Monday, November 23, 2015
Once Upon a Mattress director Jack Cummings III reveals how an unforgettable letter from the show's composer, the late Mary Rodgers, turned a one-night-only concert into the cure…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PM[SHARE]The Transport Group revival of the Tony-nominated musical comedy Once Upon a Mattress begins previews Nov. 23 at The Abrons Arts Center starring Jackie Hoffman as Princess Winnifred and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AM[SHARE]Confirming earlier speculation, multi-Oscar nominee Kenneth Branagh has been tapped to direct and star as Hercule Poirot in 20th Century Fox's new adaptation of Agatha Christie's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]The Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of Important Hats of the Twentieth Century officially opens Nov. 23 starring Peter and the Starcatcher's Carson Elrod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) in Cambridge, MA, presents a reading of Trans Scripts, a groundbreaking new play about transgender identity, written by Paul Lucas and directed by Jo …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]After more than 1,000 performances in the role, Billy Porter ended his Tony-winning run as the fierce and unstoppable Lola in Kinky Boots. Before strapping on the sparkling shoes for the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 22, 2015
One hundred and twenty-nine former Rockettes attend the Nov. 22 performance of ex-Rockette Joanna Rush's solo show Kick at St. Luke's Theatre Off-Broadway. Directed by To…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Signature Theatre's world-premiere production of Naomi Wallace's Night Is a Room officially opens Nov. 22 following previews that began Nov. 3. The three-hander features Ann …
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 21, 2015
The Nora's Playhouse presents the story of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in a new solo show titled Rose, which begins previews Off-Broadway Nov. 21. The world premiere is penned by Laurenc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2015
Journey Lab in association with Deaths Head Theatrical have announced that they will bring a new immersive theatre experience to New York City, inspired by Henrik Ibsen's classic play Gh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:02PM[SHARE]Following a last-minute cancellation in September, Staceyann Chin's newest solo show about motherhood, MotherStruck!, will debut next month at the Lynn Redgrave Theater. Directed by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]"Unforeseen technical challenges" are being blamed for cancellation of the Nov. 20 first preview of Atlantic Theater Company staging of These Paper Bullets! .
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PM[SHARE]Oscar winner Nicole Kidman announced during a post-show Q&A that she hopes to take Photograph 51 to Australia and New York and to make a film version of the play, according to the Da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PM[SHARE]After a 26-year run at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center, Shear Madness will take a hiatus next summer to make room for Chicago's Second City show The Second City’s Alm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Brooklyn-based REX architecture firm has been tapped to reconceive the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, according to the New York Times. The 80,000 square-foot space…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM[SHARE]Broadway actor Adam Halpin joins his wife, actress Megan McGinnis, in the Off-Broadway run of Daddy Long Legs Nov. 20, succeeding Will Reynolds. The couple are scheduled to perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AM[SHARE]Performances begin Nov. 20 for the Playwrights Horizons production of 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison. Directed by Obie winner Anne Kauffman, the cast is led b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Performances begin Nov. 20 for the Atlantic Theater Company staging of These Paper Bullets! The modish rip-off of Much Ado About Nothing is written by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2015
The Know: Don't miss out on this week's must-see shows and events, Nov. 19-29!
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43PM[SHARE]Tony nominee Will Swenson, who returned this week to the Broadway company of Les Misérables, has joined the cast of Theatre for a New Audience's pro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 production of Preludes, the new musical by Dave Malloy, developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin, is being recorded by Ghostlight Records for release i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PM[SHARE]Playwrights Horizons hosts private readings of the new musical String Nov. 19, with a cast of Broadway and Off-Broadway actors that includes Something Rotten's Heidi Blickenstaff, Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Feinstein’s/54 Below will present Unattached in February, a concert featuring the original Side Show leading ladies, Tony winner Alice Ripley and Tony nominee Emily Skinne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM[SHARE]Roundabout Theatre Company has announced productions from two acclaimed playwrights that will be part of its 2016-17 season: On Broadway will be a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Producers have announced that The Woodsman, the untold story of Oz's Tinman and the woman he loved, will receive a new Off-Broadway staging at New World Stages in January 2016. The p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM[SHARE]Performances begin Off-Broadway Nov. 18 for the world-premiere production of Lazarus, by Tony-winning playwright Enda Walsh (Once) with music by David Bowie. The cast includes&am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Mark Gerrard’s Steve, directed by Emmy and Tony winner Cynthia Nixon, officially opens Off-Broadway Nov. 18 following previews that began Nov. 3. Presented by The New Group, th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wendie Malick and Emmy winner Lucie Arnaz star in Coyote StageWorks' one-night-only benefit presentation of The Importance of Being Earnest (In New York), a modern-day, New Y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Three-time Tony nominee David Yazbek and Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz reunite Nov. 18 for a concert at Subculture in New York. The composer and performer previously worked together on th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 17, 2015
New York Theatre Workshop has announced that a limited number of extra tickets, as well as $25 CheapTix will be available for Lazarus, which begins previews Off-Broadway Nov. 18. The wor…
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