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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, who is currently performing the role of Catherine Sloper in the Broadway revival of The Heiress, has been nominated for a Golden Globe, Critic's C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, returns Jan. 7 following a summer 2012 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 6, 2013
The new Sheryl Crow-Barry Levinson musical Diner, which is based on the movie of the same name and had been scheduled to open on Broadway April 10, has been delayed until the fall, according…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22PM[SHARE]Friday, January 4, 2013
Casting has been announced for the American premiere of the Broadway-aimed musical Backbeat, about the birth of the Beatles, to begin Jan. 20 at the Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PM[SHARE]James Van Der Beek, best known for his starring roles on "Dawson's Creek" and "Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23," will star in the American premiere of Australia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PM[SHARE]Ruy Iskander and Yuekun Wu are at the center of David Henry Hwang's The Dance and the Railroad, the play about Chinese workers forging the American Transcontinental Railroad, in a new Of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PM[SHARE]Love Makes the World Go 'Round, a new musical created from the song catalog of Broadway composer-lyricist Bob Merrill, of Funny Girl, Carnival!, Take Me Along and Sugar fame, will get it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2013
Stephen Bogardus, Jeffry Denman, Will Reynolds and more will join the previously announced Melissa Errico, Judy Kuhn and Ryan Silverman for the new Off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondhei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The once and future Broadway producers of Rebecca, The Musical have been granted an extension of the rights to stage the show in New York City, lead producer Ben Sprecher told Playbill.com o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]Walnut Street Theatre's 2013-14 mainstage season in Philadelphia will include new productions of the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, plus Arsenic and Old Lace, Other Desert Ci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PM[SHARE]The 50th-anniversary production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which opened to critical raves Oct. 13, 2012, will get an additional month of performances, now pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company is extending the run of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson one final time, now to Jan. 20. It had previously been extended three times, to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AM[SHARE]Sekou Laidlow will play Dr. King and Amirah Vann will play the mysterious Camae in Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, her play that imagines …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]Irish Repertory Theatre's fall 2012 production of Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City — the 1974 play about political unrest in Ireland — begins a three…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 1, 2013
The national tour of Flashdance — The Musical, the fairy tale of a lady steelworker who dreams of legit dance while moonlighting as an exotic dancer, begins Jan. 1 in Pittsburgh, where…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 29, 2012
British producer Cameron Mackintosh, who shepherded the musical Les Misérables from its French album/arena roots to the London, Broadway and international stage, talks about the new m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 27, 2012
Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, who is currently performing the role of Catherine Sloper in the Broadway revival of The Heiress, has been nominated for a Golden Globe, Critic's C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Triad Stage, the ambitious resident Equity theatre in downtown Greensboro, NC, is racing to meet a Dec. 31 fundraising goal that would complete a $250,000 campaign that began Dec. 6 and has …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Tickets for the Broadway revival of Pump Boys and Dinettes go on sale exclusively to MasterCard cardholders beginning Dec. 26 through Jan. 8, 2013. This presale will be followed by a Gilt Ci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]Monday, December 24, 2012
No more window shopping. Tickets for the new Broadway play Breakfast at Tiffany's — about the New York City dreamer Holly Golightly, who loiters outside of jeweler Tiffany & Co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2012
Director Nicholas Martin's new staging of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion starring the previously announced Robert Sean Leonard as Prof. Henry Higgins will also star Charlotte Parry …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2012
A multiracial, nontraditional cast will take on the timeless Thornton Wilder play Our Town, featuring actress Portia as The Stage Manager, in a new 75th-anniversary production of the Pulitze…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PM[SHARE]The world-premiere run of Amy Herzog's critically acclaimed drama The Great God Pan, about a Brooklyn journalist recovering memories of possible past sexual abuse, will get a second exte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM[SHARE]PS Classics, the two-time 2012 Grammy Award nominee for its cast albums of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess and Follies, announced track listing for its Jan. 29, 2013, release of "I Go…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[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]Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Drury Lane Theatre's new Chicago-area production of Sunset Boulevard Jan. 24-March 24, 2013, will feature Christine Sherrill as Norma Desmond and Will Ray as Joe Gillis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]The world premiere of Marriott Theatre's Now and Forever, a theatrical exploration of the lush songs of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, will feature Linda Balgord — a veteran of Cats…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sharks in a real-estate office that officially opened Dec. 8 at the Gerald Schoenfeld The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Big Fish, the new musical with songs by Andrew Lippa and starring two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, will play its world-premiere pre-Broadway tryout April 2-May 5, 2013, at the Or…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PM[SHARE]The Writer's Room, a new collaboration between Manhattan Theatre Club and Ars Nova to "commission, develop and support playwrights in the process of creating new work for the stage,…
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