Friday, February 28, 2014
Urban Stages continues its 30th anniversary season with the world premiere of Character Man, Jim Brochu’s new musical memoir, which begins previews Feb. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters celebrates a birthday on Feb. 28. Playbill.com takes a look back at her stage career thus far.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2014
A host of stage and screen stars will take part in Theatreworks USA's one-night-only benefit concert of the new musical The Lightning Thief April 21 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway's Lucille…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PM[SHARE]Tony nominee Ann Crumb will portray ill-fated silent-screen star Norma Desmond in The Media Theatre's upcoming production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PM[SHARE]Additional performers have been announced for the ninth annual edition of Broadway Backwards, which will be presented March 24 at 8 PM at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AM[SHARE]Tony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth will return to Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage for a solo concert May 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Julie White, who was most recently on Broadway in the Tony-winning Christopher Durang play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, has been cast in the new CBS pilot "Sav…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Lillias White (The Life, Fela!, Dreamgirls) will debut a new concert act in May at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]The new musical Far From Heaven, which was produced in 2013 at Playwrights Horizons starring Kelli O’Hara, Steven Pasquale and Isaiah Johnson, is now available for Professional Theatri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Paper Mill Playhouse has announced the lineup for its 2014-15 season, which will feature four musicals and one Tony Award-winning play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PM[SHARE]Broadway house manager and musician Joe Traina's second independent film, "Lucky Stiff," will make its premiere March 10 at Dolby 88 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PM[SHARE]Beginning April 2 the company of the second North American tour of Wicked will welcome Laurel Harris as Elphaba, Kara Lindsay as Glinda and Gene Weygandt as the Wizard.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PM[SHARE]Two lab presentations of the new musical Behind the Painting, which features book and lyrics by Tony winner Richard Maltby, Jr. and music by two-time Tony nominee David Shire, will be presen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Ashley Judd, seen on Broadway in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, will head the cast of the new NBC pilot "Salvation," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PM[SHARE]The York Theatre Company, which is under the leadership of producing artistic director James Morgan and executive director Andrew Levine, has announced casting for the world premiere of the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Symphony Space will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, as well as the musical's Tony-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, April 28 in an evening entitled Fiddler at 50.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]Broadway and "Glee" star Lea Michele will be a guest on an upcoming broadcast of NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Debra Monk Birthday Bash, the starry Feb. 24 evening at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College that celebrated Tony winner Monk's 65th birthday, raised $140,355 for Broadway Car…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AM[SHARE]L.A. Theatre Works will present Sharr White's The Other Place, the critically acclaimed drama seen on Broadway with Laurie Metcalf, March 13-16 at the James Bridges Theater at the UCLA S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AM[SHARE]Beautiful Soup Theater's production of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom begins performances at The Celebration of Whimsy Feb. 26.
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.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
The Tony Awards Administration Committee voted last month to allow the Tony Nominating Committee the ability to expand or reduce nominees in the four major Tony categories: Best Musical, Bes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PM[SHARE]Celebrated singing actress Alice Ripley, who won her Tony Award for her performance as bipolar mom Diana in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, has launched a podcast series entitled …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PM[SHARE]Lena Dunham, the creator and star of the acclaimed HBO series "Girls," will make her "Saturday Night Live" hosting debut March 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for The Provincetown Theater's upcoming production of Martin Sherman's Bent, which will begin performances March 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AM[SHARE]The 9th annual "Jimmy Kimmel Live: After The Oscars" special will air live March 2 following the late local news after the Academy Awards telecast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AM[SHARE]Transport Group's current production of John Cariani's Almost, Maine, which officially opened Feb. 4 at Gym at Hudson, will be taped for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive of the N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Beau Willimon's Breathing Time, which will begin previews March 21 prior to an official opening March 27 at Teatro Iati.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]Tony winner and Kennedy Center Honoree Barbara Cook will be honored with The Julie Harris Award for Artistic Achievement at The Actors Fund's 18th Annual Tony Awards Viewing Party June 8…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AM[SHARE]The Broadway company of the international hit musical Wicked welcomes several new cast members to the long-running production at the Gershwin Theatre beginning Feb. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Loni Ackerman, who played the title role during the original Broadway run of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita and was seen as Norma Desmond in the Gateway's production of Llo…
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