Monday, June 30, 2014
A Broadway-aimed musical adaptation of the 1996 comedy "The First Wives Club" will premiere in Chicago next spring, prior to an anticipated Broadway arrival during the 2015-16 seas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AM[SHARE]Five-time Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer, who last appeared on Broadway in the Tony-winning revival of La Cage aux Folles, plans to return to the stage next year in a new musical, accordin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]The Public Theater presents "Shakespeare in America," a free, one-night-only performance and discussion at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, June 30 at 8 PM. Steven Pasquale, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2014
As part of Playbill's 30 Days of Pride, Tony Award-nominated composer-lyricist Andrew Lippa takes readers on an exclusive track-by-track journey through the people, places and historic m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff, "Orange Is the New Black" actress and activist Laverne Cox and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director Rea Carey are the grand mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The New York premiere of Terry Teachout's one-man Louis Armstrong play Satchmo at the Waldorf, which opened Off-Broadway March 4 at the Westside Theatre, end its run June 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]TV and film star Fran Drescher, who joined the cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella in February, ends her extended engagement in the Broadway production June 29 at the Broadway T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Bill Russell-Frank Kelly-Albert Evans musical Pageant, which was seen in a limited benefit run earlier this year, returns for an Off-Broadway engagement beginning June 29 at the Dav…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan's Tony Award-winning political drama All The Way, which stars Emmy and Tony Award winner Bryan Cranston, ends its limited Broadway run …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2014
In honor of Playbill's 30 Day of Pride, we take a look back at one of our favorite past features in which we asked LGBT members of the theatre community to share their personal stories o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2014
National Theatre Live will broadcast the acclaimed London production of David Hare's Skylight in theatres across the globe this fall. The production, which stars Carey Mulligan, Bill Nig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:53PM[SHARE]The marquees of Broadway theatres will be dimmed for one minute June 28 at 7:45 PM in memory of composer Mary Rodgers, who passed away June 26 at age 83.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[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 — will return to New York City…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon and Tony Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad, who previously collaborated on the 2004 Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, will co-star in Bernar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Fuerza Bruta Wayra, an expanded and updated version of the Argentinian spectacle that premiered Off-Broadway in 2007, returns to the Daryl Roth Theatre June 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Director Liesl Tommy brings a new, modern-dress, immersive production of the hit international musical Les Misérables to the Dallas Theater Center beginning June 27. A host of Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2014
Barbra Streisand's second duets album will feature such artists as Billy Joel, John Mayer, Michael Buble, John Legend, Blake Shelton, Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban, according to Billboa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PM[SHARE]The New Group has announced its 2014-15 season, which will include Academy Award winners Dianne Wiest and Holly Hunter, as well as Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg, Tony winner Tonya Pi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PM[SHARE]The new Sting musical The Last Ship is currently playing a pre-Broadway engagement at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre. Producers have released footage of the production that will arriv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AM[SHARE]The pre-Broadway premiere of The Last Ship, the new musical with music and lyrics by 16-time Grammy winner Sting — inspired by the songwriter's own childhood — officiall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress Kyra Sedgwick will star in the premiere of Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley's The Danish Widow, which will run in July as part of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM[SHARE]People Like Us, the two-person musical by Todd Almond and Gus Kaikkonen, will be presented July 7 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PM[SHARE]Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo, who produced the Broadway sports dramas Lombardi, Magic/Bird and Bronx Bombers, have acquired stage and film rights to the life story of African American heavy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PM[SHARE]The hit musical Kinky Boots, which played a Chicago out-of-town premiere in fall 2012 prior to its Tony Award-winning 2013 Broadway debut, will return to the Windy City when the national tou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]The Public Theater will present "Shakespeare in America," a free, one-night-only performance and discussion at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park June 30 at 8 PM. Actresses Jess…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AM[SHARE]Before he was a Tony Award-winning director-choreographer, Jerry Mitchell was a Broadway chorus kid who turned his art into activism during the height of Broadway's AIDS crisis with the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The pre-Broadway premiere of The Last Ship, the new musical with music and lyrics by 17-time Grammy winner Sting — inspired by the songwriter's own childhood — officiall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
A private industry reading of the Broadway-aimed production of Gigi, featuring a fresh book by British playwright and Emmy-nominated screenwriter Heidi Thomas ("Upstairs Downstairs,&quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Annaleigh Ashford (Kinky Boots, "Masters of Sex") and Golden Globe nominee Rose Byrne ("Damages," "Bridesmaids") have joined the cast of the Broadway revival of Moss Hart …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PM[SHARE]Max Crumm, who has appeared on the New York stage in Grease, Disaster! and on television in "You're the One That I Want!," will step into the role of Matt in the long-running O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PM[SHARE]Heather Matarazzo, Barrett Foa and Krysta Rodriguez are among the stars who will strip with The Skivvies for their July 1 show at 54 Below.
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