Friday, September 7, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PM[SHARE]The Old Globe production of Allegiance — A New American Musical, charting the lives of Japanese Americans who were placed in concentration camps on U.S. soil during World War II, begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2012
A new take on Anton Chekhov's play about passionate artists and those in their orbit surfaces in Long Island City, Queens, Sept. 5-15 when Wandering Bark Theatre Company presents the New…
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, begins Sept. 5 toward a Sept. 27 openi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Vincent Kartheiser, widely known as ambitious ad man Pete Campbell on TV's "Mad Men," turns a new page with the world-premiere production of Jonathan Marc Feldman's Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Angelica Page has taken over the role of potential First Lady Alice Russell in the Broadway production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man. She steps in for Cybill Shepherd, who has departed th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PM[SHARE]Sony Masterworks releases the 27-track Encores! concert cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, featuring the 1949 Broadway score by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, on Sept. 4. This is the mos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[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]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, begins performa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 2, 2012
Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular, director Harold Prince's revised staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber's internationally popular musical — putting the audience in an immers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AM[SHARE]The acclaimed Broadway production of the British farce One Man, Two Guvnors, which won star James Corden the 2012 Best Actor Tony Award, end its limited engagement at the Music Box Sept…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Clybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Play, ends its limited Broadway run (already extended) on Sept. 2 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. By close, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-dra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The muscular Off-Broadway spectacle Traces, a collision of acrobatic feats and circus-inspired elements, concludes its Off-Broadway run Sept. 2 at the Union Square Theatre, prior to the laun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 1, 2012
Hal David, the pop, movie and musical theatre lyricist who wrote words to composer Burt Bacharach's music in the Broadway musical Promises, Promises — and for a slew of hit songs &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 30, 2012
The countdown to the Sept. 4 release of the 27-track Encores! concert cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has begun, and Sony Masterworks is giving Playbill.com an exclusive first-lis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PM[SHARE]Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven, NJ, opens the New Jersey premiere of the musical comedy Once Upon a Time in New Jersey on Aug. 30 for a run through Sept. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AM[SHARE]Vincent Kartheiser, widely known as ambitious ad man Pete Campbell on TV's "Mad Men," turns a new page starting Aug. 30 with the first preview of the world-premiere production …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Through an August fundraising drive on the Kickstarter.com website, the creators of the Off-Broadway musical Now. Here. This. have raised $86,769 toward a $75,000 goal to support the origina…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:38PM[SHARE]A resident Chicago production of Keith Huff's hit two-actor crime thriller, A Steady Rain, will end Sept. 2 at Chicago Dramatists, but will resurface in engagements in Wisconsin and Mich…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PM[SHARE]Additional cast members populating Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People have been announced. Rehearsals lead to a Sept. 4 first preview at the Samue…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PM[SHARE]Playwrights Horizons' world premiere of Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan will feature Becky Ann Baker, Tony Award nominee Peter Friedman, Oliver Award nominee Sarah Goldberg, Keith Nob…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PM[SHARE]Irish Repertory Theatre's upcoming 25th season will offer the work of Brian Friel and Harold Pinter, songs by Phil Coulter, and the artistry of actor Julian Sands and directors Ciar&aacu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]Candy Buckley completes the final piece of the casting puzzle for the new Broadway musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, which begins previews Oct. 13 at the Nei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]The West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's comedy of cultural misunderstandings, Chinglish, directed by Leigh Silverman, who helmed the Broadway staging, opens Aug. 29 following prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Green Day's American Idiot, the two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the Green Day album, with a story crafted by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and director Michael Maye…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]After a sold-out July engagement, nightlife performer Tori Scott is back at Joe's Pub Aug. 29 for an evening of songs by Donna Summer, Cee-Lo Green, Whitney Houston and Cyndi Lauper. The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Obie Award winner Lisa Emery will play drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite David Chandler as aging actor James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PM[SHARE]Linda Lavin, the Tony Award-winning actress-singer who famously sang "You've Got Possibilities," is still reaching for the possible. She'll appear in two Manhattan engageme…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PM[SHARE]Sam Shepard is in talks to play the gone-missing patriarch Beverly Weston in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, Variety reported.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for David Cromer's new production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, starring the previously mentioned Diane Lane and Finn Wittrock.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AM[SHARE]Audra McDonald, who earned her fifth Tony Award for her portrayal of a passionate and haunted Bess, returns to an eight-performance schedule in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess beginning Au…
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