Thursday, January 22, 2015
The Lion is Benjamin Scheuer's autobiographical coming-of-age musical, about what it means to become a man. Following a critically acclaimed run this past summer, the show return…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PM[SHARE]Primary Stages has announced that the initial lineup for its 2015-16 season will feature Off-Broadway premieres by playwrights Deborah Zoe Laufer, Dan O'Brien and Ike Ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Following speculation last week, the Public Theater has confirmed that Academy Award-winning "Les Misérables" star Anne Hathaway will perform George Brant's solo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]The Signature Theatre has announced casting for the world premiere of Kid Victory, a new musical from famed composer John Kander (Chicago, Cabaret) and playwright Greg Pierce (Slow Girl). Pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM[SHARE]As Andrew Lippa prepares for the revival of The Wild Party starring Sutton Foster and Joshua Henry as part of the New York City Center's Encores! Off-Center series, he told Playbill.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PM[SHARE]Learn how Catalyst Theatre artistic director Jonathan Christenson and designer Breta Gerecke bring the mind of haunted poet and writer and poet Edgar Allen Poe to life on stage in Nevermore.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]MCC has announced an all-star lineup for their annual Miscast gala. It includes Emmy winner Uzo Aduba ("Orange is the New Black), Tony Award winners Laura Benanti, Linda Lavin and J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Women's Project Theatre will present the world premiere of Bright Half Life by Pulitzer Prize nomineeTanya Barfield; Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverman (Violet) will direct, marking the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PM[SHARE]Clinton the Musical, which made headlines when it premiered at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2014, is set to play Off-Broadway this spring at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PM[SHARE]Women's Project Theatre will present the world premiere of Bright Half Life by Pulitzer Prize finalist Tanya Barfield; Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverman (Violet) will direct, marking th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 18, 2015
There has been a bit of a stir within the Broadway community and the media of late, concerning whether or not there's room for strong women to sing their stories on Broadway. Playbill.co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 17, 2015
Mel Johnson Jr. (“Total Recall”; On the Twentieth Century) stars in the world premiere of Tom Dulack’s The Road to Damascus, which begins perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
Norwegian Cruise Line has announced that the critically-acclaimed Broadway musical After Midnight will be the headline act on their newest and largest ship, the Norwegian Escape. The mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06PM[SHARE]Molly Pope (Found at the Atlantic) will star as the infamous 19th century actress Adah Isaacs Menken in the world premiere of Horseplay: or, The Fickle Mistress, A Protean Picaresque at La M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Playwrights Horizons has announced that Tony Award nominee Carrie Coon (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, HBO's "The Leftovers") will replace Kristen Connolly ("House o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]As he prepares for the world premiere of Lives of the Saints for Primary Stages in February, playwright David Ives spoke to Playbill.com about his ongoing musical collaboration with…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PM[SHARE]Anne Hathaway, an Oscar winner for "Les Misérables," is reported to be in final negotiations for a one-woman show at the Public Theater – in which she will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM[SHARE]Pearl Theatre has announced that their inaugural Modern/Classics winter reading series will feature an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salome by "Orange is the New Black" writer Ni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
The world premiere of Paradox of the Urban Cliché by acclaimed playwright, poet and actor Craig muMs Grant (HBO's "Oz") will be presented as part of Poetic License, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM[SHARE]The Children's Acting Academy will present the world premiere of Out of My Comfort Zone, a rock musical by Ivy vale and Rick Reil that deals with LGBT themes and anti-bullying.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PM[SHARE]The Drama League has announced that Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham (It’s Only a Play) and Tony Award nominees Danny Burstein (Cabaret) and Andy Karl (Rocky) will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PM[SHARE]The Drama League has announced that Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham (It’s Only a Play) and Tony Award nominees Danny Burstein (Cabaret) and Andy Karl (Rocky) will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PM[SHARE]Robin Pecknold, lead singer of the Grammy-nominated indie group Fleet Foxes, has written an original score for Brian Watkins' new play, Wyoming, which begins performances Jan. 15 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2015
"Harry Potter" actor Christian Coulson is set to star in the Off-Broadway Premiere of Everything You Touch by award-winning playwright Sheila Callaghan, presented by Rattle…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:34PM[SHARE]Award-winning playwright and actor Brian Dykstra (HBO's "Def Poet") is set to premiere his new solo show, Brian Dykstra is $elling Out Off-Broadway, directed by long…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:09PM[SHARE]Playwrights Horizons announced Jan. 14 the promotion of Adam Greenfield to associate artistic director, the first major change to the theatre's artistic leadership since Tim Sanford was …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PM[SHARE]As she prepares for her Broadway debut in The Heidi Chronicles, Elise Kibler takes on the title role of Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare in the Square, which begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
You don’t necessarily have to pay Broadway prices to see celebrity names on New York stages; the city's Off-Broadway theatres offer up plenty of star power and talent with …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PM[SHARE]TFNA has announced a new cast for their staging of An Octoroon, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' widely acclaimed play, originally produced by Soho Rep in 2014, where it had two extensions an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
Ned Eisenberg ("Law and Order: SVU") will feature in the Off-Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' Rocket to the Moon, directed by Obie and Lucille Lortel Award winner Dan Wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]Playbill.com gives you a round-up of cabaret shows and music events to see this month in New York City.
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