Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36AM[SHARE]A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago will present 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]Sunday, October 7, 2012
Broadway stars Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess, Ragtime, Master Class, A Raisin in the Sun, Carousel) and Will Swenson (Hair, Priscilla Queen of the Desert) were married on Oct. 6 at their ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM[SHARE]Lord of the Flies, Nigel Williams' stage adaptation of William Golding's harrowing novel about children creating a brutal society after being stranded on an island, opens Oct. 7 in a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PM[SHARE]November, David Mamet's comedy set in the White House, opens Oct. 7 in a new production starring Ed Begley, Jr., as the incumbent U.S. President, at Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 6, 2012
The new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress begins previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre Oct. 6. Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain ("The Help")…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2012
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, will get an extra week of per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PM[SHARE]The Hartford Stage cast of the spring 2013 world-premiere stage adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Man in a Case, featuring the previously announced Mikhail Baryshnikov, will also feature Jes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]The musical murder-mystery spoof Something's Afoot begins Oct. 5 as the final mainstage show of Goodspeed Musicals' 2012 season. The riff on Agatha Christie tales, with a lady d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2012
Marc Bruni, the busy regional, Off-Broadway and concert director, will direct the Manhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere production of Nell Benjamin's comedy The Explorers Club star…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PM[SHARE]The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's world-premiere staging of Mia Chung's You for Me for You, a fantasy about North Korean sisters facing the regime there, will feature Kimberly Gil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PM[SHARE]Julianne Nicholson, best known for her television work on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," has joined the cast of the film version of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2012
The collapse of the $12 million musical Rebecca in the days before rehearsals were to begin on Oct. 1 was mourned by the cast and staff at a meeting called by the producers. The suddenly une…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PM[SHARE]The Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a doctor whose life is shaken, will feature the previously announced Laurie Metcalf, reprising her earlier O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]Arden Theatre Company's resident Philadelphia production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, featuring a unique video design that takes audiences "into the mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Jason Danieley, of Broadway's Candide, Curtains, The Full Monty and Next to Normal, plays George in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's new production of Sunday in the Park With Georg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Annie, the show that introduced generations of children to the tuneful optimism of traditional Broadway musicals, is back on Broadway starting Oct. 3. The 35th anniversary revival of the tal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The rolling world premiere of Terry Teachout's one-man play Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson, launches the Long Wharf Theatre's 2012-2013 season Oct. 3 in New H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Curt Hansen, of Broadway's Hairspray and Next to Normal, will play Snow White's Prince in an English-flavored "panto" production of A Snow White Christmas at Pasadena Playh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PM[SHARE]The Brooks Atkinson Theatre will be the Broadway garage of Hands On a Hardbody, the new musical about a gaggle of American dreamers engaged in an endurance test to win a pickup truck. Produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]The 2012 Henry Hewes Design Awards recipients are David Korins (Chinglish), Gregg Barnes (Follies), Brian MacDevitt (Death of a Salesman) and Daniel Kluger (Tribes), the HHDA committee annou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AM[SHARE]Rachel York is good company on the national tour of Cole Porter's Anything Goes, launching Oct. 2 in Cleveland. Her shipmates in the transatlantic-set show include Fred Applega…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Signature Theatre's staging of Christopher Shinn's homefront drama Dying City, featuring Thomas Keegan and Helen Hayes Award nominee Rachel Zampelli under the direction of Matthew Ga…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Portland Center Stage in Oregon unveils the world premiere of The Body of an American, about a war photographer haunted by the spirit of the soldier whose body he photographed, Oct. 2-Nov. 1…
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