Monday, June 25, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The winners of the 33rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, recognizing excellence in Toronto's performing arts community, get revealed June 25. The awards administered by the Toronto Allian…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 24, 2012
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario unveils a new production of Shakespeare's Henry V on June 24 at the flagship Festival Theatre. Artistic director Des McAnuff, whose 2011 Str…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PM[SHARE]The New York City production of Million Dollar Quartet, the musical that dramatizes the historic recording session of four American rock icons who came to light in the '50s, closes June …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]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]Friday, June 22, 2012
Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, of "Dreamgirls" movie fame, will play a Tony Award-winning Broadway star in a multi-episode arc in the second season of the NBC-TV musical series &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone, who had extended her critically acclaimed engagement at the new Manhattan nightspot 54 Below in order to fill in for an under-the-weather Andrea Martin, ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28PM[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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PM[SHARE]The Exorcist, the new stage adaptation of the horror novel by William Peter Blatty, has Broadway producers Ben Sprecher and Sonia Friedman attached for a possible commercial future of the Jo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2012
Manhattan Theatre Club announced two additions to its 2012-13 season, including Sharr White's play The Other Place, acclaimed when it first appeared in an Off-Broadway production by MCC …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM[SHARE]Tony nominee Bobby Cannavale will play the role of Ricky Roma opposite Al Pacino's Shelly Levene in the new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, according to The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PM[SHARE]Will Eno's take on Henrik Ibsen's sprawling, picaresque fantasy Peer Gynt, freshly titled Gnit, will gets its world premiere in the 2012 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Acto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]The Masterworks Broadway label will open its vault and release three albums this summer: the original 1978 Broadway cast recording of Working, a 1950 recording of Dinah Shore singing Call Me…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]The Dorset Theatre Festival (DTF) in Dorset, VT, has snagged TV, film and Tony Award-winning theatre star Judd Hirsch ("Taxi," Talley's Folly, I'm Not Rappaport, Conversati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre, a crucible for new works, will have two world premieres and one New York premiere, including the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph in its …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AM[SHARE]The San Francisco engagement of The Scottsboro Boys, the multiple Tony Award-nominated musical, begins previews June 21 at American Conservatory Theatre. Tony winner Hal Linden now stars as …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Dan Martin and Michael Biello's Breathe, a musical made up of stories about the gay and lesbian experience, will get a private industry reading in Manhattan on June 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Pat Sajak, of TV's "Wheel of Fortune," stars as fussy Felix Ungar opposite news anchor Joe Moore as sloppy Oscar Madison in the Connecticut Repertory Theatre production of Neil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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, at the Stratford Shakespeare Festiv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PM[SHARE]Jill Paice will be the first-person lead known as "I," and Ryan Silverman will play her husband, Maxim de Winter, in Rebecca, the new Broadway musical that conjures the mysterious …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]Hero, a new musical about a young comic-book artist, gets its world premiere on June 20 by Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL, following earlier development. Erich Bergen, of the national …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, MN, begins its ninth season of productions in the Upper Mississippi region on June 20 with the first preview of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The song catalog of Victorian operetta masters W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan gets a comic airing in the world-premiere musical entertainment Gilbert & Sullivan in Brief(s), playing Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:51PM[SHARE]Joyce Chittick, the busy New York musical theatre actress who created the role of Virtue in Broadway's Anything Goes, steps into the role of Erma — who happens to get the show'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]Bare, the rock musical about teens coming of age in a Catholic school setting, will get a commercial Off-Broadway run starting Nov. 19 at New World Stages. Stafford Arima (Carrie) will direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PM[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 12:12PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre will launch Signature Cinema, screening "films written by playwrights and films that explore the 'world of the play' currently in production…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]Academy Award winner George Clooney and Grant Heslov have joined the producing team of the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, The Weinstein Co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Dr. Ruth, All the Way, the biographical play about the famous sex expert who broke ground with her frank talk on radio and television, begins a world-premiere engagement at Barrington Stage …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2012
Kelli O'Hara's brief summer absence from her turn in Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It, for which she was nominated for a 2012 Best Actress Tony Award, will be filled by Ton…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced the Nominating Committee for the 2012-2013 Broadway season. The committee will welcome newcomers Mary-Louise Parker, Cheyenne Jackson, …
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