Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The 1983 film A Christmas Story, based on Jean Shepherd's nostalgic and comedic holiday tale of American Christmases past, is re-wrapped as a new Broadway musical by songwriters Benj Pas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]Stage and screen star John C. McGinley, who returns to Broadway in the role of Dave Moss in the current revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2012
The film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables will hit theatres in a wide release Dec. 25. In anticipation of the big premiere, Playbill.com looks back at the a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]The producers of the coming national tour of Flashdance — The Musical revealed complete casting on Nov. 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick hosted the Williamstown Theatre Festival's Nov. 18 benefit, honoring late writer-director Abe Burrows, at the Edison Ballroom. David Hyde Pierce, Stev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PM[SHARE]The multiple Tony Award-winning musical The Lion King, which celebrated 15 years on Broadway Nov. 13, offered a special performance to benefit The Actors Fund Nov. 18 at 6:30 PM at the Minsk…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PM[SHARE]The Twenty-Seventh Man, the world-premiere stage production adapted from author Nathan Englander's short story of the same title, officially opened Off-Broadway Nov. 18 at the Public The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster, Arielle Jacobs and Alexandra Silber inhabit Inner Voices, a collection of three solo musicals, which officially opened Off-Broadway Nov. 18 after previ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AM[SHARE]Forever Dusty, a new musical by Kirsten Holly Smith and Jonathan Vankin about the life of late singer Dusty Springfield, officially opened at Off-Broadway's New World Stages Nov. 18 foll…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2012
Edna Ferber's 1952 novel Giant, capturing a moment in American history as the landscape of Texas changed from open cattle country to a skyline studded with oil derricks, is transformed i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]The original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along officially opened on Nov. 16, 1981. Here, we take a look back at that Merrily, some subsequ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's Murder Ballad, a new rock musical that launches the company's new Studio at Stage II Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series, opened Nov. 15 following prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PM[SHARE]Sex, drugs, religion, celebrity, music and romance are swirled together in the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, written by Kathie Lee Gifford, Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]Sex, drugs, religion, celebrity, music and romance are swirled together in the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, written by Kathie Lee Gifford, Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2012
Sex, drugs, religion, celebrity, music and romance are swirled together in the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, written by Kathie Lee Gifford, Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:17PM[SHARE]Young actresses Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro will share the title role in the Broadway production of Matilda The Musical, producers announced Nov. 15. The Oli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Tyne Daly, Jamie deRoy and Ted Snowdon were honored during Primary Stages' Nov. 14 gala at the Edison Ballroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PM[SHARE]Chaplin star Rob McClure was honored Nov. 14 with the unveiling of a caricature to adorn the walls of the famed eatery Sardi's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PM[SHARE]Jordan Gelber and Leslie Kritzer co-star in the Broadway return of Elf, the holiday musical comedy based on the 2003 film of the same title about an orphaned human who thinks he's one of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]Tony Award recipient Ben Davis, Edward Hibbert, Anthony Fedorov and Elena Shaddow are among the cast of Paper Mill Playhouse's production of The Sound of Music, which will begin performa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]The Performers, the new comedy by David West Read, officially opened Nov. 14 following previews that began Oct. 23 at the Longacre Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Theresa Rebeck's black comedy Dead Accounts, starring Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz as a prodigal son who returns home to his Ohio family – and Katie Holmes as the skeptical s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM[SHARE]The world premiere of author Nathan Englander's The Twenty-Seventh Man, adapted from his short story of the same title, began Off-Broadway previews Nov. 8 at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PM[SHARE]Signature Theatre Company's revival of David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, now extended to Dec. 16, opened Nov. 13, kicking off the Tony Award-winning playwrights 2012-13 residency wit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PM[SHARE]Broadway audiences are transported to Victorian-era London to help resolve Charles Dickens' final, and unfinished tale, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which officially opened Nov. 13 at Stu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]Broadway audiences are transported to Victorian-era London to help resolve Charles Dickens' final, and unfinished tale, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which officially opened Nov. 13 at Stu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2012
New York City Center celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Tony Award–winning Encores! series Nov. 12 with a Gala Benefit starring Raúl Esparza and Kelli O’Hara and featu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:59PM[SHARE]Broadway kicks up a leg-lamp kickline as A Christmas Story, The Musical, the new stage production based on the beloved 1983 film and stories by Jean Shepherd, began previews Nov. 7 at the Lu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM[SHARE]Jonathan Groff, Cheyenne Jackson, Heidi Rodewald and members of the PigPen Theatre Company honor Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor as part of Sonnet Repertory Theatre's Nov. 12 be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PM[SHARE]Christopher Durang's Chekhov-inspired comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which whips characters from the Russian playwright's catalogue into a frothy weekend of costumes, p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PM[SHARE]Emotional Creature, the new play by Eve Ensler that had its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in June, opened Off-Broadway on Nov. 12 following previews from Oct. 26. Ensler, the …
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