Monday, March 28, 2011
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Irish Repertory Theatre will revive Dion Boucicault's ripe 19th-century comic melodrama The Shaughraun on the company's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage starting April 21. Artistic d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM[SHARE]Our Sweet Life by the Pacific Ocean, Houshang Touzie's play about a modern Iranian family, gets a Manhattan reading starring the actor-playwright and his Oscar-nominated wife 7 PM March …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2011
Sleeping Beauty Wakes, the new musical from the creators of the pop-rock holiday musical Striking 12, has been added to the 2011-12 season of La Jolla Playhouse in California.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06PM[SHARE]Ayub Khan-Din's Rafta, Rafta…, winner of the 2008 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy for its acclaimed run at The National Theatre in London, opens March 27 in a new American produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 26, 2011
Baby It's You!, the story of a New Jersey housewife who launched the 1960s girl-group The Shirelles, gets its first Broadway preview 8 PM March 26 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Tony Award w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2011
Roundabout Theatre Company is adding one week to the run of The Dream of the Burning Boy, a new play by David West Read, at the 62-seat Black Box Theatre that houses plays in the Roundabout …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM[SHARE]Rosemary Jenkinson's The Winners, a dark comedy about winning the lottery, gets a free public reading in Irish Repertory Theatre's New Works Reading Series March 25 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[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]Thursday, March 24, 2011
The first major New York City revival of Michael John LaChiusa's Hello Again, the musical that follows the sexual encounters of various lovers, has extended its run.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:15PM[SHARE]Playwrights Horizons, the resident theatre company devoted to new and recent plays, has announced five of six titles for its 2011-12 season. The world premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15PM[SHARE]Freckleface Strawberry, the Off-Broadway family musical based on the children's book character, will go on hiatus at New World Stages after the April 24 performance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]Due to popular demand, and following solid reviews, Peter and the Starcatcher, the adaptation of the novel that tells the origin of Peter Pan, has been extended again by New York Theatre Wor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PM[SHARE]Will Manhattan Theatre Club mount Lynn Nottage's Ruined — a Pulitzer Prize winner that had a long MTC run Off-Broadway in 2008-09 — on Broadway?
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PM[SHARE]The first full season of plays chosen by new artistic director David Muse at The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, has been revealed. The authors range from British writer Alan Bennett to Ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tarragon Theatre, the resident Toronto theatre with a bent for Canadian plays, as well as international titles, announced its 2011-12 season. The playwrights on parade will include Sarah Ruh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]Purple Rose Theatre, the Michigan Equity theatre founded by Jeff Daniels and devoted to new works by resident writers, presents the world premiere of Carey Crim's bittersweet comedy Some…
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 will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Laughing Liberally: This Ain't No Tea Party, an evening of comedy with music and multi-media presentations, opens Off-Broadway March 24 following previews from March 14 at the Midtown Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Three Men on a Horse, John Cecil Holm and George Abbott's 1935 comedy about gamblers who take advantage of a greeting-card writer with a knack for picking winning ponies, opens March 24 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Actor-playwright David Greenspan plays a chorus boy from the theatre of Ancient Greece in the world premiere of his comedy, Go Back to Where You Are, starting previews March 24 at Playwright…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The Tony Award-winning Chicago Shakespeare Theatre announced that Timon of Athens starring Tony winner Ian McDiarmid, and a new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, among other works…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PM[SHARE]After critics embraced the complexity of the relationships in Bathsheba Doran's Kin, Playwrights Horizons added a two-week extension of the rueful, humorous drama, now to April 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM[SHARE]Husband and wife David Hess and Joan Hess respectively play Richard Hannay and the women in his life in the Philadelphia premiere of the Hitchcockian comedy The 39 Steps, opening March 23 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]Helen Stenborg, an Obie Award-winning stage and film actress and long-time spouse of the late Tony Award-winning actor Barnard Hughes, died on March 22 at her Manhattan apartment, her family…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]Casting is set for Itamar Moses' Completeness, a romantic comedy about the budding relationship between a pair of science geeks, getting its world premiere April 17-May 8 at South Coast …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]Goodspeed Musicals' spring production of Cutman: a boxing musical, the story of a young Jewish boxer pulled between faith and stardom in the ring, will feature Jersey Boys veteran Cory G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[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, for a March 23 firs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Roundabout Underground opens David West Read's new play, The Dream of the Burning Boy, about a high school tragedy, on March 23 following previews from Feb. 25. The Off-Broadway staging …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Brooks Ashmanskas, Ken Barnett, Zabryna Guevara and Adam Rothenbergl star in Center Theatre Group's new production of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, under the direction of Nicholas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2011
T.V. Carpio, the actress playing supervillain Arachne in Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, will be out of the show until early April due to an injury sustained in a performance.
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