Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The one-night-only benefit presentation of Bombshell, the fictional Broadway musical from the short-lived NBC musical series "Smash," will now take place June 8, a week…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]Diane Rodriguez, an associate producer and new play director at Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group, will be nominated to join the National Council on the Arts in Washington, The White Hou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
Award-winning actors Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen have been announced to co-star in a new television series for the Stars Network, which will follow the life of an ailing veteran…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for Dallas Theater Center's world-premiere staging of Stagger Lee, a new musical by Will Power and Justin Ellington, inspired by a century-old folk son…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AM[SHARE]Audience Rewards members now have exclusive access to purchase tickets for the new Broadway musical Something Rotten!, starring Tony Award winner Christian Borle and Tony Award nominee Brian…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Laura Benanti and Lena Hall are among the stars who strip down with The Skivvies Jan. 12 at 42West with their latest show, Gold As Ice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]In Playbill.com's latest feature series, we ask theatre artists to offer a selection of the stage creations that were influential to their own work. Our second edition of the series feat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 10, 2015
Tony Award nominees Jeremy Jordan and Kate Baldwin are among the stars celebrating the collaboration between theatrical pioneers Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince in Good Thing Going, which…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27AM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2015
Classic Stage Company's A Month in the Country, starring "Game of Thrones" actor Peter Dinklage and "Orange is the New Black" star Taylor Schilling, begins performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PM[SHARE]If/Then, the new musical about choice and chance that stars Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, will end its run March 22 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre after 430 performances, producer David St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM[SHARE]Complete casting has now been announced for the one-night-only concert presentation of Jason Robert Brown's Tony Award-winning musical Parade, which will take place Feb. 16 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PM[SHARE]Young performers who sing and also play musical instruments are being sought in a nationwide casting call for the upcoming Broadway premiere of School of Rock. Andrew Lloyd Webber will bring…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PM[SHARE]U.K. star Sheridan Smith is in talks to participate in an upcoming London workshop of a new stage adaptation of the classic 1948 Irving Berlin film musical "Easter Parade," accordi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AM[SHARE]The hit London revival of Miss Saigon, which opened May 21, 2014, at the West End's Prince Edward Theatre, has extended its booking through Sept. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]Ava DuVernay’s Martin Luther King, Jr. film "Selma" opens in wide release across the U.S. Jan. 9. David Oyelowo stars in the motion picture that features a host of theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2015
Australian leading man Anthony Warlow, who made his Broadway debut in the recent revival of Annie, will step into another classic musical when he takes on the role of Don Quixote in Man of L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:02PM[SHARE]Colleen Atwood's imaginative costumes for Disney's hit film adaptation of "Into the Woods" and Daniel Orlandi's designs for the HBO movie version of Larry Kramer's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]A streamlined, one-act incarnation of the Kander and Ebb musical The Visit, starring two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera, will begin previews March 26 at the Lyceum Theatre, prod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PM[SHARE]Atlanta audiences will have the chance to see two Broadway leading ladies when Tony Award-winning actress Beth Leavel steps in for Tony nominee Carolee Carmello midway through the Atlant…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Christian Borle and Tony Award nominee Brian d'Arcy James will fight to the top as dueling playwrights in the new Broadway musical Something Rotten!, which arrives on B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]The world premiere of playwright Sherry Kramer's How Water Behaves, starring Leslie Kritzer and Kenita R. Miller, will begin performances Jan. 16 at Capital Repertory Theatre under the d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AM[SHARE]Singer-songwriter Todd Almond's Kansas City Choir Boy, which co-stars musician Courtney Love, begins its sold-out New York City engagement Jan. 8 at HERE.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Producer David Gest, the ex-husband of entertainment icon Liza Minnelli, has withdrawn from a Scottish production of Robert Burns The Musical, according to The Scottsman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:51PM[SHARE]The soundtrack to the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods has broken into the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PM[SHARE]Brooks Ashmanskas, Peter Dinklage and Holland Taylor are among the actors who will appear in a benefit presentation of The 24 Hour Plays, which will be presented Jan. 19 at the Public Theate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PM[SHARE]Billy Porter, who earned the Tony Award for his portrayal of unstoppable drag performer Lola in the Tony-winning hit musical Kinky Boots, will take a three-month leave of absence fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM[SHARE]Singer-songwriter Todd Almond's Kansas City Choir Boy, which co-stars musician Courtney Love, has sold-out its entire 11-performance New York City engagement at HERE.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]ABC will air an encore broadcast of the first two episodes of its new musical series "Galavant" Jan. 7. The back-to-back half-hour episodes begin at 10 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AM[SHARE]The Public Theater's 11th anniversary of the Under the Radar Festival, featuring productions from Argentina, Iran, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil and the United Kingdom, begins Jan. 7 downto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2015
The upcoming live-action 20th Century Fox film musical "The Greatest Showman on Earth," starring Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum, will arrive in theatres Christma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:28PM[SHARE]Producer Scott Rudin announced Jan. 6 that Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama The Flick will return Off-Broadway to the Barrow Street Theatre in May. The origina…
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