Playbill News

Talks of a Broadway revival of HELLO, DOLLY! starring Patti LuPone have hit a snag, according to the Courant's Frank Rizzo.

Costume Shop Manager Carol Hammond works closely with the costume designer, and deals with all of the logistics of costuming. She oversees costumes being shopped and built, fittings, budgeting, and hiring and managing an extensive staff. At Atlanta's Alliance Theatre, Hammond and her core staff work on multiple shows at once during their annual season of ten productions. Hammond gives a tour of the Alliance Theatre's costume shop, craftshop, wardrobe, wig area, and storage.

'Dixie's Tupperware Party,' the hilarious show starring Dixie Longate which turned Off-Broadway into a Tupperware-mania celebration and garnered the prestigious 2008 Drama Desk Award Nomination rolls into the Royal George Theatre Cabaret (1641 North Halsted, Chicago) for a limited eight-week engagement beginning March 18th through May 15th, 2011. Written by Kris Andersson, the production is playing in Chicago as part of a 20-city national tour.

'Dixie's Tupperware Party,' the hilarious show starring Dixie Longate which turned Off-Broadway into a Tupperware-mania celebration and garnered the prestigious 2008 Drama Desk Award Nomination rolls into the Royal George Theatre Cabaret (1641 North Halsted, Chicago) for a limited eight-week engagement beginning March 18th through May 15th, 2011. Written by Kris Andersson, the production is playing in Chicago as part of a 20-city national tour.

Broadway in Indianapolis announces its 2011-2012 season which includes familiar favorites and a new title fresh from Broadway.

Dishing on all pop culture and shining a light on inappropriate water cooler talk 'Kathy Griffin WANTS A TONY' will feature all new material about her hilarious observations and run-ins with celebrities. The show is subject to change nightly depending on what Kathy decides is the news of the day. Let's just say Broadway may never be the same again! Tickets are priced from $61.50 to $121.50 for all performances and are on sale now!

Asolo Repertory Theatre today announced its selections and details for the 2011 Unplugged festival of new plays. Playwrights include Jeff Baron, one of the world's most-produced playwrights in the past decade; Jamie Pachino, winner of this year's Francesca Primus Prize from the American Theatre Critics Association; Bill Rosenfeld, who was nominated for 30 Grammy Awards and won 4 times; and Mat Smart, winner of two Jerome Fellowships and the San Diego Playbill Award for Best New Play.

Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohème is brought to life at Merrimack Hall by Independent Musical Productions, March 11-19 2011.

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce that Emerald City Theatre's 2010 hit PINKALICIOUS is coming to the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut St) July 8- Sep. 4, 2011.

As two shows seen on its stage rock Broadway, one extends its stay off Broadway, and another just wrapped a local run that grabbed national headlines, Berkeley Repertory Theatre proudly announces a new year of exhilarating plays.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents an all new production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Technical Director Mike Cristaldi supervises the installation and engineering of the physical production of a show. At Philadelphia Theatre Company, he coordinates all the technical elements, such as scenery, lighting, sound, wardrobe, props, and video, between each of PTC's departments and a show's designers. He talks about how the new Suzanne Roberts Theatre space increases PTC's technical capabilities, and how it has broadened his role as well.

An outrageous night of risqué & fast-paced Sketch and Standup Comedy, a la 'Saturday Night Live'... hosted by the wildly bizarre 'Senor Phil', it's an always changing show of original material.

With over 30 new productions opening on DC area stages, 4 large festivals, and 2 world premiere musicals, it may still be chilly outside, but DC area stages are sizzling and bursting with great theatre. So come visit the Nation's Capital and visit our vibrant theatre scene.

Broadway Across America is thrilled to announce the 10/11 Cincinnati season sponsored by Fifth Third Bank. Season tickets will go on sale Monday, March 29th. Select seats in person at the Broadway Across America Cincinnati Box Office in the Mercantile Center downtown at 120 East Fourth Street, Monday - Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm. Season tickets can be purchased online at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com or by calling the Broadway Across America toll-free Cincinnati Season Ticket Hotline at 800-294-1816.

On January 16, 1964 theatergoers at the St. James Theatre first experienced what was to become perhaps the most memorable scene in musical comedy, when the curtains part atop the stairs of the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant and Dolly Levi appears in her red Freddy Wittop gown to begin her descent to 'rejoin the human race.' Forty-seven years (not to mention over 5,000 performances) later and 3,000 miles away, patrons of the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles were able to revisit a little bit of theatrical history as Jerry Herman's first Dolly, Ms. Carol Channing, again entered through parting red curtains and took the stage wearing her original 1964 gown in celebration of her 90th birthday.

BRAVO's Tabatha Coffey of Tabatha's Salon Takeover returns to My Big Gay Italian Wedding! Tabatha will be joining the Off-Broadway comedy for one weekend only, February 24th-26th to show the Big Gay Family how to really run a wedding!

When did the Pantages Theatre turn into a nostalgia rock concert venue? 2011 so far has featured 60's-set HAIR and the 1891 emo rockers of SPRING AWAKENING and now, it plays host to the national tour of ROCK OF AGES, the surprising yet undeniably hilarious Tony-nominated jukebox musical that features a conveyor belt of rock hits from the biggest hair bands of the 1980's. This affectionately low-brow but impressively entertaining show charms the leather pants of its audience thanks to its wicked humor, its self-effacing references, plenty of nostalgic sight-gags, and, of course, those ubiquitous 80's tunes most of us won't admit to really liking. Playing at the Pantages through February 27 (then at the Segerstrom Center of the Arts in Orange County, March 1-6), it's certainly a show chock-full of guilty pleasures.

An outrageous night of risqué & fast-paced Sketch and Standup Comedy, a la 'Saturday Night Live'... hosted by the wildly bizarre 'Senor Phil', it's an always changing show of original material.

On Friday, February 25th, TheatreWorks New Milford is proud to invite you to the debut show of our 44th Season with the darkly comic, terse, and off-beat play, Talk Radio, by Eric Bogosian.