Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Red Hot Patriot:
The Kick-Ass Wit
of Molly Ivins, starring Kathleen Turner as the late journalist, begins performances Jan. 3 at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. David Esbjornso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]Monday, January 2, 2012
Yank!, the musical story of a young American G.I. facing first love as he is swept into World War II, is aiming for a Broadway life in the 2012-13 season, Stuart Wilk, one of its lead produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06PM[SHARE]Yank!, the story of a young American G.I. facing first love as he is swept into World War II, is aiming for a Broadway life in the 2012-13 season, Stuart Wilk, one of its lead producers told…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:04PM[SHARE]Although the new musical Bonnie & Clyde ended its short run on Broadway Dec. 30, the score will live on in an original Broadway cast recording. The troupers head into a recording studio …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 1, 2012
Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, one of the best-reviewed plays of the 2011 New York City theatre year, ends its extended Off-Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 31, 2011
The Broadway musical comedy The Addams Family, inspired by the funny-macabre cartoons of Charles Addams, ends its run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre following the matinee Dec. 31. By close, it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Holland Taylor, the actress known for playing salty and strong women on TV's "Bosom Buddies" and "Two and a Half Men," has crafted a one-woman play called Ann, about …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Private Lives, which co-stars Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, plays its final performance at Broadway's Music Box Theatre Dec. 31. The limited engagement was origina…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 30, 2011
Bonnie & Clyde, the musical about Depression-era misfits who become lovers and criminals, closes Dec. 30 following a month-long run at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The company wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 29, 2011
Broadway's Lonny Price will direct the new musical Bonnie & Clyde: A Folktale at Aurora Theatre in Georgia in late winter. The staging of the show by librettist Hunter Foster and com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Research programs of The American Voices New Play Institute (AVNPI), which have been under the roof of Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, DC, will move to Eme…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10PM[SHARE]Florida producer Alan Jacobson announced on Dec. 28 that he will be producing and presenting shows in the former home of the shuttered Florida Stage in Manalapan, FL, starting Feb. 17-18, 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PM[SHARE]Donna Hanover, the ex-wife of former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, is among newly named performers joining the cast of the upcoming Broadway production of Gore Vidal's The Best M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PM[SHARE]Sandi Patty, known for her soulful belting soprano in gospel and pops concerts, will be joined by Broadway performers when she plays Dolly Levi in a semi-staged concert version of Hello, Dol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]The new North American tour of American Idiot, the Broadway rock musical based on the Green Day album, officially debuts Dec. 28 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts in Ontario, Canada.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Fiasco Theater's acclaimed, six-person production of Shakespeare's late-career play Cymbeline has been extended two weeks, now to Jan. 15, 2012, at Off-Broadway's Barrow Street T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PM[SHARE]The latest step in the development of a new version of the 1960 Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown, by composer-lyricist Meredith Willson, came Dec. 15 in a Manhattan reading for th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PM[SHARE]The company and creative team of American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Richard Montoya's new work about a U.S. citizenship test and echoes from American history, has been annou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]Harry Kullijian, co-founder of the Dr. Carol Channing and Harry Kullijian Foundation for the Arts and husband of the stage and screen star Carol Channing, died Dec. 26 at Eisenhower Medical …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, December 26, 2011
Striking 12, the holiday-set concept-concert musical by members of the pop trio GrooveLily and Tony Award-winning librettist Rachel Sheinkin, returns to New York City for a Dec. 26-31 engage…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 25, 2011
The new musical Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rock-Star Rabbi, starring Grammy Award-winning country star and Les Misérables veteran Gary Morris as a real-life rock 'n' roll rabbi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 24, 2011
It's been a very good year for Tony Award winner John Logan. His London and Broadway hit, Red, is now one of the most-produced plays in regional theatre, and films of his screenplays for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2011
Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken is at work penning new songs for the Broadway production of Newsies, which will arrive at the Nederlander Theatre March 15, 2012, for a limited eng…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PM[SHARE]Flashdance, the movie-inspired pop-rock musical that had a short life in London in 2010-11, will play a pre-Broadway engagement in Toronto, according to an Equity casting notice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2011
A developmental workshop of the new musical Big Fish, featuring songs by Andrew Lippa, book by John August and direction and choreography by Susan Stroman, will be held March 12-April 8, 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PM[SHARE]The Stanley Theatre in Utica, NY, is the site of the tech and soft launch of the new North American tour of American Idiot, the Broadway rock musical based on the Green Day album. Following …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Simon Gray's The Common Pursuit, a look at the lives of college students who launch a literary magazine, will be produced by Roundabout Theatre Company May 4-July 29, 2012, as part of it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award nominee Howard McGillin has joined the cast of the upcoming new musical Rebecca, which is based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier and will open on Broadway in Apr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PM[SHARE]The Recommendation, Jonathan Caren's provocative play about friendship, will feature Jimonn Cole, Brandon Gill and Evan Todd in its world-premiere run at The Old Globe's intimate She…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PM[SHARE]Golden Globe nominee Christina Ricci, the film actress known for "The Addams Family" and "The Opposite of Sex," and TV's "Pan Am," will join two-time Tony A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Linda Lavin will be honored at the not-for-profit Vineyard Theatre's Annual Gala on March 12, 2012, at the Millennium Broadway Hotel's Hudson Theatre.
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