Tuesday, August 28, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2012
This October a 70-piece orchestra will begin recording the musical tracks for the anticipated film adaptation of the worldwide musical phenomenon Les Misérables, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PM[SHARE]Bend in the Road, a new family-friendly musical based on the youth novel "Anne of Green Gables," will play a limited engagement Sept. 14-Oct. 7 at the Carrie Hamilton Theatre at Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PM[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 — has recouped its inves…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PM[SHARE]The new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress goes on sale to the general public starting Aug. 27. The revival starring Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]Sean Palmer, who played Prince Eric in Broadway's The Little Mermaid, will get his feet wet again: He'll play the Gene Kelly-originated role of Don Lockwood in the stage musical Sing…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]A 2013 Baltimore booking of the sports play Lombardi has been replaced by a visit by Matthew Lombardo's Looped starring Valerie Harper. Rob Ruggiero (the regionally popular Ella, Goodspe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]A 2013 Baltimore booking of Matthew Lombardo's lurid drama High has been replaced by a visit by the author's Looped starring Valerie Harper. Rob Ruggiero (the regionally popular Ella…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]The new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress goes on sale to the general public starting Aug. 27. The revival starring Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, directed by Daniel Aukin for New York City's Signature Theatre Company, already extended by two weeks, officially opens Aug.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 26, 2012
The West Coast premiere of Elephant Room, a unique entertainment about three semi-pro magicians — starring magicians Louie Magic, Daryl Hannah (not that Daryl Hannah) and Dennis Diamon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Helsinki Hudson, the upstate New York venue that offers eclectic music programming in a complex that also serves drinks and fine dining, gets a dose of Broadway star quality starting Aug. 26…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway company of One Man, Two Guvnors, the acclaimed London import that recently announced it had recouped its $3.25 million capitalization, offers a special performance to benefit Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 24, 2012
The Los Angeles debut of the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar will star Aya Cash, Patrick Heusinger, Jennifer Ikeda and Greg Keller, who join the previously announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]Olivier Award winner Benedict Cumberbatch has joined the cast of the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, according to the Hollywood R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PM[SHARE]The producers of Soul Doctor, the musical about the real-life unconventional rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, his passion for pop music and his relationship with soul singer Nina Simone, are seeking …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre announced casting for its upcoming revival of Brian Friel's Lovers, made up of two related one-acts, to begin Sept. 18 prior to a Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's comedy of cultural misunderstandings, Chinglish, directed by Leigh Silverman, who helmed the Broadway staging, begins Aug. 24 in Berkeley, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The American premiere of Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, featuring Annie Funke, Michelle Gomez, Tony Award winner Brían F. O'Byrne and Oscar nom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner John Cullum, Darren Pettie, Sarah Sokolovic, Tony nominee Amy Ryan and David Schwimmer star in the New York City premiere of Lisa D'Amour's acclaimed suburban-set p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2012
Colony Music, the Times Square-area institution where show-tune lovers, theatre performers and a range of singers and musicians sought sheet music, piano-vocal scores, Broadway cast albums a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PM[SHARE]Audra McDonald will return to an eight-performance schedule in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess beginning Aug. 28, producers of the Tony Award-winning Best Revival announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays will star in Hartford Stage's world-premiere production of the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, to play Oct. 11-Nov. 11. The nimble st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AM[SHARE]Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, starring Kathleen Turner as the late Texas-bred political columnist, begins Aug. 23 at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. David Esbjornson direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Center Theatre Group's 2013 season at Mark Taper Forum will include the Los Angeles premiere of director David Cromer's acclaimed staging of Nina Raine's family drama Tribes, plu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]Madame Tellier's Establishment, Jim Cairl's new adaptation of a short story by Guy du Maupassant, is getting a brief Off-Off-Broadway run though Aug. 24 at Theater for the New City o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PM[SHARE]Bob Boyett and the National Theatre of Great Britain said on Aug. 22 that their acclaimed Broadway production of One Man, Two Guvnors, which won star James Corden the 2012 Best Actor Tony Aw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AM[SHARE]Lisa Howard, Alysha Umphress and Michael Winther will sing the work of a respected music director and composer in Carmel's Candy Store: The Sweet Songs of Carmel Dean Aug. 23-25 at Barri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AM[SHARE]Satchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play about jazz musician Louis Armstrong, appears at Shakespeare & Company's Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox, MA, Aug. 22-Sept. 16, prior to a run in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Arden Theatre Company's resident Philadelphia production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal will feature a unique video design that will "take us into the minds of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:28PM[SHARE]Highlights from Grumpy Old Men: The Musical will be seen in a Manhattan industry reading aimed at venue operators interested in booking the show on its upcoming national tour. The Sept. 17 p…
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