Tuesday, September 30, 2014
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nominee Annie Potts, who was to star as M'Lynn in the Alliance Theatre staging of Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias, has withdrawn from the production due to an injury.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PM[SHARE]Producers of the hit Broadway musical Motown announced that they will hold an Oct. 21 open call in Detroit, MI, for African-American singers to join the national tour and Broadway produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[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 11:13AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
A new unauthorized musical parody of the comedic screen horror franchise "Scream" will premiere in Los Angeles Oct. 11 with a cast that includes "Modern Family" cast memb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PM[SHARE]Lauren Worsham, the Tony Award-nominated actress who created the role of Phoebe D'Ysquith in the Broadway production of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, will exit the Tony…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PM[SHARE]Waterfall, a new romantic musical set during the changing political landscape of Thailand in the 1930s, is aiming for a 2016 Broadway arrival following out-of-town engagements at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PM[SHARE]Actor Bryan Batt, known for his roles on stage and screen in Cats and "Mad Men," respectively, married his longtime partner Tom Cianfichi Sept. 28 in New Orleans.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress Mary-Louise Parker, last seen on Broadway in The Snow Geese, will publish her memoir in 2015, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]Finding Neverland, the new musical based on the 2004 Miramax film about Peter Pan playwright J.M. Barrie, will arrive on Broadway in March 2015 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, producer Har…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]Stalking the Bogeyman, based on the true-life story of journalist David Holthouse, officially opens Off-Broadway Sept. 29 after previews that began Sept. 12 at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally is honored by Gay Men's Health Crisis Sept. 29 with the 2014 Howard Ashman Award, honoring individuals whose art and activism have made…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Last Ship, the new musical with music and lyrics by 16-time Grammy winner Sting — inspired by the songwriter's own childhood, arrives on Broadway Sept. 29 at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2014
The American Repertory Theater's Broadway-bound production of the new musical Finding Neverland, which features a score by U.K. pop songwriters Gary Barlow and Elliot Kennedy, ends i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 27, 2014
The London revival of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's Miss Saigon celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam War-set musical's premiere with a Sept. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2014
Tony Award winners Betty Buckley, Christine Ebersole, Beth Leavel and producer Jordan Roth are among the Broadway luminaries who are rallying to help support Clay Aiken in his North Carolina…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]A new version of PigPen Theatre Co.'s celebrated production of The Old Man and The Old Moon, a blend of music and shadow play that was met with critical acclaim Off-Broadway in 2012,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PM[SHARE]Producers of The Last Ship, featuring a score by Grammy Award winner Sting, have announced a day-of ticket lottery for the Broadway musical, which begins performances Sept. 29 at the Nei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM[SHARE]The Skivvies return to 54 Below Sept. 26 with a lineup including Tony Award-winning Hedwig star Lena Hall, The Book of Mormon's Matt Doyle and Legally Blonde's Natalie Joy Johnso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]"Pride," the new Matthew Warchus film based on the true story of gay and lesbian U.K. activists who raised funds to support striking members of the National Union of Mineworkers, h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tom Parsons and Madeleine Jones co-star as lovelorn musicians Guy and Girl in the Australian premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical Once, based on the Academy Award-winning f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The New York Philharmonic's recent staged production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is telecast nationally on Live From Lincoln…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2014
The London productions of Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the history novels by Hilary Mantel about Henry VIII, will arrive on Broadway this spring at the Winter Garde…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]Advertising company Clear Channel Spectacolor announced Sept. 25 that it would enter its first theatrical venture, joining the producing team of the upcoming Broadway reincarnation of Side S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PM[SHARE]The Public Theater has announced that it will begin offering free tickets to the first preview performance of each of its downtown shows, including the premiere of Hamilton from Tony Award w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PM[SHARE]The stage musical adaptation of Dr. Zhivago, based on the 1958 Nobel Prize-winning novel by Russian author Boris Pasternak, is aiming for an April 2015 Broadway opening, according to an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Douglas Smith, David Greenspan, Annie Funke and Noah Robbins will star in the New York premiere of Punk Rock, a new work by Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time playwright Simon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:40PM[SHARE]Zachary Levi, who made his Broadway debut last year in First Date, may star in a new musical television series that he is executive producing with Eva Longoria for NBC, according to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PM[SHARE]Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien, Sydney Lucas, Matthew Broderick and Christine Ebersole are among the actors who will perform as part of the Dramatists Guild's Great Writers Thank Their Lucky …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM[SHARE]Christopher Durang's Tony Award-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike tops Theatre Communications Group's list of the ten most-produced plays for the 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PM[SHARE]With the release of "Partners," Barbra Streisand has become the first artist to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart in each of the last six decades, Billboard.com reports…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]While I Yet Live, the semi-autobiographical play from Kinky Boots Tony Award winner Billy Porter about a young man's coming of age in Pittsburgh, PA, begins its world-premiere en…
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