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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Marvelous Wonderettes, the regional and Off-Broadway musical revue about a high-school pop foursome in the 1960s, gets a sequel July 3 with the California world premiere of Marvelous Won…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2012
Amelia, actor-playwright Alex Webb's two-person Civil War drama about a wife disguising herself as a Union soldier to find her missing husband Down South — seen in a winter world-p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rebecca Luker, the Tony Award-nominated star of Show Boat, knows her way around a Jerome Kern song — and she'll prove it in an upcoming 54 Below concert. She shares her thoughts on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Bucks County Playhouse's new production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein revue A Grand Night for Singing, starring Erin Davie, Courtney Balan, Ron Bohmer, Greg Bosworth and Kenita R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 1, 2012
The Lyons, Nicky Silver's dysfunctional-family comedy starring Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, closes July 1 at Broadway's Cort Theatre following 21 previews and 80 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2012
Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum, director and star, respectively, of the new movie "Magic Mike"—about the lifestyle of male strippers — will produce the musical ad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PM[SHARE]Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!, ventriloquist Johnson's Tony Award-winning theatrical memoir tracing the history of his craft, and his place in it, will be filmed for future video releas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2012
Irish Repertory Theatre and Gingold Theatrical Group's co-production of George Bernard Shaw's complete four-act Man and Superman — his 1903 comedy set in England, Spain and Hel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of Rupert Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring the already-revealed Chita Rivera as Princess Puffer, will also boast Tony…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PM[SHARE]The new Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, adapted by Tony Award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-honored Tracy Letts, opens June 28 with Ora Jones as Olga, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, revealed in an interview with Variety that the second season of the TV series "Smash" will have theatre songs by songwriters other…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club, the New York City not-for-profit theatre that produces works on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and Off-Broadway at New York City Center Stage I, unveiled …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PM[SHARE]Barrington Stage Company's new production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons July 19-Aug. 4 will feature Jeff McCarthy and Lizbeth Mackay as Joe and Kate Keller. Full casting was reveale…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PM[SHARE]The world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, directed by Daniel Aukin for Signature Theatre Company, will feature Jenny Bacon (In the Wake), Gary Cole ("Office Space,&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]Emotional Creature, the new play by Eve Ensler now having its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, will move to Off-Broadway this fall, producers Carole Black and Pat Mitchell annou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]Hero, a new musical about a young comic-book artist, gets its world premiere on June 27 following previews from June 20 at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL. Erich Bergen, of the national…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Dogfight, the new musical that tells a tender and brutal tale of young people meeting in a situation certain to end in heartbreak, begins a world-premiere run June 27 at Off-Broadway's S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The San Francisco engagement of The Scottsboro Boys, the multiple Tony Award-nominated musical, opens June 27 following previews from June 21 at American Conservatory Theatre. Tony winner Ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Tony Award-winning Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Anything Goes, which was scheduled to end its run Aug. 5, will now play its final performance July 8 at the Stephen Sondheim Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:57PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, recently of ABC-TV's prematurely canceled "GCB," has been picked up by CBS for a recurring role on the hit drama "The Good Wife."
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:28PM[SHARE]Andy Mientus, a young New York musical-theatre actor whose credits include Off-Broadway's Carrie, the national tour of Spring Awakening and the New York Musical Theatre Festival producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PM[SHARE]Andy Mientus, a young New York musical-theatre actor whose credits include Off-Broadway's Carrie, the national tour of Spring Awakening and the New York Musical Theatre Festival producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PM[SHARE]The winners of the 33rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, recognizing excellence in Toronto's performing arts community, include War Horse, Topdog/Underdog, Tomasso's Party, Ride the C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PM[SHARE]Magic Mike, the new Steven Soderbergh film about male strippers, opening June 29, might expose itself as a Broadway show, USA Today reported. Reid Carolin, the comedy's screenwriter, sai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2012
The first episode of Aaron Sorkin's new TV drama "The Newsroom," which premiered on HBO June 24, is available for free to "all audiences, including non-subscribers," …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PM[SHARE]Tickets for the new Broadway production of Annie, which begins previews Oct. 3 at the Palace Theatre (1567 Broadway at 47th Street), go on sale to the general public June 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster stars as a rootless dancer who settles into a new life in "Bunheads," the ABC Family comedy-drama (with music and dance). She sent a dispat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]Bare, the rock musical about teens coming of age in a Catholic school setting, gets a commercial Off-Broadway run starting Nov. 19 at New World Stages. Tickets are now on sale. Stafford Arim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PM[SHARE]New Girl in Town, Bob Merrill's 1957 musicalization of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, about a prostitute with abuse in her past, will get a rare New York City revival beginning …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Stars of David, a new musical about Jewish identity, with a book by Charles Busch and songs by a collection of Broadway and Hollywood songwriters — from William Finn to Tom Kitt to Mar…
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