Tuesday, January 29, 2013
After resting from a bout with bronchitis Jan. 22-28, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow is expected to again take the stage of the St. James Theatre Jan. 29, resuming his engagement of Manilow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2013
Airswimming, the 1997 play by Charlotte Jones — known for Humble Boy and The Woman in White — gets two extra weeks, now to Feb. 17, in its U.S. premiere by Irish Repertory Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:22PM[SHARE]Casting for the Broadway world premiere of Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg's new adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's will include Suzanne Bertish, Murphy Guy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PM[SHARE]An ailing Valerie Harper has stepped down from the national tour of Looped, Matthew Lombardo's Broadway comedy for which she was a 2010 Best Actress Tony Award nominee, to be replaced by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee John Cariani (Fiddler on the Roof) will play detective Ellery Queen in a reading of Joseph Goodrich's play Calamity Town, inspired by Queen's 1942 mystery novel, J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]Producers of the Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? have announced that the critically praised production will end its run March 3, three weeks prior …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AM[SHARE]PS Classics artists who are heard on two different releases that feature the music of Broadway composer Jerome Kern will appear 5 PM Jan. 28 at Barnes & Noble's Upper East Side locat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 27, 2013
Broadway Bares: Winter Burlesque, the steamy theatrical striptease show that benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, gets two performances, at 9 and 11 PM, Jan. 27 in midtown Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 26, 2013
A milestone previously unthinkable in American theatre becomes a reality on Jan. 26 when a Broadway show, The Phantom of the Opera, celebrates its 25th anniversary. A special curtain-call ev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Mint Theater Company, which discovers forgotten plays about the beginning of modern life and holds them up to the light, launches the first resident American production of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 25, 2013
Bill Pullman of TV's "1600 Penn" and Broadway's The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? and Oleanna, will step into the role of the worried husband, Ian, in the final month of the Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]Nominations for the 37th Annual Carbonell Awards, representing excellence in southeast Florida theatre for the 2012 calendar year, were announced Jan. 25. Resident productions of The Music M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]Broadway's new production of The Heiress will end its limited engagement with the 7 PM Saturday, Feb. 9 performance rather than Feb. 10, to enable Jessica Chastain, who plays the title c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]The Jerome Robbins Foundation announced dancer-actress Chita Rivera, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director-producer Harold Prince — who worked with Robbins on West Side Story…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM[SHARE]Sheldon Epps, artistic director of Pasadena Playhouse, will now direct Sleepless in Seattle — The Musical, taking over for the previously announced Lonny Price, whose other commitments…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AM[SHARE]Minita Gandhi, Behzad Dabu, Kamal J. Hans, Arya Daire, Teresa Kuruvila, Owais Ahmed and Debargo Sanyal populate the American premiere of Anupama Chandrasekhar's Disconnect, a drama about…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A nontraditional cast takes on the timeless Thornton Wilder play Our Town, featuring actress Portia as The Stage Manager, in a new 75th-anniversary production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]PS Classics artists who are heard on two different releases that feature the music of Broadway composer Jerome Kern will appear 5 PM Jan. 28 at Barnes & Noble's Upper East Side Locat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2013
To allow for his proper recovery from bronchitis, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow is resting this weekend. The Jan. 24-26 performances of Manilow On Broadway have been postponed to February.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre Company's new production of alumni playwright Lanford Wilson's The Mound Builders, the story of archaeologists, will feature Zachary Booth, Janie Brookshire, David …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre's Company's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, at Broadway's Studio 54, will welcome Andrew Samonsky to the troupe on Feb. 12. He'll play Neville Landless, a role…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM[SHARE]"Come hell or high water," the Wednesday statement read, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow is looking forward to celebrating the Jan. 24 opening night of Manilow On Broadway, his con…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Drury Lane Theatre's new Chicago-area production of Sunset Boulevard plays Jan. 24-March 24. Christine Sherrill is faded silent-film star Norma Desmond and Will Ray is hungry screen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Tom Sturridge, the British stage and film actor whose credits include the films "Being Julia," "Vanity Fair" and "On the Road," will make his Broadway debut in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:33PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Julie Taymor (The Lion King) will direct and longtime collaborator Elliot Goldenthal (The Green Bird) will compose original music for a new fall 2013 production of William …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, struggling with bronchitis, cancelled the Jan. 23 performance of Manilow On Broadway, the concert event boasting "the songs that make the whole world si…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Friends and colleagues of late composer Marvin Hamlisch performed his pop, film and stage hits in a Jan. 21 concert at the McCallum Theater in Palm Desert, CA. David Zippel, Hamlisch's c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PM[SHARE]The world premiere of Liz Flahive's The Madrid — featuring Seth Clayton, Brooke Ashley Laine, Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Edie Falco ("Nurse Jackie"), Tony n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[SHARE]Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, struggling with bronchitis, cancelled the 7 PM Jan. 22 performance of Manilow On Broadway, the concert event boasting "the songs that make the whole wor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]The York Theatre Company is dusting off and giving voice to two short operas, Mardi Gras and The Last Word, with book, lyrics and music by Mildred Kayden, best known for Ionescopade, in a wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]Love Makes the World Go 'Round, a new book musical created from the song catalog of Broadway composer-lyricist Bob Merrill, of Funny Girl, Carnival!, Take Me Along and Sugar fame, gets i…
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