Friday, May 25, 2012
News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2012
Stage and screen stars Brooke Shields and Brian d’Arcy James will host the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards June 3 at 8 PM at The Town Hall in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Josh Young, who stars as Judas in the Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, appeared on the May 24 installment of "The View."
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PM[SHARE]The Paley Center for Media will offer An Evening with Christopher Plummer May 29 at 6 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Dorothy Marcic's new musical What We Do For Love Or Other Desperate Measures will play six performances at the Upstairs Theater at the Bleeker Street Theater beginning June 13 as part of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PM[SHARE]Judith Light had just returned from a one-day trip to Florida to clean out the apartment of her late father — one of her "biggest champions," who passed away "quickly an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Titles have been announced for the free HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival, which will kick off June 18 with a screening of "Psycho."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AM[SHARE]Nathaniel Shaw, artistic director of The Active Theater, announced that actor, playwright and director Austin Pendleton is the recipient of the 2012 Active Arts Award.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AM[SHARE]The cast of the Tony-nominated Best Musical Once will perform live on WNYC’s “Soundcheck” May 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AM[SHARE]The 11th season of "American Idol" came to a conclusion May 23 as Phillip Phillips was crowned the winner during a live two-hour season finale on FOX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]New Dramatists honors two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters, recently on Broadway in the critically acclaimed, Tony-nominated revival of Follies, with the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]The 62nd Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best of Broadway and Off-Broadway, will be presented May 24 at 4 PM at Sardi's Restaurant in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Tony Award winner Leslie Uggams, who recently released her newest solo recording, "Uptown Downtown," will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox May 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PM[SHARE]National Asian Artists Project will present a staged reading of Rodgers and Hammerstein's award-winning musical Carousel June 4 at 7:30 PM at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM[SHARE]Singer, actor and former Playbill Video correspondent Leo Ash Evens, who played Riff in West Side Story at London's Sadler's Wells, will make his Broadway debut May 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PM[SHARE]The creme de la creme of the cabaret world turned out in full force May 22 at The Town Hall to pay tribute to the late Donald Smith, the cabaret impresario who was the founder and executive …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]The 68th annual Theatre World Awards will be presented June 5 at 2 PM at Broadway's Belasco Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]The Tony Awards is currently presenting the second annual Tony Awards Showcase at the Times Square Museum and Visitor Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]In addition to selections from the Tony-nominated new musicals, including the uplifting Disney musical Newsies, the critically hailed screen-to-stage adaptation of Once and the new Gershwin …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Michael McKean, currently back on Broadway in the revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, was struck by a car while walking on the Upper West Side the afternoon of M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Stage and screen star Michael McKean, currently back on Broadway in the revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, was struck by a car while walking on the Upper West Side the afternoon of M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM[SHARE]The company of the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell perform the songs of their Tony Award-nominated composer May 23 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Playbill.com's new 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.
Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Tony winner Michael Cerveris, who received a Tony nomination for his performance as Perón in the current Broadway revival of Evita, was on his way to the recording studio to record th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the new musical at the Foxwoods Theatre, is now offering "Spider-Man Hero Seats," specially priced tickets for "America’s Real Heroes and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PM[SHARE]Guthrie artistic director Joe Dowling has announced dates for productions in the upcoming season in the Guthrie's Dowling Studio.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AM[SHARE]The Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off-Broadway producers, theatres, general managers, press agents and marketing firms, has announced the winners of the 2nd Annual Off Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AM[SHARE]The Guthrie Theater has announced casting for the Shapiro & Smith Dance production of Anytown, which will be presented in the Dowling Studio June 21-24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM[SHARE]San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater will open its 2012-13 season with Larry Kramer's landmark play, The Normal Heart, which focuses on the early days of the AIDS crisis in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]Following open-call auditions attended by more than 500 kids, the creative and producing team of the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell selected five boys and five girl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]New York's cabaret community celebrates the life and legacy of the late Donald F. Smith May 22 at The Town Hall in an evening titled Remembering Donald Smith — A Memorial Concert.
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