Thursday, November 17, 2011
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:50AM[SHARE]Noel Coward's 1930 comedy Private Lives, featuring that other famous balcony scene of the theatre, opens on Broadway Nov. 17 following previews from Nov. 6. Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The first episode of "Hustling," the new web series created by and starring Sebastian LaCause, the actor-dancer who played the vascular Rocky in the 2000 Broadway production of The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PM[SHARE]The infectious pop tunes and sensitive story songs of Academy Award-winning composer David Shire — also known for his scores to the musicals Big, Baby and Closer Than Ever — find…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company unveils the world premiere of Happy Hour, a collection of three one-act comedies by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, Nov. 16 at the Peter Norton S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's tragicomic classic The Cherry Orchard, featuring John Turturro as Lopakhin, Dianne Wiest as Ranevskaya and Daniel Davis as G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The new Disney stage musical Newsies, which recently had a critically acclaimed world premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, will get a limited Broadway engagement March 15-June 10,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:35PM[SHARE]Broadway producer Thomas Viertel told the New York Times on Nov. 15 that he and his partners are aiming to put the gospel-infused musical comedy Leap of Faith on Broadway in fall 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM[SHARE]National Theatre of Great Britain's critically acclaimed production of Richard Bean's raucous One Man, Two Guvnors, based on Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, will open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PM[SHARE]A student rush policy has been announced for Lysistrata Jones, the Broadway musical about college basketball players and their cheerleaders, now at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]Rising actress Meredith Forlenza plays a football star in Off-Broadway's All-American. Read how she prepared for the job.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Ted Shen, the investment banker who put his passion for music aside in order to become a successful businessman — leading to the creation of a foundation that has funded many new Ameri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2011
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 06:56PM[SHARE]The new musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It, packed with classic tunes by George and Ira Gershwin, will open April 24, 2012, at the Imperial Theatre, producers announced on Nov. 14. A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PM[SHARE]The Broadway-aimed musical Leap of Faith, fueled by gospel and country sounds, took a leap forward with a weeklong reading that began Nov. 3 and culminated in three backers' presentation…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:28PM[SHARE]The Irish Repertory Theatre's run of Brian Friel's Tony Award-winning play Dancing at Lughnasa has been extended Off-Broadway, now playing into the new year, through Jan. 15, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PM[SHARE]Meredith Forlenza, currently playing a gifted quarterback on an all-male high-school football team in the Off-Broadway world premiere of Julia Brownell's All-American, has a confession: …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company has announced an extension for the run of its new production of Anton Chekhov's tragicomic classic The Cherry Orchard, featuring John Turturro as Lopakhin, Dianne W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]The 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville will feature world-premiere plays by Courtney Baron, Michael Golamco, Idris Goodwin, Lucas Hnath, Greg K…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals will produce Mame and Carousel in its 2012 mainstage season at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT, executive director Michael P. Price announced on Nov. 14. A third …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 12, 2011
Casting has been confirmed for the La Jolla Playhouse engagement of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's critically acclaimed production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]Basketball. Cheerleaders. Sex. Show tunes. The stately Walter Kerr Theatre will house them all starting Nov. 12 when the new musical comedy Lysistrata Jones begins Broadway previews, toward …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]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 12:00AM[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]Friday, November 11, 2011
Sebastian LaCause (Broadway's Rocky Horror Show) enlisted his show business friends, including Brent Barrett and Daphne Rubin-Vega, for his new creative passion, a web series about a hus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PM[SHARE]Bradley Whitford, Michael O'Keefe and Roger Bart will make up the trio of friends bickering over a piece of Art in the coming Pasadena Playhouse production of Yasmina Reza's play. Pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]A private workshop of the new musical Darling by Ryan Scott Oliver and Brett (B.T.) Ryback will be presented at Emerson College in Boston in December as a collaboration of Retrop Productions…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2011
Sebastian LaCause, the actor-dancer who played the vascular Rocky in the 2000 Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show, has created a web series called "Hustling," about a sex …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM[SHARE]Steven Pasquale of TV's "Rescue Me" and Broadway's Reasons to be Pretty, is among the full cast announced for the Dec. 5 benefit concert performance of She Loves Me, a titl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Prince of Broadway, the new Broadway-bound musical that will serve up songs and stories related to the musicals produced and/or directed by Harold Prince, will be an all-principal show &mdas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:10PM[SHARE]The infectious pop tunes and sensitive story songs of Academy Award-winning composer David Shire — also known for his scores to the musicals Big, Baby and Closer Than Ever — will…
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