Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Three-time Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Adams, who showed her deft touch with musical numbers in the films "Enchanted" and "The Muppets," will play The Baker's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM[SHARE]The cast of the new and critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers had its breath taken away on March 30 when they learned that Simon himself was in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]Leap of Faith, the new Broadway musical about a con-man preacher who blows into a small Kansas town, where he spars with a lady sheriff, begins making a joyful noise at the St. James Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09AM[SHARE]Geffen Playhouse veterans Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle") and Jon Tenney ("The Closer") play former high school lovers in the West Coast premiere of David Lindsa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway's Seminar, the new play by Theresa Rebeck, gets a new poison pen in the form of Jeff Goldblum starting on April 3. The veteran of Broadway's The Pillowman and Hollywood'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Leap of Faith, the new Broadway musical about a con-man preacher who blows into a small Kansas town, where he spars with a lady sheriff, begins making a joyful noise at the St. James Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2012
The Playwrights Horizons world premiere of Rapture, Blister, Burn, a play by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Gina Gionfriddo (Becky Shaw), will feature Amy Brenneman, Beth Dixo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:56PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre in New York City announced on April 2 that Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang will be the Residency One Playwright — the not-for-profit's foundation program, cov…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PM[SHARE]Broadway In Chicago's season of national touring shows and special events includes the previously reported pre-Broadway engagement of the new musical Kinky Boots, plus the newly announce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PM[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, will feature Kristen Bush as Marigo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM[SHARE]Nominees for the 2012 Kevin Kline Awards, representing excellence in St. Louis-area theatre for the year 2011, gather at the Loretto-Hilton Center April 2 for the awards ceremony.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AM[SHARE]The Carbonell Awards, celebrating South Florida professional theatrical productions from 2011, will be handed out at an April 2 ceremony at Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lau…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 1, 2012
The Best Man, Gore Vidal's 1960 play about the lead-up to a U.S. presidential election, about two candidates seeking their party's nomination, gets its second Broadway revival &mdash…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Broadway's Seminar, the new play by Theresa Rebeck, loses Alan Rickman, Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater following the April 1 matinee at the Golden Theatre. They exit at the end of their …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 31, 2012
Yussef El Guindi's Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World, a play about immigration and assimilation, was named winner of the $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30PM[SHARE]The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) will reveal the recipient among six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award on March 3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2012
Atlantic Theater Company announced on March 30 that John Patrick Shanley will direct the May 16-June 24 world premiere of his Bronx-set Storefront Church, the third play of his trilogy that …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Laura Benanti, Howard McGillin, Joseph Thalken and Natascia Diaz are among performers who'll appear at the April 16 presentation of Signature Theatre's third Stephe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PM[SHARE]Helen Hayes Award winner and Tony Award nominee Helen Carey plays drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite Peter Michael Goetz as husband and aging actor James Tyrone, Sr., in Arena Stage's ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company opens the door on Marc Camoletti's sex farce Don't Dress for Dinner, a sequel to Boeing-Boeing, March 30 at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre. Ben D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Scottsboro Boys, the Tony Award-nominated musical inspired by a Depression-era miscarriage of American justice, will make its West Coast debut with some veterans of the 2010 Broadway sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PM[SHARE]Convicted white-collar criminal Garth Drabinsky, the impresario who once ran the Broadway producing organization Livent, which collapsed in a financial scandal, won't be able to appeal h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PM[SHARE]The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, the concert stage show that celebrates the music of the American Yiddish theatre, airs March 29 on the PBS series &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PM[SHARE]Philadelphia Theatre Company's 2012-13 mainstage season will feature two Broadway titles, with more productions to be announced. Seminar by Theresa Rebeck and The Mountaintop by Katori H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AM[SHARE]A new generation of Broadway theatregoer will be exposed to the classic songs of composer George Gershwin and lyricist Ira Gershwin starting March 29 with the first preview of the new musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]American Conservatory Theater's West Coast premiere of Jordan Harrison's Maple and Vine, about modern people who escape to the past by joining a group of 1950s reenactors, plays Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The long-dormant score of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II's 1955 California seaside-set musical Pipe Dream will wash over listeners as never before with a complete recording c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PM[SHARE]The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announced Darren M. Canady as recipient of its 2012 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award will be presented…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]Now. Here. This., the new work from the creators and cast of the cult-hit Broadway musical [title of show], opens March 28 in its world premiere by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre. The h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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 05:55PM[SHARE]Broadway dancers will stud the new musical Heat Wave: The Jack Cole Project, about the father of theatrical jazz and musical-theatre dance, when it gets its world premiere May 3-20 at Queens…
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