Friday, September 30, 2011
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2011
An arbitration hearing between fired Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark director Julie Taymor and the Broadway show's producers will begin the week of Oct. 3, the New York Times has reported.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]Sutton Foster, the two-time Tony Award winner now tapping her heart out in Broadway's Anything Goes, will star in a pilot for ABC Family, her representatives confirmed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]The Old Globe's world premiere of Matthew Lopez's Somewhere, a new play about the neighborhood torn down to make way for Lincoln Center, opens Sept. 29 following previews from …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2011
La Jolla Playhouse presented a private reading of William Finn and James Lapine's new musical comedy Little Miss Sunshine earlier this month, according to The New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]A U.K. touring production of the rock musical Chess — featuring a company of actor-musicians playing their own accompaniment — opens Sept. 28 at Toronto's Princess of Wales T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company's New York City premiere of Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, a play about one man's chronic ill health, begins previews Sept. 28. Opening nigh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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 04:46PM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member Amy Morton will direct Scott Jaeck, John Mahoney and Logan Vaughn and ensemble members Ian Barford and Yasen Peyankov in Enda Walsh's Penelope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PM[SHARE]Brooke Shields, currently starring as Morticia in Broadway's The Addams Family, will host The Fourth Annual Broadway in South Africa Gala at 7:30 PM Oct. 17 in the Manhattan Center's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]The people behind The Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, DC, are re-branding their advocacy effort as theatreWashington, billed as "a new chapter in the life of the 27 year-old organizat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]Ford's Theatre's new production of the Tony Award-winning Parade, the Jason Robert Brown-Alfred Uhry musical about a great American injustice, opens Sept. 27 following previews from …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2011
Geoffrey Nauffts, the author of Broadway's Tony Award-nominated Next Fall, will star in the leading role of his acclaimed work when it makes its West Coast premiere, opening Nov. 2 at Ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:27PM[SHARE]On a Tuesday — Sept. 27, that is — you can see the box office at the St. James Theatre open for business for the new revised revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Walkup…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati, who staged Broadway's The Grapes of Wrath and Ragtime, will bring his touch to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's My Fair Lady at Florida…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:06PM[SHARE]The Flea Theater's world-premiere production of She Kills Monsters, a comedy about the people who play fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons, will feature a cast drawn from The Bats,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PM[SHARE]The American Theatre Wing Gala honoring Sir Howard Stringer on Sept. 26 will be a starry affair featuring Angela Lansbury, Samuel L. Jackson, Elaine Paige, Kelli O'Hara, New York City Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PM[SHARE]The 25th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction on Sept. 25 raised $547,658 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, organizers announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PM[SHARE]Milk and Honey, Jerry Herman's first Broadway musical, will get a concert version by Musicals Tonight Oct. 11-23 at Off-Broadway's Lion Theatre. Richard White and Barbara McCullogh p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 25, 2011
South Street, a musical comedy about a Philadelphia nightspot that is facing transition, opens Sept. 25 in its world premiere at Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 24, 2011
A U.K. touring production of the rock musical Chess — featuring a company of actor-musicians playing their own accompaniment — plays Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Old Globe's world premiere of Matthew Lopez's Somewhere, a new play about the neighborhood torn down to make way for Lincoln Center, begins Sept. 24 in San Diego, CA, where Lopez…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2011
D.B. Bonds and Burke Moses are nothing without each other in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of City of Angels, the sexy noir musical comedy about a mystery writer named Stine and his…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera brings a trunk of show tunes to Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, PA, to perform Chita Rivera: My Broadway Sept. 23-25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Rocky Horror Show, the rock musical about a vanilla couple that stumbles into an altered science-fiction world where sexuality and gender roles are redefined, opens Sept. 23 following pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2011
The producers of Bonnie & Clyde, the new Broadway musical with a blues, gospel and rockabilly-kissed score by composer Frank Wildhorn and lyricist Don Black, offer Playbill.com readers a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PM[SHARE]An event aimed at foodies and theatre lovers is being cooked up at Lookingglas Theatre for spring 2012. Chicago celebrity chef Rick Bayless of Frontera Grill is teaming with the Tony Award-w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]When Signature Theatre Company opens its new Frank Gehry-designed three-venue headquarters on West 42nd Street in early 2012, one of its theatres will be named for late alumni writer Romulus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan announced casting for its new production of Irish playwright Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, considered by many to be his masterpiece for its …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PM[SHARE]A teen's suicide in a small town prompts the action of Troy Deutsch's play Lake Water, getting its world premiere in an Off-Off-Broadway production at IRT Theatre in Greenwich Villag…
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