Monday, March 26, 2012
A limited number of lower-price general rush tickets will be available for every performance of the Broadway run of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park, the comedy-drama …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM[SHARE]Rated P for Parenthood, the Off-Broadway musical comedy revue that takes loving and naughty pokes at the institution of parenting, will close April 8 upstairs at the Westside Theatre. The ve…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PM[SHARE]A new generation of theatregoer will get easier access to the songs of George and Ira Gershwin with a student rush ticket policy, announced by the producers of Broadway's Nice Work If Yo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PM[SHARE]The Chicago premiere of Mark St. Germain's two-character drama Freud's Last Session, about a meeting of opposite forces C.S. Lewis and Dr. Sigmund Freud, opens March 26 following pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Now. Here. This., the new musical created by and featuring the cast of Broadway's [title of show], will get an extra week in its world-premiere run at Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM[SHARE]PS Classics, the record label devoted to the American Songbook and the heritage of musical theatre, announced performers and a release date of May 22 for its previously announced studio cast…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The cast and orchestra of the recent Encores! concert of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along will reunite in April to record a two-disc cast album, PS Classics anno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris' humor-flecked play about racial and economic changes occurring in a neighborhood over a 50-year period, begins Broadway previews on March 26. Winner of the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Single Girls Guide, the new musical about a swinging-'60s advice columnist, gets a developmental workshop reading through ASCAP in Manhattan on March 26. Farah Alvin, Nancy Opel, Cla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 24, 2012
Joshua Bergasse, a dancer who performed in Broadway's Hairspray and The Life, is suddenly in charge of some of the most high-profile choreography in America — on TV's "Sma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Emanuel Azenberg will discuss his long personal and professional relationship with playwright Neil Simon in a moderated chat following the 2 PM March 24 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2012
"Smash," the hour-long NBC musical drama series about the making of a Broadway musical, has been renewed for a second season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PM[SHARE]New York Theatre Workshop's four-show 2012-13 season will include the New York City premiere of Amy Herzog's Belleville and Alexander Dinelaris' Red Dog Howls, the downtown compa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PM[SHARE]As part of its ongoing exploration of Broadway history, Playbill Vault — the most comprehensive internet database of Broadway information — introduces a two-part series looking a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Cynthia Harris is the imperious immigrant grandmother in TACT/The Actors Company Theatre revival of Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers, opening March 22 following p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The Times Square Theater, the last of the dormant legit theatres between Seventh and Eighth Avenues on West 42nd Street in the Broadway theatre district, will be renovated to house a starry,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award nominee James Cromwell ("Babe," "L.A. Confidential," "The Queen," "Six Feet Under") is Pozzo in Mark T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Kathleen Turner reprises her Broadway role of a no-nonsense nun in High for a San Francisco engagement of Matthew Lombardo's drama starting March 21 at the SHN Curran Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Chicago premiere of Mark St. Germain's two-character drama Freud's Last Session, about a meeting of opposite forces C.S. Lewis and Dr. Sigmund Freud, features the play's orig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The New York City premiere of Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, a play that spans 80 years in the life of a family — over the course of many mealtimes, both joyous and contentious &mdash…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Magic/Bird, Eric Simonson's drama about the rivalry and friendship of basketball heroes Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, begins previews at Broadway's Longacre Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The cast of Prince of Broadway, the Broadway musical retrospective of shows directed by Harold Prince, will star Tony Award winner Linda Lavin, Sebastian Arcelus, Sierra Boggess, Daniel Brea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]Playbill's weekly overview, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the creation of a new Broadway musical. Here's a lo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PM[SHARE]Suzzanne Douglas has joined the cast of the world-premiere musical In This House by Two River Theatre Company in Red Bank, NJ. Douglas replaces Brenda Pressley as Luisa Arden for the run, no…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PM[SHARE]Re-Animator: The Musical, Standing On Ceremony, Small Engine Repair, Bring It On choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and solo performer Charlayne Woodard's The Night Watcher are among…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00AM[SHARE]Dana Rowe and John Dempsey, the writers of the musicals The Fix and The Witches of Eastwick, have crafted a new pop-rock musical called Brother Russia, about the life and times of Rasputin, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Bruce Hornsby-scored musical formerly known as SCKBSTD has been retitled Stranger, and appears March 20 in the Developmental Reading Series of York Theatre Company in Manhattan. Lance Gu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2012
The Cort Theatre box office will open March 22 for the Broadway transfer of Nicky Silver's biting family play The Lyons, starring Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for excellence for work produced or presented in 2011 in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County will be handed out March 19. Among the nomi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2012
Once, the new stage musical based on the Oscar-winning film about an Irish singer-songwriter named Guy, who meets a muse in the person of a Czech immigrant named Girl, opens at Broadway'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 17, 2012
It's not as though Steve Kazee never played a principal role on Broadway, so why does it feel like only now, with the Broadway musical Once, that he's making his Big Breakthrough?
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