Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Jeffrey Hatcher, whose plays include Tuesdays With Morrie and Never Gonna Dance, has been tapped by Warner Bros. to write the screenplay for the new World War I film "Megiddo," acc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
A private New York City industry reading of Monsoon Wedding, a new stage musical adaptation of the award-winning 2001 film, will be presented in December, according to an Equity casting …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:36PM[SHARE]Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sting and director Joe Mantello will be part of an Oct. 20 TimesTalk to discuss the new Broadway musical The Last Ship, which opens on Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PM[SHARE]The Goodman Theatre's revised staging of the Broadway classic Brigadoon received the Production-Musical large tier honor at the Chicago-area Jeff Awards, which were presented Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]The Public Theater production of Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks' trilogy Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) begins performances Oct. 14 Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Kerissa Arrington and Maggie Clennon Reberg co-star in the new national tour of the Tony Award-nominated musical Sister Act, which launches Oct. 14 at the DuPont Theatre in Wilmingto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Emma Stratton and Brian Krinsky co-star as Reno Sweeney and Billy Crocker, respectively, in the second national tour of the Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes, which launche…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
The Goodman Theatre's revised staging of the Broadway classic Brigadoon and the Drury Lane staging of Les Misérables lead the nominations for the 2013-14 Equity Jeff Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 12, 2014
While I Yet Live, the semi-autobiographical world-premiere play from Kinky Boots Tony Award winner Billy Porter about a young man's coming of age in Pittsburgh, PA, officially op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2014
The new Charles E. Hall-Bret Witter book "Santa Claus Is For Real: A True Christmas Fable About The Magic Of Believing" is in development as a film musical, according to Deadli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]Choreographer Twyla Tharp, who won a Tony Award for the Billy Joel musical Movin' Out, has been named the 2014-16 artist-in-residence at the Joyce Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PM[SHARE]The single-disc soundtrack for the upcoming Disney screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods will be released Dec. 16, according to Amazon.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PM[SHARE]"Glee" creator Ryan Murphy is keeping the music going in his other passion project, "American Horror Story: Freak Show." Jessica Lange took the stage for a performance of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AM[SHARE]A new, unauthorized musical parody of the comedic screen horror franchise "Scream" premieres in Los Angeles Oct. 10 with a cast that includes "Modern Family" cast member …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AM[SHARE]The Broadway production of Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance, starring Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, is broadcast nationwide Oct. 10 at 9 PM ET on PBS' Live from Lincoln Center. Chec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2014
After receiving critical acclaim for the extended run of Gatz in 2012, Elevator Repair Service will return to the Public Theater this spring with an encore run of the company's stage ada…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:11PM[SHARE]Tickets for the Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, starring five-time Tony Award-winning actress Kelli O'Hara and Ken Watanabe leading a cast of ov…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PM[SHARE]The vocal selections for Jason Robert Brown's Tony Award-winning musical The Bridges of Madison County will be released in late October by Hal Leonard Corporation.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Gabriel Ebert and Tony nominee Euan Morton will lead the cast of The Heart of Robin Hood, the inventive and athletic stage adaptation of the classic tale shepherded by Tony…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PM[SHARE]Green Day and Sting, who have ventured into Broadway terrain with the musicals American Idiot and The Last Ship, respectively, have been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PM[SHARE]Musical theatre heavy hitters Christian Borle, Beth Leavel, Brian d'Arcy James and Brad Oscar are among the cast of Something Rotten!, a new musical comedy helmed by Tony Award-winni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger stars as a mother who discovers her son is a reincarnated high Buddhist teacher in the world premiere of Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Cabaret performer and stage actress Klea Blackurst has been cast in the New York City reading of a musical based on Ted Key's cartoon character Hazel — best known for her appea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominee Thomas Sadoski (Other Desert Cities, Reasons to Be Pretty, "The Newsroom") has joined the cast of "The Slap," a new NBC miniseries about a man who …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PM[SHARE]Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sting and The Last Ship leading man Michael Esper will take part in a live Q&A session about the new musical Oct. 15 via Twitter and the ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actor Shuler Hensley will star in the title role of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, which returns for another limited holiday run at the Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PM[SHARE]Margo Seibert, who made her Broadway debut as Adrian in the new musical Rocky last season, will return for an encore engagement at 54 Below Oct. 15 with her solo concert Busy Being Free.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM[SHARE]A planned revival of Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's Tony Award-winning musical Titanic, which was to play a pre-Broadway engagement at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre last …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]The Berliner Ensemble performs Shakespeare's Sonnets, a contemporary take on the Bard's work featuring music by Rufus Wainwright and direction by Robert Wilson, in its U.S. debut at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]"American Horror Story" creator Ryan Murphy is hopeful that his Academy Award-winning leading lady, Jessica Lange, will continue with the television franchise beyond the fourth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]The fourth season of "American Horror Story," which features the return of Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson as well as series newcomer Patti LaBelle, premieres Oct. 8 on F…
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