Monday, May 23, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:07PM[SHARE]David Mamet will write and direct an HBO Films project about pop record producer Phil Spector, who was convicted of murder in 2009, Variety reported. If the deal goes through, Bette Midler w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]The Original Grease, a rare glimpse at the early-1970s draft of the property that would later be revised to international fame, is a hit at Chicago's American Theater Company, the leader…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PM[SHARE]The 2012 Encores! concert season of musicals at the renovated New York City Center will include Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, Rodgers & Hammerstein's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AM[SHARE]The 2011 Elliot Norton Awards, celebrating excellence in resident and visiting theatre in Greater Boston, will be handed out May 23. Tours of Hair, Mary Poppins and August: Osage County are …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 22, 2011
Lombardi, Eric Simonson's football drama about late Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi — and his passion for the game, its players and his wife — ends its Broadway run Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway's Sebastian Arcelus, of Elf and Jersey Boys, takes a more serious — and non-singing — role in A Time to Kill, Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of the novel by Joh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Northlight Theatre's world-premiere staging of Bruce Graham's The Outgoing Tide, starring Tony Award winners John Mahoney and Rondi Reed, plus Thomas J. Cox, opens May 22 follow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2011
George C. Wolfe, co-director of the Broadway premiere of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, talks about the impact of the revival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new Court Theatre production of George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward's folk opera Porgy and Bess opens May 21 following previews from May 12 in Chicago. The title lovers in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2011
Baby It's You!, the story of a New Jersey housewife who launched the 1960s girl-group The Shirelles, will begin offering Friday matinees next month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2011
Lucky Guy, the country-fried musical comedy about a singer who dreams of Nashville stardom, opens May 19 at Off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre following previews from April 28. Kyle D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Off-Off-Broadway's The Flea Theater presents the world premiere of Zack Russell's Just Cause, about a group of revolutionaires in Brooklyn, opening May 19 following previews from May…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Marcia Milgrom Dodge, the Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer of the Broadway revival of Ragtime, is placing a new revival of Kander & Ebb's Chicago in a vaudeville-theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PM[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 — will get new life in a world-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]Telsey and Co., casting office for the new 2012 Broadway production of Annie, will hold an open call on June 12 for girls ages 6-12 to audition for the roles of Annie and the orphans. In add…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]Freud's Last Session, the Mark St. Germain play about the fictional meeting between atheist Dr. Sigmund Freud and Christian writer C.S. Lewis, will continue into the summer at the Marjor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM[SHARE]Those who consider the music of composer Cy Coleman as being synonymous with the energy, heat and sensuality of Manhattan can get a load of the late songwriter's work in his hometown May…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Series A of Atlantic Theater Company's 10x25 festival of ten-minute plays launches May 18, offering eight titles that appear through May 29 at Atlantic Stage 2. Before the festival ends …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Bruce Sabath (Hello Again) is Julius Caesar, Bret Shuford (The Little Mermaid) is Marc Antony and Erika Amato is Cleopatra in the new musical comedy The Sphinx Winx, opening Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Chicago Shakespeare Theater has carved out a cast for its world-premiere summer musical The Adventures of Pinocchio by Neil Bartram and Brian Hill, the writers of Broadway's The Story of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PM[SHARE]Center Theatre Group, the Los Angeles theatre company that programs the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre, will welcome Edward L. Rada as its new managing direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PM[SHARE]Lombardi, Eric Simonson's biographical Broadway play about Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi and his relationship with the game, his players, his wife and his fans, will make its re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM[SHARE]"Philosophy of the World" by The Shaggs, the 1969 cult album that inspired the Off-Broadway musical The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, has been remastered and reissued for CD in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PM[SHARE]Brian Bedford, who directed and stars in the Roundabout Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, told Playbill.com he was "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, the life-story musical about the jazz and blues singer from the 1920s and 1930s, will find a New York City home at St. Luke's T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]The company over at Broadway's Anything Goes seems to take that title seriously, as Playbill.com learned when we supplied a video camera to cast member Robert Creighton for a new three-p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM[SHARE]Joe Kinosian, the co-creator of Murder for Two — A Killer Musical, appears in the Chicago premiere of the comic thriller, opening May 17 following previews from May 12 at the Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]La Jolla Playhouse's world-premiere production of A Dram of Drummhicit, a supernatural comedy by Arthur Kopit and Anton Dudley, begins May 17 under the direction of Playhouse artistic di…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Walnut Street Theatre's new production of Miss Saigon, the Vietnam-era pop musical inspired by Madama Butterfly, features Melinda Chua as Kim, Eric Kunze as Chris and Bobby Martino …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Artistic director Michael Kahn directs The Shakespeare Theatre Company's new production of Harold Pinter's enigmatic Old Times, beginning May 17 at STC's Lansburgh Theatre in Was…
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