Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Kelly Bishop, the original Tony Award-winning Sheila of A Chorus Line, will step into the fur of wealthy matron Evangeline Harcourt in the Tony Award-winning production of Anything Goes, suc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer will return to the St. James Theatre, his American Idiot home, to stage his revised revival of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever starri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PM[SHARE]Dolly Parton's new album "Better Days" has a hint of Broadway on it. The singer-songwriter performs four songs from her Broadway musical 9 to 5 on the 12-track disc, which was …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AM[SHARE]Zarkana, Cirque du Soleil's new $50 million acrobatic spectacle built especially for Radio City Music Hall and featuring music by Elton John protégé Nick Littlemore, opens …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Playbill.com spread its net wide to gather response to the June 24 passage of same-sex marriage in New York State. Terrence McNally, Jordan Roth, Douglas Carter Beane and more shared their g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2011
David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, currently getting a well-reviewed world-premiere production at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, will move to Broadway this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PM[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 01:59PM[SHARE]Jeffrey Finn and Jill Furman will produce the Broadway world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new play, Seminar, starring Alan Rickman as a world-famous writer with power over young scribes …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PM[SHARE]The Dora Mavor Moore Awards, celebrating excellence in a number of performing arts disciplines in Toronto, were handed out June 27. Billy Elliot, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Blasted and R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]Venus in Fur, David Ives' two-actor Off-Broadway comedy that introduced future Tony Award nominee Nina Arianda to audiences in 2010, will make the leap to Broadway this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Brooke Shields, who was seen in the recent world premiere of the new musical Leap of Faith in Los Angeles, returns to Broadway June 28, slipping into the skin of Mortic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2011
Playbill.com spread its net wide to gather response to the June 24 passage of same-sex marriage in New York State. Terrence McNally, Jordan Roth, Douglas Carter Beane and more shared their g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PM[SHARE]Hank Azaria is Bill W. opposite Martin Sheen as Dr. Bob for the one-night benefit reading of Samuel Shem & Janet Surrey's play about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W. and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The Goodman Theatre's world premiere of Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy about "the challenges of doing business in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]It's the biggest night of the year for the Toronto performing arts community. The 32nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards ceremony, celebrating excellence in Toronto theatre, dance and opera…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2011
Two-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth leaves behind the role of Morticia — the undead matriarch of Broadway's The Addams Family — following the June 26 matinee of the musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company's summer production of Middletown, Will Eno's portrait of a small town, directed by Les Waters, opens June 26 following previews from June 16 in Chicago. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]It's time to pack designer Desmond Heeley's 2011 Tony Award-winning Victorian costumes into a trunk. The acclaimed Broadway revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new Broadway production of Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, which earned Nina Arianda a Best Actress Tony Award nomination for her portrayal of dumb-blonde Billie Dawn, closes June 26,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 25, 2011
Desperate Writers, the comedy about a couple seeking Hollywood success, plays its final performance at Off-Broadway's Union Square Theatre 8 PM June 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2011
Julie Taymor, the Tony Award-winning director of The Lion King and the visionary co-creator and original director of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, confirmed on June 24 that she will direct t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PM[SHARE]Surflight Theatre, a Jersey Shore tradition in Beach Haven, NJ, opens a new production of the '50s-set musical Grease June 24 following previews from June 22. Broadway's Meredith Pat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PM[SHARE]David Greenspan's new adaptation of the 1925 Broadway comedy The Patsy, with the Obie Award-winning actor-writer appearing in the work, will get an Off-Broadway staging by The Transport …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]The producers of the Chicago production of the musical Million Dollar Quartet, which pre-dates the recent Broadway staging and is now in its third year, has extended the show's ticket-sa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM[SHARE]The Jacksonian, Beth Henley's new play set in a seedy motel in Mississippi, MS, circa 1964, will be populated with Ed Harris, Bill Pullman, Amy Madigan and Glenne Headly, Geffen Playhous…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]A Room With a View, a new musical based on E.M. Forster's 1908 novel about stuffy Brits soaking in romance in Italy, will make its world premiere as part of The Old Globe's 2011-12 s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00AM[SHARE]Shout!, the intimate pop revue selling the sounds of the '60s, as sung by female artists of that time, has been revised and expanded to include eight dancers in Marriott Theatre's ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2011
Bonnie and Clyde, the new rockabilly-and-blues-infused musical about the Depression-era American outlaws, will begin previews Nov. 4 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre with an official opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Unnatural Acts, a new play about Harvard's investigation and persecution of a group of gay students in 1920, opens Off-Broadway June 23 following previews from June 15 as the final show …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The producers of Bonnie and Clyde, the new rockabilly-and-blues-infused musical about the Depression-era American outlaws, are targeting Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre for a Decemb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM[SHARE]The leaders of Vineyard Theatre and Naked Angels announced that they will co-produce the world premiere of Zayd Dohrn's Beijing-set comedy Outside People, directed by Evan Cabnet, at The…
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