Thursday, August 20, 2015
Cast members from the blockbuster new musical Hamilton, which recently opened to widespread critical acclaim at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, are recording the show's cast album this wee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2015
Cast members from the blockbuster new musical Hamilton, which recently opened to widespread critical acclaim at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, are recording the show's cast album this wee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
Academy Award-winning "Frozen" songwriters Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez will score the new Disney animated feature film "Gigantic," a reinvention of the Jack…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42PM[SHARE]Disney has announced that its upcoming animated feature Moana, a tale of a young woman who sails the ocean to finish her ancestors' quest, will feature a score created by Tony Award-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2015
The first trailer has been released for "Trumbo," a new film about the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PM[SHARE]Emmy Award-winning actor Wayne Brady will succeed Tony Award winner Billy Porter as glamorous drag performer Lola in the Tony-winning Broadway hit Kinky Boots.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Playbill.com has learned exclusively that big plans are in store for the new stage incarnation of the Irving Berlin classic, Holiday Inn.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PM[SHARE]Monday, August 10, 2015
Montego Glover, who earned a Tony nomination as leading lady of the musical Memphis, will assume the role of Fantine in Broadway's Les Misérables beginning Sept. 1, the same d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 9, 2015
It Shoulda Been You, the new musical comedy about a wedding gone awry that stars Tyne Daly, Harriet Harris and Sierra Boggess, ends its Broadway run Aug. 9, after 31 previews and 135 regular…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2015
The 46-track, original Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, is now available for pre-order from Atlantic Recor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 6, 2015
"Orange Is the New Black" Emmy Award winner Uzo Aduba and "Glee" star Amber Riley are the latest actors announced to join NBC's Dec. 3 live broadcast of the Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Melanie Moore, who won season eight of "So You Think You Can Dance," will join the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof starring Danny Burstein. Also announced are Nick Rehberge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PM[SHARE]Newcomer Shanice Williams has been announced to step into Dorothy's silver slippers in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz. She joins original Broadway star Stephanie Mills, Queen Lat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Co-producer Neil Meron has tweeted that the name of the actress who has won the coveted role of Dorothy in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz will be announced the morning of Aug. 5 o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM[SHARE]Co-producer Neil Meron has tweeted that the name of the actress who has won the coveted role of Dorothy in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz will be announced the morning of Aug. 5 o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM[SHARE]A trailer has been released for "Stonewall" — producer-director Roland Emmerich's film about the 1969 riots outside a Greenwich Village gay bar that ignited the g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]Chuck Wagner, who starred as Rapunzel's Prince in the original Broadway production of Into the Woods, brings his solo show, Living the Dream, to 54 Below Aug. 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Present, a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's unfinished first play, begins Aug. 4 at the Sydney Theatre Company. Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh star in the world-premiere st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2015
Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick stars with Alice Eve in the forthcoming film "Dirty Weekend," written and directed by playwright Neil LaBute. The film is scheduled to open in c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 1, 2015
The haunting new musical Unknown Soldier, about a photograph that leads a woman on a journey to uncover the truth about her deceased grandmother and a soldier in a photograph, officially ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris, Matt Doyle, Morgan James and Randy Harrison join the stripped-down musical duo The Skivvies for their Aug. 1 show at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2015
Fans of Don Draper and Peggy Olsen can keep the "Mad Men" magic going. Lionsgate is auctioning off nearly 1,400 items from the series, including Peggy's watch, one of Don's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PM[SHARE]Can't wait until you're seated in the Richard Rodgers Theatre to read the entire Playbill for the acclaimed new Lin-Manuel Miranda musical Hamilton?
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, has acquired the rights to Lin-Manuel Miranda's new Broadway musical Hamilton, which itself was inspired by Ron Chernow&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth, recently on Broadway in On the Twentieth Century, plays Maleficent in the new live-action Disney Channel film "Descendants," a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning producer Daryl Roth, a champion of new work who has shepherded seven Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, reflects on her own successes, what she learned during the troub…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2015
Tony Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth, recently on Broadway in On the Twentieth Century, plays Maleficent in the new live-action Disney Channel film "Descendants," a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PM[SHARE]Kansas City Choir Boy, the musical collaboration between Todd Almond (Iowa) and rock icon Courtney Love, which premiered at New York City's HERE earlier this year, will play a limited fa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]Ahead of the Aug. 2 premiere of the new musical Waitress, the American Repertory Theater sat down with singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, book writer Jessie Nelson, director Diane Paulus,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Hot on the heels of news that Grammy Award-winning singers Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah have joined the cast of the upcoming live broadcast of the Tony Award-winning musical The W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM[SHARE]As the Aug. 6 opening night of Hamilton draws closer, the list of songs titles in the printed Playbill is becoming finalized. That's usual. What's unusual is the fact that the show h…
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