Friday, June 29, 2012
Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum, director and star, respectively, of the new movie "Magic Mike"—about the lifestyle of male strippers — will produce the musical ad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMThursday, June 28, 2012
Irish Repertory Theatre and Gingold Theatrical Group's co-production of George Bernard Shaw's complete four-act Man and Superman — his 1903 comedy set in England, Spain and Hel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PMTuesday, June 26, 2012
The Tony Award-winning Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Anything Goes, which was scheduled to end its run Aug. 5, will now play its final performance July 8 at the Stephen Sondheim Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:57PMMonday, June 25, 2012
Last night, our glorious production of Godspell played its final performance at the Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway. As I tweeted earlier in the day, it wasn’t a closing, it w…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:03PMTickets for the new Broadway production of Annie, which begins previews Oct. 3 at the Palace Theatre (1567 Broadway at 47th Street), go on sale to the general public June 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMThursday, June 21, 2012
Tony nominee Bobby Cannavale will play the role of Ricky Roma opposite Al Pacino's Shelly Levene in the new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, according to The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMMonday, June 18, 2012
Academy Award winners Kevin Kline and Meryl Steep — both veterans of New York Shakespeare Festival — play star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, respectively, in the one-night-onl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 15, 2012
Jeremy Jordan, a 2012 Tony nominee for his performance in the new musical Newsies, will join the cast of NBC's "Smash" for its second season, according to TVline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMThursday, June 14, 2012
Al Pacino will play Shelly Levene in a new Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the acidic comic-drama about desperate real-estate men, producers announced June 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMTuesday, June 12, 2012
Hello Godspell fans. I just left the Circle in the Square Theatre moments ago, where with a very heavy heart I told the cast and crew that Godspell will play its final performance on Sunday,…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 07:45PMThe cast of Broadway's short-lived musical Leap of Faith is expected to gather in a Manhattan recording on June 13 to record a cast album of the score by composer Alan Menken and Glenn S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PMShakespeare in the Park alumni F. Murray Abraham, Christine Baranski, John Cullum, David Harbour, Bill Irwin, Sandra Oh, Phylicia Rashad, Michael Stuhlbarg and Sharon Washington have joined …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PMTuesday, June 5, 2012
Because I know you are all interested in the day-by-day account of producing Godspell on Broadway, I think this blog I wrote will be of great interest to you. Click here to read it. And, t…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 11:35AMThursday, May 24, 2012
Shakespeare in the Park alumni Raúl Esparza, Jesse L. Martin, Jerry Stiller, Christopher Walken, Sam Waterston and Jeffrey Wright have joined the one-night-only gala staged reading of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Last night, the Godspell Cast of 2032 made their debut after the curtain call. It was one of the most special things I’ve ever seen on a Broadway stage. It was filled with lov…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 05:41PMThursday, May 17, 2012
The producers of the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man announced May 16 that the run now continues to Sept. 9 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMEdward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will return to Broadway in September in an acclaimed new production seen in 2010-11 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and Arena Stage i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Wahoo! I’m thrilled to announce that last night, Godspell took home the 2012 Audience Favorite Award for Best Revival of a Musical! Thanks to all of you who voted. Once again, you…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 11:00AMTrunk and Disorderly: Songs from the Deep Dark Trunk of Jeff Blumenkrantz, celebrating the music of the 2011 Fred Ebb Award-winning songwriter, is presented May 14 at the York Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMMonday, May 7, 2012
Hey Godspell Blog Readers! Guess what? Godspell was nominated for FOUR Audience Choice Awards including Favorite Musical Revival, Favorite Actor in a Musical (Hunter Parrish and Telly Leun…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 05:14PMMario Cantone hosted the 27th annual Lucille Lortel Awards May 6, when Sons of the Prophet, The Cherry Orchard, An Iliad and the musical Once were honored in production categories. The Off-B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:33AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Greetings from the Godspell blog . . . which is almost one year old! Boy, time flies when you’re putting smiles on faces eight times a week. :-) If you follow the “biz,”…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:57PMTuesday, May 1, 2012
Playbill.com reached out to the 2012 Tony Award nominees on May 1, shortly after they learned that they were nominated for Broadway's biggest award. Here's what they had to say.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PMPlaybill.com reached out to the 2012 Tony Award nominees on May 1, shortly after they learned that they were nominated for Broadway's biggest award. Here's what they had to say. We&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMPlaybill.com reached out to the 2012 Tony Award nominees on May 1, shortly after they learned that they were nominated for Broadway's biggest award. Here's what they had to say. We&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
Filmmaker Justin Lin ("Fast and Furious" franchise) has acquired the film rights to David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, the recent Broadway comedy about an Ohio businessman navigati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMSaturday, April 21, 2012
The Broadway cast album of Bonnie & Clyde is now available for purchase on iTunes. The CD will be released April 24 on the Broadway Records label. The musical ended its short run on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMThursday, April 19, 2012
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of artistic director Brian Kulick and executive director Greg Reiner, announced April 19 that award-winning actresses Judy Kuhn and Melissa Errico…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMMonday, April 16, 2012
Prepare ye for cuteness. Godspell has always had a tradition of launching the next generation of stars. People like Victor Garber, Jeremy Irons, Martin Short, Jennifer Lopez, and so on all…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 05:45PMWater by the Spoonful, by Quiara Alegría Hudes, is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, recognizing an outstanding stage work that premiered during the 2011 calendar year.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PMFriday, April 13, 2012
Two Godspell blogs in a week! It’s like the old days! (Can you believe it has almost been one year since the Day By Day blog began?) More big news from the Godspell camp this week …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 03:36PM 
