Thursday, October 6, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Anna Gunn will play the title role in the world premiere of actor-writer Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, about conflicts in the life and work of the first woman to be a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:28PM[SHARE]She Loves Me, a title that ushered in Roundabout Theatre Company's expanded mission to include musicals back in 1993, will be presented by the company in a starry Dec. 5 benefit Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere production of We Live Here by Zoe Kazan, directed by Sam Gold, will get a one-week extension to Nov. 6 due to popular demand.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[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 12:01AM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals announced on Oct. 5 that the romantic leads of its world-premiere production of the musical Hello! My Baby will be played by Justin Bowen as Mickey McKee and Stephanie Koe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]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]Tuesday, October 4, 2011
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by artistic director Des McAnuff, will transfer to Broadway'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:10PM[SHARE]Joel Grey, who plays Moonface Martin, Public Enemy No. 13, in the Tony Award-winning Anything Goes, has been sidelined from the production due to a minor fracture in his left foot. The Cagne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:02PM[SHARE]Brooke Shields, currently keeping a cob-webbed house at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in The Addams Family, is no longer attached to the Broadway-aimed musical Leap of Faith, the world premiere …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PM[SHARE]Actors' Equity Association, the national union of professional stage actors and stage managers, and The Broadway League, the national trade association for the Broadway and touring indus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM[SHARE]The Arena Stage production of Amy Freed's comedy You, Nero, directed by Nicholas Martin, will feature some members of the original West Coast production of the romp about making plays in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PM[SHARE]The Pasadena Playhouse's new production of Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky, running Nov. 1-27, will feature Robin Givens (of TV's "Head of the Class" and "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PM[SHARE]Performers bringing short works to life for Playwrights Horizons' annual Stories on 5 Stories benefit on Oct. 17 will include Dana Ivey, Parker Posey, Campbell Scott, Josh Hamilton, two-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PM[SHARE]The jury picked by organizers of the 2011 1st Irish Fest rewarded a handful of productions with awards on Oct. 3. Deirdre Kinahan's Bogboy won three awards, including Best Production, at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]The Wilma Theater's production of Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room, or the vibrator play was a big winner at the Oct. 3 ceremony of the Philadelphia theatre community's 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AM[SHARE]The cast album of the 1998 Broadway musical Footloose the Musical has been off the shelves for years, but Ghostlight Records — known for cast albums of The Book of Mormon and Next to N…
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]Monday, October 3, 2011
Josh Hamilton, who appeared in Classic Stage Company's production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters in 2010-11, has joined the company's upcoming production of Chekhov's The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]Denise Cormier and Rod Gnapp have been cast in the world premiere of Sharr White's Annapurna, to play Nov. 2-Dec. 4 at Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Artistic director Loretta Greco dir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]"Those beautiful girls," generations of them, file into a Manhattan recording studio Oct. 3-4 to record the new two-disc Broadway cast album of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Atlantic Theater Company opens the world premiere of Adam Rapp's surreal play Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling on Oct. 3 following previews from Sept. 13. The work features Christine L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]It's the biggest night of the year for the Philadelphia theatre community. Resident presentations of Miss Saigon, My Wonderful Day, The Threepenny Opera, In the Next Room and Let Me Down…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Amelia, Alex Webb's two-actor, multiple-character play about a woman's epic journey across Civil War America in search of her soldier husband, will get its world premiere in January …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2011
The moving men will pick up the couch of Off-Broadway's long-running Freud's Last Session after the Oct. 2 evening performance at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre on West 64th St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 1, 2011
An Oct. 1 concert featuring Broadway star Audra McDonald is among shows canceled at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts due to a strike by workers there, the organizatio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PM[SHARE]Following an American Express presale, tickets for An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin go on sale to the general public Oct. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2011
The membership of the Dramatists Guild of America has issued a letter of complaint, crying censorship, about a Georgia mayor's Sept. 15 decision to shut down a community theatre producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner John Rando has joined the creative team of the national tour of A Christmas Story, The Musical!, taking over as director from Warren Carlyle, who remains the choreographer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[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 10:50AM[SHARE]The debate of evolution vs. creation roils anew in Catherine Trieschmann's How the World Began, the story of the clash between an evolutionist teacher and a creationist student, getting …
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