Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]Denise Cormier and Rod Gnapp are featured in the world premiere of Sharr White's Annapurna, playing Nov. 2-Dec. 4 at Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Artistic director Loretta Greco direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Andrew Hinderaker's dark comedy Suicide, Incorporated, featuring Mike DiSalvo, Gabriel Ebert, Corey Hawkins, James McMenamin, Toby Leonard Moore and Jake O'Connor, opens Nov. 2 follo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The leadership of Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company announced on Nov. 1 that Edward Albee's 1977 play The Lady From Dubuque will be produced in 2012 in a new production featur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PM[SHARE]Jan Maxwell returns to the Marquis Theatre and the acclaimed new Broadway production of Follies Nov. 1 after being struck by traffic following the Oct. 29 matinee.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne, who played painter's assistant Ken in Broadway's Red and was featured in the film "My Week With Marilyn," will play lovestruck student Mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner James Earl Jones will be in good company for the spring 2012 revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man. The play about a U.S. presidential race will also star Emmy Award win…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PM[SHARE]The 2011 Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan launches Nov. 1 with the first performances of the solo-actor shows Shadow Boxing and The Maddening Rain, both in repertor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Pasadena Playhouse's new production of Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky begins Nov. 1, featuring Robin Givens (of TV's "Head of the Class" and "The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[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, begins Nov. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The West Coast company of Milk Like Sugar, Kirsten Greenidge's play about a "pregnancy pact" between a group of inner-city teens, reunited Oct. 13 for the first preview of the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2011
Josh Gad, the Tony Award-nominated star of The Book of Mormon, has been out of the smash Broadway show since Oct. 27, when he reportedly sustained an injury and was replaced by an understudy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PM[SHARE]Producers Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo are shooting for their production of Eric Simonson's basketball play, Magic/Bird, to have a March 21, 2012, Broadway opening following a Feb. 27 f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM[SHARE]A candid chat with Hugh Jackman about his Back on Broadway concert, plus cell phones, ticket prices, shirtlessness, show tunes, The Boy From Oz and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]In the age of "Glee," has the time come, at last, for a commercial New York life for bare, the rock musical about repressed teens in a Catholic high school? Producers are hoping so…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2011
The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan opens its new production of Irish playwright Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa — considered by many to be his masterpiece for it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 29, 2011
The Tony Award-honored Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, offers a concert presentation of the early Stephen Sondheim musical Saturday Night in four performances Oct. 29-30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2011
The Old Globe in San Diego, CA, has confirmed casting for its Jan. 14-Feb. 12, 2012, production of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate, which reunites members of the Broadway cast, includ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PM[SHARE]Composer-lyricist Jeff Blumenkrantz was named recipient of the seventh annual Fred Ebb Award, an honor for rising musical theatre songwriters. The award includes $50,000, one of the largest …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's new Washington, DC, production of Much Ado About Nothing will feature Tony Award nominees Veanne Cox as Beatrice and Derek Smith as Benedick, under the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Will Frears will direct Jenni Barber, Jason Danieley, Michelle Duffy and Andrew Mueller in composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist-librettist Steven Sater's new musical Some Lovers at the O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy about an Ohio businessman selling his goods in China — where there is mutual misunderstanding of language and busines…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[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, played by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The TACT/The Actors Company Theatre revival of A.R. Gurney's Children, an early work from the author of Love Letters and The Dining Room, opens Off-Broadway Oct. 27 following previews fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Pop star Lance Bass, Beverley Mitchell, Jamie Kennedy and Matt Seifnia
are putting their heads and wallets together to produce a Broadway play, according to a casting notice. They hope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company has given playwright Stephen Karam a second commission following his first commission, Sons of the Prophet, which is currently enjoying an acclaimed run Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Atlantic Theater Company announced the ensemble cast for the world premiere of Happy Hour, a collection of three one-act comedies by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, premiering Off-Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PM[SHARE]Van Hughes, the standby for the trio of broken buddy roles in Broadway's American Idiot, will play Johnny — also known as Jesus of Suburbia — in the national tour of the Gree…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]Brooklyn playwright Amy Herzog, whose 4000 Miles and After the Revolution draw on the history of her Marxist grandparents, received the 2011 Whiting Writers' Award at an Oct. 25 evening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tickets for An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, which begins Nov. 16 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, are available at the theatre's box office at 243 W. 47th Street beginnin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2011
In the age of "Glee," maybe the time has come, at last, for a commercial New York life for bare, the rock musical about repressed teens in a Catholic high school. A private industr…
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