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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PM[SHARE]A complaint on behalf of artists living and dead has been filed against the producers of the new Broadway musical Baby It's You!, the law firm Baker Hostetler announced on April 27, the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company will present Second City alumnus and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Jeff Garlin in No Sugar Added: An Evening of Stand-Up Comedy, July 13-24, in Steppenwol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM[SHARE]Camp Broadway, the summer program for 10-to-17-year-old kids who are passionate about the theatre, has a permanent home at Pearl Studios NYC. The Manhattan studio rental facility is now the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM[SHARE]Baby It's You!, the story of a New Jersey housewife who launched the 1960s girl-group The Shirelles, opens on Broadway April 27 following previews from March 26 at the Broadhurst Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Chicago star Rebecca Finnegan joins the cast of the new revised revival of the 1970s musical Working on April 26 at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place in Chicago. She plays Woman 3,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will return to Broadway in October 2012 in an acclaimed new production seen in 2010-11 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and Arena Stag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company will honor American actor, writer, director and CSC veteran Austin Pendleton at its annual benefit gala May 23 at Bridgewaters at South Street Seaport in Manhattan. The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PM[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 12:11PM[SHARE]The 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards ceremony on May 1 at NYU's Skirball Center will have a theme of "Off-Broadway Rocks!," featuring performances by Everett Bradley, Orfeh, The Bett…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]The original cast recording of the new Broadway musical Baby It's You! was recorded between April 17-25 and will be released in stores and digitally June 14 by Universal Music Group'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AM[SHARE]Sony's Masterworks Broadway label continues to dip into its vast musical theatre vault, releasing three more "classic cast recordings previously unavailable in the CD era" on A…
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 starting April 26 at Vi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2011
The 2011 Helen Hayes Awards, celebrating excellence in Washington, DC-area professional theatre, were handed out April 25 at the Warner Theatre. David Ives' The Liar, Arena Stage's O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's not-for-profit Playwrights Horizons, the birthplace of Sunday in the Park With George, Driving Miss Daisy and this year's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]The life-loving friends, family and lovers in the new musical Death Takes a Holiday will include British actor Julian Ovenden as the grim reaper himself, plus Broadway's Jill Paice as hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PM[SHARE]Gloucester Stage's summer 2011 season in Gloucester, MA, will include the world premiere of Richard Vetere's Last Day, and a revised version of founding artistic director Israel Horo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PM[SHARE]The Vineyard Theatre has extended the world-premiere production of Christopher Shinn's Picked an additional week through May 22 Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]The League of Chicago Theatres named The New Colony as the recipient of the 2011 Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theater Award, which comes with a $5,000 prize.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]The life-loving friends, family and lovers in the new musical Death Takes a Holiday will include British actor Julian Ovenden as the grim reaper himself, plus Broadway's Jill Paice as hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]Additional cities have been announced for the national tour of the Tony Award-nominated Green Day musical American Idiot, which will launch Dec. 28 in Toronto.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AM[SHARE]The 2011 Helen Hayes Awards ceremony, celebrating excellence in Washington, DC-area professional theatre, will be held 8 PM April 25 at The Warner Theatre and JW Marriott Hotel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2011
Freckleface Strawberry, the Off-Broadway family musical based on the children's book character, goes on hiatus at New World Stages after the April 24 performance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The gang at Broadway's American Idiot packs up its bongs and its bus tickets and its dogtags on April 24, when the musical inspired by the Green Day punk album closes at the St. James Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Born Yesterday, Garson Kanin's 1940s hit comedy about a rough-edged chorus girl named Billie Dawn, who refines herself in the context of a world of politics, greed and corruption, opens …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]High, Matthew Lombardo's play about an addict, an enabler and a sponsor — starring Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner as a flinty Catholic nun who takes a young crystal-meth abuser…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, the historic play documenting the American AIDS crisis in the mid 1980's, concludes i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 23, 2011
American Theater Company in Chicago revives the internationally popular musical Grease as few have seen it before. A production dubbed The Original Grease — the R-rated original 1971 v…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, CA, introduces its audiences to the roots and branches of American folk music with the world premiere of Lonesome Traveler, opening April 23 following pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]British actor Adam Godley, whose "gypsy" is revealed in the Broadway revival of Anything Goes, talks about playing light comedy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tomorrow Morning, Laurence Mark Wythe's musical about "coupling and uncoupling," seen in London and Chicago, concludes its New York City run at The York Theatre Company's h…
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