Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Marriott Theatre's Now and Forever, a theatrical exploration of the lush songs of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — featuring Linda Balgord, a veteran of Cats, S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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 09:24PM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated director Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) will direct actress Mickey Sumner in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PM[SHARE]Jordan Roth, president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns and operates five theatres — including those housing The Book of Mormon and Jersey Boys — is now majority shareholder in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]The New York City premiere of Rolin Jones' The Jammer — his 1950s-set play about roller derby — opens Jan. 22 following previews from Jan. 9 at Atlantic Theater Company's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2013
The Toronto engagement of The Wizard of Oz, a new production based on the beloved MGM film with new music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, has extended its run to June 2 at the Ed Mirvish Theatre.&nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]Sierra Boggess, who originated the role of Christine in London's Love Never Dies, the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, joins the Broadway company of Pha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Stephen Wallem, the 6-foot-3-inch actor who plays the sweet-natured nurse Thor on TV's "Nurse Jackie," moonlights as a cabaret singer on Jan. 21 at Birdland, singing the songs …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The TV musical soap opera "Smash" returns for a second season Feb. 5 with a two-hour episode that features new characters and twists, under the guidance of new "showrunner" and executive pro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 20, 2013
Women's Project Theater's world premiere of Laura Marks' dark comedy Bethany, starring America Ferrera, Emily Ackerman, Kristin Griffith, Ken Marks, Tobias Segal and Myra Lucreti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sharks in a real-estate office, plays its final performance at the Gerald Schoenfe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 19, 2013
Goodspeed Musicals will present Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook, an intimate six-character musical that borrows from the catalog of Stephen Schwartz songs, this fall at the Norma Terris Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Friday, January 18, 2013
Despite an ongoing strike by the IATSE stagehands union Local 8, the first preview performances of Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's drama a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PM[SHARE]The Gish Prize Trust announced on Jan. 18 that playwright, actress, author and educator Anna Deavere Smith has been selected to receive the 19th annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, given …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]The Protagonists, the new musical about former super-heroes reuniting in middle-age, will get a starry industry reading in Manhattan Jan. 24-25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, the man who writes the songs that make the whole world sing, as his lyric goes, moves to Broadway starting Jan. 18, when Manilow On Broadway — his…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2013
Stephen Barker Turner and Babak Tafti will appear in the New York City premiere of Rajiv Joseph's The North Pool, a drama about tension between a high school principal and a Middle-Easte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PM[SHARE]Philadelphia Theatre Company's union stagehands — members of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 8 — are on strike at the not-for-profit reside…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PM[SHARE]A new Canadian company of the 25th-anniversary production of Les Misérables — reflecting scenic and musical changes already seen in a U.K. and U.S. tour — is expected to s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's acclaimed Broadway premiere of Sharr White's The Other Place, starring Laurie Metcalf as a medical professional struck with an ailment, will get one extra we…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AM[SHARE]Stephen Wallem, the 6-foot-3-inch actor who plays the sweet-natured nurse Thor on TV's "Nurse Jackie," will moonlight as a cabaret singer on Jan. 21 at Birdland, singing the songs of Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Director Nicholas Martin's new staging of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, starring Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard as Prof. Henry Higgins and Charlotte Parry as Eliza, opens J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Arena Stage in Washington, DC, has not yet revealed its full 2013-14 programming at its lavish Mead Center for American Theater, but a tease of two of the coming projects has surfaced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PM[SHARE]Multidisciplinary theatre-maker Martha Clarke and Brooklyn playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins have joined Signature Theatre Company's Residency Five program, which provides five-year resi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PM[SHARE]Second Stage Theatre's 2012-13 season will climax this summer with the New York City premiere of Nobody Loves You, the new Gaby Alter-Itamar Moses musical that looks at the pitfalls of b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes' "Elliot Trilogy" will be seen in a marathon made up of two readings — Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue and The Happiest So…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Marriott Theatre's Now and Forever, a theatrical exploration of the lush songs of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — featuring Linda Balgord, a veteran of Cats, S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Joe Calarco's popular all-male Shakespeare's R&J, refracting Romeo and Juliet through the story of four boys at a boarding school where the classic is banned, has been revised by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PM[SHARE]Prince Music Theater, the Philadelphia venue that seemed a new hope for American musicals when it opened its doors in 1999 —but has been largely dormant in recent years — emerged…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PM[SHARE]Canadian dramatist George F. Walker gets a major American spotlight Feb. 28-March 24 with the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) world premiere of his dark comedy Dead Metaphor. Directed…
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