Monday, September 8, 2014
Tony and Olivier Award winner Patti LuPone has signed on as a guest star in the second season of Showtime's psychological horror series "Penny Dreadful."
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominees Euan Morton and Douglas Sills join Donna Lynne Champlin and Karen Mason star in a staged reading of the new musical Chasing Rainbows – The Road to Oz.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]A spring 2015 Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which was initially announced to star Tony Award winner James Corden, ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]Green Day front man and American Idiot writer Billie Joe Armstrong has been tapped to star in the upcoming film comedy "Geezer," according to Showbiz411.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2014
The national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots, about a British shoemaker whose business is saved thanks to a drag performer and a new set of fabulous clientele, officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sierra Boggess, who earned acclaim for her performance as soprano Christine Daaé in the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera, departs the producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2014
Alison Luff, who appeared as Elphaba in the national tour of the long-running hit Wicked, will join the cast of Matilda The Musical as school teacher Miss Honey, beginning Sept. 6 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PM[SHARE]Producers of the Australian stage spectacle King Kong have parted ways with director Daniel Kramer and librettist Craig Lucas as the new musical undergoes revisions for a North American prem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PM[SHARE]Memorabilia from the original, long-running Broadway production of A Chorus Line, including the marquee signage from outside the Shubert Theatre as well as cast boards and vintage collec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PM[SHARE]The box office for the Booth Theatre, home to the revival of The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper, opens for business Sept. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]Emmy Award-winning "Glee" star Jane Lynch will host Uprising of Love, a one-night-only concert to benefit LGBTI rights across the globe Sept. 15 at the Gershwin Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM[SHARE]The life and music of Grammy Award-winning musician Carole King will take to the London stage in early 2015, with a U.S. tour to launch next fall, producers announced Sept. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30AM[SHARE]The Public Works production of The Winter's Tale, a new musical adaptation of Shakespeare's work performed by professional actors and the people of New York City, begins performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A new production of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, adapted by Holler If Ya Hear Me book writer Todd Kreidler, premieres Sept. 5 at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company. "Cosby Sho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2014
The New York Times reports that a musical adaptation of Dr. Zhivago, based on the 1958 Nobel Prize-winning novel by Russian author Boris Pasternak, will begin performances on Broadway in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PM[SHARE]ABC Television revealed Sept. 3 that 18-year-old dancer Ricky Ubeda was the winner of the 11th season of the reality competition show "So You Think You Can Dance." The top …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway production of the drag musical comedy Pageant has announced a special ticket offer and audience contest to take place Sept. 14 in celebration of the 88th Annual Miss Ame…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]The life of comedian Phyllis Diller is being adapted for a new film by Buyer & Cellar playwright Jonathan Tolins and Seth Bass, according to an Equity casting notice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]The Sydney Theatre Company has announced a new production of Anton Chekhov's first play, The Present, starring Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, as part of its 2015 season, which will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]The national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots, about a British shoemaker whose business is saved thanks to a drag performer and a new set of fabulous clientele, launche…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The MCC Theater world-premiere production of Neil LaBute's The Money Shot, about a couple of desperate movie stars, begins performances Sept. 4 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2014
The Broadway premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, which arrived at the Broadway Theatre in early 2013, will end its Broadway run in January. Producers also announced that &q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:55PM[SHARE]Friday night late-night performances have been added to the fall performance schedule of Here Lies Love, the immersive David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical about the lives of Filipino le…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PM[SHARE]British singer-songwriter Gary Barlow, who has written the original score to the new Broadway-bound musical Finding Neverland, has revealed that a guest artist album of music from th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PM[SHARE]Melissa Rivers, daughter of 81-year-old showbiz veteran Joan Rivers, has confirmed that her mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room at Mt. Sinai Hospital …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PM[SHARE]Sierra Boggess, who returned to the role of Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera last spring alongside Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis in the titular masked role, will depart the Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AM[SHARE]The Broadway musical Elf, which was seen in a dual holiday tour last season, will return to the road this November. Casting for the Eastern and Western routes of the tour has been revealed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AM[SHARE]NBC has released the first image of "Girls" actress Allison Williams in costume as Peter Pan. The live television presentation of the Broadway classic is set to air Dec. 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2014
The world premiere of Tony nominee Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play Between Riverside And Crazy, which officially opened July 31 at the Atlantic Theater Company, ends its extended run Aug.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2014
Emmy Award-winning performer Lorna Luft, who will tour the U.K. with the musical revue Puttin' on the Ritz this fall, will make her 54 Below debut in December.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PM[SHARE]A new, intimate version of the Tony Award-winning musical Titanic, which dramatizes the maiden voyage of the ill-fated luxury liner, will play Chicago's Griffin Theatre Company this fall…
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