The Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying — first a vehicle for Daniel Radcliffe, and now starring Nick Jonas — will close up shop on May 20, the p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:46PM[SHARE]The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One, launching the company's 2012 50th-anniversary season, will feature Derek Wilson as Prince …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PM[SHARE]Nice Work If You Can Get It, the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical that marries a new screwball-comedy plot to old Gershwin songs, will spawn a national touring company, the produce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PM[SHARE]Leap of Faith, the new Broadway musical about a con-man preacher who blows into a depressed, drought-plagued Kansas town, where he spars with a lady sheriff, will close on May 13, the produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PM[SHARE]John Pankow will replace previously announced David Pittu in the cast of the Off-Broadway world-premiere production of Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play by Signature Theatre Company. Pitt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PM[SHARE]The fifth annual Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, administered by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre, will go to emerging playwright Erika Sheffer, who penned Off-Broadway's Russian Trans…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]Will Eno's Title and Deed, a new solo play about a mysterious traveler, begins its American premiere May 8 as part of Signature Theatre Company's season at the new Pershing Square Si…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Somewhere in heaven, Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers, Charlie Chaplin and a long line of storytellers who loved to create physical comedy are smiling down on Tom Edden, the 33-year-old British …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Signature Theatre's DC-area premiere of the musical Xanadu, the stage adaptation of the disco-era movie musical, featuring Erin Weaver as the Greek muse Kira and Charlie Brady as artist …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The New York Drama Critics' Circle named Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet the Best Play of the 2011-12 season following a meeting of its members on May 7. The 77th annual awards a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:27PM[SHARE]Judy McLane will shed the spandex of thrice-married man-eater Tanya to begin playing mother-of-the-bride Donna in the Broadway company of Mamma Mia! on June 4. McLane has played Tanya at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PM[SHARE]Like the wandering troubadour at its core, Once, the 11-time Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical, will travel. The producers announced that a national tour of the acclaimed show will begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PM[SHARE]Somewhere in heaven, Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers, Charlie Chaplin and a long line of storytellers who loved to create physical comedy are smiling down on Tom Edden, the 33-year-old British …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]Mario Cantone hosted the 27th annual Lucille Lortel Awards May 6, when Sons of the Prophet, The Cherry Orchard, An Iliad and the musical Once were honored in production categories. The Off-B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:33AM[SHARE]Topher Grace, of TV's "That '70s Show," plays a fallen corporate millionaire coming out of a funk in Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm Not, opening May 7 in its world-premie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Irish Repertory Theatre and Gingold Theatrical Group open a co-production of George Bernard Shaw's complete four-act Man and Superman — his 1903 comedy set in England, Spain and He…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway run of Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's comedy about a caustic editor and a group of young novelists, ends following the May 6 matinee at the Golden Theatre. At close, the world-pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Newsies choreographer Christopher Gattelli, nominated for a 2012 Best Choreography Tony Award, talks about collaborating with his young cast to tell story through dance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The Scottsboro Boys, the Tony Award-nominated musical inspired by a Depression-era miscarriage of American justice, makes its West Coast debut, officially opening May 5 following previews fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tickets are now on sale for the Nov. 9-Dec. 30 engagement of the 2012 production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. The opulent holiday musical revue, complete…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of Simon Gray's comedy-drama The Common Pursuit, about college friends who are changed over the years, begins May 4 at RTC's Off-Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Playbill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the creation of a new Broadway musical about Marilyn Monro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PM[SHARE]Rebecca, the musical based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier, about mysterious doings in an English estate called Manderley, will begin Broadway previews on Oct. 20 at the Broadhurst…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AM[SHARE]Broadway dancers stud the new musical Heat Wave: The Jack Cole Project, about the father of theatrical jazz and musical-theatre dance, in its world premiere May 3-20 at Queens Theatre in Flu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Nathan Lane stars as Theodore Hickman in the new Robert Falls-directed production of Eugene O'Neill's epic The Iceman Cometh, opening May 3 following previews that began April 21 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Berkeley Repertory Theatre has added two new plays to complete the California company's 2012-13 season: the world premiere of Lawrence Wright's Fallaci, directed by Gregory Mosher, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals' new production of the muscial Mame, starring Tony Award nominee Louise Pitre, will get an extra eight performances at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PM[SHARE]Playbill.com reached out to the 2012 Tony Award nominees on May 1, shortly after they learned that they were nominated for Broadway's biggest award. Here's what they had to say.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PM[SHARE]Magic/Bird, Eric Simonson's sports biography about the rivalry and friendship of basketball stars Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, will play its final performance on May …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PM[SHARE]Playbill.com reached out to the 2012 Tony Award nominees on May 1, shortly after they learned that they were nominated for Broadway's biggest award. Here's what they had to say. We&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM[SHARE]On the recommendation of the American Theatre Critics Association, the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, is the 2012 recipient of the Tony Award for Regional Theatre. The compan…
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