Friday, April 1, 2011
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…
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 in European Yiddish theatre, begins a Broadway run…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2011
The Off-Broadway revival of the Depression-era comedy Three Men on a Horse by TACT/The Actors Company Theatre will be extended by seven performances, now to April 23, TACT announced March 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PM[SHARE]Nominations for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced March 31. Laurie Metcalf, Christian Borle, Edie Falco, Joe Mantello, Linda Lavin are am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PM[SHARE]Nominations for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced March 31. Laurie Metcalf, Christian Borle, Edie Falco, Joe Mantello, Linda Lavin are am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM[SHARE]Producer Cameron Mackintosh intends to present a newly imagined international production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, to premiere in England perhaps as early as 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PM[SHARE]Before it flies to its fall world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in California, the musical Finding Neverland will get its latest developmental reading presentation March 31 in Manhattan, Pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PM[SHARE]Those who consider the music of composer Cy Coleman as being synonymous with the energy, heat and sensuality of Manhattan will be pleased that a new revue of his songs — The Best Is Ye…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PM[SHARE]Rogelio Martinez's Wanamaker's Pursuit, a new play with local color, gets a production by Arden Theatre in Philadelphia March 31-May 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Detroit Repertory Theatre gives William Missouri Downs' Forgiving John Lennon — the story of a Somali Muslim woman clashing with two American professors — its world premiere …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, starring Robin Williams as the self-questioning title character who roams a haunted patch of Iraq, circa 2003, opens on Broadway March 31 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Born Yesterday, Garson Kanin's 1940s hit comedy about a rough-edged chorus girl who refines herself in the context of a world of greed and corruption, makes a return to Broadway March 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Dates and cities for the national tour of the Broadway musical The Addams Family were announced on March 30. As previously mentioned, the tour will launch on Sept. 15 at the Mahalia Jackson …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PM[SHARE]The Broadway theatre district's pedestrian plaza in Times Square between 42nd Street and 47th Street will offer food service this summer at the tables and chairs that punctuate the popul…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PM[SHARE]The new Off-Broadway production of Tony Kushner's The Illusion, based on the play by Pierre Corneille, will feature Peter Bartlett, Lois Smith, David Margulies, Sean Dugan, Amanda Quaid,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM[SHARE]The Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) at Shepherd University will present two world premieres in its five-play repertory season July 8-31 in Shepherdstown, WV.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Maria Dizzia, of In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, and Greg Keller, of 33 Variations in Los Angeles, will appear in the world premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's Cradl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Robert Lopez, whose wickedly comic songs with Trey Parker and Matt Stone are currently spicing the acclaimed Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, will go on a softer, gentl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Liberty Smith, the musical comedy about a fictional patriot's encounters with figures from the American Revolution, gallops into Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, opening March 30 fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tomorrow Morning, Laurence Mark Wythe's musical about "coupling and uncoupling," seen in London and Chicago, officially opens in its New York City premiere at The York Theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The Broadway musical [title of show], about a foursome of pals (and a pianist) making a new musical, has been added to the 2011-12 season of Northlight Theatre in Skokie, IL.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PM[SHARE]The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, a new play by Steven Levenson, will get a private staged reading by Roundabout Theatre Company, which produced the playwright's The Language …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PM[SHARE]Complete programming for the Broadway in Chicago 2011-12 subscription series was announced March 29. West Side Story, Come Fly Away and La Cage aux Folles are in the mix, at various venues i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PM[SHARE]Michael Naumann is joining Theatre Development Fund (TDF), the not-for-profit service organization for the performing arts, as managing director.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]Off-Off-Broadway's Target Margin Theater has announced the cast and creative team for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the final production of its 20th anniversary season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company is behind a 29-hour reading of a new original musical called The Distant Bells, featuring Tony Award winner Chita Rivera, famed for West Side Story, Bye Bye Birdie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Maggie Siff of "Mad Men" and Polly Draper of "thirtysomething" star in the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of Jane Anderson's The Escort, a play that "combines t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2011
San Diego Asian American Repertory Theater will conclude its 2010-11 residence at La Jolla Playhouse with a concert version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song, May 12-Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PM[SHARE]John Scoullar, a composer, lyricist, playwright and performer, died on March 25, his partner Bradshaw Smith said. He had been battling skin cancer. He was 61.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PM[SHARE]Kyle Dean Massey and Savannah Wise, who play love interests in the coming Off-Broadway musical comedy Lucky Guy, recorded a song from the score recently, and Playbill.com got first-crack at …
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