Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Price Berkley, the founder of Theatrical Index, a low-tech weekly compilation of Broadway production data sold by subscription to journalists, producers, agents and other industry folk, died…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:57PM[SHARE]Hunter Foster and Rick Crom's Bonnie & Clyde: A Folktale, their satiric musical take on the story of American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, will get its world premiere at A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PM[SHARE]The Ghostlight Records cast album for the acclaimed Tony Award-winning new Broadway production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes hit No. 1 on iTunes' Soundtrack Chart Aug. 23, the same …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM[SHARE]The Broadway musical comedy The Addams Family will close at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Dec. 31 following 725 performances and 34 previews, the producers announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AM[SHARE]Sneering pirates, starchy parents, percussive Indians, lost boys and three British siblings begin singing and dancing Aug. 24 with the launch of a new national tour of Peter Pan starring Cat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Matt McGrath will appear in the role of the "transvestite from Transylvania," Frank 'N' Furter, in The Old Globe's upcoming production of The Rocky Horror Show, replaci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PM[SHARE]Tricks the Devil Taught Me, the new play written and directed by Tony Georges, will end its Off-Broadway run following the evening performance on Aug. 28 at the Minetta Lane. It opened Aug. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]How do you say "purpose" in Danish? American director Victoria Bussert and choreographer JR Bruno will find out in the coming weeks when they travel to Fredericia, Denmark to stage…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]Gleek alert! The reality TV talent competition known as "The Glee Project" ended Aug. 21 with the surprise announcement of two winners who will star in the third season of the hit …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Ghostlight Records cast album for the acclaimed, Tony Award-winning new Broadway production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes is available by digital download starting Aug. 23, wit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Stephen Gregory Smith, Anika Larsen, Sherri L. Edelen, Harry A. Winter, James Gardiner, Sam Ludwig and more are primed to launch Signature Theatre's rotating repertory of two world-premi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2011
Jerry Leiber, the rock 'n' roll songwriter who, with Mike Stoller, penned hit after hit between the 1950s and the 1970s — including "Stand By Me," "Jailhouse Roc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PM[SHARE]Jerry Leiber, the rock 'n' roll songwriter who, with Mike Stoller, penned hit after hit between the 1950s and the 1970s — including "Stand By Me," "Jailhouse Roc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PM[SHARE]PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, and the producers of the new Broadway production of Follies officially confirmed on Aug. 22 news that …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-honored Crossroads Theatre Company, the New Jersey regional theatre devoted to African-American works, writers and performers, will present an all-musical season in 2011-12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PM[SHARE]Damian McGinty, the deep-voiced Irish lad with a taste for the music of Dean Martin and Bobby Darin, and Samuel Larsen, the California guy with dreadlocks and a tattoo that reads "Jesus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00AM[SHARE]Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee Simon Russell Beale has returned to the New York stage in the U.S. premiere of Simon Stephens' Bluebird, opening Aug. 22, in which he plays a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Hello! My Baby, a new musical dipping into the trunk of American pop songs that are now in the public domain, will find a home at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre in Connecticut …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 21, 2011
A cast album for the new Broadway revival of Follies is shaping up to be the Rialto's worst-keep secret this week. Cast members have leaked the news via Tweets and Facebook postings. The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth's three-act tragicomic play about the indelible inhabitants of a slice of rural England, for which Mark Rylance won his second Tony Award, ends its extended Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Barrington Stage Company's intimate BSC Stage 2 in Pittsfield, MA, is home to the drama about identity, family and career, My Name Is Asher Lev, adapted from the Chaim Potok novel, openi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2011
Manhattan Theatre Club announced the 2011 recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative commissions, given to playwrights whose work will address topics of math, science and techno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PM[SHARE]A U.K. touring production of the rock musical Chess — featuring a company of actor-musicians playing their own accompaniment — will play Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]Mike Burstyn will reprise his turn as famed 20th-century entertainer Al Jolson in a California engagement of Jolson at the Winter Garden Sept. 6-18 at the El Portal Theatre. The musical prem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[SHARE]Karl Miller and Aubrey Dollar are the lovers at the center of Itamar Moses' Completeness, the story of a computer scientist and a molecular biologist, beginning Off-Broadway Aug. 19 at P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2011
James Barbour, who was announced to star as Frank 'N' Furter in The Old Globe's new production of The Rocky Horror Show, has exited the cult favorite due to family matters, it wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PM[SHARE]The cast of Atlantic Theater Company's world-premiere Off-Broadway production of Adam Rapp's Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling will include Betsy Aidem, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Reed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:09PM[SHARE]The world premiere of the musical Grumpy Old Men, based on the 1993 film comedy, will star Conrad John Schuck and Tony Award winner John Rubinstein in roles created by Walter Matthau and Jac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PM[SHARE]Complete casting for Ford's Theatre's new production of the Tony Award-winning Parade, the Jason Robert Brown-Alfred Uhry musical about a great American injustice, has been revealed …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PM[SHARE]Murder for Two, the two-actor, one-piano musical comedy mystery, has been extended again at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, now to Oct. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]Saint-Ex, a musical about the life of author-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who penned the classic children's book "The Little Prince," will get its world premiere Au…
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