Monday, November 28, 2011
The design team has been announced for the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, which will begin previews at a Shubert theatre to be announced March 6, 2012, with an official o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 27, 2011
Three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella wraps up his run as corrupt international financier Gregor Antonescu in Man and Boy Nov. 27 at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre. Tere…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 26, 2011
Some Lovers, a new pop musical-theatre take on O. Henry's holiday-themed "The Gift of the Magi," with songs by music legend Burt Bacharach and Tony Award-winning lyricist Steve…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The long-running Off-Broadway play Freud's Last Session celebrates its 500th New York performance Nov. 26 at the 2 PM matinee at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 25, 2011
The Arena Stage production of Amy Freed's comedy You, Nero, directed by Nicholas Martin and featuring some members of the original West Coast production of the romp about making plays in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Shakespeare Theatre Company's new Washington, DC, production of Much Ado About Nothing, featuring Kathryn Meisle as Beatrice and Derek Smith as Benedick, under the direction of Ethan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sutton Foster, fresh from shooting a TV pilot, returns to her Tony Award-winning production of Anything Goes, in her Tony-winning Best Actress turn as Reno Sweeney, Nov. 25 at the Stephen So…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 24, 2011
On the occasion of the publication of "Look, I Made a Hat," his second volume of collected and annotated lyrics, Stephen Sondheim talked to Playbill.com about everything from cast-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Casting is now complete for Roundabout Theatre Company's Dec. 5 benefit concert performance of She Loves Me, a title that ushered in Roundabout Theatre Company's expanded mission to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The Heiress, the durable play about a plain spinster, a gold-digger suitor, a blunt father and a family home with a good view of Washington Square, is being readied for another Broadway prod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PM[SHARE]The Jack Cole Project, a new musical entertainment about the father of theatrical jazz dance, is being developed and will be presented in 2012 at Queens Theatre in the Park. The work is crea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PM[SHARE]Finding Neverland, the American musical about the family that inspired J.M. Barrie to write his "Peter Pan" stories, will resurface in a London reading in December.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]Striking 12, the holiday-set concept-concert musical by members of the pop trio GrooveLily and librettist Rachel Sheinkin, will return to New York City for a Dec. 26-31 engagement at the Met…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]The cast of Off-Broadway's Rent has cooked up a benefit called 2011 Rent Holiday Christmas Pageant Extravaganza Spectacular, to play Dec. 5 at 11 PM at the show's home at New World S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AM[SHARE]"Look, I Made a Hat," the second volume of the collected and annotated lyrics of groundbreaking theatre songwriter Stephen Sondheim, gathered by the master himself, is officially i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2011
Gatz, the acclaimed six-and-a-half-hour theatrical event by Elevator Repair Service, which boldly puts the entire text of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in an unexpec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin will test his new concept concert, Let Go, in February 2012 at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center in Aventura, FL, near Miami.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre's new Arlington, VA, production of Hairspray — starring national radio host Robert Aubry Davis, of WETA's "Around Town" and Sirius/XM Radio, as Edna…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 20, 2011
Rocky, the musical version of the Oscar-winning boxing movie, will get its world premiere at the Operettenhaus in Hamburg, Germany, in November 2012, producers Stage Entertainment, Sylvester…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:33PM[SHARE]John Neville, the respected British-born actor and director who was artistic director of Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival 1985-89, died in Toronto on Nov. 19, surrounded by family…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:17PM[SHARE]Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's new play about the creative and personal tensions of four young novelists who are taking a private writing class with a potentially damaging teacher, opens on B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 19, 2011
The current Broadway world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar coincides with her leading the writing staff of the new TV series "Smash." The prolific playwright gives …
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, begins Nov. 19 in an Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2011
The producers of the limited engagement of Noel Coward's Private Lives woke up to news that they wanted to read on the morning of Nov. 18: The New York Times embraced the revival starrin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]The February 2012 City Center Encores! concert staging of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical Merrily We Roll Along will not reflect the 1981 version of the script and score that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2011
Luke Macfarlane, star of the TV series "Brothers & Sisters" and Broadway's recent Tony Award-winning production of The Normal Heart, plays the title role in the world premi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM[SHARE]One great American resident theatre welcomes the work of another starting Nov. 18 when Arena Stage hosts the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of Bill Cain's Equivocation, fea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM[SHARE]The Nov. 17 performance of Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's new play about the creative and personal tensions of four young novelists who are taking a private writing class with a potentially d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PM[SHARE]Kathleen Turner will reprise her Broadway turn as a tough-talking nun who counsels a young drug addict in a Ft. Lauderdale, FL, engagement of the national tour of the three-character play Hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]Lee Pockriss, the theatre and pop composer whose musicals include Broadway's Tovarich and Off-Broadway's Ernest in Love, both with lyricist Anne Croswell, died Nov. 14 at his home in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]Recipients of the 39th Annual Vivian Robinson/Audelco Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre, for work in New York City, were announced Nov. 14 at a ceremony in Harlem.
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