Tuesday, December 20, 2011
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]Nominations for the 2011 Craig Noel Awards, celebrating excellence in San Diego-area theatre, were announced Dec. 20 by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. In resident production categorie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre has added two weeks to its popular current run of Brian Friel's Tony Award-winning play Dancing at Lughnasa, with performances now playing thro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM[SHARE]Kevin Daniels, a rising actor who played a handful of roles in Lincoln Center Theater's Twelfth Night on Broadway in 1998, is one-half of the title duo of the Broadway-bound sports play,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AM[SHARE]The Shakespeare Theatre Company's conceptual new production of Much Ado About Nothing, which resets the action of the classic comedy from Sicily to a 1930s sugar plantation in Cuba, has …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48AM[SHARE]Tickets for the spring 2012 Broadway engagement of the popular London comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, based on Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, go on sale Dec. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2011
A settlement has been reached in a dispute over the use of celebrity likenesses and histories in the now-closed, flop Broadway musical Baby It's You!, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AM[SHARE]Molly Smith Metzler's Close Up Space, a new comedy starring Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce as a harried book editor, opens Dec. 19 following previews from Dec. 1 at Manhattan Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Accidentally, Like a Martyr, a new play by Grant James Varjas about a group of gay men coming to grips with life and aging in the 21st century, opens Off-Broadway Dec. 19, following previews…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 18, 2011
The original Broadway cast album of The People in the Picture, starring Tony Award-winning actress Donna Murphy, is now available, the Kritzerland label announced on Dec. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]The world premiere of actor-writer Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, a biographical drama about the passions and conflicts of the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize,…
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, ends its limited fall run on Broadway Dec. 18. A commer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2011
Bess Rous completes the cast of the world-premiere production of The Jacksonian, Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley's Southern-set drama bowing in February 2012 at the Geffen Playhouse in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:11PM[SHARE]The producers of Bonnie & Clyde announced on Dec. 16 that the run of the new musical will end Dec. 30. The final performance at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre is at 8 PM. By close, it wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Lea Salonga, Godspell star Telly Leung and TV icon George Takei of "Star Trek" fame will star in the world premiere of Allegiance, the musical about forced intern…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Martin Charnin, the lyricist and original director of Annie, is working on a new musical called Skin Deep, offering the further adventures of Cinderella's stepmother an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]The cast recording of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, which arrived in stores on the PS Classics label Nov. 29, remained at #1 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]The Broadway premiere of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, his three-actor play about an expressive, inspirational South African artist — and the forces that wish to quiet her and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2011
Flashdance, the movie-inspired pop-rock musical that had a short life in London in 2010-11, is being revised and aimed at Broadway for a fall 2012 launch, according to the New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:23PM[SHARE]Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rock-Star Rabbi, starring Grammy Award-winning country star and Les Misérables veteran Gary Morris as a real-life rockin' rabbi, gets two South Florida e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]Theatregoers who have been turned away from Classic Stage Company's sold-out, starry production of The Cherry Orchard have more than the pits to look forward to. CSC has added one week t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AM[SHARE]Tickets for the spring 2012 commercial Broadway engagement of Venus in Fur go on sale Dec. 15. David Ives' dark comedy about a director auditioning a mysterious actress for a stage adapt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]The new "revisal" of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever prompted Playbill to reach out to Facebook and Twitter followers for suggestions of shows ripe for a rewrite and revival. Mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Rob Fisher, the musical supervisor and vocal arranger of Broadway's Anything Goes, is acclaimed for conducting on Broadway and at Encores!, but has never led the band of Roundabout Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The Chicago premiere of librettist Harvey Fierstein and composer-lyricist John Bucchino's musical A Catered Affair, produced by Porchlight Musicals, will feature Rebecca Finnegan as matr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PM[SHARE]Julie Halston and Robert Petkoff are joining the cast of Broadway's Anything Goes, the shipboard musical comedy, in January 2012, Roundabout Theatre Company announced on Dec. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PM[SHARE]After swearing she was retiring her green tights for good, Cathy Rigby flies back to New York City in her Tony Award-nominated role as Peter Pan Dec. 14-30 at The Theater at Madison Square G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]An American Express pre-sale for the new Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It begins on Dec. 14. The Broadway musical directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Basketball. Cheerleaders. Sex. Show tunes. The stately Walter Kerr Theatre is the home court for all of that in the new Broadway musical comedy Lysistrata Jones, opening Dec. 14 following pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2011
The producers of the new Broadway-bound musical Leap of Faith, based on the film, officially announced on Dec. 13 that Christopher Ashley (Memphis), Warren Leight (Side Man) and Sergio Truji…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PM[SHARE]Alan Alda, the actor of stage, television and film, is also known as a filmmaker, but not as a playwright. Until now.
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