Friday, June 3, 2011
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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The San Francisco-set musical Tales of the City, based on Armistead Maupin's novels, will get additional performances July 12-24 due to demand at American Conservatory Theater in the Cit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PM[SHARE]Sarah Jessica Parker, the international TV and film star whose early career included donning a red wig, red dress and patent-leather Mary Janes as Broadway's Annie, will present an award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]The acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated new production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes will get a cast album from Ghostlight Records in late summer, Roundabout Theatre Company announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]A special performance of Now.Here.This., the new work from the creators and cast of the musical [title of show], will benefit the not-for-profit Vineyard Theatre, which is presenting the wor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PM[SHARE]Tony Kushner's The Illusion, based on the play by 17th-century tragic playwright Pierre Corneille, will get a one-week extension by Signature Theatre Company, which is producing the work…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PM[SHARE]Casting is set for the 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 a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PM[SHARE]Northlight Theatre's world-premiere production of Bruce Graham's play The Outgoing Tide, starring Tony Award winners John Mahoney and Rondi Reed, will get an extra week in Skokie, IL.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AM[SHARE]South Coast Repertory's 2011-12 season in Costa Mesa, CA, will feature three world premieres, all of them spawned from SCR Pacific Playwrights Festival earlier this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The New York City premiere of Jordan Harrison's Maple & Vine has been added to Playwrights Horizons' 2011-12 season Off-Broadway, artistic director Tim Sanford and managing direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PM[SHARE]A spring reading of a musical version of the Oscar-winning boxing movie "Rocky," with songs by Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty and libretto by Tony winner Thoma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PM[SHARE]A spring reading of a musical version of the Oscar-winning boxing movie "Rocky," with songs by Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty and libretto by Tony winner Thoma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PM[SHARE]Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed will play Aladdin and Jasmine, respectively, with James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie, in the stage premiere of the Disney musical Aladdin, based on the animated…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PM[SHARE]Nightwood Theatre, devoted to plays by women, announced a 2011-2012 Toronto season that will include a world premiere, a North American premiere and a Toronto premiere, plus a festival of th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PM[SHARE]Sara Thigpen and Nate Miller will be Beatrice and Benedick, respectively, in The Boomerang Theatre Company's al fresco production of Much Ado About Nothing, presented free in Central Par…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]Directors have been announced for the 2011 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, which develops new works in a summer session in Waterford, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]Series B of Atlantic Theater Company's 10x25 festival of ten-minute plays launches June 1, offering eight titles that appear through June 12 at Atlantic Stage 2. Works by Annie Baker, Cr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Extraordinary Chambers, David Wiener's play about a couple's business trip abroad, opens June 1 in its world-premiere engagement at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles following previews…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Paul Gross, the respected Canadian stage and screen star who played the unconventional artistic director in three seasons of TV's "Slings and Arrows," will star as Elyot opposi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PM[SHARE]The new musical Bonnie and Clyde, a blues-and-rockabilly-flavored show by Frank Wildhorn, Don Black and Ivan Menchell, will get an industry presentation June 9-10 in Manhattan in anticipatio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PM[SHARE]The high-def digital film of Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company's fall title in its Roundabout Underground program that nurtures new work and emerging writers will be Suicide, Incorporated, a play by Andrew Hinderaker, dire…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company's fall title in its Roundabout Underground program that nurtures new work and emerging writers will be Suicide, Incorporated, a play by Andrew Hinderaker, dire…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[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 10:39AM[SHARE]PS Classics announced track listing, cover art, special guests and a release date for its world-premiere recording of Vernon Duke and Ogden Nash's musical Sweet Bye and Bye, which opened…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wesla Whitfield, the San Francisco vocalist whose albums and concert and cabaret gigs with her music-director husband Mike Greensill celebrate the heritage of theatre music and the American …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Director Gary Griffin's new production of the King Arthur-inspired musical Camelot opens May 31 following previews from April 16 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's flagship Fest…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]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, running May …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Bay Street Theatre launches its 20th season with Jay Presson Allen's Tru, starring "Saturday Night Live" veteran Darrell Hammond, which begins previews May 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 30, 2011
Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy, made up of comic sketches about language, sexuality and labels, gets its world premiere by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company May 30-June 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 29, 2011
The Old Globe's 2011 Shakespeare Festival begins May 29 with the first preview of Much Ado About Nothing, part of an in-rep 2011 season that also includes Peter Shaffer's Amadeus and…
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