Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Houdini, the upcoming musical starring Hugh Jackman (The Boy from Oz, "Wolverine") as the legendary illusionist, is aiming for a 2015-16 Broadway arrival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]The studio soundtrack companion to the NBC broadcast of The Sound of Music Live!, featuring Carrie Underwood, Audra McDonald and more, is released Dec. 3 from Sony Masterworks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AM[SHARE]The stars and directors of the Broadway revival of Cabaret, including Tony Award winner Alan Cumming and Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams, will be part of the New York Times "Tim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AM[SHARE]American Psycho, the new musical by Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik and playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, based on the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel, begins its Lon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2013
The Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical The Lion King, which celebrated its 16th anniversary on Broadway in November, has become the fourth longest-running show in Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:54PM[SHARE]Phoebe Panaretos will co-star in the stage premiere of Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom, which will begin performances March 25, 2014, at the Lyric Theatre in Sydney, Australia.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PM[SHARE]Wicked's Dee Roscioli will join The Haus of Mimosa, featuring actors Travis Barr and Steven Incammicia, for a special Dec. 4 late night holiday show at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]The Hartman Group, the theatrical press agency founded by Michael Hartman in 2009, will shut its doors in early 2014, the veteran press agent announced Dec. 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running, Tony Award-winning musical Cats may receive its cinematic debut. The composer revealed that Universal Pictures is considering a film adaptation, accor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PM[SHARE]The return Broadway engagement of The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream, which was to begin performances Dec. 16 at the Marquis Theatre, has been canceled.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning dancer Donna McKechnie will sit with Tony-winning choreographer Jerry Mitchell for In Good Company, a special conversation, Dec. 9 at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PM[SHARE]Additional casting has been announced for playwright-actor Charles Busch's The Tribute Artist, which will premiere Off-Broadway at Primary Stages in January.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AM[SHARE]Music Theatre International has obtained worldwide licensing rights for the 1954 Broadway classic Peter Pan, featuring a score by Morris Charlap, Julie Styne, Carolyn Leigh, and Betty Comden…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]Keith Kupferer and Erin Burniston will join Tony Award nominee Louise Pitre in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of Gypsy, which will begin performances in February 2014.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AM[SHARE]Megan Sikora will star as Sally Bowles in the Marriott Theatre production of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, which will begin performances Jan. 15, 2014, in Lincolnshire, IL.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 1, 2013
The artists involved in the NBC broadcast of The Sound of Music Live!, including Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, Christian Borle and Laura Benanti, share some of their "Favorite Things…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Terence Rattigan's classic drama about family loyalty, The Winslow Boy, starring Tony Award winner Roger Rees and Academy Award n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 29, 2013
Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn, filmed live during the award-winning actress' concerts at the Barclays Center last fall, airs nationwide at 9 PM ET on PBS' "Great Performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominees Phillip Boykin and Carolee Carmello join Cheyenne Jackson and Julia Bullock for an evening of classic songs from Broadway musicals Nov. 29 at Carnegie Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 28, 2013
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Playbill.com reached out to members of the New York theatre community, including actors, musicians, writers, producers, ushers, front of house and backstage cr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Alexandra Socha, who originated the role of Medium Alison in the Public Theater's acclaimed new musical Fun Home, has departed the production. Actress Emily Skeggs succeeds her in the ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]The live film of the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman, will return to U.S. cinemas in Decemb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AM[SHARE]The upcoming Disney film adaptation of Into the Woods, which is currently filming in London, will feature a new song for the character of the Witch, played by Academy Award winner Meryl Stre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM[SHARE]NBC airs a behind-the-scenes special about the making of The Sound of Music Live! Nov. 27 at 8 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The newly re-imagined U.S. tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, starring Mark Campbell and Julia Udine, launches Nov. 27 in Providence, RI.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2013
The new Broadway musical The Bridges of Madison County, starring Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale, will now open Feb. 20, 2014, at 8 PM at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre — one week …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:09PM[SHARE]Cast members from Off-Broadway's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 will celebrate the release of the production's new Ghostlight Records cast recording with a B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PM[SHARE]All The Way, the new political drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, which stars Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson, will open on Broadway at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PM[SHARE]PS Classics will record the critically acclaimed production of the Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron musical Fun Home, based on the graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, which is currently playing a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PM[SHARE]Kristine Nielsen, Ashley Brown, Michael Park, Jessica Molaskey, Elena Shaddow, Georgia Stitt and Jake Boyd are among the actors who will appear in the NBC broadcast of The Sound of Music Liv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]Les Misérables veterans Craig Schulman, Chuck Wagner, Lauren Kennedy and her daughter, newcomer Riley Campbell, will star in the North Carolina Theatre production of the Alain Boublil…
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