Tuesday, June 12, 2012
The Playwrights Horizons world premiere of Rapture, Blister, Burn, the play by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Gina Gionfriddo (Becky Shaw), opens Off-Broadway June 12 followin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2012
Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera will get a new permanent Meg Giry starting June 18, when Kara Klein assumes the role, succeeding longtime cast member Heather McFadden. Meg is Christi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:23PM[SHARE]Clybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Play, will get additional weeks on Broadway, now to Sept. 2, according to telecharge.com. The Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama about race …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:56PM[SHARE]Dr. Radio, a new musical with a book by Bill Castellino (Grumpy Old Men, Jolson at the Winter Garden, Cagney) and music and lyrics by Christopher McGovern (Backwards in High Heels, Cagney, L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, announced composers Joshua Rosenblum and Josh Schmidt as recipients of commissions in its American Musical Voices Project (AMVP): The Next Generation init…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PM[SHARE]Sutton Foster, the two-time Tony Award winner who has freely mixed warmth, quirk and sincerity in Broadway's Little Women, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Drowsy Chaperone, Shrek the Music…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]John Patrick Shanley directs the world premiere of his Bronx-set Storefront Church, the third play of his trilogy that began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt. The play — presented…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2012
Clybourne Park, the dark comedy about race and real estate, and Once, the Dublin-set musical that uses actor-musicians to tell its love story, were named Best Play and Best Musical, respecti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PM[SHARE]The 2012 Tony Awards, celebrating the best of Broadway, are announced 8-11 PM June 10 in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winners throughout the evening.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59PM[SHARE]The 2012 Tony Awards, celebrating the best of Broadway, are announced 8-11 PM June 10 in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winners throughout the evening.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14PM[SHARE]The 2012 Tony Awards, celebrating the best of Broadway, are announced 8-11 PM June 10 in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winners throughout the evening.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30PM[SHARE]The 2012 Tony Awards, celebrating the best of Broadway, are announced 8-11 PM June 10 in New York City. Playbill.com will update the list of winners throughout the evening.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27PM[SHARE]Chicago's resident company Theater Oobleck makes a rare Off-Broadway appearance by staging the New York City premiere of the musical comedy The Hunchback Variations, opening June 10 at 5…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 9, 2012
Veteran Broadway producer Emanuel Azenberg is receiving a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre on June 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2012
The Importance of Being Earnest (in New York), David Zippel's reinvention of Oscar Wilde's classic Victorian comedy, gets a June 11 reading in Manhattan, with Tony Award winner Chris…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad directs Paul Oakley Stovall's Immediate Family, a new comedy about secrets revealed at a family reunion, playing a Chicago run that opens June …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2012
Money continues to be raised for the long-gestating, Broadway-aimed musical MerryGoRound, with songs by the Academy Award-winning team of Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, lead produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:25PM[SHARE]Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA, will host three world-premiere productions — Twist Your Dickens, The Nether and The Royale — in its 2012-13 se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PM[SHARE]Vincent Kartheiser, widely known as ambitious ad man Pete Campbell on TV's "Mad Men," will star in the lead role in San Jose Repertory Theatre's world-premiere production o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Arian Moayed of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is among cast members of New York Theatre Workshop/Noor Theatre's Middle East-set play Food and Fadwa, about cooking an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Kenneth Lonergan, the American playwright acclaimed for creating modern men who haplessly search for a sense of purpose, has drawn another character in this tradition — but set him in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Italian playwright Alberto Bassetti's Two Sisters, Two Brothers, a pairing of two one-acts, gets an American premiere June 7-24 at Off-Off-Broadway's Theater for the New City. Lindse…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Brynn O'Malley, Clarke Thorell and J. Elaine Marcos have been revealed as members of the principal cast of the new Broadway production of Annie, tickets to which go on sale June 6 to Ame…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PM[SHARE]Arden Theatre Company's 25th season in Philadelphia will include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, in "a visually rich production using new technology," producing arti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]Drew Sarich, the American actor who has had a busy career performing musicals in Europe, will play iconic underdog boxer Rocky Balboa in Rocky the Musical, getting its world premiere this fa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Philadelphia Theatre Company will produce the Philadelphia premiere of David Ives' Tony Award-nominated Venus in Fur at the end of its 2012-13 season, May 24-June 23, 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PM[SHARE]Director Lonny Price and music director Eric Stern are attached to the new musical Sleepless in Seattle, according to a recent posting on the producer's website.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PM[SHARE]Nominees for the 33rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, recognizing excellence in Toronto's performing arts community, were announced June 5. The awards administered by the Toronto Allianc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM[SHARE]The new Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, adapted by Tony Award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-honored Tracy Letts, will feature Ora Jones as Olga, Carrie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AM[SHARE]A tiny production of the musical The Light in the Piazza, produced by Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, won six Non-Equity Jeff Awards on June 4 in Chicago, where the non-union theatre scene is v…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]The new concert cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's score to Merrily We Roll Along will be in stores July 10, PS Classics announced. The label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway reco…
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