Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Following high ratings for the Dec. 5 telecast of The Sound of Music Live!, NBC has committed to airing another family-friendly musical during the 2014 holiday season, according to the New Y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee Bette Midler will portray buxom entertainer Mae West in a new film for HBO to be written by Tony winner Harvey Fiersten, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]A reading of Thornton Wilder's The Long Christmas Dinner, a Public Forum Drama Club event, is presented Dec. 10 at Joe's Pub, the intimate cabaret located within The Public Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Cast members from Off-Broadway's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 celebrate the release of the production's new Ghostlight Records cast recording with a B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2013
Producers Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Louise Gund announced Dec. 9 that Rob Campbell, who was most recently seen in The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters at Playwrights Horizons, will pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for the new Jason Robert Brown musical The Bridges of Madison County, which is scheduled to begin previews Jan. 17, 2014, at Broadway's Gerald Schoenf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning dancer Donna McKechnie sits with Tony-winning choreographer Jerry Mitchell for In Good Company, a special conversation, Dec. 9 at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2013
The Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet, starring Orlando Bloom ("The Lord of the Rings") and Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad (Stick Fly, The Trip to Bountiful) as Shakespeare&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Martha Clarke's world-premiere staging of Chéri, a new theatrical dance work set in Paris' Belle Époque era that stars Academy Award nominee Amy Irving, officially open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]If/Then, the new musical by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal writers Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, ends its pre-Broadway engagement Dec. 8 at the National The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2013
Tony Award winner Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes) has signed on for the new Darren Star pilot "Younger," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:37PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Alice Ripley will star in the new independent film "Sugar!," according to Variety. It will feature original music by the Next to Normal star.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PM[SHARE]Fans will be able to submit questions for Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Carol Channing to answer during her Jan. 20, 2014, appearance at Town Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PM[SHARE]A mini-cast album of the Broadway-aimed musical Allegiance, starring Tony Award winner Lea Salonga, George Takei and Tell Leung, is released digitally Dec. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PM[SHARE]NBC's Dec. 5 broadcast of The Sound of Music Live!, the $9 million television event starring Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, Audra McDonald and more, was an unprecedented ratings boon f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AM[SHARE]NBC's Dec. 5 broadcast of The Sound of Music Live!, the $9 million television event starring Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, Audra McDonald and more, was an unprecedented ratings boon f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Mark Jacoby, who originated the role of overworked dad Walter Hobbs in the Broadway production of Elf, repeats his work in the Theatre Under the Stars production of the ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2013
Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, who stars as Mother Abbess in the NBC live broadcast of The Sound of Music, performed "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" during the 16th annual "Christmas in Rockefelle…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]Derek Klena and Caitlin Kinnunen will join Kelli O'Hara, Steven Pasquale and Hunter Foster in the Broadway cast of the new Jason Robert Brown musical The Bridges of Madison County.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Emmy Award-nominated producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan are hoping to introduce American television audiences to a new holiday tradition with the ambitious undertaking of presenting a live…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PM[SHARE]Three-time Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie will star as temperamental stage diva Helen Sinclair in the new Broadway musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, producers a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]Broadway Records has announced plans to release the original cast album of the new Andrew Lippa musical Big Fish, starring two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PM[SHARE]The New York Theatre Workshop world premiere of What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined, helmed by Tony Award-nominated Once choreographer Steven Hoggett and co-conceived by actor-musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical The Sound of Music comes to the screen in a new live television adaptation starring Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, Audra McDonald, Laura Benan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The Public Theater continues to extend its critically acclaimed production of the Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron musical Fun Home. The world-premiere musical, based on the graphic memoir by A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PM[SHARE]Five-time Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald takes on a heavenly role and an iconic song in the NBC broadcast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music Live!
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PM[SHARE]Mandy Greenfield, who is currently the artistic producer of Manhattan Theatre Club, has been named the new artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Billy Porter has extended his run with the Tony-winning hit musical Kinky Boots, while Tony-nominated co-stars Stark Sands and Annaleigh Ashford will depart the musical in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare Unit production of Much Ado About Nothing officially opens Off-Broadway Dec. 3 after previews that began Nov. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster will join Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale in the Broadway production of the new Jason Robert Brown musical The Bridges of Madison County, which begins…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PM[SHARE]Houdini, the upcoming musical starring Hugh Jackman (The Boy from Oz, "Wolverine") as the legendary illusionist, is aiming for a 2015-16 Broadway arrival.
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