Sunday, September 16, 2012
Winners of the 2012 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards, announced on Sept. 15 in Los Angeles, include theatre choreographer Joshua Bergasse ("Smash"), music director Rob Berman (&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PM[SHARE]Linda Lavin, the Tony Award-winning actress-singer who famously sang "You've Got Possibilities," is still reaching for the possible. She's appearing in two Manhattan engagement…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 14, 2012
Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre announced a variety of special events to celebrate its 30th anniversary season, including "reunion readings" of some of its key play titles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PM[SHARE]Claire van der Boom, seen in HBO's "The Pacific" and CBS's "Hawaii Five-0," steps into the Off-Broadway cast of Sam Shepard's Heartless starting Sept. 18. She…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]Clémence Poésy, Patrick Page, Bill Buell, Kyle Soller and more join Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge in the new Broadway production of Edmond Rostand's romantic verse drama&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]David Cromer's new production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Diane Lane and Finn Wittrock, begins Sept. 14 at the Goodman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]One-acts plays by Samuel Beckett are paired with original music compositions performed by Cygnus Ensemble in Sounding Beckett, getting a Sept. 14-23 Off-Broadway engagement.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway's John Herrera and Natalie Toro are among cast members of the Utah premiere of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical In the Heights at Pioneer Theatre Company's home in S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 13, 2012
A fall Chicago launch of Unspeakable, a "dramatic fantasia" inspired by the life of comedy star Richard Pryor, will not happen "due to major funding that did not come through,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People begins Sept. 13 for a run to Nov. 11, featuring Steppenwolf ensemble members Alana Arenas, Mariann…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced complete casting for the American premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, starring stage and film actress Karen Allen, which will dawn Off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Thomas Sadoski, lately a star of TV's "The Newsroom," will appear with Laura Heisler and Peter Katona in the world premiere of Michael Golamco's play abo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PM[SHARE]Stage and screen actor Ewan McGregor has joined the cast of the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, Weinstein Company co-chairmen Harvey a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]Benedict Campbell and Manna Nichols will co-star as Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, respectively, in the Arena Stage engagement of Molly Smith's My Fair Lady, which arrives in Washing…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PM[SHARE]Kristin Chenoweth, the Tony Award-winning Broadway baby of Wicked and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and TV's "GCB" and "Pushing Daisies," talks to Playbill fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]The American premiere of Love Story, the musical, based on the best-selling Erich Segal novel, starring Alexandra Silber (Broadway's Master Class) as Jenny Cavilleri and Will Reynolds (M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey has invited Broadway and concert veteran William Michals to tilt at windmills this fall as Cervantes/Don Quixote in the musical Man of La Mancha, Oct. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PM[SHARE]AWA Partners is the name of a new touring-show booking agency representing a merger between AVID Touring and AWA Touring. Alan Wasser, Allan Williams and Alison Spiriti announced on Sept. 11…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre's staging of Christopher Shinn's Dying City, Oct. 2-Nov. 25 in Arlington, VA, will feature Thomas Keegan and Helen Hayes Award nominee Rachel Zampelli under the dir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Hal Linden, of Broadway's The Rothschilds and TV's "Barney Miller," stars in the world premiere of the comedy Under My Skin, playing Sept. 11-Oct. 7 at Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2012
Prospect Theater Company's 2012-13 season of musical-theatre programming includes the previously reported revised revival of Working, plus the world premiere of Death for Five Voices, a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]Neil Patrick Harris will appear in the "onscreen role" of The Magic Mirror, with Charlene Tilton of TV's "Dallas" as The Wicked Queen and Ariana Grande of TV's &q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PM[SHARE]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 star John Ellison Conlee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 9, 2012
The Off-Broadway production of Rent, representing a rethought approach to the material by members of the Broadway creative team, including director Michael Greif and music supervisor and arr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The new Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man — about candidates seeking the presidential nomination of their political party at a convention — ends its limited run o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The New York City premiere of The Train Driver, written and directed by Athol Fugard and featuring Leon Addison Brown as Simon and Ritchie Coster as Roelf, opens Sept. 9 at Signature Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 8, 2012
Rebecca, the new musical based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier, has delayed the start of its rehearsals by two weeks due to the death of a key investor responsible for a $4.5 milli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PM[SHARE]We snagged a few minutes with two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster to get a post-mortem on her newly renewed TV series, "Bunheads," and her fall concert schedule.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2012
The New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment is expected to announce recipients of Spotlight Awards in tribute to theatre people who contribute to the richness of the Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:16PM[SHARE]Veterans of director Des McAnuff's international and Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar will punctuate the rockin', other-worldly production of his new musical Yoshimi Battle…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:50PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Anthony LaPaglia will play Richard M. Nixon opposite Tony nominee Kathryn Erbe as wife Pat in Douglas McGrath's new play, Checkers, beginning Oct. 12 at the Vineyard Th…
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