Thursday, September 22, 2011
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…
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 begins S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of Zoe Kazan's We Live Here, about secrets that surface during a wedding, begins performances Off-Broadway on Sept. 22. The clan includes Mark B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The Old Globe in San Diego is behind a fall workshop of the Broadway-aimed musical Yank!, about gay military personnel during World War II. Director David Cromer and the project's writer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]Nicky Silver's The Lyons, which had been scheduled to begin previews at Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre Sept. 21, will now begin performances Sept. 22. Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Thomas Kail, the Tony Award-nominated director of In the Heights and Lombardi will direct the new sports-minded play Magic/Bird, written by Lombardi playwright Eric Simonson and produced by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PM[SHARE]Canada's Shaw Festival will offer two plays by George Bernard Shaw in its 2012 season, plus the musicals Ragtime and Trouble in Tahiti and works by Henrik Ibsen, Noel Coward, John Guare,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PM[SHARE]Freckleface Strawberry: The Musical, seen in an Off-Broadway run that played September 2010 to April 2011, returns to New York City starting Nov. 8 in a non-Equity engagement at a new venue …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]The pulse of Southern black gay men is taken by writer-actor E. Patrick Johnson in Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, opening Sept. 20 following previews from Sept. 13 at Signature Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2011
The life, times and Broadway lights of late Broadway producer and theatre owner Gerald Schoenfeld will be conjured in his own words with the posthumous 2012 publication of his memoir, "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:34PM[SHARE]New York City's Signature Theatre Company announced playwrights Annie Baker, Will Eno, Katori Hall, Kenneth Lonergan and Regina Taylor as writers in the theatre's new Residency Five …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will be tapping her heart out in the 2011 Tony Award-winning Best Revival, Anything Goes, through April 29, 2012. Roundabout Theatre Company announce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PM[SHARE]The street date for the new two-disc Broadway cast album of Follies will be Nov. 29, PS Classics confirmed. The cast of the critically acclaimed revival of the musical by Stephen Sondheim an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PM[SHARE]The ten "Best Plays" chosen for the annual "Best Plays Theater Yearbook" chronicling the 2010-2011 U.S. theatre season were announced Sept. 19 by editor Jeffrey Eric Jenk…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]Kathleen Turner will reprise her Broadway turn as a tough-talking nun who counsels a young drug addict in a planned national tour of the three-character play High.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]Sleepless in Seattle — The Musical, based on the hit romantic-comedy film, will be tested in a California reading as part of Pasadena Playhouse's Hothouse in the Playhouse series. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 17, 2011
A teen's suicide in a small town prompts the action of Troy Deutsch's play Lake Water, getting its world premiere Sept. 17 in an Off-Off-Broadway production at IRT Theatre in Greenwi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The Goodman Theatre's Robert Falls-directed Chicago premiere of the Tony Award-winning play Red, about painter Mark Rothko, features Washington, DC, actor Edward Gero as the abstract exp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2011
The friends, family and enemies of American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow have been announced for the new Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde, starring the previously reported Laura…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for Classic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the tale of rich but shortsighted Russians — chief among t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]Jerry O'Connell, the film and TV actor known for Hollywood's "Stand By Me" and "Jerry Maguire" and TV's "Crossing Jordan" and "The Defenders,&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre, the site of the Canadian premiere of Noël Coward's Private Lives in 1931, welcomes old friends back on Sept. 16, when the recent London reviva…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]South Street, a musical comedy about a Philadelphia nightspot that is facing transition, gets its premiere at Pasadena Playhouse beginning Sept. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Paramount Theatre in suburban Chicago opens My Fair Lady Sept. 16, launching a first-ever subscription series of locally produced large-scale productions at the venue in Aurora, IL. Prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2011
Off-Broadway's Transport Group announced complete casting for the fall world premiere of Queen of the Mist, the Michael John LaChiusa musical about a lady daredevil who survives a plunge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:26PM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) has snagged Steven Sutcliffe, the Canadian theatre star who was Younger Brother in the original Broadway production of Ragtime, to appear in its revised rev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin and Tony winner Sheldon Harnick reunite in Manhattan Sept. 15 to perform a handful of Harnick songs, and to sign copies of "She Loves Him: Live at Feinst…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Trouble in Mind, Alice Childress' 1955 play about a racially integrated theatre company presenting a race play, opens Sept. 15 following previews from Sept. 9 at Arena Stage, the residen…
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, begins Sept. 15 in a reside…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The national tour of the Broadway musical The Addams Family takes its first breath Sept. 15 for a run to Sept. 24 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans, LA. Tony Award nominee Dougla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The box office at Circle in the Square Theatre, home to the upcoming revival of Godspell, opens for business Sept. 15 at 10 AM ET.
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