Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]A commercial producer is seeking to give a New York City life to the Jeff Award-winning production of Bruce Graham's The Outgoing Tide, starring Tony Award winners John Mahoney and Rondi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PM[SHARE]The world premiere of Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, shining a light on the conflicts in the life and work of the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, opens Nov. 9…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Annaleigh Ashford and MJ Rodriguez of Off-Broadway's Rent, Jennifer Damiano of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark and Josh Grisetti of Off-Broadway's Enter Laughing are amon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Blue Flower, the new image-and-movement-rich musical about artists and thinkers in the first part of the 20th century, opens Off-Broadway Nov. 9 following previews that began Oct. 14 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Multiple Tony Award-winning director-choreographer Tommy Tune (Nine, Grand Hotel, The Will Rogers Follies) has been in residence with the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2011
The new Off-Broadway production of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, her dark Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age play, will co-star two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PM[SHARE]Marc Camoletti's Don't Dress for Dinner, featuring the further farcical adventures of Robert and Bernard, from the author's Boeing-Boeing, will get a new Broadway production by R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of The Madness of King George III and Goodman Theatre's revised revival of the musical Candide took home five Jeff Awards each Nov. 7 at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AM[SHARE]The cast for the New York City return of Freckleface Strawberry: The Musical is ready for the show's relaunch on Nov. 8. The troupe includes newcomer Francesca McGrory as Strawberry…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Mel Sagrado Maghuyop, who played the Engineer in Walnut Street Theatre's Miss Saigon, returns to the Philadelphia venue to star as the King of Siam opposite Broadway's Rachel York as…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Venus in Fur, David Ives' two-character play about the relationship between a hungry actress and a controlling writer-director, opens Nov. 8 in its Broadway premiere following previews f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2011
Joel Grey returned to the role of Moonface Martin, Public Enemy No. 13, in the Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes Nov. 6 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, according to a produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning producer Daryl Roth is still aiming her production of Rupert Holmes' A Time to Kill, based on the novel by John Grisham, toward Broadway following a regional test and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2011
The Pasadena Playhouse's new production of Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky opens Nov. 6 following previews from Nov. 1, featuring Robin Givens (of TV's "Head of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]That other famous balcony scene of the theatre, Noel Coward's 1930 comedy Private Lives, returns to Broadway Nov. 6 starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, under the direction of Richard E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2011
Yentl, the play about a Polish-Jewish girl who dresses like a boy in order to study holy teachings in a Yeshiva, will get an extra jolt of music and lyrics in a new production to open in Flo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Traces, the acrobatic theatre show that has been exciting audiences in Canada and on an American tour, made its New York City commercial debut Aug. 8 following previews from July 29 at the U…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AM[SHARE]Milk Like Sugar, Kristen Greenidge's play about urban teens making an unusual pact, will get an extra week of performances, now to Nov. 27, at Playwrights Horizons' 99-seat Peter Jay…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]Leonard Stone, a Tony Award nominee for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his turn as George Poppett in Bob Fosse's Tony-winning Best Musical Redhead in 1959, died Nov. 2 at his home …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]The Flea Theater's world-premiere production of She Kills Monsters, a comedy about the people who play fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons, begins Nov. 4 featuring a cast drawn fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway's Anastasia Barzee, Leslie Kritzer, Alexander Gemignani, Michael McGrath, Ben Davis, Adam Heller and more star in a Nov. 4-6 concert staging of the 1938 Shakespeare-inspired Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Bonnie & Clyde, the new musical that sings the story of the Depression-era American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, makes its Broadway debut with a Nov. 4 first preview at the Ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2011
Big Fish, the new musical with songs by Andrew Lippa, book by John August and direction and choreography by Susan Stroman, is reportedly planning to make a splash in Broadway's pond in s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]The track listing for the upcoming cast recording of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies has been announced. The PS Classics recordi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AM[SHARE]Fifty*Four*Forever, a new musical about the rise and fall of the man who co-founded the iconic 1970s nightclub Studio 54, is being created by dramatist Mark Saltzman and multiple Tony Award-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]'S Wonderful, the new singing and dancing revue of the songs of George and Ira Gershwin, makes an appearance in New York City at Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadow Corona Park Nov. 3-13. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals tickles the ivories of a new musical, Hello! My Baby, borrowing songs from the Tin Pan Alley era, starting Nov. 3 at the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Fans of Tony Award winner Donna Murphy have something to sing about this fall. The Broadway cast album of The People in the Picture will be released by Kritzerand, label founder Bruce Kimmel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:46PM[SHARE]Rebecca, the musical based on the 1938 Daphne du Maurier literary romantic thriller, will begin Broadway previews March 27, 2012, at the Broadhurst Theatre with Olivier Award nominee Sierra …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]A Muslim-American lawyer is at the center of American Theater Company's world-premiere production of Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. The cast of the Chicago staging includes Usman Ally, Alana …
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