Friday, August 8, 2014
Plans remain in place for a 2015 Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a production spokesperson confirmed to Playbill.com A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AM[SHARE]The Sydney Theatre Company production of The Maids, the psychological Jean Genet stage drama about power and class that stars Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett, officially opens A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2014
Fun Home, the award-winning Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron musical based on the graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel that played an acclaimed run at the Public Theater earlier this season, is schedule…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PM[SHARE]The Broadway hit Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, which stars six-time Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald, has extended for a fourth and final time, producers announced Aug. 7…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]A new musical revue celebrating the songs of Academy Award-winning Wicked and Pippin composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz will premiere as part of Washington, D.C.'s No Rules Theatre's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein will host the 2014 Broadway Salutes event, celebrating the professionals working on Broadway's stages and behind the scenes, which will be held Se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Tony Award-winning Peter and the Starcatcher and "Smash" star Christian Borle is in final negotiations to star as Smee and Mr. Darling in NBC's live broadcast of the Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PM[SHARE]Immediately following the announcement that the 1997 musical Side Show would return to Broadway this fall in a new incarnation helmed by Oscar winner Bill Condon, Playbill.com reached out to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater announced Aug. 6 that Tony Award nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger will star in the world premiere of Sarah Ruhl's The Oldest Boy, which will arrive Off-Broadway Oct. 9 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:06PM[SHARE]Benjamin Walker, who starred in the title role of Broadway's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, is slated to star in the title role of Second Stage Theatre's American Psycho, according to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne (Red), who portrayed Marius in the film adaptation of Les Misérables, stars as astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in the upcoming film "The Theory of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Santino Fontana, Gina Gershon and Mario Cantone are among the stars set for the Aug. 18 installment of Celebrity Autobiography at Stage 72.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PM[SHARE]The film adaptation of the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical Lucky Stiff, which features Tony winners Jason Alexander, Nikki M. James and the late Dennis Farina, will premiere at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AM[SHARE]Debbie Does Dallas, a musical parody of the 1978 pornographic film of the same name — that was seen Off-Broadway in 2002 starring Sherie Rene Scott — returns to New York City for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Sydney Theatre Company production of Jean Genet's The Maids, the classic stage drama about power and class that stars Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett, begins performance…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Tony Award nominee Stephanie J. Block and her husband Sebastian Arcelus are expecting their first child. The Wicked and Mystery of Edwin Drood star personally revealed the news on Twitter Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Adriane Lenox, last seen in Broadway's After Midnight, will join "Cosby Show" star Malcolm-Jamal Warner in the Huntington Theatre Company production of Guess …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PM[SHARE]Emmy Award winner Sherri Shepard will take over the role of wicked stepmother Madame in the Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, producers announced Aug. 5. She j…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL, has announced details of its 2015 season, which will include the Tony Award-winning musical City of Angels as well as the world premiere of October …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AM[SHARE]The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of King Lear, starring Tony Award winner John Lithgow and Academy Award nominee Annette Bening, officially opens Aug. 5 after prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
Tina Benko, Dallas Roberts and Roslyn Ruff have been cast in Ivo van Hove's stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's epic film documenting the dissolution of a relationship, Scenes from …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris is in the final leg of his acclaimed run of the Broadway premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Prior to his Aug. 17 departure, the stage and screen sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]The Laurence O'Keefe-Kevin Murphy pop musical adaptation of the 1988 black comedy "Heathers," which arrived Off-Broadway March 15, ends its run Aug. 4 at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]James Snyder, who co-stars with Idina Menzel in the Broadway musical If/Then, makes his 54 Below debut Aug. 4 debut at the midtown nightlife venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2014
Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera stars in a new staging of the Kander and Ebb musical The Visit, based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1956 play about a scorned woman who returns t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rocky Tony Award nominee Andy Karl, Legally Blonde's Orfeh and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton are among the performers who strip down with The Skivvies as part of the group's Aug. 2 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2014
British singer-songwriter Lily Allen has revealed that she is no longer attached to a stage musical based on Helen Fielding's 1996 novel and subsequent film "Bridget Jones's Dia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PM[SHARE]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, has extended its Off-Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PM[SHARE]"The Mirror Has Two Faces" and "Last Five Years" screenwriter Richard LaGravenese has been tapped by Universal Pictures to adapt Gypsy as a screen project for Barbra Stre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AM[SHARE]PS Classics' two-disc, live original Broadway cast album of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, starring Audra McDonald as late singer Billie Holiday, has held onto the #1 slot in B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2014
Rocky Tony Award nominee Andy Karl, Legally Blonde's Orfeh and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton are among the performers who will strip down with The Skivvies as part of the group's up…
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