Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The love triangle of Walnut Street Playhouse new production of Aspects of Love, a cult-favorite show among fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber, will be Jennifer Hope Wills as Rose, Paul Schoeffler a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's popular Des McAnuff-directed revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, which will move to La Jolla Playhouse in southern California starting in November, ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]Hosanna, Canadian playwright Michel Tremblay's play about a drag queen's search for his identity, opens Aug. 10 following previews from July 26 as part of the 2011 season at the Stra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Elizabeth Maupin, a respected theatre writer and critic in central Florida since the early 1980s, told the readership of her theatre blog, Elizabeth Maupin on Theater, on Aug. 8 that she is …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM[SHARE]Tickets for the Broadway engagement of Chinglish, the new comedy by David Henry Hwang, go on sale to American Express Cardmembers beginning 10 AM Aug. 10 through Aug. 28. The sale to the gen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PM[SHARE]The Guys, playwright Anne Nelson's response to the 9/11 terror attacks on New York City, will be seen in a 10th anniversary presentation Sept. 6-9 by the Flea Theater, which premiered th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PM[SHARE]Carrie Fisher will bring her autobiographical touring show Wishful Drinking, in which she comically explores her complicated life in show business, to the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Theatre for a New Audience's 32nd season — its final season before moving to a permanent home in the BAM Cultural District — will offer an Isaac Bashevis Singer-inspired Klez…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PM[SHARE]Blues for an Alabama Sky, Pearl Cleage's play about the Harlem Renaissance, will replace the previously announced Pastoral starring the Broadway-bound Angela Bassett, as the second produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]Cue the butter churn! Terry Burrell plays the no-nonsense Aunt Eller in Arena Stage's hit production of Oklahoma! starting Aug. 9, taking over for E. Faye Butler, who is rehearsing for A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Kelly Bishop, who took home the Tony Award for playing salty Sheila in A Chorus Line, picks up the fur wrap that Jessica Walter left behind as dowager Evangeline Harcourt in Broadway's T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company will produce the Broadway premiere of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, his three-actor play about an expressive, inspirational South African woman. The stagin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee Simon Russell Beale returns to the New York stage Aug. 9 for the first preview of the U.S. premiere of Simon Stephens' Bluebird, in which Beal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2011
Additional dates and cities have been announced for the national tour of Million Dollar Quartet, the pop-filled musical inspired by a real-life studio session where Carl Perkins, Elvis Presl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]Kevin Spacey's turn as the "bunch-back'd toad," Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes and booked for international engagements in the coming months, will play the Curran Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the extended clan and invited guests who will populate the national tour of the Broadway musical The Addams Family. Joining the previously reported Dougla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for the extended clan and invited guests who will populate the national tour of the Broadway musical The Addams Family. Joining the previously reported Dougla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PM[SHARE]JetBlue Airways will welcome the cast of Broadway's Catch Me If You Can to perform numbers from the jet-set-era musical Aug. 11 at Terminal 5 (also known as T5) at John F. Kennedy Intern…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]A gaggle of Broadway musical-comedy stars — including Jackie Hoffman, Fred Applegate and Craig Bierko — will punctuate an Aug. 8-12 Manhattan reading of The Green Heart, the 1997…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Traces, the acrobatic theatre show that has been exciting audiences in Canada and on an American tour, makes its New York City commercial debut opening Aug. 8 following previews from July 29…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2011
The cast of Broadway's Baby It's You!, telling the story of New Jersey record producer Florence Greenberg, performs at an Aug. 7 fundraising event for Passaic High School — the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 6, 2011
John Doyle, the Tony Award-winning director known for populating his musicals with actor-musicians, is at it again in the U.S. premiere of Ten Cents a Dance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2011
Casting has been announced for the world premiere of David Ives' The Heir Apparent, an adaptation of a little-known 1708 comedy, which will kick off Shakespeare Theatre's company'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM[SHARE]Fans of composer-lyricist Maury Yeston's penchant for lush, romantic theatre music — think Nine and Titanic — will be glad to hear that the score of his new musical Death Tak…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2011
Dorset Theatre Festival, the Vermont summer Equity company that produced Theresa Rebeck's The Novelist in 2010, gives life to her Broadway play Mauritius Aug. 18-27. The cast includes a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera will bring a trunk of show tunes to Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, PA, to perform Chita Rivera: My Broadway Sept. 23-25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PM[SHARE]Additional casting has been announced for the revised revival of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever starring Harry Connick Jr., which will begin previews at Broadway's St. Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PM[SHARE]Brooke Shields has extended her run as Morticia in the Broadway musical The Addams Family for an additional two months through Dec. 31 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, the producers announced A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AM[SHARE]Rod Brogan is George Bernard Shaw opposite Angela Pierce playing wealthy heiress — and romantic prospect — Charlotte Payne-Townshend in the West Coast premiere of John Morogiello…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Siân Phillips, the Welsh actress known for playing strong and stylish women of a certain age in Broadway's Marlene and TV's "I, Claudius," plays to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Meghann Fahy, of Broadway's Next to Normal, plays a young woman on the brink of her future, in the Goodspeed Musicals production of The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, Aug.…
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