Monday, May 25, 2015
Mrs. Beatrice Louise Dickman Swarm, who was known as "Mrs. Bea" to the Broadway community for her years as a backstage chaperone with Miss Saigon, died Feb. 13, surrounded by her family at h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Kelsey Grammer, who played his final performance in the Tony Award-winning revival of La Cage aux Folles at the Longacre Theatre earlier this month, returns to that Broadway venue Feb. 25 fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Robin Williams, who will make his Broadway acting debut this spring in Rajiv Joseph's play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, will appear on ABC-TV's "Nightline" Feb. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Annie Tony nominee Andrea McArdle and her real-life daughter, Alexis Kalehoff, will co-star in TheatreZone's upcoming production of Willy Russell's musical Blood Brothers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The 24 semifinalists for the tenth season of "American Idol," which is often a stepping stone to the Broadway stage, were announced Feb. 23-24 by judges Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Rand…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Producers Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum and Allan S. Gordon have announced that Jonathan Larson's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent will begin previews Off-Broadway July 14 at Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Simon Greiff and Phil Sykes present The Songs of Bobby Cronin Feb. 27 at London's New Players Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. The awards ceremony will be televised live by ABC-TV b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]A free reading of Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf," featuring New York actor Anthony Newfield, will be presented Feb. 27 at 2 PM at the House of the Redeemer in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Following its North American debut engagement in Toronto, Priscilla Queen of the Desert -- drawn from the Academy Award-winning film "The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert" -- begi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Alec Baldwin will be honored at the Museum of the Moving Image's Annual Salute Feb. 28 at Cipriani's 42nd St. in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes will be honored at the 2011 Love 'N' Courage Gala -- a benefit for Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program -- Feb. 28 at 6:30 PM at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Monday Nights, New Voices, the acclaimed concert series founded by composer Scott Alan to "showcase some of today's brightest new talent in New York," continues its eighth and final season F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]A by-invitation-only backers' audition of Treasure Island, A New Musical, a reverent adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, will be held Feb. 28 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Chicago welcomes back a familiar face Feb. 28 at the Ambassador Theatre: Roz Ryan returns as Cook County's tough-as-nails prison warden, Matron "Mama" Morton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 were presented Feb. 27 at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosted.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Linda Eder, the powerhouse singer seen on Broadway in Jekyll & Hyde, sings the tunes of former husband Frank Wildhorn on her newest CD, "Now," which arrives March 1 on the Sony Masterworks l…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The cast of the new musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark will perform on "The Late Show with David Letterman" March 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Directors Company in association with Dale Joan Young present a staged reading of the new musical Becoming Tennessee March 2 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony nominee Christopher Sieber, who had been scheduled to play a brief engagement in the Broadway production of Chicago, will instead step into the role of Georges in the Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]A solo recording from tenor Alfie Boe, recently seen in the London production of Les Miserables, arrives in the U.S. March 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Additional casting has been announced for the Broadway revival of John Guare's House of Blue Leaves, which begins rehearsals March 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Five-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard will compose original music for Stephen Adly Guirgis' star-filled Motherf**ker with the Hat, which begins performances March 15 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Farah Alvin, who was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her work in Off-Broadway's The Marvelous Wonderettes, will play legendary entertainer Fanny Brice in the upcoming One Night with Fan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Frank Rich, The New York Times opinion columnist who spent 14 years as the chief theatre critic for that newspaper, is departing after 31 years to join the staff of New York Magazine, accord…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Golden Globe winner Cybill Shepherd will star as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the North Carolina Theatre's upcoming production of the classic Jerry Herman musical Hello, Dolly!
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Project Shaw series will continue March 28 with readings of two one-act plays by George Bernard Shaw: Great Catherine and Annajanska, The Wild Grand Duchess.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Following its North American debut engagement in Toronto, Priscilla Queen of the Desert -- drawn from the Academy Award-winning film "The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert" -- bega…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Rosalind Productions, Inc. & The Platform Group's limited engagement of John Patrick Shanley's edgy comedy Savage in Limbo, which began performances Feb. 11 at The Drilling Company Theatre i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Another Spider-Man musical has entered the mix: From the creators of Fat Camp and Perez Hilton Saves the Universe! comes Spidermusical., running March 15-21 at the Mint Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM[SHARE]Stephen Adly Guirgis' star-filled Motherf**ker with the Hat, which boasts comedian/actor Chris Rock in his Broadway debut, will begin performances March 15 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
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