Tuesday, August 21, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PM[SHARE]The 2013 Australian premiere of The Addams Family, the Broadway musical, will feature Australian TV, film and stage star John Waters as Gomez, stage star Chloe Dallimore (Ulla in The Produce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PM[SHARE]Danny Breen, William Dick, Molly Glynn, Marc Grapey, Bruce Jarchow and Katherine Keberlein will be in the company of the previously announced Tim Kazurinsky and George Wendt for Northlight T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]Nominations for the Jeff Awards, celebrating excellence in Chicago-area Equity theatre, were announced Aug. 21. A dozen new plays or adaptations are in the mix, pointing to Chicago as a cont…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company's musical theatre producing arm will benefit from a Dec. 3 reunion concert of the company's 2004 Tony Award-winning revival of Stephen Sondheim and John We…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2012
Film and stage actress Karen Allen will star in the American premiere of Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, translated and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde. The Rattlestick Pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PM[SHARE]"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, will get additional episodes, Michael Riley, presid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AM[SHARE]"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, will get additional episodes, according to publishe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AM[SHARE]The world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, directed by Daniel Aukin for Signature Theatre Company, will get two extra weeks, now to Sept. 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM[SHARE]Jonathan Groff, a Tony Award nominee for playing the rebellious and experiment-friendly German lad Melchior Gabor in the musical Spring Awakening, talks about past lessons and new challenges.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03AM[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, now in rehearsal by Pioneer Theatre Company fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tickets for the new Broadway musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, by Kathie Lee Gifford (book and lyrics) and David Friedman and David Pomeranz (music), are on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"The Outdoor Museum (not your usual images of New York)," a unique coffee-table book featuring the photographs of former Broadway actress Margery Gray Harnick and related poems by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 19, 2012
Dogfight, the new musical that tells a tender and brutal tale of young people meeting in a situation certain to end in heartbreak, ends its limited, world-premiere run Aug. 19 at Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2012
Andrew Samonsky, a late-run Lt. Cable in Lincoln Center Theater's South Pacific, has joined the cast of the new Broadway musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PM[SHARE]The world-premiere staging of the Broadway-aimed The Nutty Professor — written by Tony Award winners Marvin Hamlisch and Rupert Holmes, and directed by Jerry Lewis — plays its fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 16, 2012
Dermot Mulroney will join his "My Best Friend's Wedding" co-star Julia Roberts in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage Count…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PM[SHARE]Christopher Innvar, Mary McCann, Mary Beth Peil, Jordan Lage, Madeleine Martin, Gareth Saxe and more will bring Simon Stephens' tale of Harper Regan to life for Atlantic Theater Company …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PM[SHARE]The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia announced nominees for the 2012 Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre. Resident productions earning the most nominations include Twelfth Nig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PM[SHARE]Annie Golden, Jason Hite, Ben Platt, Harrison Chad, Will Roland and Sarah Cetrulo appear in a workshop production of The Black Suits, the musical by Joe Iconis and Robert Emmett Maddock, in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of Rupert Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood will open earlier than first reported. The revival of the Tony Award-winning musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PM[SHARE]The new Broadway-bound musical Hands on a Hardbody will have a fall "developmental lab" in New York City prior to a Broadway launch in early 2013. The Oct. 1-13 lab is expected to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, to run Sept. 13-Nov. 11, will feature Steppenwolf ensemble members Alana Arenas, Mariann Mayberry and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PM[SHARE]Geva Theatre Center has snagged Emmy Award winner Robert Vaughn, star of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "Washington: Behind Closed Doors," to play Martin Vanderhof in You …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PM[SHARE]The second season of the musical drama series "Smash" will feature Sheryl Lee Ralph guest-starring as the mother of a stage diva played by the previously announced new cast member …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PM[SHARE]Mauckingbird Theatre Company, the Philadelphia troupe committed to gay-related plays and issues, offers Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing through a new lens, now through Aug. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]After a sold-out July engagement, nightlife performer Tori Scott will return to Joe's Pub Aug. 29 for an evening of songs by Donna Summer, Cee-Lo Green, Whitney Houston and Cyndi Lauper.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Joan Roberts, the soprano who originated one of the major leading-lady roles in American musical theatre — Laurey in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! — died in Stamford,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22PM[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, to play Sept. 11-Oct. 7 at Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PM[SHARE]A new DC-area revival of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas begins performances Aug. 14 at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. Helen Hayes Award winner Sherri L.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AM[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, plays Signature Theatre Company…
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