Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Alan Alda, the actor of stage, television and film, is also known as a filmmaker, but not as a playwright. Until now.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Surflight Theatre, the long-time summer theatre in Beach Haven, NJ, on Long Beach Island has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to mount a 63rd season beginning in April 2012. Expe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM[SHARE]The first major New York City revival of Shlemiel the First, the Klezmer musical based on the play by Isaac Bashevis Singer, begins performances Dec. 13 at the Jack H. Skirball Center for th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2011
When Detroit, Lisa D'Amour's critically acclaimed 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist play about neighbors, makes its New York City debut Off-Broadway in fall 2012, it will be Playwrights H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PM[SHARE]Venus in Fur keeps rising. David Ives' dark comedy about a director auditioning a mysterious actress for a stage adaptation of an erotic novel will move to a commercial Broadway engageme…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]Charlotte Parry has replaced Anastasia Griffith in the role of Helena in Roundabout Theatre Company's new Off-Broadway production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PM[SHARE]A national tour of the 2011 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival Anything Goes will launch in October 2012 at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH, Roundabout Theatre Company announced on De…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]Film star Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) and Broadway's Aaron Tveit (Catch Me If You Can) are the latest names linked to the coming film musical version of Les Misérables.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AM[SHARE]Film star Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) and Broadway's Aaron Tveit (Catch Me If You Can) are the latest names linked to the coming film musical version of Les Misérables.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AM[SHARE]Finding Neverland, the American musical about the family that inspired J.M. Barrie to write his "Peter Pan" stories, takes wing in a London industry reading, getting two performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2011
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 1965 Broadway musical remembered as a richly tuneful vehicle for Barbara Harris, but maligned for its confused plotting, extraneous characters —…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 1965 Broadway musical remembered as a richly tuneful vehicle for Barbara Harris, but maligned for its confused plotting, extraneous characters —…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Chicago premiere of Enda Walsh's Penelope, the absurdist-flavored take on the tale of the Trojan War wife who waits for her soldier husband and is courted by unsuitable suitors, open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 10, 2011
Pianist, music scholar and music director Rob Fisher appears with Kristin Chenoweth Dec. 10 at The Town Hall in New York City for a live broadcast of public radio's "A Prairie Home …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2011
Complete casting has been announced for the new Off-Broadway production of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, her dark Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age play. Joining the previousl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PM[SHARE]If you loved I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, the musical about dating, relationships and love, Off-Broadway producers are birthing a similar four-actor show called Rated P for Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]The Broadway cast of The Phantom of the Opera welcomes Trista Moldovan, making her Broadway debut as impressionable soprano Christine, on Dec. 9 at the Majestic Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2011
The producers aiming the new sports play Magic/Bird at Broadway have found their Larry Bird. The 6-foot-5-inch actor Tug Coker will play the basketball star in the biographical play by Eric …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:29PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Judy Kaye, Tony nominee Michael McGrath, Tony nominee Jennifer Laura Thompson are among performers who will join Tony winner Matthew Broderick and Tony nominee Kelli O'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PM[SHARE]Tickets for the new Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde are currently on sale only through Dec. 30, according to Telecharge.com. Additionally, Telecharge Group Sales patrons were sent emails…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PM[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, has vaulted to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM[SHARE]Pianist, music scholar and music director Rob Fisher will appear with Kristin Chenoweth Dec. 10 at The Town Hall in New York City for a live radio broadcast of NPR's "A Prairie Home…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]Jane Austen's famous literary matchmaker Emma is slipping into boots and a miniskirt for a new musical that relocates the 1815 British novel to 1964, the time of women's lib, the pil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who penned songs for Disney's 2011 animated "Winnie the Pooh" film, will contribute numbers to Disney's new live-action…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:20PM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway company of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, the drama about the race and change in an American neighborhood, will reunite for a Jan. 11-Feb. 26, 2012, engagement at Center …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins, Ron Cephas Jones, Saycon Sengbloh and more will appear in the coming world-premiere production of Katori Hall's Hurt Village. Off-Broadway's Sig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals announced via its Twitter account, @GoodspeedMusicl, that its third production at Goodspeed Opera House in 2012 will be the murder-mystery musical comedy Something's A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AM[SHARE]The ovation for Kelli O'Hara's rendition of the musical-comedy coloratura classic "Ice Cream" was still going strong when Josh Radnor made his entrance — prematurely,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]Some Lovers, a new pop musical that takes a page from O. Henry's holiday-themed "The Gift of the Magi," with songs by music legend Burt Bacharach and Tony Award-winning lyricis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The New York City premiere of Jordan Harrison's Maple & Vine, about a community of modern Americans choosing to revert to a simpler 1950s lifestyle, opens Dec. 7 following previews f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Once, the folky Irish pop stage musical inspired by the hit independent film, will move to Broadway following its current Off-Broadway run, commercial producers announced on Dec. 6, shortly …
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