Friday, February 14, 2014
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 12:03AM[SHARE]Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, who last adapted Alice Walker's The Color Purple for the Broadway stage, returns this season with the new musical incarnat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2014
The acclaimed documentary "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," which will officially premiere in New York City Feb. 21, has announced additional release dates for cities across the U.S.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:42PM[SHARE]Producers of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang's Chekhov-inspired comedy, which whips characters from the Russian playwright's catalogue into a frothy weekend o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PM[SHARE]The Cabrillo Music Theatre in Sherman Oaks, CA, will stage the regional premiere of the Tony Award-winning, hit musical Memphis as part of its 2014-15 season, which will also include Mary Po…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PM[SHARE]Producers of The Bridges of Madison County, the new Jason Robert Brown musical that stars Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale, have announced a special "Blizzard Bargain" for tick…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:06PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Alice Ripley and Lillias White, along with Erin Davie and Emily Padgett, perform the songs of Tony-nominated Dreamgirls and Side Show composer Henry Krieger Feb. 13 as par…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner John Lithgow will play King Lear as part of the Public Theater's 2014 Shakespeare in the Park programming, which will also include Much Ado About Nothing starring Lily …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Ghostlight Records will release the original Broadway cast recording of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, the new stage production that stars Tony Award nominee Jessie Mueller as the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal has withdrawn from the MCC Theater production of Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike, which is scheduled to begin performances in May at the Lucil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]Nancy Anderson, Courtney Balan, Michael Campayno and Elizabeth Broadhurst join The Skivvies for a series of concerts at Pittsburgh's City Theatre beginning Feb. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rocky, the new Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty musical based on the Academy Award-winning 1976 Sylvester Stallone film of the same name, begins Broadway previews Feb. 13 at the Winter Garden Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Telly Leung offers a new Valentine's Day concert, entitled The Ups and Downs of Love, for San Diego audiences Feb. 13 at Martinis Above Fourth.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Leading man Ryan Silverman will play a final concert at the Café Carlyle — the legendary nightclub on the Upper East Side — on Valentine's Day. To celebrate the specia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM[SHARE]The world premiere of playwright-actor Charles Busch's new comedy The Tribute Artist, which officially opened Feb. 9 Off-Broadway, has been extended through March 30 at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning, kid-packed Broadway production of Matilda The Musical, based on the Roald Dahl children's book, offers a special performance to benefit the Actors Fund Feb. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo's music-filled solo play A Boy and His Soul receives its Australian premiere Feb. 12, following a London run at the Tricycle Theatre last fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The American Repertory Theater world-premiere staging of the Richard Rodgers Award-winning musical Witness Uganda, featuring Griffin Matthews, Emma Hunton, Kristolyn Lloyd and Tyrone Davis, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A workshop of the New Orleans-set musical The Countess of Storyville, featuring Vivian Reed and Deborah Cox, begins Feb. 12 at The Peter J. Sharp Theatre
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone was honored with the Ally for Equality Award during the Human Rights Campaign's greater New York gala Feb. 8 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York Ci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Theatrical Rights Worldwide has secured licensing rights for the Andrew Lippa musical Big Fish, based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the subsequent 2003 film by John August. It will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik and playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel "American Psycho" is eyeing a commercial London…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]The first Broadway preview of Rocky, which was to take place Feb. 11 at the Winter Garden Theatre, has been canceled after electrical issues in midtown Manhattan affected final rehearsals fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]Academy Award-winning screen icon Shirley Temple Black, the child star who was a darling of Hollywood's Depression-era film musicals, died Feb. 10 at the age of 85, according to her publ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AM[SHARE]PS Classics will release the world-premiere cast album of the Public Theater production of the Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron musical Fun Home, based on the graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The original Broadway cast album of Big Fish — the recent Andrew Lippa musical starring Norbert Leo Butz and Kate Baldwin — arrives in stores Feb. 11 from Broadway Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rocky, the new Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty musical based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name, begins Broadway previews Feb. 11 at the Winter Garden Theatre. Andy Karl stars as boxer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The original Broadway cast album of A Night with Janis Joplin, starring Mary Bridget Davies as the famed, late singer, is released in stores Feb. 11 from Broadway Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2014
Tony Award-winning actress Diahann Carroll, who was to return to Broadway this spring in the anticipated revival of A Raisin in the Sun with Denzel Washington, has issued a statement on her …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PM[SHARE]Nancy Anderson, Courtney Balan, Michael Campayno and Elizabeth Broadhurst will join The Skivvies for a series of concerts at Pittsburgh's City Theatre beginning Feb. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo's music-filled solo play A Boy and His Soul will receive its Australian premiere Feb. 12, following a London run at the Tricycle Theatre last fall.
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