Friday, September 28, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AM[SHARE]Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) opens the world-premiere production of Broken and Entered by Madison, Wisconsin-based playwright Kurt McGinnis Brown on Sept. 28. The play, which examines cha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AM[SHARE]Vince Pesce, choreographer of Goodspeed Musicals' in-rehearsal production of the mystery musical Something's Afoot, has taken over the direction of the show. Due to a critical illnes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AM[SHARE]Mark St. Germain's two-character play Freud's Last Session will star two-time Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh (of TV's "Ed") as C. S. Le…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2012
The Canadian Theatre Critics Association have named Judith Thompson, "one of Canada's darkest and most daring playwrights," as recipient of the 2012 Herbert Whittaker-CTCA Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PM[SHARE]The New York City premiere of Terrence McNally's Golden Age, the backstage story of the Bellini opera I Puritani, will feature "Pushing Daisies" star Lee Pace as the 19th-centu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PM[SHARE]Director-choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge's creative team for the world premiere of Sense & Sensibility The Musical will include Tony Award-nominated set designer Allen Moyer, Tony…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PM[SHARE]The new Off-Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, part of Signature Theatre Company's 2012-13 Hwang residency, will get an added week, now to Dec. 9. There is &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov will get two additional weeks, to Dec. 9, at CSC's home on East 13th Street. Ethan Hawke plays the title role, so…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]George and Martha, the English-speaking theatre's most contentious married couple since Katharina and Petruchio, are back on Broadway Sept. 27 for the first preview of the 50th-anniversa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People, adapted by British dramatist Rebecca Lenkiewicz and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes, opens Sept. 27 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre officially opens its 2012-13 season on Sept. 27 with Brian Friel's Lovers, made up of two related one-acts. Previews began Sept. 18 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The cast of the rehearsal-delayed new Broadway musical Rebecca was informed by producers in a Sept. 26 email that rehearsals would commence on Oct. 1, indicating that the show's previous…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:57PM[SHARE]Andy Williams, the smooth vocalist who was the epitome of the "easy listening sound" of the 1960s and '70s, singing songs by Henry Mancini and others, died Sept. 25 of complica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PM[SHARE]Colony, the Times Square-area music store variously referred to as Colony Records, Colony Music or just The Colony since 1948, is now a memory. Owner Richard Turk confirmed that the last day…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PM[SHARE]Queen for a Day: The Musical, inspired by the radio and TV reality show of yesteryear, gets its world premiere in a 12-performance run in Toronto starting Sept. 26. TV's Alan Thicke (&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sanaa Lathan reprises her New York City role of a maid-turned-movie star in Lynn Nottage's satiric comedy By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, opening Sept. 26 following previews from …
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]Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The new Pasadena Playhouse production of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel, directed by artistic director Sheldon Epps, will star Kristy Johnson, Dawnn Lewis, Angel Reda, Adam J. Smith, Da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:03PM[SHARE]Clifford Odets' groundbreaking 1935 agitprop play, Waiting for Lefty, about union members on the brink of a strike during hard times, received a private reading presentation Sept. 24 as …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM[SHARE]Satchmo at the Waldorf, Terry Teachout's new play about musician Louis Armstrong, will make its Philadelphia debut Nov. 16-Dec. 2 in an engagement at The Wilma Theater. The Philly stagin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44PM[SHARE]Winners of the 2012 Barrymore Awards, celebrating excellence in Philadelphia-area theatre, were announced Sept. 25. Productions of The Scottsboro Boys, Twelfth Night and Body Awareness are a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Signature Theatre Company staging of the late August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AM[SHARE]"The Carlyle Set," the 2003 solo album by two-time Tony Award winner Christine Andreas, which has gone out of print, is being re-released by PS Classics, the label devoted to the h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2012
Dorothy Ateca Carter, an African-American stage actress who starred in three pre-Civil Rights-era plays, including a Broadway adaptation of the novel "Strange Fruit," about an inte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PM[SHARE]Toronto's Mirvish Productions — known for big musicals in the Ontario metropolis — is packaging a collection of smaller, riskier productions produced by local and internation…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PM[SHARE]Ann, actress-writer Holland Taylor's biographical play about late Texas Governor Ann Richards, will get a Broadway stage — and a big one — on March 7, 2013, when it opens at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PM[SHARE]The Shaw Festival on Ontario announced Sept. 24 that its 2013 season will include 10 productions, including George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, the musicals Guys and Dolls and The Light…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]The Great American Mousical, the new musical to be directed by Julie Andrews, on whose children's book the show is based, will star Tony Award nominee Emily Skinner as a diva mouse named…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir, Keith Bunin's nightclub-set play with music about a gay singer in the decade before gay rights and identity began to blossom, get its West Coast premiere sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]New York Theatre Workshop's 2012-13 season-launching production of Red Dog Howls, Alexander Dinelaris' drama about family secrets shaken loose, opens Sept. 24 following previews from…
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