Friday, August 28, 2015
Multiple Tony winner Jason Robert Brown, composer of Honeymoon in Vegas, Parade, 13, The Bridges of Madison County and The Last Five Years, is composing music for Prince of Broadway, the ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]London and Broadway's original Eponine, Tony winner Frances Ruffelle, will release her sixth studio recording, featuring songs that evoke the singing actress' love of Paris, this fal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AM[SHARE]NBC has released the first trailer for The Wiz Live!, which will air Dec. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AM[SHARE]The box office of the Cort Theatre, which will soon be the home of the A.R. Gurney comedy Sylvia, opens for business Aug. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
Some lucky dancer is going to get a chance to make their debut on a Broadway stage the easy way.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PM[SHARE]Betty Buckley, who is currently drawing raves for her performance in the Bay Street Theater production of Grey Gardens, will go it solo in September in Provincetown.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PM[SHARE]The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present Honorary Awards to Spike Lee and Gena Rowlands, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Debbie Reyn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PM[SHARE]Producer Julius Green, according to The Stage, discovered five full-length and five one-act plays by Agatha Christie while researching his new book, "Curtain Up: Agatha Christie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]Gingold Theatrical Group’s Project Shaw, which is under the leadership of artistic director David Staller, will continue Sept. 21 at 7 PM with A Chekhov and Shaw Comedy Night at Sy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]The news that Kevin Bacon will star in a stage version of Rear Window propelled Hartford Stage to enjoy its highest single-day box-office take in the company's five-decade hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]"Maggie Smith: A Biography," penned by Michael Coveney, will be released by Weidenfeld & Nicolson - Orion Books Sept. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]Viola Davis, who won a Tony Award for her performance as Rose in the 2010 revival of August Wilson's Fences, will star in a feature film version of the award-winning drama that is se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]The Playwrights Realm's New York premiere of Anna Ziegler's A Delicate Ship officially opens Aug. 27 following previews that began Aug. 18 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 W. 42nd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Actors from Christopher Guest's theatre parody "Waiting for Guffman," along with "For Your Consideration," "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" are …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tribune Broadcasting has announced a multi-year agreement with Carson Entertainment Group to broadcast "Johnny Carson," a compilation of clips from the host's years on &qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]Bryan Cranston, a Tony winner for his Broadway debut as President Lyndon Johnson in All the Way, is joining forces with fellow Broadway and screen star James Franco for a new film.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]A new book from Carrie Fisher, last seen on Broadway in her solo show Wishful Drinking, will be released in 2016.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AM[SHARE]Kevin Spacey, last on Broadway in the 2007 revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, may be heading back to The Great White Way.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM[SHARE]David Javerbaum's An Act of God, which played a limited run on Broadway at the start of the current season starring Emmy winner Jim Parsons, will make its Los Angeles debut in 2016 starr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Playbill.com's feature series Their Favorite Things asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
This week …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Tony-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots celebrates its 1,000th performance on Broadway Aug. 26 with a ticket giveaway and "fabulous footwear" contest for fans.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Joy Behar, the comic seen on Broadway (Comedy Tonight) and off (Me, My Mouth and I), will return to ABC's "The View" next month when the syndicated morning talk show begins its…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PM[SHARE]"The Lady in the Van," the film adaptation of the West End hit penned by Alan Bennett, will arrive on screens Dec. 2 following a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, accord…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM[SHARE]The box office of the Cort Theatre, which will soon be the home of the A.R. Gurney comedy Sylvia, will open for business Aug. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]Rehearsal footage has been released for the forthcoming Korean premiere of the Tony-winning musical In the Heights, which will begin previews Sept. 4 at Blue Square Samsung Card Hall in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AM[SHARE]Tony winner Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner, who received a joint Tony nomination for their performances in the original Broadway production of Side Show, will join forces once again for conc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]Misty Copeland, the ballerina who was promoted in June to principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre — the first African-American actress to make that leap — m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Misty Copeland, the ballerina who was promoted in June to principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre--the first African-American actress to make that leap--makes m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2015
Charlotte Kate Fox, who can be seen in the NHK TV series “Massan,” will make her Broadway debut this fall in the long-running, Tony-winning revival of Chicago at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:22PM[SHARE]The complete lineup has been finalized for acclaimed songwriter Scott Alan's two-week residency at London's Hippodrome Casino in September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PM[SHARE]Casting is now complete for two-time Tony winner Joe DiPietro's new comedy, Clever Little Lies, which will begin previews Sept. 18 prior to an official opening Oct. 12 at the Westside Th…
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