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?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2012
The cast of the film musical "Les Misérables" will feature "Borat" star Sacha Baron Cohen as Thenardier, U.K. Oliver! actor Daniel Huttlestone as child-hero Gavroc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PM[SHARE]The annual New York Pops Gala benefit on April 30 will honor the Tony Award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. A 7 PM Carnegie Hall concert called Journey On, borr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Timothy Jerome, Anika Larsen, Becca Ayers, Charlie Brady and more will perform in a March 16 Manhattan reading of Baby Case, the Barrymore Award-winning musical fantasia a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Team StarKid, the company behind the popular internet musical parody A Very Potter Musical, unveils its new spoof — the comic-book-inspired Holy Musical B@man! — March 16 wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The couch of Off-Broadway's Freud's Last Session gets two new occupants — George Morfogen as Freud and Jim Stanek as C.S. Lewis — beginning March 16 at New World Stages. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2012
The New York premiere of Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's solo-actor play An Iliad, based on Homer's "Iliad" translated by Robert Fagles, will get an extra week at New …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PM[SHARE]David Strathairn, the Academy Award nominee for "Good Night, and Good Luck," will play the imposing Dr. Sloper, father of the title character in Broadway's new production of Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PM[SHARE]Des McAnuff, the Tony Award-winning director whose embrace of rock musicals has been passionate over the years, is writing and directing a new musical called Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM[SHARE]Des McAnuff, the Tony Award-winning director whose embrace of rock musicals has been passionate over the years, is writing and directing a new musical called Yoshimi and the Pink Robots, whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM[SHARE]Jessica Love plays Anna Christie, the estranged prostitute daughter of a crusty sailor in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, opening March 15 following previews from March…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Hunter Foster and Rick Crom's satiric musical treatment of the criminal lives of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow has a cast — and a new title — for a new Atlanta-area producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Single Girls Guide, the new musical about a swinging-'60s advice columnist, will get a developmental workshop reading through ASCAP in Manhattan on March 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PM[SHARE]Postponed from the current season, Rebecca the Musical will open this fall at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway, producer Ben Sprecher announced on the musical's Facebook page March 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for the Goodspeed Musicals production of the Tony-winning Jerry Herman musical Mame, which will play April 20-July 1 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for the Goodspeed Musicals production of the Tony-winning Jerry Herman musical Mame, which will play April 20-July 1 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[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]Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Playbill's weekly overview, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC series "Smash," about the people behind the creation of a new Broadway musical. Here's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02PM[SHARE]Kathleen Turner will bring her performance as a salty nun in Matthew Lombardo's High to Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre May 8-13. Since its short life on Broadway in spring 2011, t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PM[SHARE]The film "Barrymore," starring 2012 Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer in the role that won him a Tony Award, will be shown at select cinemas in Canada beginning in May 2012 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PM[SHARE]The world premiere of Hands on a Hardbody, the new musical about a Texas-set endurance competition, will star Tony Award winner Jarrod Emick and Tony nominees Keith Carradine, Hunter Foster …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PM[SHARE]Masterworks Broadway releases the cast album of Once: A New Musical on March 13, five days before the delicate Dublin-set musical opens at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Previews …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Cynthia Harris is the imperious immigrant grandmother in The Actors Company Theatre/TACT revival of Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers, beginning March 13 at Off-Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2012
Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2012-13 season will include the musicals Assassins, Ring of Fire, Blues in the Night and Gutenberg!; Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, a fantastical look a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59PM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theater will produce Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park With George, plus David Ives' The School for Lies and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PM[SHARE]Joining the previously revealed Hello, Dolly! in Ford's Theatre's 2012-13 season will be a 75th-anniversary production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and new play about African-Am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PM[SHARE]Irish Repertory Theatre and Gingold Theatrical Group will present a co-production of George Bernard Shaw's complete four-act Man and Superman — his 1903 comedy set in England, Spai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PM[SHARE]Mark Blum, Lisa Emery, Christopher Jackson and Maureen Sebastian will join the previously announced Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby for the world premiere of Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM[SHARE]Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre on West 44th Street turns 100 on March 12. Martin Markinson and Jeff Tick, who own and operate the venue — first called The Little Theatre back in 19…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Golden Globe Award winner Richard Gere, star of the Rob Marshall film "Chicago," and two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters are on the list of performers honoring director an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 11, 2012
The company of Anything Goes says farewell to Sutton Foster at the March 11 matinee of the Broadway hit that earned the star her second Best Actress Tony Award. Following a year of performan…
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