Saturday, April 23, 2011
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2011
Long Story Short, comic-writer Colin Quinn's one-man history of the world, which had a Broadway run in 2010-11, will resurface June 28-July 10 as a presentation of Philadelphia Theatre C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]Sweet Bye and Bye, a forgotten 1946 musical by Vernon Duke and Ogden Nash, will get a world-premiere studio recording starring Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie. PS Classics, which has release…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Itamar Moses' Completeness, a romantic comedy about the budding relationship between a pair of science geeks, opens April 22 in a world-premiere production by South Coast Rep in Costa Me…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new Arena Stage production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined, beginning April 22, marks the first time the play is appearing in an in-the-round staging. Perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2011
Gary Cole, Edi Gathegi, Mary Beth Fisher and Kathryn Joosten are among cast members in the Geffen Playhouse production of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, running May …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PM[SHARE]Bruce Sabath, of the recent Off-Broadway production of Hello Again, will play Julius Caesar, replacing Jim Walton, in The Sphinx Winx, a new musical comedy look at Caesar, Cleopatra and Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]American Theater Company's 27th season in Chicago will feature a world premiere dance-theatre piece called Escape, melding modern dance with the words of Tennessee Williams.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]The U.S. tours of the Broadway musical Fela! and the Gate Theatre production of Krapp's Last Tape starring John Hurt will begin this fall on the stages of the Shakespeare Theatre Company…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]Irish Repertory Theatre revives Dion Boucicault's ripe 19th-century comic melodrama The Shaughraun on the company's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage starting April 21. Artistic direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Jerusalem, British playwright Jez Butterworth's tragicomic play about the indelible inhabitants of a slice of rural England, featuring Tony Award winner Mark Rylance in a performance acc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
The world premiere of Fish Men, Puerto Rican playwright Cándido Tirado's play about "chess hustlers" making their moves in an urban park, will play Chicago's Goodman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00PM[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 01:26PM[SHARE]Patti Murin will play the title role in Lysistrata Jones, the new musical that puts an Ancient Greek classic on a basketball court — literally. The Transport Group Theatre Company'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]About Face Theatre, the Chicago company devoted to plays related to gender and sexual identity, announced three titles for its 2011-12 season, which includes a production of the musical Rent.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AM[SHARE]Michael Stahl-David, of the horror film "Cloverfield," stars as an actor who gets his big break in Hollywood in the Vineyard Theatre's world-premiere production of Christopher …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The New Victory Theater's fall 2011 season of shows aimed at young people — in the heart of the Times Square theatre district — will launch Oct. 1 with the New York City prem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM[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 04:00PM[SHARE]The lads of Broadway's The Importance of Being Earnest — namely Santino Fontana and David Furr — have created a video series exclusively for Playbill, asking the question: Wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PM[SHARE]Tracie Bennett's acclaimed London turn as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow will make its U.S. debut in January 2012 as part of the new season of the Guthrie Theater. It will then move …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tracie Bennett's acclaimed London turn as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow will make its U.S. debut in January 2012 as part of the new season of the Guthrie Theater. The 2011-12 slate …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AM[SHARE]High, Matthew Lombardo's new 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 ab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2011
Julie Andrews and Emma Walton's "The Great American Mousical," the 2006 children's book about a community of theatrical mice living beneath Broadway, is being developed as …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company (CSC) will offer a one-night-only staged reading of Tennessee Williams' The Two Character Play, starring Tony Award winner Alan Cumming and Tony …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PM[SHARE]Despite $450,000 in recent donations, the financially beleaguered Intiman Theatre in Seattle is shutting its doors in an effort to be prudent and plan for the future, according to a statemen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Judith Ivey will direct "Saturday Night Live" veteran Darrell Hammond as Truman Capote in Jay Presson Allen's one-man play, Tru, in the summer season of Bay Street Theatre in S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM[SHARE]The 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, recognizing an outstanding stage work that premiered during the 2010 calendar year, will be announced 3 PM April 18 at Columbia University. Finalists are a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2011
James Snyder of Broadway's Cry-Baby, Tom Lowe of London's Les Miz and Cats and Elizabeth Brackenbury of the pre-New York engagements of Vanities and Rock of Ages appear in the c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Itamar Moses' Completeness, a romantic comedy about the budding relationship between a pair of science geeks, gets its world premiere April 17-May 8 at South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wonderland, the new musical that reinvents "Alice in Wonderland" for the 21st century, opens on Broadway April 17 following previews from March 21 at the Marquis Theatre. Janet Dac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2011
Director Gary Griffin's new production of the King Arthur-inspired musical Camelot begins previews at the Stratford Festival in Ontario on April 16, marking the first performance of the …
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