Wednesday, July 25, 2012
New casting and dates have been announced for the international tour of Green Day's American Idiot, the two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the Green Day album, with a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]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, will play New York City July …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]Betsy Aidem and Janet Zarish have joined the cast of Dorset Theatre Festival's world-premiere production of The Whore and Mr. Moore, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Micha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]The world premiere of All the Way, the new play by Robert Schenkkan, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Kentucky Cycle, begins performances July 25 at the Oregon Shakespeare F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Tony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley, of Broadway's Dividing the Estate, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof and Barefoot in the Park, succeeds Angela Lansbury in the role of an influential women's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of The Nutty Professor, the new Rupert Holmes-Marvin Hamlisch musical based on the 1963 Jerry Lewis film comedy, begins previews in Nashville on July 24. The show is direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2012
Helsinki Hudson, the upstate New York venue that offers eclectic music programming in a complex that also offers drinks and dining, will get a dose of Broadway star quality in a new series o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]One-acts plays by Samuel Beckett will be paired with original music compositions performed by Cygnus Ensemble in Sounding Beckett, getting a Sept. 14-23 Off-Broadway engagement.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AM[SHARE]Louis Ozawa Changchien, Katharine Powell and David Rasche star in the world premiere of Kenneth Lin's Warrior Class, opening July 23 following previews from July 11, in Second Stage…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tickets go on sale July 23 for the American premiere of Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, featuring Annie Funke, Michelle Gomez, Tony Award winner Brí…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2012
Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster will play The Pirate King in The Muny production of Pirates! (Or, Gilbert & Sullivan Plunder'd) in St. Louis. His principal-cast comrades for this da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PM[SHARE]Broadway favorite and Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury sheds her role of an influential women's advocate in the Broadway production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man on July 22. Waiting …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway production of Freud's Last Session, Mark St. Germain's imagined encounter between atheist psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and Christian writer C.S. Lewis, closes at New …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Barrington Stage Company's new production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, opening July 22 following previews from July 19, features Jeff McCarthy and Lizbeth Mackay as Joe and K…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 21, 2012
The North American premiere of Backbeat: The Birth of the Beatles, the Broadway-aimed rock-'n'-roll drama with music, directed by Broadway and London creative force David Leveaux (Ni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2012
La Jolla Playhouse is offering a July 22 community panel discussion to explore the idea multicultural casting following criticism of its casting choices for the current production of The Nig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:26PM[SHARE]The muscular Off-Broadway spectacle Traces, a collision of acrobatic feats and circus-inspired elements, will conclude its Off-Broadway run Sept. 2 at the Union Square Theatre, prior to the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin, who has been seen on Broadway in The Miracle Worker, has been cast in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2012
Tony Award winner John Cullum, Darren Pettie and Sarah Sokolovic will join the already announced Amy Ryan and David Schwimmer for the New York City premiere of Lisa D'Amour's acclaim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PM[SHARE]The 2012 Encores! concert cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, released July 10 on PS Classics, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Cast Album chart in its first week o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AM[SHARE]David Harbour, Richard Schiff and Jeremy Shamos will be in the company of the previously announced Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale in the new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]Nominations for the 64th Prime Time Emmy Awards, celebrating the best in American-presented television, were announced July 19. Theatre-related nominees include choreographer Joshua Bergasse…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AM[SHARE]Nominations for the 64th Prime Time Emmy Awards, celebrating the best in American-presented television, were announced July 19. Theatre-related nominees include choreographer Joshua Bergasse…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]The 20th-century evangelical superstar Aimee Semple McPherson — the American religious leader who staged provocative illustrated sermons, fed the hungry and famously vanished — w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[SHARE]Barrington Stage Company's new production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons July 19-Aug. 4 features Jeff McCarthy and Lizbeth Mackay as Joe and Kate Keller, whose lives are shattered wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2012
New Girl in Town, Bob Merrill's 1957 musicalization of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, about a prostitute with abuse in her past, gets a rare New York City revival beginning July…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Brian Bedford will play Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Des McAnuff will stage his Tony Award-winning The Who's Tommy and new Canadian works will get a voice in the 2013 season of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:28PM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Juliette Lewisis in negotiations to join the cast of the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, according to Deadline.c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PM[SHARE]Janine DiVita, Jenifer Foote and Spencer Plachy have joined the troupe of Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of Rupert Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood, completin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PM[SHARE]Clémence Poésy, Patrick Page, Bill Buell, Kyle Soller and more will join Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge in the new Broadway production of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Berger…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PM[SHARE]The West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's comedy of cultural misunderstandings, Chinglish, will be directed by Leigh Silverman, who helmed the Broadway staging. The co-production by…
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