Thursday, January 26, 2012
Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera, already the longest-running show in Broadway history, hits another milestone Jan. 26. It's the 24th anniversary of its opening night.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Recommendation, Jonathan Caren's provocative play about friendship, featuring Jimonn Cole, Brandon Gill and Evan Todd, opens Jan. 26 following previews from Jan. 21 at The Old Globe&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Denver Center Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Lisa Loomer's Passover Seder-set comedy Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner, directed by Wendy C. Goldberg, ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Arena Stage's Washington, DC, engagement of John Logan's Red, produced in association with Chicago's Goodman Theatre, where this production bowed last fall, opens Jan. 26 followi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway production of Margaret Edson's Wit — the Pulitzer Prize-winning title's Broadway debut — opens Jan. 26 following performances f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Cynthia Harris will be the imperious grandmother in The Actors Company Theatre/TACT revival of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, beginning March 13 at Off-Broadway's Beckett Theatre. Ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]Lloyd Suh's Jesus in India, billed as "a contemporary reimagining of a wild stretch in the lost years of Jesus Christ" in his teen years, gets its world premiere beginning Jan.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Gabe McKinley's CQ/CX, the fact-inspired drama about a journalism scandal, begins preview performances Off-Broadway Jan. 25. Atlantic Theater Company produces the world premiere, opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The original 2010 Off-Broadway company of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park — the drama about race and change in an American neighborhood — reunites for a Los Angeles engagem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Philadelphia Theatre Company presents the multiple Tony-nominated musical The Scottsboro Boys, opening Jan. 25 in its first post-Broadway staging, at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The pilot episode of the new hour-long musical drama "Smash" — the scripted TV series about theatre people putting together a new Broadway musical — is now available vi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PM[SHARE]Amelia, Alex Webb's two-actor, multi-character play about a woman's epic journey across Civil War America in search of her soldier husband, has been extended through Feb. 12 at Washi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PM[SHARE]The producers of Rebecca, the new musical based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, announced on Jan. 24 that the show's Broadway run is being postponed until the 2012-13 season. It turns…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PM[SHARE]Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards, honoring excellence for the 2011 year in film, were announced Jan. 24. Among the nominees for Best Picture are "War Horse," "The Artis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals' spring revival of Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Mame will star Louise Pitre, the Canadian actress and concert star who was Tony Award-nominate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Petula Clark, the Grammy Award-winning singer-actress with one foot in pop and one in musicals, performs in an intimate nightclub setting — Feinstein's at Loews Regency in Manhatta…
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, begins Jan. 24 prior to a Feb. 13 opening at Second Stage The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Keith Baker, Madi DiStefano, Jack Koenig and Anette Sanders appear in Bristol Riverside Theatre's world premere of A Raw Space, the new play by Jon Marans, the author of The Temperamenta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2012
An arbitrator has ruled that the producers of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark failed to post the required bonds for the employment of director Philip W. McKinley and choreographe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:40PM[SHARE]Prince of Broadway, the new musical celebrating the work of Broadway director and producer Harold "Hal" Prince will open directly on Broadway in November 2012 and will forgo the pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PM[SHARE]The pilot episode of the new NBC drama "Smash," set for a Feb. 6 network TV premiere, was released Jan. 16 on digital services as an effort to create buzz for the musical series. F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Open your pocketbooks, true believers! Tickets for the new Broadway musical Leap of Faith, starring Tony Award nominee Raul Esparza as a flim-flam preacher, go on sale starting Jan. 23. Prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2012
"All things beautiful must die," sings the aging soprano Heidi in Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, the 2011-12 Kennedy Center revival of which took its last breath…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19PM[SHARE]"All things beautiful must die," sings the aging soprano Heidi in Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, the 2011-12 Kennedy Center revival of which took its last breath…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 21, 2012
Dori Berinstein, when she's not producing Broadway shows, directs feature film documentaries that celebrate theatre. Her latest, "Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," premieres t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AM[SHARE]The Recommendation, Jonathan Caren's provocative play about friendship, featuring Jimonn Cole, Brandon Gill and Evan Todd, begins a world-premiere run Jan. 21 at The Old Globe's inti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 20, 2012
Flashdance – The Musical, the stage adaptation of the 1983 pop-filled hit film, is aiming for a Broadway launch in fall 2012, but its producers have already announced a second company …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[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 Los Angeles Jan. 20. New…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway production of Rent at New World Stages welcomes Justin Johnston and Josh Grisetti as Roger and Mark, respectively, and Rashad Naylor as Benny, on Jan. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Denver Center Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Lisa Loomer's Passover Seder-set comedy Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner, directed by Wendy C. Goldberg, pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Arena Stage's Washington, DC, engagement of John Logan's Red, produced in association with Chicago's Goodman Theatre, where this production bowed last fall, begins previews Jan. …
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