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…
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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")…
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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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2012
Viswa Subbaraman, artistic director and founder of Opera Vista in Houston and former assistant conductor of the Orchestre National de France, was named the new artistic director of Skylight …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]Ella, the musical biography of American singer Ella Fitzgerald, a popular title in regional theatres, is currently making its New York City premiere at Queens Theatre, now to Oct. 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PM[SHARE]The Princess of Wales Theatre, which opened in Toronto in 1993 to house Canadian sitdowns of major musicals like Miss Saigon, the inaugural show there, will be demolished to make way for new…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 30, 2012
"Last night I dreamt I wentto Manderley again," the opening line of Daphne du Maurier's novel, "Rebecca," will not be sung on Broadway this fall. Producers Ben Sprech…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 29, 2012
The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story, a popular and sold-out Chicago-area title in 2006, gets revived by First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook, IL, opening Sept. 29. Christian Gray plays …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2012
P.J. Benjamin, Naomi Brockwell, Stephen R. Buntrock, Rachel de Benedet, Nancy Johnston and Robert Petkoff will star in a three-performance staged concert performance of the chamber musical M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PM[SHARE]The Old Globe production of Allegiance – A New American Musical, telling the story of Japanese Americans forced into concentration camps on U.S. soil during World War II, will get an a…
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