Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Viewership for NBC's "Smash" was up slightly in its fourth week, according to ratings company Nielsen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PM[SHARE]Nominees for the 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, representing excellence in the Washington, DC, theatre community, were announced Feb. 27. The list of more widely-known performers nominated …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PM[SHARE]Second Stage Theatre's world-premiere production of Paul Weitz's comedy Lonely, I'm Not will star Topher Grace ("That '70s Show") and Olivia Thirlby ("Juno,&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]Hurt Village — the new work by Katori Hall, the Olivier Award-winning writer of The Mountaintop — which officially opened Feb. 27, has extended its engagement at Signature Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AM[SHARE]The Goodman Theatre's 2012-13 season will include The Jungle Book, a new musical based on the 1967 animated Disney film and the stories of Rudyard Kipling. Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American Popular Song, has begun pre-production on its next vintage restoration and studio recording: composer George Gershwi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Once, the new stage musical based on the independent film about an Irish singer-songwriter named Guy, who meets a muse in the person of a Czech immigrant named Girl, begins performances on B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Bobby Steggert, Michael Esper, Sue Jean Kim, Virginia Kull, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe and Amy Rosoff play satellites spinning around an unseen, bullying international mogul in the world premiere…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 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 11:04PM[SHARE]The Imperial Theatre box office for the new Broadway musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It will open March 1 with special giveaways for early birds.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PM[SHARE]Happy Leap Year! That's the message from producers of the new Broadway musical Leap of Faith, who are offering $29 seats in the orchestra and mezzanine for the first week of previews, Ap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]Signature Theatre Company's Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater in the new Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street is officially open for business Feb. 27 with the opening of t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 26, 2012
The London cast album of the inbound Broadway comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, featuring the band The Craze performing original songs by Grant Olding, and using original troupers including star …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rod Brogan, Patricia Conolly, Lucas Hall, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Aimee Laurence, Joanna Leister, Wrenn Schmidt, David Sitler and John Thomas Waite are featured in Irish Repertory Theatre'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sam Gold began his life in theatre as a young actor, appearing as a replacement understudy in Broadway's The Diary of Anne Frank in 1997-98. What a difference 15 years has made. He's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Billy Crystal hosts the 84th Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 26, honoring excellence for the 2011 year in film. Among the nominees for Best Picture are "War Horse," "The Artis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2012
The previously announced one-week extension of the Second Stage Theatre revival of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive has been canceled, the not-for-profit Off-Broadway company announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:56PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning directors Bartlett Sher (South Pacific) and Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) will direct classics in the 2012-13 season of the Metropolitan Opera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PM[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 09:56AM[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 09:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2012
Stephanie J. Block, the game leading lady who stepped into the tap shoes of Sutton Foster in Anything Goes in fall 2011, when Foster was filming a TV pilot, will permanently take over the ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:27PM[SHARE]Mystery Writers of America announced two theatrical titles as nominees for its annual Edgar Awards, honoring the best in mystery, thriller and crime literature and nonfiction across multiple…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:23PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Chuck Cooper, Jeff Kready, Brenda Pressley and Margo Seibert will star in the world premiere of the New Year's Eve-set chamber musical In This House by Two River Theate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Team StarKid, the troupe behind the popular internet musical parody A Very Potter Musical will launch its new spoof — the comic-book-inspired Holy Musical B@man! — this spring wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]Ask Playbill.com answers a question about the music that you hear when you're leaving the theatre after a performance of a musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as the persecuted scientist, opens Feb. 23 following previews from…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin, pianist Rob Berman and 19-year-old ragtime pianist Adam Swanson will join singer-pianist Michael Feinstein for the Feb. 29 performance of Standard Time with …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PM[SHARE]Barbra Streisand and Columbia Records announced on Feb. 22 that Streisand's recording contract with the label has been extended, and revealed that Columbia will release a 12-set DVD, &qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PM[SHARE]The Second Stage Theatre revival of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive will get an extra week, now to March 18, the not-for-profit Off-Broadway company announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PM[SHARE]La Jolla Playhouse announced the addition of J.T. Rogers' Blood and Gifts, the play about international military intervention in Afghanistan, as part of its 2012-13 season. Lucie Tibergh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PM[SHARE]Jessica Love will play Anna Christie, the estranged prostitute daughter of a crusty sailor in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, March 10-April 15 at The Old Globe in San …
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