Tuesday, January 28, 2014
A new Broadway-aimed production of Gigi, featuring a fresh book by British playwright and Emmy-nominated screenwriter Heidi Thomas ("Upstairs Downstairs," "Call the Midwife&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PM[SHARE]Adam Jacobs, who will star in the upcoming Broadway premiere of Aladdin, and his wife, actress Kelly Jacobs, welcomed the birth of twin boys Jan. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PM[SHARE]The Human Race Theatre Company will launch its 2014 season with Harvey Fierstein's landmark, Tony Award-winning work Torch Song Trilogy, which will begin performances Jan. 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PM[SHARE]Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, the new musical by GrooveLily band members Valerie Vigoda and Brendan Milburn and Tony Award-winning book writer Joe DiPietro, will premiere in Seattle this sprin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PM[SHARE]The Australian musical spectacle King Kong, which ends its world-premiere Melbourne run in mid-February, is aiming to conquer Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre later this year, according to th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AM[SHARE]Producers of If/Then, the new Broadway musical from Next to Normal writers Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey that stars Tony winner Idina Menzel, have shared an exclusive musical track with Playbill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]Zosia Mamet, Christian Borle, Anika Noni Rose, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Steven Pasquale and more will be part of MCC Theater's annual Miscast gala, which will take place March 31 at the Hamme…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Jim Dale will perform his one-man show Just Jim Dale Off-Broadway this spring, beginning May 15 at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner James Naughton launches the American Songbook in the Allen Room concert series Jan. 28 at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Madrid's Teatro Real stages the world premiere of a new opera based on Anne Proulx's 1997 short story "Brokeback Mountain," which was adapted into the 2005 Academy Awa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Five-time Tony Award nominee Michael John LaChiusa is at work on his next stage project, First Daughter Suite, a continuation of his 1993 musical First Lady Suite that interweaves the dreams…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
Broadway Bares: Winter Burlesque, which kicked off the 24th season of Broadway Bares, the annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, raised $32,781 during the steamy performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PM[SHARE]Kander and Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, Janis Joplin star Mary Bridget Davies, Lorenzo Pisoni and the DOMA Theatre Co. production of Dreamgirls are among the nominees for the 2013 Los Ange…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:18PM[SHARE]Young actors Joshua Colley, Mia Sinclair Jenness, Gaten Matarazzo, Angeli Negron and Mckayla Twiggs have been announced for the Broadway return of Les Misérables, which will begin pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will be 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 Yor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:06PM[SHARE]The Richard Rodgers Theatre box office opens Jan. 27 for If/Then, the new musical by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal writers Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, which will b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PM[SHARE]Award-winning performer Barbra Streisand will release a follow-up to her 2002 "Duets" album, according to Billboard Magazine.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PM[SHARE]Keith Huff's crime drama A Steady Rain will receive its Los Angeles premiere beginning Feb. 22 at the Odyssey Theatre. Steppenwolf Theatre co-founder Jeff Perry will direct.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PM[SHARE]The New York City Police Department is investigating the brutal beating of theatre journalist Randy Gener as a possible hate crime. Gener, an openly gay Filipino-American, was attacked Jan. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PM[SHARE]Grammy Award winner Sting will perform songs from The Last Ship, his new musical and album of the same title, as a benefit for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in February.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM[SHARE]Andy Kelso steps into the role of Charlie Price in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Kinky Boots, succeeding Tony nominees Stark Sands, beginning Jan. 27 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriters You Should Know: LIVE!, a concert featuring rising musical theatre songwriters that is based on the Playbill.com article of the same name, is hel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 26, 2014
The Masterworks Broadway original cast album of Kinky Boots, the Tony Award-winning musical that features a score by Grammy and Tony winner Cyndi Lauper, has won the Grammy Award for Best Mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:54PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award nominee Stark Sands, who created the role of shoemaker Charlie Price on stage in the Tony-winning hit musical Kinky Boots, plays his final performance in the Broadway pro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony nominee Christopher Sieber opens Broadway Bares: Winter Burlesque, which kicks off the 24th season of Broadway Bares, the annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 25, 2014
The Skivvies return to 54 Below Jan. 25 for a late-night concert featuring special guests Lena Hall, Justin Matthew Sargent, Zak Resnick and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawk…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The Skivvies return to 54 Below Jan. 25 for a late-night concert featuring special guests Lena Hall, Justin Matthew Sargent, Zak Resnick and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawk…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Reg Rogers, Emmy Award winner David Alan Grier and Felicia Ricci star in the Jan. 25 presentations of My Fair Lady, comprising a cast and crew of Yale University alumni, s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Phillip Clark, Joy Franz and Nancy Lemenager star in the Engeman Theater production of Jon Robin Baitz's Tony-nominated drama Other Desert Cities, which officially opens Jan. 25 after pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2014
The TV film version of the Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, starring Tony and Emmy winner Cicely Tyson, will now air on Lifetime March …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PM[SHARE]Grammy Award winner Carole King, whose life and music are the basis for the new Broadway musical Beautiful, is honored as the 2014 MusiCares Person of the Year Jan. 24 in Los Angeles.
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