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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PM[SHARE]The producers of Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's Broadway comedy about a caustic editor and a group of young novelists, announced on May 1 that the run will end May 6 at the Golden Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PM[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 10:40AM[SHARE]Signature Theatre's new production of Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa!, featuring new music by ten-time Grammy Award winner Bobby McFerrin, of "Don't Worry, Be Happy&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan, the Chicago star who played the strained, cancerous and addicted matron Violet Weston in Broadway's August: Osage County, is Madame Armfeldt in Stephen …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Michael Braun, Roe Hartrampf, James McMenamin, Tobais Segal and Raviv Ullman will be featured in the Off-Broadway world premiere of Alena Smith's The Bad Guys, about five pals from child…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Valerie Harper, of TV's "Rhoda" and Broadway's Looped and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, will appear in a special industry reading of Sherri Helle…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PM[SHARE]The Scottsboro Boys, the Tony Award-nominated musical inspired by a Depression-era miscarriage of American justice, makes its West Coast debut April 29 at The Old Globe in San Diego. Veteran…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Anthony Heald, performance artist and songwriter Taylor Mac, Tony winner Bebe Neuwith and Christina Ricci wander into the woods outside Athens in Classic Stage Company'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Aubrey Dan, the Canadian producer who presented touring shows in Toronto and won a Tony Award as one of the producers of the Broadway musical Memphis, told the Toronto Star that he has withd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58PM[SHARE]Now. Here. This., the new musical revue created by and featuring the cast of Broadway's [title of show], ends its extended run at Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre on April 28. The wor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Amelia, Alex Webb's two-person Civil War drama about a wife disguising herself as a Union soldier to find her missing husband Down South, will make its New York City premiere in a unique…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PM[SHARE]Deanna Dunagan, the Chicago actress who won a Best Actress Tony Award for playing the strained drug-addicted matriarch Violet Weston in August: Osage County, will play the strained Republica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Hands on a Hardbody, the new musical about a Texas-set endurance competition, starring Jim Newman and Tony nominees Keith Carradine, Hunter Foster and Mary Gordon Murra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The Old Globe's 2012-13 season in San Diego will include the world-premiere productions of the musicals Allegiance, starring Lea Salonga and George Takei and Telly Leung, and A Gentleman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Acclaimed director David Cromer's new production of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent begins April 27 in Chicago. The troupe includes resident performers Alex A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Steve Roland, 83, an actor at home in Broadway shows, TV commercials and smoky clubs over a long career, died April 26 of natural causes at his home in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PM[SHARE]New plays by John Guare, Rolin Jones, Melissa James Gibson, Simon Stephens will populate Atlantic Theater Company's 2012-13 season. Two final productions, dates and additional directors …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre announced an eight-title 2012-13 season, including the world premiere of David Henry Hwang's Kung Fu. Expect a mix of plays by Signature alumni write…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PM[SHARE]The name of the child actress to play the title "little orphan" in the new Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning musical Annie will be announced at 9:30 AM (ET) April 27 on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PM[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, opens April 26 at the St. James …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company opens a revival of Marc Camoletti's 1960-set sex farce Don't Dress for Dinner — a sort of sequel to Boeing-Boeing, featuring the same randy male…
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 08:40PM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals has stuffed The Bikinis — a musical bursting with pop standards from the '60s and '70s — to its 2012 season at the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PM[SHARE]The 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, honoring excellence in Washington, DC-area professional theatre, were handed out April 23 at the Warner Theatre. Ruined, Hairspray, Charlotte's Web an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PM[SHARE]Josh Safran, an executive producer at CW's "Gossip Girl," will succeed Theresa Rebeck as "showrunner" — the person in charge of all aspects of story — for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]Hershey Felder, the pianist-actor known for appearing in musical biographies about George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and classical composers, directs the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Columnist, David Auburn's character study about the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of the late political journalist Joseph Alsop, opens in its Broadway world pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Filmmaker Justin Lin ("Fast and Furious" franchise) has acquired the film rights to David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, the recent Broadway comedy about an Ohio businessman navigati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PM[SHARE]Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, has acquired the theatrical archive of actress and playwright Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010). The collection of professional and family papers docume…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AM[SHARE]The Chicago engagement of Mark St. Germain's Freud's Last Session at the Mercury Theater has been extended to July 15, the producers announced on April 24. Mike Nussbaum and Coburn G…
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