Thursday, April 17, 2014
Death Note, the new Frank Wildhorn-Jack Murphy musical based on the Japanese manga series, received a New York workshop this week in anticipation of a 2015 Tokyo premiere. Andy Kelso, Robert…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]The original cast and creative team of Fun Home, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist based on the graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, will reunite for two special concert stagings at the College of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]The original cast and creative team of Fun Home, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist based on the graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, will reunite for two special concert stagings at the College of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AM[SHARE]Lauren Molina and Steel Burkhardt star in the regional premiere of the Off-Broadway rock musical Murder Ballad, which begins performances April 17 at TUTS Underground in Houston, TX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Original The Wild Party star Julia Murney is joined by Jeremy Jordan, Leslie Kritzer and more for a special one-night-only concert of re-imagined songs from that Andrew Lippa Drama Desk Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Act One, the new stage production based on the memoir of Broadway playwright, director and lyricist Moss Hart, officially opens on Broadway April 17 at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Producers have announced an extension for the Broadway run of Lanie Robertson's play with music Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, starring five-time Tony Award-winning actress Aud…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AM[SHARE]The Library, Scott Z. Burns' new drama about violence in America and the narratives shaped in the aftermath of tragedy that is directed by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh, of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AM[SHARE]The creative team behind the long-running West End musical We Will Rock You are at work on a sequel to the production that using the songs of the rock band Queen for its score.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2014
The original cast recording of the new Broadway musical Rocky, featuring a score by Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, will be released May 27 by UMe. Several songs from th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01PM[SHARE]Barrett Foa, the stage and screen actor who currently appears on the CBS crime drama "NCIS: Los Angeles," will succeed Christopher J. Hanke in the hit Off-Broadway solo comedy Buyer & Ce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]The new Michael Roberts musical Greed, which officially opened Off-Broadway April 3 at New World Stages, will end its run April 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods, which had its French premiere at Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet April 1-12, is broadcast on Radio France April…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Topol will join Tony Award winners Jerry Zaks, Andrea Martin and lyricist Sheldon Harnick for a June 9 celebration of the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]Academy and Tony Award-nominated actress Annette Bening is in talks to co-star in the Shakespeare in the Park production of King Lear, starring John Lithgow, according to Showbiz411.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]Jennifer Lim, Daniel Oreskes and Neal Huff have been cast in new plays to be staged by the Public Theater as part of the inaugural Public Studio series in May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots star Billy Porter releases his third solo album, "Billy's Back on Broadway," a collection of inspirational songs from the stage, April 15 on the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Library, Scott Z. Burns' new drama about violence in America and the narratives shaped in the aftermath of tragedy that is directed by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh, of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The original Broadway cast album of the new Jason Robert Brown-Marsha Norman musical The Bridges of Madison County, starring Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale, is released digitally April…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
Playwright Annie Baker's The Flick, which was named the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama April 14, will receive a New York remounting at the Barrow Street Theatre, according t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has selected plays by Halley Feiffer, Tanya Barfield and Mike Lew to be developed during the 2014 National Playwrights Conference.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PM[SHARE]Yellow Sound Label will record the original Off-Broadway cast album of the Laurence O'Keefe-Kevin Murphy pop musical Heathers, based on the 1988 cult comedy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM[SHARE]Academy Award-winning actress Dianne Wiest is in talks to return Off-Broadway next year in Joel Drake Johnson's Rasheeda Speeking, under the direction of Golden Globe and Tony Award nomi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner James Earl Jones may return to Broadway this fall in a revival of the Kauffman and Hart comedy You Can't Take It With You, according to Showbizz411.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Laura Benanti, two-time Tony Award nominee Robin De Jesus, Telly Leung, Todd Buonopane and Mykal Kilgore are part of Broadway Battles Bullying, a benefit to raise funds for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Here Lies Love, the immersive David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical about the lives of Filipino leaders Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos, returns Off-Broadway April 14 at its original home, the Public …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2014
Lisa McCune and Teddy Tahu Rhodes star in the Australian return of the Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, which begins performances April 13 in Brisb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Emmy Award winner Megan Mullally and her husband Nick Offerman co-star as estranged lovers in the New York premiere of Sharr White's Annapurna, which begins performances April 13 at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Five-time Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald returns to Broadway as Billie Holiday in Lanie Robertson's play with music, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, which offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 12, 2014
Elton John, Lady Gaga, "Glee," "Orange Is the New Black" and "Behind the Candelabra" are among the nominees for the 25th annual GLAAD Media Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Michael Grandage production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, starring Daniel Radcliffe, begins Broadway previews April 12 at the Cort Theatre following a sold-out Londo…
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