Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Following workshops in New York and Los Angeles over five years ago, two-time Tony winner Steven Sater's play New York Animals will at last have its world premiere staging Off-Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PM[SHARE]Deborah Zoe Laufer's Informed Consent officially opens Aug. 18 at the Duke on 42nd Street, following previews that began Aug. 4. The play examines the many possibilitie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Blogger Perez Hilton stars as family patriarch Danny Tanner in Full House! The Musical!, an unauthorized musical parody of the ABC family sitcom TV series that starred Bob Saget. The stage s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2015
Lynn Nottage, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Ruined, has debuted her newest work, Sweat, exploring America's industrial decline, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Co-commissioned w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]Sweet Chaos Theater Project will present an evening of world-premiere short play readings by award-winning playwrights, with proceeds from the event helping fund home libraries for f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PM[SHARE]The Public Theater has announced complete casting for the Off-Broadway premiere of Danai Gurira's Eclipsed, starring "12 Years a Slave" Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PM[SHARE]En Garde Arts is launching a new site-specific performance festival in New York City this fall. BOSSS (Big Out Site-Specific Stuff) will run Oct. 2-4 in the Hudson River Park, fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]En Garde Arts is launching a new site-specific performance festival in New York City this fall. BOSSS (Big Out Site-Specific Stuff) will run Oct. 2-4 in the Hudson River Park, fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]Showbiz couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker will hit the stage together at the Broadway @ Town Hall concert series in Provincetown, MA, Aug. 17. The celebrity duo are …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 16, 2015
San Diego's Old Globe theatre begins its Summer Shakespeare Festival production of The Comedy of Errors, directed by seven-time Tony nominee Scott Ellis (The Elephant Man, On the Twe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]D23 Expo, the Ultimate Disney Fan Event, presents Frozen FANdemoninum: A Musical Celebration, featuring the Oscar-winning songwriting team of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robe…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 15, 2015
A.R. Gurney continues his residency at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre with the world premiere of his new comedy Love & Money, about a wealthy widow who is det…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
MCC has announced the line-up for its annual PlayLabs reading series, set to feature new works in development by Playwright-in-Residence Neil LaBute, among others. Audiences will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]Actor and LGBQT activist Chaz Bono, also well-known as the son of famed performers Sonny and Cher, has launched his own theatrical production company, Phoenix Fire Productions. The compa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]In preparation for the world premiere opening of new musical October Sky, the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL, has posted a number of videos via Youtube, allowing fans exclusive access …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2015
Don't miss out on this week's must-see shows and events!
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM[SHARE]The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced details for its inaugural Global Exchange, an event that will bring together 200 participants to New York on Sept. 18 to explore the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PM[SHARE]The New Victory Theater, New York's largest professional theatre for younger audiences and families, has announced the 2015-16 artist residencies and professional developments selec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PM[SHARE]More casting has been announced for NBC's Dec. 3 live broadcast of the Tony Award-winning musical The Wiz. Producer Craig Zadan announced Aug. 13 via Twitter that Oscar-winning h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PM[SHARE]As Philadelphia prepares for the The World Meeting of Families and the highly anticipated papal visit, the city's theatres have had to make changes to their regular show dates. The Pope&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Taye Diggs stepped into the high-heeled shoes of rocker Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on July 22 at Broadway's Belasco Theatre. The leading man a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]The world premiere production of Sara Bareilles' new musical Waitress is now in previews and set to open Aug. 19 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. In the lead-up to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway staging of Alan Hruska's Laugh It Up, Stare It Down, beginning this month at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Featured in the cast is Katya Ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:18PM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway comedy The 39 Steps will celebrate what would have been Alfred Hitchcock's 116th birthday on Aug. 13, by inviting the audience to join post-show festivities, inc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:18PM[SHARE]According to an Equity casting call, the Guiness Book of World Records' longest running play in the history of the USA, Shear Madness, will be produced Off-Broadway at long last this…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM[SHARE]The Public Theater has announced complete casting for the world premiere of Barbecue, written by Obie Award winner Robert O'Hara (Bootycandy and In the Continuum). Constance Shulman, who…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PM[SHARE]Tony-winning stage and screen star Betty Buckley will perform in a series of concert events on Long Island, NY, and Provincetown, MA. The Broadway vet will be performing songs from her a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club has announced casting for the world premiere of Prodigal Son by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley. The cast will be led by Timothée Chalam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PM[SHARE]London's Courtyard Theatre will stage Shakespeare's celebrated play of family betrayal and greed, King Lear, with a cast made up of live sheep. Helmed by director Missouri Williams, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes (Cinderella), Corey Cott (Gigi) and Tony-winner Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone) will star in Bandstand, a new musical directed and choreographed by Andy…
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