Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]The national tour of Matthew Lombardo's Looped, about a fictional encounter between actress Tallulah Bankhead and a young recording editor, will kick off Feb. 26 in Fort Lauderdale rathe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2013
The national tour of Matthew Lombardo's Looped, about a fictional encounter between actress Tallulah Bankhead and a young recording engineer, will play Boston's Majestic Theatre Apri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PM[SHARE]Jo Bonney, a frequent creative partner of playwright Neil LaBute, will direct the writer's new adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles thi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM[SHARE]Tickets for the Broadway revival of Pump Boys and Dinettes go on sale to the general public beginning Jan. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]Matt Polk, the theatrical press agent who has worked on high-profile stage productions as part of the team at Boneau/Bryan-Brown for the past 15 years, opens his own shop — Polk & …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 13, 2013
Airswimming, the 1997 play by Charlotte Jones — known for Humble Boy and The Woman in White — gets its U.S. premiere by Irish Repertory Theatre and Fallen Angel Theatre Company i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new Canadian production of London's popular The Wizard of Oz, featuring the classic movie score punctuated with new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and featuring Danielle …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Picnic, William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town women yearning for what's beyond, is back on Broadway, officially opening Jan. 13 in a Roundabout Theatre Company pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 12, 2013
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, launche…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 11, 2013
Alex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten will star in The Flick, Annie Baker's new Off-Broadway play that reunites her with director Sam Gold. Playwrights Horizon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PM[SHARE]Mark St. Germain's two-character play Freud's Last Session begins a Los Angeles run Jan. 11 with its starriest cast yet — two-time Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch as Sigmund…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]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]Thursday, January 10, 2013
There are more opportunities to see Water By the Spoonful in New York City. Second Stage Theatre announced a two-week extension of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, now playing to Feb. 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PM[SHARE]Des McAnuff's new Stratford Festival staging of the rock musical Tommy, which he helped create for its Broadway life, will star Robert Markus as the gifted title character, Paul Nolan as…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Obie Award-winning The Play Company launches the U.S. premiere of Working On a Special Day, a stage version of the Oscar-nominated Ettore Scola film about Hitler's vis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AM[SHARE]The troupers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of the best-reviewed musicals of the 2012-13 Broadway season, and now extended to March 10, will welcome Erin Davie to the fold beginning Feb.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Some of the best-known American songs from theatre, pop and movies are being heard Off-Broadway in the New York City premiere of The Wonderful Wizard of Song: The Music of Harold Arlen, a ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a medical researcher whose health, homelife and workplace are shaken, featuring Laurie Metcalf, reprising he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre will explore the Itamar Moses-Gaby Alter musical Nobody Loves You, a musical comedy about the pitfalls of reality-TV dating show, in a week-long readi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PM[SHARE]Two weeks have been added to Manilow On Broadway, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow's new concert at the St. James Theatre. The man who writes the songs that make the whole world sing, as …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PM[SHARE]The 9 PM Jan. 27 performance of Broadway Bares: Winter Burlesque, the evening of steamy theatrical striptease that benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, is nearly sold out, prompting t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PM[SHARE]Airswimming, the 1997 play by Charlotte Jones — known for Humble Boy and The Woman in White — gets its U.S. premiere by Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan beginning Jan. 9. Joh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The New York City premiere of Rolin Jones' The Jammer — his 1950s-set play about roller derby — begins spinning Jan. 9 at Atlantic Theater Company's Atlantic Stage 2. Pat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Seth Clayton and Brooke Ashley Laine will join the previously announced Edie Falco, Tony Award nominee John Ellison Conlee (Murder Ballad), Drama Desk Award winner Heidi Schreck (Circle Mirr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]Marsha Mason, Mary Steenburgen and Kristen Vangsness are among the women performing in a California staged reading of Ellen Simon's Aunt Stossie's Coming for Five Days as part of The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PM[SHARE]James Barbour and Jenny Powers will star in Irish Repertory Theatre's new production of Donnybrook!, the Johnny Burke-scored 1961 Broadway musical about the code of masculinity in Irelan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]Marin Ireland, Chip Zien, Adam Rapp, Richard Kind, Brenda Wehle, Reg Rogers and more will join the previously announced Bobby Cannavale in Clifford Odets' drama of Hollywood secrets, The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:59AM[SHARE]The first season of the Emmy Award-winning musical drama series "Smash" — created by Broadway's Theresa Rebeck, with songs by Tony Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Armando Riesco, Liza Colon-Zayas and Zabryna Guevara, who appeared in the 2011 Hartford Stage world premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Water by the Spo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2013
Tony Award nominee Brad Oscar will step into the role of lovable mobster Cookie McGee in the Broadway production of the Tony Award-nominated Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It,&nbs…
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