropical storm as it made landfall the evening of Monday, Oct. 29, left its mark on New York City, and the effects will be felt for days to come. A blackout …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31AM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2012
Hurricane Sandy's trajectory into the mid-Atlantic coast, lashing New Jersey and New York Oct. 28-30, prompted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to order a mass transit shutdown that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:34PM[SHARE]Playbill.com reached out to housebound theatre people in New York City and surrounding states to ask what they're doing Oct. 29-30 as Hurricane Sandy lashes the area.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PM[SHARE]Chicago's major resident theatre devoted to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer and ally (LGBTQA) experience is losing its artistic director. Bonnie Metzgar will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 28, 2012
Hurricane Sandy's trajectory into the mid-Atlantic coast, eyeing New Jersey and New York Oct. 28-30, has prompted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to order a masst transit shutdown …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44PM[SHARE]Hurricane Sandy's trajectory into the mid-Atlantic coast, eyeing New Jersey and New York Oct. 28-30, has prompted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to order a masst transit shutdown …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44PM[SHARE]Hurricane Sandy's trajectory into the mid-Atlantic coast, eyeing New Jersey and New York Oct. 28-29, has prompted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to order a shutdown of mass transi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PM[SHARE]Hurricane Sandy's trajectory into the mid-Atlantic coast, eyeing New Jersey and New York Oct. 28-29, has prompted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to order a shutdown of mass transi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 27, 2012
Broadway's Jason Danieley, of Curtains, Candide, Next to Normal and The Full Monty, is inking-in the title role(s) in Sunday in the Park With George, for Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2012
Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Group, Inc., the producers of The Phantom of the Opera, confirmed on Oct. 26 that the man behind the mask for the show's milestone 25th anniversary perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PM[SHARE]Vineyard Theatre is extending its world-premiere run of Oscar nominee Douglas McGrath's play Checkers, about Pat and Dick Nixon, by two weeks, now through Dec. 2. The Terry Kinney-direct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PM[SHARE]American Dance Machine for the 21st Century, an organization committed to preserving the heritage of musical film and theatre choreography, will stage recreations of work by Susan Stroman, J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]Nova Y. Payton will play Effie White, the most turbulent of the Dreamgirls in the Signature Theatre's holiday-season revival of the 1981 musical, in Arlington, VA. Associate artistic dir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AM[SHARE]Emotional Creature, the new play by Eve Ensler that had its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in June, resurfaces Off-Broadway Oct. 26. Ensler, the Tony Award-honored playwright, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2012
Only a handful of tickets are left for Roundabout Theatre Company's Dec. 3 reunion concert of the 2004 Tony Award-winning revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins. Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PM[SHARE]White collar criminal Garth Drabinsky — the theatre impresario who once ran the Broadway producing organization Livent, which collapsed in a $500 million financial scandal — has …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PM[SHARE]Ella Minnow Pea, a new musical fantasy about disintegrating language on an island, by Larson Award-winning writers Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel, gets private performances in Manhattan Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Two old friends reunite in the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater American premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, starring stage and film actress Karen Allen, which officially opens Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Coney Island Christmas, billed as a "Jewish Christmas show" for people of all ages and all faiths, by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, will star Arye Gross and Isabella Acre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]Justin Guarini, Garth Kravits, Lauren Molina, Jill Paice and Kevin Pariseau will star in Bucks County Playhouse's It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry, the com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PM[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 12:04PM[SHARE]A stage adaptation of the thriller short story that inspired the film "Rear Window" hopes to raise a blind on Broadway, producers announced on Oct. 24. The Cornell Woolrich tale of…
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