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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PM[SHARE]Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Seeking an apothecary — literally. Actor Sam Troughton suffered an injury when he was playing the fabled lover at the July 12 matinee performance of Royal Sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PM[SHARE]Broadway stars will appear July 23 at Signature Theatre's annual Target Open House, offering a sneak peek at the Tony Award-winning Virginia company's 2011-12 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PM[SHARE]Vineyard Theatre's developmental lab of the newly imagined, Broadway-bound musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever will be presented to an invited audience July 25-30 at Vineyard'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]The future of dance got a leg up at the July 7 closing night of the annual convention of the NYC Dance Alliance Foundation in Manhattan. Scholarships totaling $2.8 million were awarded to pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]Broadway's Tituss Burgess, of The Little Mermaid, Guys and Dolls and Jersey Boys, makes his debut at Greenwich Village's The Bitter End — the famed 50-year-old performance venu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]PS Classics, the record label devoted to the heritage of Broadway music and the American popular song, releases three new discs on July 12, covering a major Broadway lyricist, a "lost&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tom Wopat and Joan Osborne are joining a July 12 Manhattan presentation of songs from the new Bruce Hornsby musical SCKBSTD, with composer Hornsby performing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2011
Clybourne Park, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Bruce Norris, will be part of Center Theatre Group's 2011-12 season at Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. The announcement was made July …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16PM[SHARE]Michael Countryman, Charlotte Parry and John Sharian will join the cast of the U.S. premiere of Simon Stephens' Bluebird for Atlantic Theater Company. They'll share the stage with pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company's production of Unnatural Acts, ripping a page out of Ivy League history to tell of a gay witch hunt at Harvard University, has been extended again, now through Jul…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the Second Stage Theatre's Uptown Series world premiere of the Catholic-girl coming-of-age comedy The Talls by Anna Kerrigan. Off-Broadway performances beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]A raft of enthusiastic reviews for Tyne Daly's performance as Maria Callas in Master Class has prompted Manhattan Theatre Club to extend its Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]The American Theatre Critics Association named Caridad Svich winner of the $10,000 Francesca Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]Meghann Fahy, of Broadway's Next to Normal, will play a young woman on the brink of her future, in the Goodspeed Musicals production of The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]Meghann Fahy, of Broadway's Next to Normal, will play a young woman on the brink of her future, in the Goodspeed Musicals production of The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman ('night, Mother) will write the inaugural play for Theatre for Humans, an arts and entertainment production company "dedicated to telling the poi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Michele McConnell, a member of the Broadway cast of The Phantom of the Opera, assumes the role of ego-mad soprano Carlotta starting July 11 at the Majestic Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2011
A memorial for Michael Langham, the internationally-known stage director, educator and artistic director of Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival from 1956 to 1967, will be held at Str…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 9, 2011
J.M. Barrie's fable, The Admirable Crichton, about a shipwrecked British family and their butler, opens July 9 at the The Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Steven Sutcliffe,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A fresh tour of Guys and Dolls starring Broadway's Erin Davie as Sarah, Megan Sikora as Adelaide, Steve Rosen as Nathan and Ben Crawford as Sky launches July 9 at the Walton Center in Fa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The President, Ferenc Molnár's comedy that was a hit in the Shaw Festival's 2008 season, returned there June 3 with many of the original cast, including Lorne Kennedy in his r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2011
Casting has been announced for Academy, the next musical offering in York Theatre Company's Developmental Reading Series, 3 PM July 21 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will anoint the new Lone Tree Arts Center in suburban Denver with a performance at its grand-opening gala on Aug. 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PM[SHARE]A film obligation has prompted Jason Moore to withdraw as director of Andrew Hinderaker's dark comedy Suicide, Incorporated in the Roundabout Underground series Off-Broadway this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PM[SHARE]The pirates, Indians, lost boys and British siblings surrounding Cathy Rigby's Peter Pan, on tour starting this August, have been revealed. Broadway's Tom Hewitt and Kim Crosby had p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]PlayPenn, Philadelphia's professional new-play development organization, embraces six playwrights and their new scripts in its seventh annual New Play Development Conference July 8-24 at…
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]Thursday, July 7, 2011
Broadway's Tituss Burgess, of The Little Mermaid, Guys and Dolls and Jersey Boys, makes his debut at Greenwich Village's The Bitter End — the famed 50-year-old performance venu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Liz Larsen will play a government investigator in the world premiere of Hello Out There, the musical about three teens who commit securities crimes, at Adirondack Theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Theatre Aspen, the Colorado summer Equity company, launches its largest production yet — the musical Annie — on July 7. Wife and husband Joan Hess and David Hess play Grace Farre…
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