Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Signature Theatre Company's production of Tony Kushner's The Illusion, based on the play by 17th-century tragic playwright Pierre Corneille, begins casting its spell May 17 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Writer-actor Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man play Juan and John, a tale of baseball, violence and forgiveness, drawing on a true story, begins a run at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Ang…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The passengers of Goodspeed Musicals' Show Boat, the groundbreaking 1927 musical getting fresh steam this summer at Goodspeed Opera House, will include Sarah Uriarte Berry as Magnolia, Q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2011
Atlantic Theater Company has announced internationally-known playwrights, actors, directors and designers for its 10x25 collection of 25 ten-minute plays to run May 18-June 26. John Guare, D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PM[SHARE]Polly Carl is leaving Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago to join Arena Stage in Washington, DC, in the new position as director of the American Voices New Play Institute (AVNPI) beginnin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PM[SHARE]Theater J in Washington, DC, announced a 2011-12 season that will include two world premieres and a new festival focused on cultivating work by local playwrights.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PM[SHARE]NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt announced on May 15 that "Smash," the new hourlong drama-with-music about the making (and makers) of a Broadway musical, will launch on th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]Friends and colleagues will reflect on the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, who died March 24 after an illness, at a memorial tribute 1 PM May 16 at Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 15, 2011
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]Wonderland, the new musical that reinvents Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" for the 21st century, closes May 15 at Broadway's Marquis Theatre. A natio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sam Forman's The Moscows of Nantucket, a Chekhov-flavored comedy about a family bonding over a summer weekend, gets its world premiere May 15 following previews from May 11 at Theater J …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 14, 2011
Grey Music NYC, a musical-theatre cabaret show celebrating the shows and songs associated with Joel Grey, plays May 14-15 at the Museum of the City of New York, coinciding with MCNY's cu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Double Time, a new musical about a young white playwright trying to create a new musical comedy about the life of Alabama native Leonard Harper, an African-American Broadway star, will be he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2011
Williamstown Theatre Festival artistic director Jenny Gersten announced additional casting for the Nikos Stage productions for the 2011 season in Williamstown, MA. This is the company's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company's sold-out production of David Ives' well-reviewed new comedy, The School for Lies, directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie, originally scheduled to close M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PM[SHARE]Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary U.S. touring production of Les Misérables — redesigned and reimagined for a new generation — will welcome J. Mark McVey to th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PM[SHARE]City Theatre's Pittsburgh world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher and Eric Simonson's comedy, Louder Faster, about Pittsburgh playwright George S. Kaufman trapped in the sort of comic plot…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The fragile, fractured mind of an Ingmar Bergman heroine fresh from the psych ward is explored anew with the May 13 first preview of Through a Glass Darkly, the American premiere of Jenny Wo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2011
Playbill's Broadway 101 video series continues with an in-depth look at the puppets that populate the haunted mansion of The Addams Family.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM[SHARE]Unnatural Acts, a new play about Harvard's investigation and persecution of a group of gay students in 1920, will begin Off-Broadway performances June 14 as the final show of Classic Sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PM[SHARE]Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has lined up three world premieres for its 2011-12 season: a new adaptation of the demonic-possession thriller The Exorcist, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has lined up three world premieres for its 2011-12 season: a new adaptation of the demonic-possession thriller The Exorcist, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]The subculture of the Broadway musical theatre will come into American homes weekly in the form of the hour-long TV drama "Smash," the pilot of which has been picked up for an NBC …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals launches a developmental production of Cutman: a boxing musical, the story of a young Jewish boxer pulled between faith and stardom in the ring, May 12 at the Norma Terris…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new Court Theatre production of George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward's folk opera Porgy and Bess begins May 12 in Chicago. The title lovers in the all-Chicago cast are Alexis Rogers (T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Joe Kinosian, the co-creator of Murder for Two — A Killer Musical, appears in the Chicago premiere of the comic thriller, May 12-June 19 at the Tony Award-winning Chicago Shakespeare T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Philip Kan Gotanda's Love in American Times, a new play that gives the old tradition of matchmaking a contemporary twist, gets its world premiere by San Jose Repertory Theatre May 12-Jun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Annie Golden, Steve Routman, Emily Walton, Peter Friedman, Kevin Cahoon, Jamey Hood, Cory Michael Smith and Sarah Sokolovic are all in the family of the New York City premiere of the musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Second Stage Theatre's world-premiere production of Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark has been extended for a second time, now Off-Broadway through June 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre has informed its members that the world premiere of Nicky Silver's The Lyons, about an "unforgettable family in search of connection," will …
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