Monday, March 5, 2012
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PM[SHARE]Prior to its March 13 release on the Masterworks Broadway label, the cast album of Once: A New Musical is now getting a "first listen" on National Public Radio's website at npr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PM[SHARE]If the sour and intolerant Dean Wormer of the hit film comedy "Animal House" sang a song, what might it sound like? Probably something like a Barenaked Ladies pop song, if Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PM[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 11:18AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Jane Alexander is the enigmatic title character in Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque — the acclaimed actress' first-ever role in an Albee play —…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The works of playwright-songwriter Noël Coward — and his contemporaries and U.K. successors — get presented in a monthly Manhattan reading series dubbed Noël and Compan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 4, 2012
The Broadway premiere of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, his three-actor play about an expressive, inspirational South African artist, played by Rosemary Harris, and the forces that wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 3, 2012
Tickets for Broadway engagement of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, a play about race and real estate, will be available to the general public starting March 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 2, 2012
The Broadway cast album of Bonnie & Clyde will be released April 24 on the Broadway Records label. The musical ended its short run on Broadway Dec. 30, 2011, but the Frank Wild…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner David Zippel, who wrote frisky lyrics for City of Angels, The Goodbye Girl and the regionally-seen Princesses, has adapted Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba stars as Charlotte Bartlett, the overbearing chaperone of Lucy Honeychurch, in the new musical A Room With a View, based on the E.M. Forster novel, getting its…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Alley Theatre's production of John Logan's popular two-character play Red, directed by Jackson Gay, featuring Tony Award nominee Scott Wentworth as painter Mark Rothko and Jay Sulliv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2012
Roundabout Theatre Company's annual 2012 Spring Gala on March 12 will celebrate Academy Award, Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Rob Marshall, who has roots in RTC productions. His sis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05PM[SHARE]Justin Long, the young actor who has played a number of charming and hapless roles in TV ("Ed," "New Girl") and film ("He's Just Not That Into You," "T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[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 01:55PM[SHARE]The original Off-Broadway company of Nicky Silver's dark comedy The Lyons will make the leap to Broadway, producers announced on March 1. Performances begin April 5 prior to an April 23 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]Musicians are in a studio with composer-lyricist Lewis Flinn March 1 to begin recording the cast album of Broadway's Lysistrata Jones, according to @LyssieJ, the official Twitter account…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Stephen Kunken (Enron), Grace Gummer (Arcadia) and Brian J. Smith (Come Back, Little Sheba) will join previously announced John Lithgow, Margaret Colin and Boyd Gaines for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AM[SHARE]Berkeley Repertory Theatre's 2012-13 season in Berkeley, CA, will include the world premiere of Dan LeFranc's comedy and the West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Chita Rivera (The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, West Side Story) will step into the world of the British Music Hall this fall for the first Broadway revival of the Tony A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Playwrights Horizons serves the New York City premiere of Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, a play that spans 80 years in the life of a family in one setting — a restaurant — start…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Imperial Theatre box office for the new Broadway musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It opens March 1, and the first in line will have access to prizes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announced six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre Company has announced a one-week extension for Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque, starring Tony Award winner Jane Alexander in the title role, which will officially …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PM[SHARE]The Broadway cast of Lysistrata Jones will give it up April 9 in a one-night-only concert version of the acclaimed Broadway score at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PM[SHARE]Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim told The London Evening Standard that he is working on a musical with David Ives, the playwright known for Venus in Fur, All in the Timing and adaptations …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]The organizers of the Tony Awards have announced the calendar for the upcoming 2011-2012 Tony Award season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]Kathleen Turner reprises her Broadway turn as a tough-talking nun who counsels a young drug addict in a Ft. Lauderdale, FL, engagement of the three-character play High. Performances play The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rated P for Parenthood, the new Off-Broadway musical revue about the joys and quirks of having kids, opens Feb. 29 following previews from Feb. 8 at the Westside Theatre. Courtney Balan ([ti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin, pianist Rob Berman and 19-year-old ragtime pianist Adam Swanson join singer-pianist Michael Feinstein for the Feb. 29 performance of Standard Time with Micha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Viewership for NBC's "Smash" was up slightly in its fourth week, according to ratings company Nielsen.
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