Sunday, July 15, 2012
Annie Parisse, who created the roles of Betsey and Lindsey in the 2010 world premiere of Clybourne Park and reunited with the company for the 2012 Broadway premiere, exits the Broadway cast …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
Teal Wicks, an Elphaba of Broadway's Wicked, plays Julie Jordan to the Billy Bigelow of James Snyder, of Broadway's Cry-Baby, in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of Rodgers &am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]Broadway producer Robert Boyett was made an Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on July 13. The honor is in recogniti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]All the Way, the new play by Robert Schenkkan, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Kentucky Cycle, will get its world premiere July 28 at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Jack Willis, t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM[SHARE]The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario opens a new production of Shakespeare's Henry V on July 13 following previews from June 24 at the flagship Festival Theatre. Artistic direct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park,a play that premiered at Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania prior to its 1963 Broadway run, returns to its Pennsylvania roots Aug. 7. Tony Award nom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PM[SHARE]Annie Funke will join the previously announced Michelle Gomez, Tony Award winner Brían F. O'Byrne and Jake Gyllenhaal in the American premiere of Nick Payne's If There Is I Ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Two TV musicals — one of them original — by Tony Award-winning songwriters Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick will be seen July 28 at The Paley Center for Media in Manhattan. Lyricis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PM[SHARE]The Old Globe's West Coast premiere of Divine Rivalry — the tale of Renaissance art stars and a famed head of state — opens June 12. Sean Lyons plays Niccolò Machiavel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]Alan Ayckbourn directs the world premiere of his 76th play, Surprises, for The Stephen Joseph Theatre, his longtime artistic home in Scarborough, England. The co-production with Chichester F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario is shining a spotlight on one of its own late, great masters this summer in the one-man show Hirsch, a portrait of the Hungarian-born Canadian t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Diane Lane will star as Princess Kosmonopolis in Goodman Theatre's fall production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, the Chicago Tribune reported.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Maury Yeston (Titanic, Nine) gave New York audiences a vodka-shot of his new Russian-inspired work-in-progress July 9 in the New Mondays concert at 54 Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM[SHARE]The producers of Chaplin, the new Broadway musical about the life of screen legend Charlie Chaplin, have broken their silence about casting.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PM[SHARE]Nick Payne, writer of the acclaimed London play Constellations, has been named the second recipient of the Harold Pinter Playwright's Award to support a new commission at the Royal Court…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AM[SHARE]The ladies and gentlemen populating The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, this summer and fall will include Helen Hayes Award winn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AM[SHARE]Academy Award winner Chris Cooper is in negotiations to join the cast of the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM[SHARE]The hardscrabble life of Yukon gold-rush folk is conjured in the world premiere of the new Canadian musical Wanderlust, using the poems of Robert Service, opening July 11 at the Stratford Sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A stage version of William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Excorcist" has heads turning at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, where previews began July 3 leading to the July 11 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Maury Yeston (Titanic, Nine) gave New York audiences a vodka-shot of his new Russian-inspired work-in-progress July 9 in the New Mondays concert at 54 Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:07PM[SHARE]Full casting has been revealed for The Nutty Professor, the new Rupert Holmes-Marvin Hamlisch musical based on the 1963 Jerry Lewis film comedy. The show is in rehearsal under the direction …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AM[SHARE]The new concert cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's score to Merrily We Roll Along is in stores July 10. PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway, recorded the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Gore Vidal's The Best Man gives Cybill Shepherd and Kristin Davis their Broadway debuts July 10 when they — along with John Stamos — join the company of the star-package…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominees Bobby Steggert and Charlayne Woodard, plus Broadway's Corbin Reid, Aaron Serotsky, Eisa Davis, Jonathan Hammond and more populate a California developmental productio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2012
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, will close at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PM[SHARE]The East Coast premiere of The North Pool, the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, will feature Remi Sandri and Babak Tafti at Barrington Stage Company's intimate St. Germa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PM[SHARE]The new Broadway production of The Heiress starring Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens, David Strathairn and the newly announced Judith Ivey will open Nov. 1 following previews from Oct. 7 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2012
The Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes, the tap dancing romantic musical comedy set on the high seas, ends its Broadway run July 8 after more than 500 per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, adapted by Tony Award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-honored Tracy Letts, officially opens July 8 following prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2012
Songs from the Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones, featuring music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn, are now available for download online.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 3, 2012
A stage version of William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Excorcist" will have heads turning starting July 3 at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, where Brooke Shields plays th…
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