Thursday, August 4, 2011
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.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Julian Ovenden, the British actor who created the shadowy but charming title character in the current Off-Broadway world premiere of the musical Death Takes a Holiday, has withdrawn from the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:59PM[SHARE]The Woman in White, the melodrama-steeped London and Broadway musical by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyricist David Zippel and librettist Charlotte Jones, is being streamlined for a new ch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PM[SHARE]Obie Award winner Eisa Davis will appear in the New York City premiere of Kirsten Greenidge's Milk Like Sugar playing the role currently being created on the West Coast by Tonya Pinkins.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PM[SHARE]Lysistrata Jones — the pop musical take on an ancient Greek classic, now reset in the world of college cheerleaders and basketball players — will open at Broadway's Walter Ke…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Steppenwolf Theatre Company's artistic staff will welcome Jacob G. Padrón as associate producer and Aaron Carter as the new literary manager, the Tony Award-honored Chicago compan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:28PM[SHARE]The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan will stage a new production of Irish playwright Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, considered by many to be his masterpiece for its rich weave of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PM[SHARE]The Broadway run of David Henry Hwang's new play, Chinglish, about an American businessman being tripped up by communication in his efforts to make a deal in China, will play the Longacr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM[SHARE]The rock-kissed songs of Stratford Shakespeare Festival's current new production of Twelfth Night, directed by artistic director Des McAnuff, will be released on a new CD this summer. Mc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PM[SHARE]The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan will dance to a new tune — literally — for its 2011-12 season-opener. Ériu Dance Company's Noctú, "a new Irish dan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PM[SHARE]South Street, a musical comedy about a Philadelphia nightspot that is facing transition, will get its premiere at Pasadena Playhouse beginning Sept. 16. Casting was announced Aug. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]Casting is set for the world premiere Alan Ayckbourn's 75th play, Neighbourhood Wach, to premiere Sept. 8-Oct. 15 at his longtime artistic home, The Stephen Joseph Theatre Company in Sca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2011
Think of it as a new waltz for "Che" and "Eva." Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin will bring their acclaimed concert act to Broadway's Ethel Barrymor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company will welcome the Chicago companies The Inconvenience, LiveWire Chicago and Theatre Zarko into its spring 2012 Garage Rep. The residencies, offering shows in rotat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]"Smash," the new hourlong drama-with-music about the making (and makers) of a Broadway musical, will launch on the network Feb. 6, 2012, at 10 PM ET, according to the show's of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PM[SHARE]Tickets for the Broadway engagement of Venus in Fur, David Ives' two-actor comedy that introduced future Tony Award nominee Nina Arianda to audiences in 2010, are on sale starting A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]Matthew Gardiner, a resident director with Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, has been named the theatre's new associate artistic director, working in collaboration with co-founder and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]Mary Poppins, The Wild Duck, Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush were among recipients of 2011 Helpmann Awards — honoring artistic achievement and excellence in many disciplines of Austra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AM[SHARE]The La Jolla Playhouse world-premiere production of Milk Like Sugar, an inner-city-set, coming-of-age play by Kirsten Greenidge, will feature Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins, for a Californi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]Second Stage Theatre's Uptown Series launches the world premiere of the Catholic-girl coming-of-age comedy The Talls by Anna Kerrigan on Aug. 1 at Off-Broadway's McGinn/Cazale Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 31, 2011
The 2011 Helpmann Awards, recognizing distinguished artistic achievement and excellence in many disciplines of Australia's live performance scene, will be presented Aug. 1 at the Sydney …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The popular, highly theatrical docudrama Unnatural Acts, about Harvard University's efforts to purge homosexuals from its campus in 1920, ends its extended run at Classic Stage Company&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Jessica Walter sheds her fur wrap as dowager Evangeline Harcourt in Broadway's Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes on July 31, which is when the revival was originally scheduled …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 30, 2011
Cathy Rigby put her Peter Pan tights in a trunk a few years ago and said goodbye to the role that she has played thousands of times. Never say "never." She's flyin' again.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2011
Second Stage Theatre continues fundraising toward the $24 million purchase of Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre following an extension of the closing deadline to May 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[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 12:00AM[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 July 29 at the Union Square Theatre. Opening n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2011
Edgar Lansbury, producer of both the original Broadway production and the 1973 motion picture adaptation of Godspell, has joined the producing team of the new Broadway revival of the Stephen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PM[SHARE]Edgar Lansbury, producer of both the original Broadway production and the 1973 motion picture adaptation of Godspell, has joined the producing team of the new Broadway revival of the Stephen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]A gaggle of Broadway musical-comedy stars — including Jackie Hoffman, Fred Applegate and Emily Skinner — will punctuate a Manhattan workshop of The Green Heart, the 1997 musical …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PM[SHARE]Colm Wilkinson, the Dublin tenor who created the role of Jean Valjean in the London and Broadway productions of Les Misérables, will perform the Canadian premiere of Colm Wilkinson in…
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