Wednesday, August 8, 2012
The new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress goes on sale to American Express cardholders starting 10 AM Aug. 8 prior to a general sale that begins A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2012
The Princess Grace Foundation-USA (PGF-USA) and its chairman John F. Lehman announced winners of the 2012 Princess Grace Awards in theatre, dance and choreography and film disciplines. The a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:29PM[SHARE]The City Center Encores! concert cast recording of Pipe Dream, Rodgers & Hammerstein's tuneful 1955 oddity inspired by John Steinbeck's novel "Sweet Thursday," will be …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club artistic director Lynne Meadow will direct Tony Award winner Judith Light and Tony nominee Jessica Hecht in the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]Bucks County Playhouse's third 2012 production since being renovated and reopened as a nonprofit resident Equity theatre will be a Dec. 13-30 run of It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Rad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PM[SHARE]Rachel York will be in good company on the national tour of Anything Goes. Fred Applegate (Young Frankenstein, Sister Act) will play Moonface Martin, Erich Bergen (Jersey Boys tour, Hero in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AM[SHARE]Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, a play that premiered at Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania prior to its 1963 Broadway run and international success, returns to its Pennsylva…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, a play that premiered at Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania prior to its 1963 Broadway run and international success, returns to its Pennsylva…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, directed by Daniel Aukin for Signature Theatre Company, begins previews Aug. 7. The staging features Jenny Bacon (In the Wake), …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 6, 2012
Mark O'Donnell, the playwright, novelist and librettist who shared the Tony Award for Best Book for the musical Hairspray, died on Aug. 6 after collapsing in Manhattan, his agent Jack Ta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:38PM[SHARE]Single tickets are now on sale for Roundabout Theatre Company's upcoming productions of Cyrano de Bergerac and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PM[SHARE]Alan Cumming will accept The Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre on behalf of honoree Kristin Chenoweth on Aug. 11 in Connecticut. Tony Award winner Chenoweth (Yo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PM[SHARE]John C. McGinley, of TV's "Scrubs," will play real estate salesman Dave Moss in the new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, according to the New York …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PM[SHARE]Sugar Babies, the burlesque musical comedy revue that earned a 1980 Tony Award nomination as Best Musical, will be explored in a Manhattan workshop in September. Expect legs and laughs. Tony…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2012
Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed Broadway production of Mary Chase’s Harvey, which stars Emmy winner Jim Parsons, end its limited engagement, as originally announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 4, 2012
Prolific playwright, librettist and songwriter Rupert Holmes is always juggling a number of stage projects. The Tony Award winner's latest is the new Jerry Lewis-directed musical The Nut…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2012
Goodspeed Musicals, the two-time Tony Award-winning resident theatre devoted to new and classic musicals, announced that its summer productions of Carousel and The Bikinis will get added per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:42PM[SHARE]The Broadway trajectory of the new musical Diner was clarified by lead producer BASE Entertainment (co-CEOs Scott Zeiger and Brian Becker) on Aug. 3. As reported by Playbill.com on Aug. 2, t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PM[SHARE]Storyline Entertainment's Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, executive producers of the NBC musical drama "Smash," have signed a new two-year deal with Sony Pictures Television for TV…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for the New York Theatre Workshop's 2012-13 season-launching production of Red Dog Howls, Alexander Dinelaris' drama about family secrets shaken l…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AM[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, will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2012
Producers of the new Sheryl Crow-Barry Levinson musical Diner, based on the 1982 film, are expected to postpone their fall tryout at San Francisco's Curran Theatre, but the show remains …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:46PM[SHARE]Milwaukee Repertory Theater is expanding its organization to include 19 "associate artists" from various disciplines. The newly invited directors, writers, designers and musicians …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]George Hearn, the imposing Tony Award-winning Broadway baritone of Sunset Boulevard and the original La Cage aux Folles, will play two roles in the new Broadway musical Scandalous: The Life …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]A visit by the national tour of the Tony Award-winning Anything Goes will be part of the Mirvish subscription season in Toronto in 2012-13, replacing the canceled booking of the pre-Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AM[SHARE]Betsy Aidem, Janet Zarish and Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch ("Taxi," Talley's Folly, I'm Not Rappaport, Conversations With My Father) star in Dorset The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Word, words, words." Hamlet loved them, and so does Christopher Plummer. The Oscar and Tony Award-winning octagenarian actor explores a few of his favorite literary things in a ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Barrington Stage Company's new production of Philip King's farce See How They Run, directed by Jeff Steizter on the BSC mainstage in Pittsfield, MA, will feature Lisa McCormick, Cary…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Margo Martindale has been cast in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, according to Deadline.com. Chris Co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Theatre for a New Audience's 33rd season — its last one before moving into a permanent home in Brooklyn next year — will boast the work of William Shakespeare, Franz Kafka in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]Gore Vidal, the American novelist, screenwriter, essayist and playwright, whose 1960 political drama The Best Man is currently enjoying a Tony Award-nominated revival on Broadway, died July …
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