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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Good People, David Lindsay-Abaire's new play about high-school lovers reuniting in adulthood and reaching across a class divide, ends its world-premiere Broadway run May 29. The close da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Lucky Guy, the country-fried musical comedy about a singer who dreams of Nashville stardom, closes with the evening performance May 29, just ten days after opening May 19 at Off-Broadway'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 28, 2011
We chat with Tony Award-nominated Sister Act lyricist Glenn Slater, whose rhyming dictionary is well-worn lately following a spate of new musicals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 50th season of the Shaw Festival began April 7 with the first preview of Bernard Shaw's Candida at the Royal George Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Opening is May 28, at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Shaw Festival, Canada's institution rooted in the works of George Bernard Shaw, launched a company first on April 13 — a production of the musical My Fair Lady, staged by Ameri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 27, 2011
British playwright Penelope Skinner, whose play The Village Bike begins June 24 at London's Royal Court Theatre, has been awarded the 2011 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwrig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM[SHARE]The premature closing of a show is the kind of event that can throw a dramatist into a self-protective mood. That's exactly what happened with composer John Kander and librettist David T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2011
Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre is adding a new-play reading initiative to its usual programming of full productions and "salon" readings of classics. New works …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PM[SHARE]Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera will see some principal cast changes in the coming weeks. Kyle Barisich, Michele McConnell and Jessica Bishop are stepping into the roles of Raoul, Ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PM[SHARE]Pioneer Theatre Company revealed casting for its Salt Lake City production of Jonathan Larson's Rent, directed and choreographed by Karen Azenberg. Performances will play June 10-25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PM[SHARE]Great River Shakespeare Festival, the organization that produces professional Equity stagings of Shakespeare plays and modern classics in Minnesota, will offer King Henry IV, Part 1 and A Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Felicia Fields, of The Color Purple, will play Evillene in the new Chicago-area production of The Wiz July 7-Aug. 7 at Theatre at the Center in Munster, IN.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]If you like to see theatre in an intimate setting, Tony Award-winning set designer Christine Jones has just the venue for you — seating for one — this spring season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Maureen McGovern will star in her "musical memoir" Carry It On in the 2011-12 season of Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. The season will also feature such artists as Sam Buntrock…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PM[SHARE]Lucky Guy, the country-fried musical comedy about a singer who dreams of Nashville stardom, will close prematurely on May 29, just ten days after opening May 19 at Off-Broadway's Little …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PM[SHARE]Jerusalem, British playwright Jez Butterworth's tragicomic play about the indelible inhabitants of a slice of rural England, featuring Tony Award winner (and current 2011 nominee) Mark R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]Adirondack Theatre Festival's 17th summer of professional theatre in Glens Falls, NY, will feature the world premiere of the 1990s-set musical Hello Out There, a new play by Steven Dietz…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PM[SHARE]It's a sure sign of spring and the coming summer in Ontario: The Shaw Festival celebrates its annual Opening Week starting May 25 with the opening night of George Bernard Shaw's Hear…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]Walnut Street Theatre's new production of Miss Saigon, the Vietnam-era pop musical inspired by Madama Butterfly, featuring Melinda Chua as Kim, Eric Kunze as Chris and Bobby Martino…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Maria Dizzia, of In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, and Greg Keller, of 33 Variations in Los Angeles, do double-duty playing two couples in the Off-Broadway world pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Best Is Yet to Come, a starry new revue for which director-conceiver David Zippel pulled songs from the catalog of his late collaborator, the Tony Award-winning composer Cy Coleman, open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Actor-writer Laurence Luckinbill, who has crafted solo plays about Lyndon Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway, will read his one-man show Clarence Darrow Tonight! June 19 to benefi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PM[SHARE]The 29th Annual Elliot Norton Awards, recognizing excellence in Boston-area theatre, were handed out May 23 at the Paramount Mainstage in Boston. The tours of Hair and August: Osage County w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PM[SHARE]Theatre, art song and opera composer-lyricist Ricky Ian Gordon (Dream True, My Life With Albertine, The Grapes of Wrath) is being heard as never before with the release of his complete works…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Signature Theatre will offer Broadway Duets, a cabaret show "celebrating some of the greatest duets ever written for the Broadway stage," June 7-11 at its 110-seat ARK Theatre in A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]The 29th Annual Elliot Norton Awards, recognizing excellence in Boston-area theatre, were handed out May 23 at the Paramount Mainstage in Boston. The tours of Hair and August: Osage County w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]Extraordinary Chambers, David Wiener's play about a couple's business trip abroad, begins its world-premiere engagement at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles May 24. Marin Hinkle, Mathe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2011
The 2011 Drama Desk Awards, honoring New York City theatre for the 2010-11 season, recognized The Book of Mormon, Anything Goes, The Normal Heart and War Horse in production categories. The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PM[SHARE]Screen actor Kirk Douglas and his wife, Anne, awarded a $1 million challenge grant to Center Theatre Group to be combined with their earlier $1 million seed grant for new work, which results…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:39PM[SHARE]Director John Rando's principal Guys and Dolls for Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, this summer are Michael Thomas Holmes as Nathan Detroit, Morgan James as Sarah Brown, Lesli…
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