Thursday, May 29, 2014
The Broadway League has released figures for Broadway's economic contribution to New York City during the 2012-13 season. Broadway productions generated $11.9 billion, up slightly from t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PM[SHARE]PS Classics will record a two-disc live original Broadway cast album of Lanie Robertson's play with music Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, starring five-time Tony Award-winning a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Tony Award-winning Once star Steve Kazee will join the cast of Showtime's "Shameless," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PM[SHARE]John Rubinstein, who originated the title role in the original 1972 Broadway production of Pippin, will join the cast of the Tony Award-winning revival of the Stephen Schwartz-Roger O. Hirso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM[SHARE]American Express card members now have exclusive access to tickets for the Broadway premiere of The River, the new Jez Butterworth play starring Hugh Jackman that will arrive on Broadway thi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PM[SHARE]The Bill Russell-Frank Kelly-Albert Evans musical Pageant, which was seen in a sold-out limited benefit run in February, will return Off-Broadway June 29 at the Davenport Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Following solid viewership for the May 25 screen premiere of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, HBO has greenlit a new gay rights drama from "Hairspray" and "Rock of Ages&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PM[SHARE]Ryan Murphy's film adaptation of the Larry Kramer AIDS drama The Normal Heart, which premiered May 25 on HBO, was watched by 1.4 million viewers, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PM[SHARE]Will Swenson, Melissa Errico and John Behlmann will take a swing at Bull Durham, the world-premiere, Broadway-aimed musical that will debut in September at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]The Peter Mills-Cara Reichel musical Death for Five Voices and Stillwater, a new musical by John Jobson, Ryan McCall and Nathan Tysen, have been selected for the fourth annual Rhinebeck Writ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AM[SHARE]Barrett Foa, the stage and screen actor who currently appears on the CBS crime drama "NCIS: Los Angeles," succeeds Christopher J. Hanke in the hit Off-Broadway solo comedy Buyer &a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The original cast recording of the new Broadway musical Rocky, featuring a score by Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, is released May 27 by UMe. The musical stars Tony nom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 25, 2014
Best known for portraying Sheldon Cooper on "The Big Bang Theory," Golden Globe Award winner Jim Parsons opens up about the impact The Normal Heart had on his personal life, his pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Ryan Murphy's film adaptation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, the gripping drama that documents the dawn of the AIDS crisis in New York City, premieres on HBO May 25 at 9 PM. Jul…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2014
Cut - An Evening of Songs Cut from This Season's Broadway Musicals will be presented June 2 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41PM[SHARE]A June 16 benefit presentation of Ntozake Shange's Tony Award-nominated play for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf will feature a line-up of Tony Award-w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PM[SHARE]Alice Ripley, Keala Settle, Margo Seibert and Christopher J. Hanke are among the performers joining The Skivvies for their Playbill Centerfolds concerts May 23-24 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]Cast members from the recently closed new musical The Bridges of Madison County, along with Tony-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown, appear at Barnes and Noble May 23 to celebrate …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Playbill.com's new feature series Booking It asks leading industry members to share professional insights, need-to-know tips and essential tricks of the trade for up-and-coming and estab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2014
Tony Award-winning Peter and the Starcatcher and "Smash" star Christian Borle will join the second season of the Showtime drama "Masters of Sex."
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PM[SHARE]The day following the announcement of the 2014 Tony Awards, Playbill.com asked this year's nominees to talk about how they cope with rejection in show business and the hard work it takes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Angela Bassett, who last appeared on the Broadway stage in The Mountaintop, will direct a new Whitney Houston biopic for Lifetime.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PM[SHARE]The film adaptation of Larry Kramer's landmark AIDS drama The Normal Heart will premiere on HBO May 25. The starry cast includes Julia Roberts, Matt Bomer, Mark Ruffalo and Jim Parsons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM[SHARE]Olivier and Emmy Award-winning actor Benedict Cumberbatch is in talks to replace Guy Pearce in the new Whitey Bulger film drama "Black Mass" that is currently shooting in Boston, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AM[SHARE]Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof playwright David Auburn will join Samuel D. Hunter as a writer-in-residence at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2014 National Playwrigh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AM[SHARE]The London revival of Miss Saigon, which opened May 21 at the West End's Prince Edward Theatre, has recouped its £4.5 million investment, according to the Stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]"Absolutely Fabulous" and Kathy and Mo Show star Mo Gaffney stars as Miss Lynch in the Ogunquit Playhouse production of the audience favorite Grease, which continues through June 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AM[SHARE]Mark Nelson, David Gregory and Leslie Hendrix star in the Hartford Stage production of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which begins performances May 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The MCC Theater production of Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike, starring Golden Globe Award-nominated actress Greta Gerwig, begins Off-Broadway previews May 22 at the Lucille Lortel T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2014
New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, which celebrates the 30th year of their Powerhouse Theater collaboration this summer, announced initial casting for its upcoming Powerhouse season…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM[SHARE]The original Broadway cast recording of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which was released in stores May 13, placed #1 on the Billboard Top Broadway Albums Chart in its first w…
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