Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Gary Cole, Edi Gathegi, Mary Beth Fisher and Kathryn Joosten are among cast members in the Geffen Playhouse production of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, opening June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre launches a new works initiative June 8-9 when Joel Gross' The Queen of Spades, inspired by an Alexander Pushkin story, gets a reading i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Jenn Colella will play Heather, known for doing her "strong woman" numbers, in the York Theatre Company revival of Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer's rueful pop musical I'm Ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]The Walnut Street Theatre production of the musical Miss Saigon has been extended by one week, to July 24, in Philadelphia.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PM[SHARE]The studio album of Dracula, The Musical, with songs by composer Frank Wildhorn and lyricists Don Black and Christopher Hampton, was released on digital services June 6, GlobalVision Records…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05PM[SHARE]Nominees for the 32nd annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, celebrating excellence in Toronto's theatre, dance and opera communities, were announced June 7 in Ontario. The sitdown of Billy Ell…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PM[SHARE]David Aron Damane, whose Broadway credits include The Life and the revival of Big River, will play Joe in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of Show Boat.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Recipients of the 38th annual Non-Equity Jeff Awards, celebrating excellence in non-union theatre in the Chicago area for the 2010-11 season, were announced June 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway musical The Sphinx Winx, billed as a musical comedy misinterpretation of the classic love triangle between Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, will play its final perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Surviving the Avalanche: The Songs of Jeremy Desmon & Vadim Feichtner, billed as a raucous evening of original songs featuring Miguel Cervantes, Andrew Kober, Dana Steingold and Cassie W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]One of the more bizarre and influential chapters in American pop music history comes to light June 7 with the Off-Broadway opening of the musical The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World. Annie G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary U.S. touring production of Les Misérables — redesigned and reimagined for a new generation — welcomes J. Mark McVey to the ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents, a play about the gap between parents and children, begins June 7 in Second Stage Theatre's Uptown Series. Lisa Emery…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2011
Florida Stage, an iconic presence in South Florida's theatre scene since 1987, has closed its doors after its board of directors voted June 5 to seek court-ordered bankruptcy protection.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Jason Miller's That Championship Season recouped its $2.75 million investment, a spokesman for the play confirmed. The limited run of the starry male-bonding dram…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AM[SHARE]Tony winners Laura Benanti and Katie Finneran will host the creative arts awards portion of the 65th annual Tony Awards on June 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM[SHARE]Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera welcomes new principal cast members this spring and summer, starting June 6 with Kyle Barisich slipping into the starched tunic of Christine'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 2011 Non-Equity Jeff Awards, honoring excellence in Chicago theatres not under a union contract — for productions that opened between April 1, 2010, and March 31, 2011 — will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The fragile mind of an Ingmar Bergman heroine fresh from the psych ward is explored anew in Through a Glass Darkly, the American premiere of Jenny Worton's adaptation of Bergman's bl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 5, 2011
The "Broadway Talks with Jordan Roth" series at 92 Street Y in Manhattan will feature rock superstars Bono and The Edge on June 13, the night before the opening of their Broadway m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48PM[SHARE]The new musical Once, based on the 2006 independent film about an Irish busker and a Czech musician who form a tentative collaboration and romance in Dublin, will get its premiere at Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff will leave the position of artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival after the 2013 season, he and the Stratford board of governors anno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]The work of Ludvig Holberg — the 18th-century Danish dramatist little-known in the U.S. but regarded as a pillar in the world of Danish literature — gets new life in a world-prem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Lysistrata Jones, the new Douglas Carter Beane-Lewis Flinn musical that rips a page out of Aristophanes' ancient comedy about women withholding sex in protest of war, bounds onto a Green…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Peter Norton Space has been transformed into a lamp-lighted cave for Signature Theatre Company's production of Tony Kushner's The Illusion, based on the play by 17…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 4, 2011
The theatre people who cooked up [title of show], the frisky new musical about creating a new musical, unveil — what else? — their new musical, called Now.Here.This., June 4…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were handed out May 23 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan, make their broadcast debut June 4 at 9 PM ET on the Ovation network.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2011
Colt Coeur, the collective of New York City theatre artists, is presenting the world premiere of Fish Eye, a darkly comic work about "a couple struggling to hold on to one another witho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the collection of works being produced this summer by Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA. Graham Rowat and Rachel York will star (and spar) in the retu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]Motherhood the Musical, the new show from the producer of Menopause the Musical, will be seen in a handful of separate sitdown productions nationally, starting with a June 3-Oct. 2 run at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The President, Ferenc Molnár's comedy that was a hit in the Shaw Festival's 2008 season, returns June 3 with many of the original cast, including Lorne Kennedy in his role as …
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