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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2011
A promotional video for the tour of Bring It On: The Musical, which launches this fall, was made public on the website of the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. We snagged it for you.
The new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM[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 scheduled to be read at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PM[SHARE]Artistic director Michael Kahn will direct The Shakespeare Theatre Company's new production of Harold Pinter's enigmatic Old Times, to run May 17-July 3 at STC's Lansburgh Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AM[SHARE]Walnut Street Theatre's new production of Miss Saigon, the Vietnam-era pop musical inspired by Madama Butterfly, will feature Melinda Chua as Kim, Eric Kunze as Chris and Bobby Martino T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AM[SHARE]Asolo Repertory Theatre launches the world premiere of The Innocents, Steven Drukman's play about a gay man's familial relationship with a woman — and the forces that threaten …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Olivier Award-winning actress Lesli Margherita (Zorro the Musical) plays Audrey opposite Brett Ryback's Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, starting April 15 in a production by La Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The noise you hear up Connecticut way may be the sound of tap-dancing, at Goodspeed Opera House. Goodspeed Musicals' new production of the Gershwin-fueled My One and Only begins April 15…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Off-Off-Broadway's The Flea Theater stages the world premiere of Laurel Haines' Future Anxiety, set in a world of depleted resources, April 15-May 26. Artistic director Jim Simpson d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2011
Broadway's Sebastian Arcelus, of Elf and Jersey Boys, will take a more serious — and non-singing — turn this spring, starring in A Time to Kill, Arena Stage's world-premi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PM[SHARE]Broadway's Sebastian Arcelus, of Elf and Jersey Boys, will take a more serious — and non-singing — turn this spring, starring in A Time to Kill, Arena Stage's world-premi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PM[SHARE]Broadway's Nancy Anderson (Wonderful Town, A Class Act) and Matthew Scott (Sondheim on Sondheim, Jersey Boys) will be shoulder to shoulder with Helen Hayes Award winner Sherri L. Edelen …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PM[SHARE]The Broadway cast album of Wonderland, the new musical that reinvents "Alice in Wonderland" for the 21st century, will be released by Masterworks Broadway on May 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning Eugene O'Neill Theater Center named eight plays to be developed this summer at the 2011 National Playwrights Conference (NPC) in Waterford, CT. Tony nominee and Pu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM[SHARE]The dysfunctional family of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County at The Old Globe in San Diego will include Robert Foxworth as gone-missing Beverly Weston, Lois …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]Nominees for the 2011 Elliot Norton Awards, celebrating excellence in resident and visiting theatre in Greater Boston, were announced on April 13. Tours of Hair, Mary Poppins and August: Osa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the La Jolla Playhouse world-premiere production of A Dram of Drummhicit, a supernatural comedy by Arthur Kopit and Anton Dudley, directed by Playhouse artisti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AM[SHARE]Crossroads Theatre Company, the Tony Award-winning resident theatre in New Brunswick, NJ, presents Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, the groundbreaking drama about the aspiration…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]It takes a lot of brass to play Penelope Pennywise in Urinetown, and Tony Award nominee Andrea McArdle — Broadway's original Annie — has just the pipes. She stars in the Conn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Shaw Festival, Canada's institution rooted in the works of George Bernard Shaw, launched a company first on April 13 — a production of the musical My Fair Lady, staged by Ameri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PM[SHARE]The new Broadway production of Cole Porter's shipboard musical comedy Anything Goes, which launched as a limited run through July, will cruise longer than expected — to January 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PM[SHARE]Golden Globe Award nominee Carey Mulligan will be joined by Academy Award nominee Chris Sarandon, Jason Butler Harner and Ben Rosenfield in the American premiere of Ingmar Bergman's Thro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PM[SHARE]The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA) will present its 21st "Simply Shakespeare" reading of The Merry Wives of Windsor on May 9. The starry benefit evening will feature…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]Dustin Lance Black, an Academy Award winner for his 2008 screenplay for "Milk," has been approached to write the screenplay for a film version of the Broadway musical American Idio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]Harry Groener, the three-time Tony nominee of Cats, Crazy for You and 1980's Oklahoma!, as well as many non-musical works, plays the title role in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater product…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award nominee Alison Fraser stars in David Ives' new comedy The School for Lies, inspired by Molière's The Misanthrope, beginning previews April 13 at Classic St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Four-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh will climb the Everest of musical theatre this fall, playing Mama Rose in Gypsy at Bristol Riverside Theatre. The Bucks County, PA, theatre announ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]The Lark Play Development Center announced four playwrights — Joshua Allen, Thomas Bradshaw, Bekah Brunstetter and Andrea Thome — to receive cash awards and professional support …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PM[SHARE]Florida Stage, the West Palm Beach, FL, company devoted to recent and new American works, announced its 2011-12 season, the Equity troupe's 25th. Two-time Tony Award winner Frances Stern…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PM[SHARE]Theatre 20, a new musical theatre company in Toronto, will offer a three-concert series at the Panasonic Theatre in 2011, featuring stage stars Louise Pitre (Mamma Mia!), Colm Wilkinson (Les…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AM[SHARE]Deirdre O'Connor's latest play, Assisted Living, about a pushing-40 woman who is stuck, will get its world premiere in the 2011-12 season of Profiles Theatre in Chicago.
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