Saturday, May 7, 2011
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]Friday, May 6, 2011
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" and &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PM[SHARE]Grey Music NYC, a musical theatre cabaret show celebrating the shows and songs associated with Joel Grey, will play May 14-15 at the Museum of the City of New York, coinciding with MCNY'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PM[SHARE]Grey Music NYC, a musical theatre cabaret show celebrating the shows and songs associated with Joel Grey, will play May 14-15 at the Museum of the City of New York, coinciding with MCNY'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]Pieces of the provocative new musical White Noise, about a rock band with White Supremacy on its playlist, will be heard in a May 11 concert that will be streamed live over the internet. The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PM[SHARE]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" and &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PM[SHARE]The marquees of Broadway theatres will be dimmed at 8 PM May 6 for one minute in memory of Tony Award-winning director and librettist Arthur Laurents, who died May 5 at the age of 93.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PM[SHARE]The Syringa Tree, Pamela Gien's autobiographical solo-actress play about a white family in South Africa and its ties to the native people in a time of apartheid, opens May 6 following pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AM[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, May 6-June 6. Resident director Russell di…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway's Sebastian Arcelus, of Elf and Jersey Boys, takes a more serious — and non-singing — role starting May 6, starring in A Time to Kill, Arena Stage's world-premie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Old Globe in San Diego will produce four world premieres — two new musicals, two new plays — in its 2011-12 season. Writers Steven Sater, Burt Bacharach, Matthew Lopez, Gaby …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2011
Child's Play, Robert Marasco's spine-tingling 1970 Broadway play about demonic happenings at a Catholic boys' boarding school in mid-winter, will get a private reading in Manhatt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:12PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents, a play about the gap between parents and children, to begin June 7 in Second Stage Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PM[SHARE]Dates for West Coast engagements of the 12-time Tony Award-nominated musical The Scottsboro Boys have now been made public by The Old Globe in San Diego and American Conservatory Theater in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PM[SHARE]A proposed honorary degree to be given to Tony Award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-honored playwright Tony Kushner by the City University of New York will not go through, CUNY's board of trust…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[SHARE]Maria Aitken, whose The 39 Steps was a U.K. and Broadway hit, will direct three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella in a fall Broadway production of Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy, Rou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]Maria Aitken, whose The 39 Steps was a U.K. and Broadway hit, will direct three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella in a fall Broadway production of Terrence Rattigan's Man and Boy, Ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]The winners of the 67th Annual Theatre World Awards — honoring performers making their New York stage debuts on or Off-Broadway — will be announced May 10 at noon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AM[SHARE]The American premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's new comedy, Life of Riley, opens at The Old Globe May 5 following previews that began April 30. The tale of a man on borrowed time features Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Beth Leavel, a Tony Award nominee as Leading Actress of Broadway's Baby It's You!, is out of the show May 4 owing to illness, a spokesman said. Standby Alison Cimmet steps into …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:54PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-nominated Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, a rock-musical portrait of the controversial populist American president, will get its Chicago debut in 2012 by Bailiwick Chicago, the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:34PM[SHARE]Complete casting and creative team for The Old Globe's 2011 Shakespeare Festival — featuring Peter Shaffer's Amadeus and Shakespeare's The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PM[SHARE]Off-Off-Broadway's Target Margin Theater conjures Shakespeare's The Tempest starting May 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PM[SHARE]A Theresa Rebeck play previously announced for the Mark Taper Forum will be replaced by a play by…Theresa Rebeck. Center Theatre Group announced on May 4 that instead of producing The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PM[SHARE]Dear Ruth, Norman Krasna's wartime comedy about teen-age girl's morale-boosting pen-pal relationship with a soldier, gets an Off-Off-Broadway revival by Retro Productions May 4-21 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Lombardi, Eric Simonson's football drama about late Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, will end its Broadway run May 22, producers announced on May 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22PM[SHARE]The Scottsboro Boys, the provocative Broadway musical that just snagged 12 Tony Award nominations despite the fact that the show closed on Broadway last fall, will resurface on the West Coas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11PM[SHARE]Playwright and director Chay Yew has been named the new artistic director of the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater, the Chicago company renowned for its stable of in-house playwrigh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PM[SHARE]The Syringa Tree, Pamela Gien's autobiographical solo-actress play about a white family in South Africa and its ties to the native people in a time of apartheid, gets a May 3-22 producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25AM[SHARE]PS Classics has released a track listing and cover art, and announced an early web release date, for its upcoming recording of George and Ira Gershwin's 1930 Broadway musical Strike Up t…
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, beginning May 3 Off-Broa…
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