Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM[SHARE]The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle named The Old Globe's 2011 production of Tracy Letts' drama August: Osage County the Outstanding Dramatic Production in the 10th annual Craig Noe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AM[SHARE]The world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart), begins Feb. 7 at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Bill Pullman, Am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Signature Theatre Company's Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater in the new Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street is unveiled to the public Feb. 7 with the first performance o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Venus in Fur, David Ives' dark comedy about a director auditioning a mysterious actress for a stage adaptation of an erotic novel, begins a commercial run at Broadway's Lyceum Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2012
The pilot episode of the new NBC drama-with-songs, "Smash," about the making of a Broadway musical, aired 10 PM (ET) Feb. 6. Full of spoilers, here's Playbill's look at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00PM[SHARE]The new musical Kinky Boots, with a score by pop singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, was seen New York City workshop presentations Jan. 19-20 in anticipation of a Broadway bow sometime in 2012-1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PM[SHARE]Additional casting has been announced for Leap of Faith, the new Broadway musical about a flim-flam preacher who blows into a small town, where he spars with a lady sheriff.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[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]"Smash," the new hour-long musical drama series created by Broadway dramatists who dwell in the world they're writing about, premieres 10 PM Feb. 6 on NBC. In an era where &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Noël Coward's Semi-Monde — the playwright's frank look at gay lives — gets its American premiere in a Feb. 6 one-night-only benefit concert performance presented by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2012
Music Is, the short-lived 1976 Broadway musical based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, is getting its first revival in a concert version produced by the theatre school at Western Carolina…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Richard Montoya's new work about a U.S. citizenship test and echoes from American history, opens at La Jolla Playhouse Feb. 4 following pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2012
The world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley, will get an extra week of performances at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PM[SHARE]Audiences at Broadway's Jersey Boys have been more at home than ever in the past month following the Jan. 8-10 installation of firmer seat cushions in the 1,250-seat auditorium of the Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan, the Chicago star who played the strained, cancerous and addicted matron Violet Weston in Broadway's August: Osage County, will be Madame Armfeldt in Ste…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]"Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," a new feature-film documentary about the life of Tony-winning Hello, Dolly! star Carol Channing, arrives in theatres in New York and San Francis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The New York City premiere of Leslye Headland's Assistance, about those in service of nightmare bosses, begins performances Feb. 3 with a cast that features Tony Award nominee Bobby Steg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2012
American Theater Company (ATC) and About Face Theatre will co-produce a resident Chicago production of Jonathan Larson's award-winning Rent, directed by MacArthur Fellow David Cromer, wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PM[SHARE]Playwrights Horizons announced complete casting for 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of Marc Camoletti's farce Don't Dress for Dinner, a sequel to Boeing-Boeing, will star Ben Daniels, Melora Hardin, Adam James, Os…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PM[SHARE]Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls announced full casting for the Chicago revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh starring the previously announced Tony Award winne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Scott Rudin shed light on the circumstances that led him to abandon his plan to produce Bruce Norris' play Clybourne Park on Broadway this spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]The New York-based Elevator Repair Service will bring Gatz, the eight-hour stage version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]Keith Baker, Madi DiStefano, Jack Koenig and Anette Michelle Sanders appear in Bristol Riverside Theatre's world premiere of A Raw Space, the new play by Jon Marans, the author of The Te…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, directed by Sam Gold in an arresting physical production that conjures the squalor and straitened circumstances of a working class life, opens Feb. 2 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Petula Clark, the Grammy Award-winning singer-actress with one foot in pop and one in musicals, has extended her current run at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, which began Jan. 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Artistic director Michael Kahn announced plays by Shakespeare, Gogol, Shaw and Schiller for the 2012-13 season at The Shakespare Theatre Company in Washington, DC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PM[SHARE]Music Is, the short-lived 1976 Broadway musical based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, is getting its first revival in a concert version produced by the theatre school at Western Carolina…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tickets are now on sale to the general public for Magic/Bird, Eric Simonson's drama about the rivalry and friendship of basketball heroes Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Producers Scott Rudin and Stuart Thompson are no longer attached to a planned spring Broadway move of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the personalitie…
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