Thursday, July 21, 2011
Tony Award nominee Liz Larsen plays a government investigator in the world premiere of Hello Out There, the musical about three teens who commit securities crimes, at Adirondack Theatre Fest…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Last Day, Richard Vetere's new play set in a Long Island cemetery, gets its world premiere by Gloucester Stage Company July 21-Aug. 7 in Massachusetts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Classic Stage Company was able to slightly alter the schedule for an upcoming summer rental to allow for the one additional week of the popular, highly theatrical docudrama Unnatural Acts, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PM[SHARE]Jeff Award winner Andrea Prestinario will be Eliza Doolittle to Chicago Shakespeare Theater veteran Nathan M. Hosner as Henry Higgins in the new Chicago-area production of My Fair Lady this …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club will give Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit its Broadway premiere in January 2012, starring Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon as a poetry pro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]The Callaway sisters — Liz and Ann Hampton — will perform songs from and sign their new PS Classics live recording of Boom!, documenting their Birdland concert of baby-boom gener…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Jay Sullivan steps into the role of Lee, the Australia-bound slacker, in the Broadway's Jerusalem on July 19, succeeding John Gallagher, Jr., who has a contractual engagement that confli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:09PM[SHARE]World-premiere plays from Ethan Coen, Fernanda Coppel, Gabe McKinley, Adam Rapp and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley have been added to the 2011-12 season of Off-Broadway's Atl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PM[SHARE]Freud's Last Session, the Mark St. Germain play about the fictional meeting between atheist Dr. Sigmund Freud and Christian writer C.S. Lewis, celebrates its first anniversary in New Yor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]Lily Rabe, a 2011 Best Actress Tony Award nominee for The Merchant of Venice, told the Boston Globe that she will appear in the world premiere of her father David Rabe's play An Early Hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PM[SHARE]Fiasco Theater's small-cast production of Shakespeare's late-career fairy-tale play, Cymbeline, acclaimed for its run at midtown's New Victory Theatre earlier this year, will ret…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]Fiasco Theater's small-cast production of Shakespeare's late-career fairy-tale play, Cymbeline, acclaimed for its run at midtown's New Victory Theatre earlier this year, will ret…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]Masterworks Broadway continues its campaign to reissue theatre recordings from its deep vault with summer releases of The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955 Broadway cast), Half-Past Wednesday (…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2011
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," will pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]International star Caroline O'Connor and Broadway's Brent Barrett and Robert Petkoff will be joined by resident actress Susan Moniz and a wide slice of the Chicago diva community for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PM[SHARE]The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's popular Des McAnuff-directed revival of Jesus Christ Superstar will move to La Jolla Playhouse in southern California, starting in November. It repla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PM[SHARE]The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's popular Des McAnuff-directed revival of Jesus Christ Superstar will move to La Jolla Playhouse in southern California, starting in November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2011
David Greenspan's fresh adaptation of Barry Conners' 1925 Broadway comedy The Patsy, with the Obie Award-winning actor-writer appearing in the work, gets an Off-Broadway staging by T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy is Sir Toby Belch, Stephen Ouimette is Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Sara Topham is Olivia in Des McAnuff's new production of Twelfth Night, opening July 15 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2011
John Vickery, the villainous original Scar of Broadway's The Lion King, stars as the title Roman general in Darko Tresnjak's new staging of Shakespeare's bloody drama Titus Andro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rent, the 1996 rock musical about a group of friends, lovers and artists seeking to express themselves in the age of AIDS, returns to New York City July 14 for the first preview of a newly c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Arena Stage's in-the-round production of Oklahoma!, the sold-out revival that inaugurated Arena's new multimillion dollar Mead Center for American Theater last fall, is back for seco…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Kate Baldwin's new recording, "She Loves Him: Live at Feinstein's," her tribute to Fiddler on the Roof lyricist Sheldon Harnick, gets celebrated at a release event July 14 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2011
A casting notice indicates that Lysistrata Jones — the pop musical take on an ancient Greek classic, now reset in the world of college cheerleaders and basketball players — is in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]What's the use of wond'rin' about the history of Broadway legends Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II? You can do your research on a new and improved website devoted to the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]The 2011-12 Off-Broadway season of TACT/The Actors Company Theatre will focus on the human comedies of two of America's most popular playwrights. A.R. Gurney's Children and Neil Simo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Courtyard Theater on Navy Pier has been transformed into a European-style marionette theatre for its world-premiere summer musical The Adventures of Pinocch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents Second City alumnus and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Jeff Garlin in No Sugar Added, an evening of stand-up comedy, July 13-24 in Steppenwolf'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY, concludes its 20th season with the world premiere of a romantic comedy, At a Loss, by Jason Odell Williams. Performances begin July 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Penn State NU Musical Theatre Festival, in collaboration with the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, presents three shows in downtown State College, PA, July 13-16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2011
The romantic musical thriller Rebecca, inspired by the novel of the same name, will open on Broadway in spring 2012, producers announced on July 12. In an unusual scenario, Tony Award winner…
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