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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 10, 2012
Antoni Cimolino, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's current general director — who rose from being a young actor at the world-renowned Canadian theatre — has been named its…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:08PM[SHARE]The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2011 pop-rock-infused production of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night gets a cinematic release March 10 and March 21 at Cineplex Entertainment t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Jessica Love plays Anna Christie, the estranged prostitute daughter of a crusty sailor in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starting March 10 at The Old Globe in San Dieg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba stars as Charlotte Bartlett, the overbearing chaperone of the young Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch, in the new musical A Room With a View, based on the E.M. For…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2012
The Washington, DC, premiere of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, will feature a cast of DC performers including Helen Hayes Award winners Naomi Jacobs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PM[SHARE]Bill English, the game actor who previously stepped into the dancing shoes of romantic lead Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, is back in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, now through Ap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[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, will play …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me) is the "obnoxious and disliked" John Adams opposite fellow Continental Congressman — and Tony nominee &md…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2012
Golden Globe Award winner Richard Gere, star of the Rob Marshall film "Chicago," and two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters have joined the list of performers honoring direct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]The Old Globe has added a week to the run of its world-premiere musical A Room with a View, now playing to April 15 in San Diego.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PM[SHARE]Grammy and Emmy Award-winning actor-comedian-musician Steve Martin will compose original music for The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of As You Like It, the dates of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM[SHARE]Jean Banks, the senior director of jazz and musical theatre at BMI and an unseen but influential figure in the theatre world, will be remembered at a gathering of friends and colleagues 5:30…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]The world-premiere production of British playwright Matt Charman's Regrets, about men biding their time at a Nevada ranch while waiting for quick divorces in the 1950s, begins previews M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Writers' Theatre in suburban Chicago announced a 2012-13 season to feature Hamlet, the Midwest premiere of John W. Lowell's play The Letters, the musical Sweet Charity, the Midwest p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-wining Denver Center Theatre Company in Colorado will give voice to two world premieres, plus Other Desert Cities, The Three Musketeers, Fences, Romeo and Juliet and more in i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PM[SHARE]The Bruce Hornsby-scored musical formerly known as SCKBSTD has been retitled Stranger, and will appear March 20 in the Developmental Reading Series of York Theatre Company in Manhattan. Lanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, will stage The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Company, Dreamgirls and a new in-the round production of Joe Calarco's Shakespe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 2012-13 subscription season in Chicago will feature the world premiere of the Tina Landau-directed Steppenwolf commission Head of Passes by ensemble member …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AM[SHARE]Now. Here. This., the new work from the creators and cast of the cult-hit musical [title of show], gets its world premiere by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre starting March 7 prior to an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Philadelphia Theatre Company announced Equivocation author Bill Cain as the first recipient of the Terrence McNally New Play Award to aid in the research and development of Cain's new pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PM[SHARE]Due to health issues, Jack Klugman has withdrawn from the George Street Playhouse's upcoming production of Twelve Angry Men in New Brunswick, NJ.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM[SHARE]Viewership for NBC's "Smash" was up 17 percent for its March 5 episode, according to published reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PM[SHARE]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 03:16PM[SHARE]Zoe Lister-Jones will succeed Lily Rabe in Broadway's Seminar, the Theresa Rebeck comedy about young novelists whose work is judged by a waspish editor. Rabe and original cast members Al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PM[SHARE]New York Theatre Workshop's New York City premiere of Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's Homer-inspired one-man play An Iliad, gets two opening nights this week. Tony Award winners…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre Company's new production of Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque, widely praised by critics as a rediscovery following its March 5 opening night, has been extended …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PM[SHARE]The Best Man, Gore Vidal's 1960 play about a U.S. presidential election, gets its second Broadway revival — and a starry one, at that — beginning previews March 6 at the Gera…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[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]Monday, March 5, 2012
Helen Hayes Award winner and Tony Award nominee Helen Carey will play drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite Peter Michael Goetz as husband and aging actor James Tyrone, Sr., in Arena Stage'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30PM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals, the two-time Tony Award-winning Connecticut company devoted to new and vintage musicals, will honor Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth as the recipient of The Goodspeed …
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