Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PM[SHARE]About Face Theatre, the Chicago company interested in new works about gender and sexual identity, announced casting for the world premiere of Philip Dawkins' play, The Homosexuals, inspi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AM[SHARE]Two plays — an adaptation and a world premiere — related to the American novelist Carson McCullers will be presented as part of the Steppenwolf for Young Adults series in Chicago…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Recipients of the 2011 Kleban Prize, honoring excellence in theatre lyrics and libretti, are composer-lyricist Adam Gwon and book writer-lyricist Michelle Elliott.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[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 11-June 12 at Theater J in Washington, DC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals' new production of the Gershwin-fueled musical My One and Only opens May 11 following previews from April 15, with Broadway's Tony Yazbeck (White Christm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Jump, the action-packed martial-arts comedy that launched in South Korea before touring the world, returns to Off-Broadway May 11 for an engagement at New World Stages. The producers promise…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Pieces of the provocative new musical White Noise, about a rock band with White Supremacy on its playlist, get heard in a May 11 concert streamed live over the internet. The Broadway-aimed m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Wonderland, the new musical that reinvents "Alice in Wonderland" for the 21st century, will close May 15 at Broadway's Marquis Theatre, the producers announced on May 10. A nat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30PM[SHARE]Atlantic Theater Company will welcome Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee Simon Russell Beale to opens its 2011-12 season with the U.S. premiere of Simon Stephens' Bluebird, abou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PM[SHARE]Further details about Vineyard Theatre's Developmental Lab Production of Now. Here. This., the new musical by the creators of [title of show], were revealed on May 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PM[SHARE]The executive committee of the trustees of the City University of New York (CUNY) met on May 9 and reversed a May 2 decision to withhold an honorary degree from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]Cathy Rigby's New York City dates as Peter Pan have been confirmed by Madison Square Garden. The fiftysomething Tony Award nominee will fly into the Theater at MSG Dec. 14-30 as part of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]Big League Theatricals is launching a summer tour of Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls directed by Gordon Greenberg and starring Erin Davie as Sarah, Megan Sikora as Adelaide, Steve Rosen a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AM[SHARE]Playwright Marsha Norman and composer Jason Robert Brown's The Trumpet of the Swan: A Novel Symphony for Actors and Orchestra, the music-and-narration piece for actors and musicians (inc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Maria Dizzia, of In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, and Greg Keller, of 33 Variations in Los Angeles, star in the Off-Broadway world premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2011
Greta Lee and Zoe Winters have been announced to join Tony Award-winning actress Mary Louise Wilson and Gabriel Ebert for the world premiere of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, which will premie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PM[SHARE]The life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, who died March 24 after an illness, will be celebrated in a memorial tribute 1 PM May 16 at Broadway's Lyceum Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PM[SHARE]The life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, who died March 24 after an illness, will be celebrated in a memorial tribute 1 PM May 16 at Broadway's Lyceum Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PM[SHARE]Douglas Sills, a Tony Award nominee for The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Sara Gettelfinger, last seen on Broadway in A Free Man of Color, will star as Gomez and Morticia, respectively, in the nati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]Kneehigh Theatre Company, playwright Dael Orlandersmith and Mikhail Baryshnikov will spice the 2011-12 season of Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, the Tony Award-winning company anno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PM[SHARE]Playbill Video snagged some of the players and creators of the four 2011 Tony Award nominees for Best Musical — Sister Act, The Scottsboro Boys, Catch Me If You Can and The Book of Mor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PM[SHARE]UPDATED! Arthur Laurents, the playwright, director, screenwriter and librettist whose best known works were the musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the films "The Turning Point"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club announced three world-premiere productions — including the Broadway bow of Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn's new play, The Columnist — for its 2011-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]The dawning musical by the creators of [title of show] will be called Now. Here. This. in June, when it will be presented by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre as a Developmental Lab Produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PM[SHARE]The New York City premiere of Stephen Karam's play Sons of the Prophet will feature Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason, under the direction of Peter DuBois. Off-Broadway performances will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage takes a cue from Hollywood screwball comedies for her new play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, about an African-American maid and her white movie-star employ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Jenny Bacon plays the leading lady at the center of Goodman Theatre's world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss, billed as an offbeat fairy tale ab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]In conjunction with its upcoming production of The Seven Deadly Sins, New York City Ballet presents the seminar "The Seven Deadly Sins: Creating a Ballet" May 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 7, 2011
The dysfunctional family of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County at The Old Globe in San Diego includes Robert Foxworth as gone-missing Beverly Weston, Lois Mark…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[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…
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