Wednesday, October 24, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AM[SHARE]Marriott Theatre's revival of My One and Only, the 1983 Broadway musical comedy about an aviator and a lady endurance swimmer, will feature The Color Purple Tony Award nominee Felicia P.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The Philadelphia world premiere of the new musical song cycle Stars of David, featuring musical contributions by major writers of the musical theatre, with a script by Tony Award nominee Cha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Thomas Sadoski, of TV's "The Newsroom" and Broadway's reasons to be pretty and Other Desert Cities, stars with Laura Heisler and Peter Katona in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The musical murder-mystery spoof Something's Afoot opens Oct. 24 following previews from Oct. 5 as the final mainstage show of Goodspeed Musicals' 2012 season. The riff on Agath…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater, the Tony Award winner as Outstanding Regional Theatre, will launch the world premiere of Failure: A Love Story, a "magical, musical fable" ab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PM[SHARE]Drama Desk Award nominee Jennifer Lim of Broadway's Chinglish and Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo of Off-Broadway's The Glorious Ones are among cast members of the new Off-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Lo Bianco plays late, beloved New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in a new solo play The Little Flower, written and directed by the actor, in a brief Off-Broadway engagement that …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2012
Playwrights Horizons' world premiere of Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan will feature the newly announced Jeremy Strong (Broadway's A Man for All Seasons), who joins Becky Ann Bake…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PM[SHARE]Brian Hutchison will return to the role of secretive recording engineer Danny Miller, recreating his Broadway performance, in the national tour of Matthew Lombardo's seriocomic biographi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]Irish Repertory Theatre has added three weeks to its run of the well-reviewed A Celebration of Harold Pinter, starring Julian Sands under the direction of John Malkovich. The show, now playi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PM[SHARE]Jeremy Shamos, Mark Blum and Sam Robards will join the previously announced Jessica Hecht and Tony Award winner Judith Light in the world-premiere production of The Assembled Parties, Richar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]Misery, a new stage version of the Stephen King novel about a novelist held captive and hobbled (literally) by his greatest fan, will star Tony Award nominee Johanna Day (Proof) as craz…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]Those filling-station attendants with farmer tans and those waitresses with hot pots of java will make harmony again on Broadway in spring 2013 when the Tony Award-nominated, country-and-pop…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Barry Manilow, the singer-songwriter who writes the songs that make the whole world sing, as his lyric goes, will sing 'em on Broadway in a limited engagement at the St. James Theatre th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2012
Producers of the Broadway-aimed musical Rebecca are planning to file a $100 million lawsuit Oct. 19 in Manhattan Supreme Court against Long Island businessman Mark Hotton for taking thousand…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People, which officially opened Sept. 27 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, has extended its limited engagement by one…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AM[SHARE]The musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, starring Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays in eight roles, opens Oct. 19 at Hartford Stage in Connecticut following previews from Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rupert Holmes' Tony Award-winning musical whodunit The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which allows audiences to determine the ending of Charles Dickens' final, unfinished novel, casts a sha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sharks in a real-estate office, begins previews Oct. 19 prior to a Nov. 11 opening at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2012
George and Martha's marital woes will give an added chill to Broadway this winter. The 50th-anniversary production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which opened…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AM[SHARE]PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, will record a new album of Tony Award nominee Rebecca Luker singing the songs of Jerome Kern, drawing …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago presents the world premiere of Brett Neveu's The Opponent, about the world of small-time boxing, directed by Karen Kessler, Oct. 18-Dec. 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Bruce Norris, whose play Clybourne Park features white and African-American characters — to Pulitzer Prize-honored, Tony Award-winning effect — stripped a German theatre company …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM[SHARE]The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, has enlisted Stratford Shakespeare Festival favorites Sara Topham and Bruce Dow to be among the woods-dwelling characters in A Midsummer Ni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]The Philadelphia world premiere of the new musical song cycle Stars of David, featuring song contributions by major writers of the musical theatre, begins Oct. 17. The cast features Nancy Ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov, already extended by two weeks to Dec. 9, begins its run Oct. 17 at CSC's home on East 13th Street. Ethan Ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Los Angeles debut of the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar, starring Aya Cash, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Jennifer Ikeda and Greg Keller, all circling Academy A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The 50th season of two-time Tony Award-winning Goodspeed Musicals will include revivals of the Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Good News! and The Most Happy Fella, all at the historic Goods…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PM[SHARE]The Clive Barnes Foundation nominated four actors and three dancers for its 2012 Clive Barnes Awards. One artist from each discipline will be named later this year. Joaquina Kalukango of Off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff revealed a new side of himself in the midwest on Oct. 13 when he sang two sold-out cabaret performances that featured pop music, show tunes and specialty nu…
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