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Friday, May 12, 2017

A Bronx Tale Offers Performance and CD Signing at Barnes & Noble May 12 by Andrew Gans

The afternoon event features Nick Cordero, Bobby Conte Thornton, Ariana DeBose, Alan Menken, Chazz Palminteri, and more.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AM[SHARE]

Victoria Clark Directs New Musical The Trouble With Doug by Andrew Gans

The musical is currently making its European premiere in Denmark.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AM[SHARE]

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Complete Casting Announced for The Muny's Newsies, Starring Jay Armstrong Johnson by Andrew Gans

Davis Gaines will also be part of the cast of the Disney musical.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PM[SHARE]

NBC Will Broadcast Jesus Christ Superstar Live! by Andrew Gans

The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical will air on Easter Sunday in 2018.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PM[SHARE]

Stars Lineup for BroadwayCon 2018 by Andrew Gans

The annual celebration of The Great White Way will return to New York’s Javits Center.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PM[SHARE]

Watch Ari McKay Wilford's Unplugged Version of 'Heaven on Their Minds' From Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Gans

The Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical is currently playing Virginia’s Signature Theatre.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PM[SHARE]

Casting Announced for Guys and Dolls, Opening Production of Finger Lakes Festival by Andrew Gans

The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival launches in June.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]

Ann Harada, T. Oliver Reid, Lilli Cooper Set for Readings of New Maltby-Shire Musical The Country Wife by Andrew Gans

The readings are part of Red Bull Theater’s Revelation Reading series.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]

Is London Hit The Kid Stays in the Picture Headed to Broadway? by Andrew Gans

The play is Simon McBurney’s adaptation of the memoir penned by Hollywood producer Robert Evans.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AM[SHARE]

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Deconstructing Patti, With Patti LuPone and Seth Rudetsky, Reschedules One-Night-Only Event by Andrew Gans

“Since this will be the first time we perform it in New York, I want to be sure I give the audience everything they’re expecting...and more.”

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PM[SHARE]

Tina Fey's Mean Girls Musical Aims for Broadway Debut in March 2018 by Andrew Gans

Performances are set to begin in Washington, D.C. in October.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PM[SHARE]

Revival of The Glass Menagerie Announces Broadway Closing Date by Andrew Gans

Oscar winner Sally Field stars in the revival.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]

School of Rock Recoups Broadway Investment by Andrew Gans

The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will launch a national tour in the fall.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]

Julie Andrews Will Receive Lifetime Achievement Award by Andrew Gans

The Hamptons International Film Festival will honor the Oscar-winning performer this fall.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]

Monday, May 8, 2017

Brian Yorkey Signs Two-Year Agreement with Paramount TV by Andrew Gans

The Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist-librettist’s Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why, was recently renewed for a second season.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PM[SHARE]

Come From Away's Chad Kimball and Rodney Hicks Will Host 12th Annual Broadway Junior Student Finale by Andrew Gans

The event will be held at the Winter Garden Theatre.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PM[SHARE]

Casting Complete for London's Queen Anne by Andrew Gans

Performances begin in June at the Theatre Royale Haymarket.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PM[SHARE]

Julia Murney and Caroline Bowman Will Star in Cape Playhouse's Gypsy; Season Details Announced by Andrew Gans

Two former Elphabas take on the mother-daughter roles in the classic musical.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]

Edwin Sherin, Stage and Screen Director, Dies at 87 by Andrew Gans

The director received a 1974 Tony nomination for his work on Find Your Way Home.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AM[SHARE]

Friday, May 5, 2017

Jacqueline Goldfinger Is the 2017 Winner of Yale Drama Series Prize by Andrew Gans

Playwright Nicholas Wright chose the winning play, which will receive a staged reading in London.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PM[SHARE]

London's Kinky Boots Will Welcome New Leads by Andrew Gans

The hit musical has also extended its run at the Adelphi Theatre.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PM[SHARE]

Angela Lansbury and Brian Stokes Mitchell Featured on New Mormon Tabernacle Choir CD by Andrew Gans

Santino Fontana also recorded a song specifically for the recording.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PM[SHARE]

Executive Producer of Brooklyn Academy of Music to Step Down by Andrew Gans

Joseph V. Melillo will depart the performing arts center in 2018.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]

Telly Leung Sets Start Date in Broadway's Aladdin by Andrew Gans

The singing actor was seen on Broadway earlier this season in the new musical In Transit.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AM[SHARE]

Live With Kelly & Ryan Will Welcome Dear Evan Hansen Tony Nominee Ben Platt by Andrew Gans

Platt stars in the title role of the Tony-nominated Best Musical.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]

Grey's Anatomy Star Will Head Cast of Bay Street's Intimate Apparel by Andrew Gans

Kelly McCreary will be joined by Portia and more in the Lynn Nottage play.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AM[SHARE]

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Casting Complete for The Tender Land, Incorporating American Sign Language by Andrew Gans

Hartford Opera Theater will present the limited run of the Aaron Copland work.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PM[SHARE]

Samantha Hill, Jeremy Morse, and More Set for Readings of FMK by Andrew Gans

The Jacobean revenge comedy is set in suburban Connecticut.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PM[SHARE]

Jane the Virgin Star Cast in Hollywood Bowl Mamma Mia! by Andrew Gans

Kathleen Marshall will direct and choreograph the international hit musical at the California venue.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PM[SHARE]

Tarell Alvin McCraney, Stephen Daldry, Polly Stenham Among Directors Set for National's Queer Theatre Event by Andrew Gans

The artists will direct a series of readings of seminal gay plays at the London venue.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PM[SHARE]

Will Chase Joins Cast of Stranger Things by Andrew Gans

The Tony nominee will be seen in the second season of the hit Netflix series, starring Winona Ryder.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AM[SHARE]

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