Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]The Long Wharf Theatre staging of the one-man Louis Armstrong play Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson, has extended its run an additional four performances through Nov. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PM[SHARE]The Goodman Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and Chicago Shakespeare Theater's revival of Follies each took six Joseph Jefferson Awards at the Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AM[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2012
Tony Lo Bianco will play 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 t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PM[SHARE]The 25th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will be celebrated as a Special Gala Performance on Jan. 26, 2013. Exact details of the 6:3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PM[SHARE]Simon Stephens' Harper Regan earned a handful of glowing reviews in recent days, including praise for Mary McCann in the title role, prompting Atlantic Theater Company to announce an ext…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]The F.B.I. and the U.S. Attorney's office charged Long Island businessman Mark Hotton with defrauding the producers of the Broadway show Rebecca – The Musical "by fabricating …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM[SHARE]The Jeff Awards, celebrating excellence in Chicago-area Equity theatre, will be given out Oct. 15. A dozen new plays or adaptations are in the mix, pointing to Chicago as a continuing breedi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 13, 2012
Sex, drugs, religion, celebrity, music and romance are swirled together in the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, co-written by Kathie Lee Gifford, beginn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]George and Martha, the English-speaking theatre's most contentious married couple since Katharina and Petruchio, are back on Broadway in a new production of Edward Albee's Who's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2012
Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Roundabout Theatre Company's Cyrano de Bergerac.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PM[SHARE]Miriam Margolyes' Olivier Award-nominated one-woman show, Dickens' Women, an intimate evening of indelible characters that has been presented around the world, will play two Manhatta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Anthony LaPaglia plays Richard M. Nixon opposite Tony nominee Kathryn Erbe as wife Pat in Douglas McGrath's new political-minded play, Checkers, beginning Oct. 12 at Of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Shuler Hensley, who won a Tony Award for playing brooding Jud Fry in Oklahoma!, stars in the New York City premiere of Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale, about a 600-pound m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2012
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's new production of Sunday in the Park With George, embraced by critics and selling briskly, will get an extra week, now to Nov. 11, the Tony Award-winning th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM[SHARE]The U.S. premiere of Nick Payne's humor-kissed dysfunctional-family drama If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, at Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway home at the Laura Pels …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PM[SHARE]The creative team of the new musical Diner, based on the movie of the same name, began a four-week workshop Oct. 8 in Manhattan to prepare for the show's spring 2013 Broadway bow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, continues it commitment to developing new works with a one-weekend-only concert of Crossing, a musical by Matt Conner (Nevermore; The Hollow) and Grace Ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Obie Award winner Lisa Emery plays drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite David Chandler as aging actor James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night, opening Oct. 11 at Actors Theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]As if performing in an animated Baroque-era painting, Clémence Poésy, Patrick Page, Bill Buell, Kyle Soller and Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge star in the new Broadway product…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Carol Channing's Oct. 20 public Q&A at The Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts on the Campus of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, has been postponed to a later date owing…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]Launching a new musical is complicated. In order to allow for the sharpening of the technical aspects of the world-premiere production of the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PM[SHARE]Truman Capote's indelible little-girl-lost, Holly Golightly, will appear on Broadway in early 2013 in a new Richard Greenberg adaptation of the novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's.&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Ella Minnow Pea, a musical fantasy about disintegrating language on an island, by Larson Award-winning writers Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel, will get private performances in Manhattan Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AM[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 12:01AM[SHARE]The Gate Theatre Dublin's production of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape starring John Hurt opens Oct. 10 in a Los Angeles run through Nov. 4 at Center Theatre Group's Kirk…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Christopher Innvar, Mary McCann, Mary Beth Peil, Jordan Lage, Madeleine Martin, Gareth Saxe and more bring Simon Stephens' tale of Harper Regan to life for Off-Broadway's Atlantic Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The American premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, starring stage and film actress Karen Allen, dawns Off-Broadway Oct. 10 at the Cherry Lane Theatre under the wings of the Rattlestick P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Tony Award nominee Thomas Sadoski, lately a star of TV's "The Newsroom," appears with Laura Heisler and Peter Katona in the world premiere of Michael Golamco's play about r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PM[SHARE]Obie Award winner Lisa Emery plays drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite David Chandler as aging actor James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night at Actors Theatre of Louisville starting…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]Monday, October 8, 2012
The attorney representing the lead producers of the stalled Broadway musical Rebecca said in a statement released the evening of Oct. 7 that following "an extensive inquiry in New York …
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