Monday, May 25, 2015
The critically embraced Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has moved from the frigid Windy City to the more moderate Mid-Atlantic. It be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Bathsheba Doran's Kin, about the connection between a scholar and a personal trainer, begins a world-premiere engagement at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons Feb. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Roundabout Underground launches David West Read's new play, The Dream of the Burning Boy, about a high school tragedy, on Feb. 25. The Off-Broadway staging features Reed Birney, Josh Caras, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Max Wilk, a novelist, a nonfiction chronicler of show business subjects, playwright, screenwriter -- and a dramaturg for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Cen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tom Hooper, the Oscar-nominated director of "The King's Speech," has been offered to direct the film version of the musical Les Miserables, according to the "24 Frames" blog in the Los Angel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner James Earl Jones has been picked to play the former President of the United States in the upcoming Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for Liberty Smith, the musical comedy about a fictional patriot's encounters with figures from the American Revolution. Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, will prod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Following in the tradition of recent Playbill magazine features in which directors of Broadway shows interviewed their famous collaborators, Playbill Video debuts "Director's Cut" this week.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Brooks Ashmanskas, Ken Barnett, Zabryna Guevara and Adam Rothenberg will star in Center Theatre Group's new production of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, now in rehearsal under the direction of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Obie Award winner Lisa Banes, Obie nominee Tim Hopper and Tony Award nominee Stephen Bogardus are among the players who will join David Greenspan in the world premiere of his comedy Go Back …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Christian Borle, a Tony Award nominee for Legally Blonde, has snagged the central role of a composer in the NBC pilot for "Smash," a proposed series about the making of a Broadway musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]In anticipation of the March 1 release of "Now," the new album that reunites singer-actress Linda Eder with Broadway and pop songwriter Frank Wildhorn, Sony Masterworks offered Playbill Vide…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The nonfiction book "Nine Lives," a biography of nine New Orleans residents and their relationship with the fabled city, has inspired a song cycle and forthcoming album, getting exposure Feb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The 35th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville begins Feb. 27 with the first preview of the world premiere of Anne Washburn's A Devil at Noon, directed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]They've had the time of their lives, but it's time to say goodbye. Billie Joe Armstrong and original cast members John Gallagher, Jr. and Michael Esper exit Broadway's American Idiot after t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Frank Wood, Tony nominees Terry Beaver and Michael McGrath, plus Patricia Hodges, will join the previously announced Jim Belushi, Nina Arianda and Tony winner Robert Sean L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's Ernst C. Stiefel "7@7" Reading Series, testing new works in front of the public, begins Feb. 28 with Reverberation, a new play by Matthew Lopez, who penned MTC's cur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Michael Kuchwara, the respected late theatre critic for the Associated Press, will be celebrated by the Broadway showfolk that he wrote about in a benefit on Feb. 28, which would have been h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Davey Havok, the lead singer of the rock band AFI, steps into the role of St. Jimmy in Broadway's American Idiot starting March 1. He's one of several new leads at the St. James Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Nominations for the 2011 Helen Hayes Awards, representing excellence in the Washington, DC-area theatre community, were announced Feb. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]After exploring the idea of extending its sold-out and acclaimed production of Three Sisters, the leaders of Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company will rest on their success. The run will end…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The stars of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark will appear on CBS's "The Early Show" the morning of March 1 in anticipation of their appearance that night on "The Late Show."
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]David Garrison, a Tony Award nominee for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, completes the cast of Lynn Nottage's new play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, which gets its world premiere …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Rob McClure, late of Avenue Q, will sing the Frank Loesser classic "Once in Love With Amy" as romantic lead Charley in the March 17-20 City Center Encores! concert of Where's Charley?
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The playwright of Shrek the Musical, Fuddy Meers and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole drew on his old neighborhood to write Broadway's Good People.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The new adaptation of the 1978 Broadway musical Working, inspired by Studs Terkel's best-selling collection of oral histories about vocations, opens in Chicago March 2 following previews fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Leaders of Centerstage, Baltimore's resident Equity theatre company, announced that they will welcome British playwright, director, actor, singer and broadcaster Kwame Kwei-Armah as the thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Nominees for the 35th annual San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle
Awards, representing local theatrical excellence in 2010, were announced Feb. 28. The ceremony will be held 7…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Lady Bracknell is ready for her close-up. Roundabout Theatre Company's extended Broadway production of The Importance of Being Earnest will be filmed in high-definition for future screenings…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The leaders of Northlight Theatre in Skokie, IL, announced their 2011-12 season, which will feature the previously announced Stephen Schwartz musical Snapshots.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The revised revival of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, once aimed for Off-Broadway, has been bumped to Broadway and will star Tony Award nominee Harry Connick, Jr.
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