Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The cast for the New York City return of Freckleface Strawberry: The Musical on Nov. 8 will include newcomer Francesca McGrory as Strawberry along with Sarah Haines, Bridget Riley, Welsey Tu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:04PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-honored Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, announced casting for its concert presentation of the early Stephen Sondheim musical, Saturday Night, to play four performances Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AM[SHARE]Gary Griffin has directed the work of Stephen Sondheim before, but never Follies. Here's his perspective on the classic, which he directed as the current season-opener at Chicago Shakesp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AM[SHARE]The University of North Carolina School of the Arts' all-school production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, staged in early 2011 and using the original 1943 designs, dance a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]You might think of it as "the other" Follies this season. If the Kennedy Center's revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's musical about a showbiz reunion hadn't…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Equivocation playwright Bill Cain's How to Write a New Book for the Bible get its world premiere, opening Oct. 12, for a run to Nov. 20 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere production of Zoe Kazan's We Live Here, a play about a family's buried secrets, desires and grief, directed by Sam Gold, opens O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Steel Magnolias, the popular Off-Broadway and regional comedy-drama about wisecracking Louisiana women whose favorite emotion is laughter through tears, will get a second film treatment more…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PM[SHARE]The Blue Flower will get two extra days of rehearsal sunlight before its first preview at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. The musical will begin performances Oct. 14 rather than Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PM[SHARE]Nicky Silver, chronicler of dark dysfunction in such plays as Raised in Captivity and Pterodactyls, conjures another fractured family — The Lyons — in his new play that opens Oc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]The newly imagined production of Les Misérables seen in London, on a U.K. tour and now on a U.S. national tour, will get a sitdown Canadian production starting in summer 2012 at Toron…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]Gary Wilmes is an Ohio businessman in a foreign land in the Broadway production of Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, which had its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Nicky Silver, chronicler of dark dysfunction in such plays as Raised in Captivity and Pterodactyls, conjures another fractured family — The Lyons — in his new play that opens Oc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Milk and Honey, Jerry Herman's first Broadway musical, gets a concert version by Musicals Tonight Oct. 11-23 at Off-Broadway's Lion Theatre. Richard White and Barbara McCullogh play …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway gets a new nanny beginning on Oct. 11 when Steffanie Leigh flies into the New Amsterdam Theatre to play Mary Poppins. Coming in from the North American tour, she is making her Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2011
A memorial for Price Berkley, the founder of Theatrical Index who died Aug. 21 at his home in Manhattan, will be held Oct. 19 at 5:30 PM at Sardi’s.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]Broadway performers who make up the extended creative family of songwriter Joe Iconis — whose pop-rock songs capture the pulse of outsiders and searchers — sing his stuff 8 PM Oc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of the musical Grumpy Old Men, based on the 1993 film comedy, begins previews in Canada on Oct. 10. Conrad John Schuck and Tony Award winner John Rubinstein star in roles …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2011
The Best of Enemies, a play about a racially contentious relationship — the tension of which helped make the title the most-attended mainstage play in the history of Barrington Stage C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella stars as internationally-known financier Gregor Antonescu, whose empire is toppling, in Terence Rattigan's 1963 character study, Man and Boy, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2011
Director Blanka Zizka of Philadelphia's The Wilma Theater is the 2011 recipient of The Zelda Fichandler Award, recognizing an outstanding director or choreographer transforming the regio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PM[SHARE]Basketball. Cheerleaders. Sex. Show tunes. Theatregoers will have access to them, without service fees, on Oct. 10 when the box office at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre opens for busines…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]The doctor is in — in New World Stages, that is. The popular Off-Broadway play Freud's Last Session, seen on the Upper West Side for the past year, relocates to Manhattan's the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The ensemble cast of Arena Stage's production of Karen Zacarías' comedy The Book Club Play, about the personalities and tensions of bibliophiles who gather to discuss their pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The popular Broadway musical The Addams Family has new branches in its family tree for the recently launched national tour. Producer Stuart Oken and director Jerry Zaks discuss new plot poin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Equivocation playwright Bill Cain's How to Write a New Book for the Bible get its world premiere Oct. 7-Nov. 20 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California. The ensemble of four inc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2011
Broadway royalty will step into the spotlight of the upcoming NBC-TV series "Smash," the hour-long drama-with-music about the people and passions behind creating a Broadway musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PM[SHARE]Producers revealed the complete cast and creative team for the reincarnated Broadway production of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, starring Harry Connick Jr. Tony Award-winning director …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]Broadway performers who make up the extended creative family of songwriter Joe Iconis — whose pop-rock songs capture the pulse of outsiders and searchers — will sing 8 PM Oct. 10…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AM[SHARE]New Jersey's Tony Award-winning Crossroads Theater Company, devoted to African-American voices and artists, revives the musical Ain't Misbehavin' — the celebration of songs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The box office at Broadway's Golden Theatre opens Oct. 6 for walkup sales for the world premiere of Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's dark comedy in which Alan Rickman plays a novelist and e…
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