Wednesday, October 8, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]Music Theatre International announced Oct. 8 that it has acquired worldwide professional and amateur licensing rights for the Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown-Marsha Norman musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
The Public Theater announced Oct. 7 that the upcoming premiere of the Stew-Heidi Rodewald musical The Total Bent, which was scheduled to premiere in spring 2015, has been postponed follo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Austin Pendleton will star in the New York premiere of playwright Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men, which will begin performances Off-Broadway Nov. 7 at the Pub…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PM[SHARE]The holiday tour of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, which launches this November in Peoria, IL, will feature stage veterans Pamela Myers and Conrad John Schuck, as well as James Clow an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PM[SHARE]Ryan Steele, Jason Gotay, Bryce Ryness, T. Oliver Reid and twin brothers Jacob Guzman and David Guzman have been cast in NBC's upcoming live broadcast of the Broadway musical Peter Pan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning director John Doyle will helm a developmental lab of the new stage musical adaptation of "August Rush," based on the 2007 film of the same title about a youn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
Ruthie Ann Miles, who created the role of Imelda Marcos in the immersive David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love, will exit the Off-Broadway production Oct. 18 at the Public T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PM[SHARE]MCC Theater has announced that Golden Globe-nominated actress Sarah Paulson and Tony Award-winning producer Fran Weissler will be honored during the company's annual Miscast gala…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM[SHARE]Vyto Ruginis, Deirdre O’Connell, Quincy Dunn-Baker and Tom Pelphrey have been cast in By The Water, a new play by Sharyn Rothstein that explores the aftermath of Hurricane Sand…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM[SHARE]Producers announced Oct. 6 that the Off-Broadway revival of the Bill Russell-Frank Kelly-Albert Evans musical Pageant, which opened July 14 after previews that began June 29, wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated composer Andrew Lippa stars as late gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk in his oratorio I Am Harvey Milk, which receives its New York premiere Oct. 6 at Avery Fisher Hall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2014
The Broadway hit Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, which stars six-time Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald, ends its extended Broadway run Oct. 5 at Circle in the Squar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Bull Durham, the world-premiere, Broadway-aimed baseball musical starring Will Swenson, Melissa Errico and John Behlmann, ends its run Oct. 5 at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 4, 2014
The LCT3 New York premiere of Kimber Lee's brownsville song (b-side for tray), about a family that must move forward when a young man is killed for being in the wrong place at the wr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2014
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sting celebrated his 63rd birthday Oct. 2 with a special encore following the Broadway performance of his new musical The Last Ship.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PM[SHARE]The National Alliance for Musical Theatre has announced initial casting for the 26th Annual Festival of New Musicals, which will take place Oct. 23-24 at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[SHARE]Musician Courtney Love will star in singer-songwriter Todd Almond's Kansas City Choir Boy, which will premiere in January 2015 as part of the Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now festival at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2014
Tony Award nominee Brian d'Arcy James, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson and Leslie Odom Jr. have been cast in Hamilton, the new musical by Tony Award-winning In the Heights star and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning director Anna D. Shapiro has been named to succeed Martha Lavey as the artistic director of the Chicago-based Steppenwolf Theatre Company, executives there announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PM[SHARE]Grammy Award winner Gloria Estefan told the New York Daily News that pop singer Ariana Grande is top on her list of actresses to portray her in On Your Feet!, the Broadway-bound musical …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM[SHARE]Gillian Anderson, who earned acclaim for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in the recent London revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, directs and stars in a new short film that imagines the cir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM[SHARE]The London stage musical From Here To Eternity, penned by Tim Rice, Stuart Brayson and Bill Oakes, is broadcast in cinemas across the U.S. beginning Oct. 2. A 2015 Broadway production may fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
The stage musical adaptation of Dr. Zhivago, based on the 1958 Nobel Prize-winning novel by Russian author Boris Pasternak, will begin previews March 27, 2015, at the Broadway Theatre, p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]Me, My Mouth and I, an autobiographical solo play written and performed by comedian Joy Behar, will play a limited Off-Broadway run beginning Nov. 6 at the Cherry Lane Theatre, producers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Chicago's Tympanic Theatre has announced plans to produce Today We Escape, a new stage work inspired by the 1997 Radio Head album "OK Computer," which will premiere in spring 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PM[SHARE]Recent Bullets Over Broadway star Zach Braff has been tapped to direct a new pilot for MTV about an overworked assistant whose boss goes missing, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Academy Award-winning "The Fighter" star Melissa Leo and "Juno" actress Olivia Thirlby will star in the American Repertory Theater world-premiere of Eve Ensler…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:33PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award nominee Howard McGillin, Corey Cott and Steffanie Leigh will join "High School Musical" star Vanessa Hudgens in the Broadway-bound revival of Lerner and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PM[SHARE]Stage and screen actress Gina Gershon will join "Twilight" actor Billy Burke for the upcoming concert tour of the Stephen King-John Mellencamp musical Ghost Brothers of Darklan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PM[SHARE]Emmy Award nominee Annie Potts, who was to star as M'Lynn in the Alliance Theatre staging of Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias, has withdrawn from the production due to an injury.
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