Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 21-track Broadway cast album of Wonderland, the new musical that reinvents "Alice in Wonderland" for the 21st century, is released by Masterworks Broadway on May 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Side By Side By Sondheim, the musical revue that addresses only the first 20 years of the work of Broadway composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, gets a fresh production opening May 3 following…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2011
Motherhood the Musical, the new show from the producer of Menopause the Musical, will be seen in a handful of separate sitdown productions nationally, starting with a June 3-Oct. 2 run at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PM[SHARE]Jason Odell Williams' Baltimore in Black and White, a comedy about a white Jewish girl marrying a black and not-Jewish man, gets its world premiere in an Equity showcase production May 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PM[SHARE]Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy, made up of comic sketches about language, sexuality and labels, will get is world premiere by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company May 30-June 26. Casting was a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PM[SHARE]American Theater Company in Chicago is reviving the internationally popular musical Grease as few have seen it before. ATC's production — dubbed The Original Grease, the R-rated or…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 1, 2011
Winners of the 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards, representing excellence Off-Broadway, were announced on May 1. Christian Borle of Peter and the Starcatcher and Laurie Metcalf of The Other Place a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36PM[SHARE]Winners of the 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards, representing excellence Off-Broadway, were announced on May 1. Christian Borle of Peter and the Starcatcher and Laurie Metcalf of The Other Place a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36PM[SHARE]Irish Repertory Theatre opens a return revival of Dion Boucicault's ripe 19th-century comic melodrama The Shaughraun May 1 on the company's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage. Pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Mamie Gummer, Hamish Linklater and two-time Tony Award nominee Alison Fraser star in David Ives' new comedy The School for Lies, inspired by Molière's The Misanthrope, opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring excellence in Off-Broadway theatre for 2010-11, will be handed out May 1 at NYU's Skirball Center. The ceremony has a theme of "Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2011
Tony Award winner John Gallagher Jr. of Spring Awakening and American Idiot is a rare American actor in the English production of Jerusalem, now on Broadway.
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]The American premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's new comedy, Life of Riley, at The Old Globe, begins April 30 in anticipation of a May 5 opening night. The company features David Bishins, Ray C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2011
Writer-actor Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man play Juan and John, a tale of baseball, violence and forgiveness, drawing on a true story, will begin a run at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PM[SHARE]Playwrights Horizons is presenting an invitation-only reading of its newly commissioned musical Far From Heaven on April 29. Playing the love triangle of the musical drama of forbidden love …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PM[SHARE]She Loves Him, Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin's spring 2011 cabaret tribute to the songs of Sheldon Harnick — featuring 86-year-old Harnick as a special guest — was captured…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Brothers Adam Arkin and Matthew Arkin will play brothers Joey and Kevin Colletti in the reading of Steven Drukman's The Prince of Atlantis, one of five new works being read at the 14th A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Lynne Wintersteller is Norma, Martin Vidnovic is Max and Benjamin Eakeley is Joe in the new Pioneer Theatre Company production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Bouvelard, April 29-Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2011
Faculty, guest professionals and design and performance students at University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) have merged to realize the classic American musical Oklahoma! as i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:45PM[SHARE]Russell Warner, an orchestrator, composer, music director and dance arranger whose specialty was creating new orchestrations in the style of original period work, died April 26 in Seattle af…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PM[SHARE]Freestyle Love Supreme, the improv musical comedy experience featuring In the Heights stars Christopher Jackson and Lin-Manuel Miranda, has lined up June dates in Manhattan and Philadelphia.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PM[SHARE]InterAct Theatre Company, the Philadelphia theatre devoted to plays that explore issues of social, cultural and political relevance, will stage the world premiere of Kara Lee Corthron's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PM[SHARE]Nominees for the 2011 Non-Equity Jeff Awards were announced April 28 in Chicago, where audiences have, for years, embraced work by both union and non-union professional theatre artists.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[SHARE]Novelist Iris Rainer Dart's current Broadway debut as a librettist and lyricist of the musical The People in the Picture is a warm-up to the writer's next show — a musical vers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM[SHARE]Boom!, the concert of Baby Boom generation hits starring Tony Award-nominated sister-actresses Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton Callaway, will be preserved on a live-concert album from PS Classi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Lucky Guy, the country-fried musical comedy about a singer who dreams of Nashville stardom, begins at Off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre on April 28. Kyle Dean Massey plays crooner Bi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Off-Off-Broadway's The Flea Theater opens the world premiere of Laurel Haines' Future Anxiety, set in a world of depleted resources, April 28 following previews from April 15. Artist…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The People in the Picture, the new original musical starring Tony Award winner Donna Murphy as an American grandmother remembering her days as a star in European Yiddish theatre and film, op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Lynn Nottage's new comedy By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is still in previews at Second Stage Theatre, but its Off-Broadway run is being extended by one week, now to May 29.
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