Tuesday, April 5, 2011
PlayPenn, Philadelphia's professional new-play development organization, anounced the playwrights and plays selected for its seventh annual New Play Development Conference, running July …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PM[SHARE]Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the Washington, DC, company devoted to contemporary voices, announced a 2011-12 season that includes three world premieres.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]The summer return of Arena Stage's popular fall 2010 revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! will feature the original principal cast members, including E. Faye Butler as Aunt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]When the Sun Shone Brighter, Blasted, Mack and Mabel were winners in production categories at the 35th Annual Carbonell Awards ceremony April 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre's 2011-12 season in Arlington, VA, ambitiously includes five world premieres, including two musicals running in repertory in the fall, artistic d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong returns to the role of St. Jimmy in Broadway's American Idiot on April 5 for the final three weeks of the run, which will end April 24 at the St. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The box office at the Peter Norton Space opens April 5 for the Signature Theatre Company production of Tony Kushner's The Illusion, directed by Michael Mayer. The Off-Broadway staging, b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A studio album of the 1930 score of George and Ira Gershwin's Strike Up the Band, featuring Rebecca Luker, Brent Barrett, Beth Fowler and more, will be released more than 20 years after …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas climbs into his family tree for the staged concert The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, with the New York Philharmonic, Apr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2011
Mariann Mayberry has joined the cast of the world-premiere production of David Greenspan's Go Back to Where You Are, replacing Mary Shultz, who had to leave due to a family emergency.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]Double Time, a new musical about a young white playwright trying to create a new musical comedy about the life of Alabama native Leonard Harper, an African-American Broadway star, will be he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM[SHARE]A quartet billed as "The Buckaroos," made up of Callan Bergmann, Xavier Cano, Wes Hart and Joshua Woodie, was announced as completing the cast of the new Nashville-set Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PM[SHARE]James Snyder of Broadway's Cry-Baby, Tom Lowe of London's Les Miz and Cats and Elizabeth Brackenbury of the pre-Broadway engagements of Vanities and Rock of Ages will appear in the c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:04PM[SHARE]Following an injury sustained during a performance of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark in March, T.V. Carpio, the actress playing supervillain Arachne, returned to that production at Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AM[SHARE]Magic Theatre in San Francisco announced three of the five titles that will appear in its 2011-12 season, which begins in September. Two world premieres are in the mix.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, a new play by Steven Levenson, gets a private staged reading by Roundabout Theatre Company, which produced the playwright's The Language of T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 35th annual San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle
Awards, representing local theatrical excellence in 2010, will be handed out April 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The annual Carbonell Awards, recognizing excellence in South Florida professional theatre, will be given out April 4 in the Amaturo Theater at Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 3, 2011
Center Theatre Group's new production of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, under the direction of Nicholas Martin and featuring Brooks Ashmanskas, Ken Barnett, Zabryna Guevara and Ada…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company's new production of Lanford Wilson's The Hot L Baltimore, featuring Broadway's de'Adre Aziza (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), who sing…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2011
Northwestern University will celebrate its Broadway alumni with a special benefit performance, New York, NU York!, on April 4 at the Hudson Theatre in midtown Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32AM[SHARE]Avenue Q co-songwriter Robert Lopez has another Broadway hit on his hands with the profane, funny, heartfelt new musical The Book of Mormon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Avenue Q co-songwriter Robert Lopez has another Broadway hit on his hands with the profane, funny, heartfelt new musical The Book of Mormon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Jerusalem, the Jez Butterworth play about the indelible inhabitants of a slice of rural England, featuring Tony Award winner Mark Rylance in a performance acclaimed as positively titanic, be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2011
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) artistic director James C. Nicola and managing director William Russo announced three of four titles on the Off-Broadway theatre's 2011-2012 subscriber s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PM[SHARE]Bruce Sabath will join the cast of Transport Group's Off-Broadway production of Hello Again on April 5, for the final week of the show's run to April 10. He will play the role of The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PM[SHARE]Silent Sky, Lauren Gunderson's play about a real-life female astronomer whose research in the early 1900s altered everything we knew about the universe, gets its world premiere at South …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PM[SHARE]The Arena Stage production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined will mark the first time the play will appear in an in-the-round staging. Performances play April 22-June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]Marc Masterson announced programming for his final season of shows as artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville. The Humana Festival of New American Plays will return in winter-sprin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AM[SHARE]The Denver Center Theatre Company will have two world premieres — Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale and Lisa Loomer's Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner — in an 11…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AM[SHARE]White Noise, the new Broadway-aimed rock musical about a controversial band with a taste for white-supremacy content, begins performances in Chicago on April 1. The world-premiere staging is…
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