Monday, February 13, 2012
Complete casting has been announced for the upcoming Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PM[SHARE]The producers of Once, the new Broadway musical based on the 2007 Academy Award-winning film about an Irish busker and a Czech immigrant, will offer a lottery ticket program that allows thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]Supporters of Roundabout Theatre Company will witness a starry presentation of director Jessica Stone's all-male production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new Off-Broadway production of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, her dark Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age play, opens Feb. 13 following previews from Jan. 24 at Second Stage…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2012
The Broadway cast recording of the musical The Book of Mormon won the 2012 Grammy Award in the category of Best Musical Theater Album, formerly called Best Show Album. The 54th annual Grammy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM[SHARE]The Broadway cast recording of the musical The Book of Mormon won the 2012 Grammy Award in the category of Best Show Album. The 54th annual Grammys, for excellence in the recording industry,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Colin Donnell is taking a break from playing Billy Crocker in Broadway's Anything Goes to explore the complexities of Merrily We Roll Along in an Encores! concert.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The U.S. tour of Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables will celebrate its 500th performance 2 PM Feb. 12 at the Straz Center in Tampa, FL.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Lyric Opera of Chicago's new production of Show Boat, the 1927 musical drama that was a watershed in American theatre, plays Feb. 12-March 17 at The Civic Opera House. Opera and conc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A compromised slave auctioneer alone in the Mississippi swamps is at the mercy of a runaway slave in the world premiere of Jan Buttram's Lost on the Natchez Trace, opening Feb. 12 in an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 11, 2012
Alumni of the 24-year Broadway run of The Phantom of the Opera are expected to be sprinkled among the audience of the history-making 10,000th Broadway performance of the Andrew Lloyd Webber …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2012
Masterworks Broadway will release the cast album of Once: A New Musical on March 13 in the same week that the delicate musical opens at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Previews for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]The 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Memphis will embrace Nancy Opel again as Mama. She will return to the Broadway troupe at the Shubert Theatre Feb. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2012
A healthy winter box office is prompting the producers of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess to extend the sales period of the Broadway revival beyond its planned limited run. Originally anno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PM[SHARE]Second Stage Theatre's tenth anniversary season of its Uptown Series of new works at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre on the Upper West Side will feature the world premieres of Alena Smith'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Tom Wopat (Annie Get Your Gun, A Catered Affair) and Will Chase are among actors who will join the previously announced Laura Osnes in the New York City Center Encores! pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]Kenneth Lonergan's new work this spring for Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company is called Medieval Play, "set against the classic comic background of late 14th century eccl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]Helena Bonham Carter, the actress who created a frisky Mrs. Lovett in the film musical "Sweeney Todd," will play craven Madame Thénardier in the movie version of the interna…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Les Misérables producer Cameron Mackintosh confirmed that the in-production film version of the epic Victor Hugo-inspired musical will feature a new song for Jean Valjean, the hero pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PM[SHARE]The complete company of the world-premiere production of Matt Charman's Regrets has been revealed by Manhattan Theatre Club. Carolyn Cantor directs the production at MTC's Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]The Atlantic Theater Company world-premiere production of Gabe McKinley's journalism play CQ/CX, directed by Tony Award nominee David Leveaux, has been extended by one week in advance of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Anthony Heald and performance artist and songwriter Taylor Mac are among the troupers joining Tony winner Bebe Neuwith and Christina Ricci for Classic Stage Company's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me) will be the "obnoxious and disliked" John Adams opposite fellow Continental Congressman — and Tony nomine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me) will be the "obnoxious and disliked" John Adams opposite fellow Continental Congressman — and Tony nomine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]Rated P for Parenthood, the new Off-Broadway musical revue about the joys and quirks of having kids, begins its Off-Broadway life Feb. 8 at the Westside Theatre, where Courtney Balan ([title…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new musical Amazing Grace, based on the life of John Newton, the former slave trader who wrote the famous hymn of the title, will launch Goodspeed Musicals' 2012 Norma Terris Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's short-lived but tuneful Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along plays the famed Manhattan venue Feb. 8-19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Supporters of Roundabout Theatre Company are being invited to a starry presentation of director Jessica Stone's all-male production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PM[SHARE]Basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, formerly of Michigan State University and the Los Angeles Lakers, will make his Broadway debut this spring — sort of.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, formerly of Michigan State University and the Los Angeles Lakers, will make his Broadway debut this spring — sort of.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]The critically acclaimed theatre-inspired TV series "Smash," in its pilot airing at 10 PM (ET) Feb. 6, was a ratings hit, earning 11.5 million total viewers and scoring high with v…
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