HERE LIES JENNY, the smash theatrical event starring two-time Tony and Emmy Award winner Bebe Neuwirth and featuring the music of Kurt Weill will play San Francisco’s Post Street Theatre (450 Post Street) for a strictly limited engagement, with previews on Sunday, May 1st and Monday, May 2nd, and a press opening on Tuesday, May […]
Directed with an assured sense of style by Lynne Stinchcombe Pollingue, Prattville’s Way Off Broadway Theatre company’s production of Larry Shue’s “adult” comedy “The Nerd” manages to punctuate the play’s surface silliness with social and cultural barbs, which is delivered by a talented cast of seven actors.
The play, which relies on character stereotypes and clever […]
“Doubt,” which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for drama, is up for another honor, the 20th annual Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding off-Broadway play.
The play by John Patrick Shanley is one of five Lortel best-play nominees, a group that also includes “After Ashley” by Gina Gionfriddo, “Going to St. Ives” by Lee Blessing, “Intimate Apparel” […]
Broadway favorite Rebecca Luker will be part of the York Theatre Company’s upcoming presentation of Darling of the Day.
Part of the Off-Broadway theatre’s acclaimed “Musicals in Mufti” spring season, Darling of the Day will be mounted April 15 at 8 PM, April 16 at 2:30 and 8 PM and April 17 at 2:30 and 7:30 […]
If you asked local audiences to identify the most influential theater artists in Milwaukee over the past 10 years, you would hear names like Hanreddy, Davis, Carsey and West.
It’s symptomatic of C. Michael Wright’s self-effacing personality that he doesn’t have a high public profile, but theater insiders would add his name to the list.
Wright has […]
There’s been countless films made about Broadway in the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s - the thrill of the spotlights, the greasepaint, the roar of the crowds, all of that. But as obvious an idea for a film as it may seem, a documentary has never been made about Broadway. Until now.
US Broadway lover and filmmaker […]
Gina Gionfriddo’s hit After Ashley featuring Anna Paquin, Kieran Culkin, Grant Shaud and Tim Hopper ends its Off-Broadway run at the Vineyard Theatre April 3.
Terry Kinney (Beautiful Child, “Oz”) directed the New York premiere of the black comedy which began performances Feb. 11 and opened Feb. 28 at the downtown venue for a run originally […]
Roundabout Theatre Company is planning on a Broadway revival of August Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie at Studio 54 this fall, according to the non-profit’s website.
The work has seen a number of productions in recent years since the company had scrapped plans for producing the play in fall of 2002.
Scott Schwartz (Golda’s Balcony, The Foreigner) staged […]
Ron Rifkin — who starred in the world premiere of The Paris Letter in Los Angeles — as well as John Glover, Lee Pace and Daniel Eric Gold are expected to star in the upcoming Off-Broadway staging, Playbill.com has learned.
Previews will begin for the New York premiere of the new Jon Robin Baitz drama on […]
Film star Denzel Washington stars as Marcus Brutus in a new Daniel Sullivan- directed production of Shakespeare’s military tragedy Julius Caesar, opening at the Belasco Theatre on April 3, after previews March 8.
“Et tu, Brute,” will be spoken by William Sadler, who takes on the role of Caesar in Shakespeare’s rendition of the most famous […]
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot are played out in court one final time when Stephen Adly Guirgis world premiere play directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman closes Off-Broadway, April 3.
The new LAByrinth Theatre Company staging presented in collaboration with The Public Theater began previews Feb. 8 and opened March 2 at The Public Theater’s Martinson […]