Tuesday, June 30, 2015
The Supreme Court's historic ruling on gay marriage June 26 left many members of the Broadway community singing its praises, including actors who attend religious worship services. Prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2015
Peter Morgan's The Audience, which features Oscar, Olivier and Tony Award winner Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in imagined meetings with each of her Prime Ministers, plays its final…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2015
Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical Oklahoma! receives a new staging from Bard SummerScape in the round, beginning June 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2015
The Kilroys, an activist group of female playwrights and producers, have released their second annual List of works by women that are recommended for production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:19PM[SHARE]Broadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque, the 25th annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, was presented June 21 at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PM[SHARE]Friday, June 19, 2015
Award-winning director and designer Julie Taymor shares thoughts on adapting her work from the stage to the screen and the history-making works by women at the Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 17, 2015
The proposed plans to renovate Oscar Hammerstein II's property into a museum and theatre were denied by the Doylestown Township zoning board, Philly.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for New York Stage and Film and Vassar College's Powerhouse Season. The 31st season, which will feature various readings, workshops and main stage productions,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PM[SHARE]Bitter Lemons, a theatre website based in Los Angeles, has announced a new business model in which productions pay writers to review their productions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]A new film adaptation of "Murder on the Orient Express," Agatha Christie's popular detective novel, may be directed by Kenneth Branagh, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Monday, June 15, 2015
A group of award-winning actors have been cast in the Barbican Theatre's production of Hamlet, starring stage and screen star Benedict Cumberbatch, in London.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 14, 2015
Playbill.com asked both newcomers and veterans of the New York theatre scene what advice they would have given themselves when they were starting out in their careers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 12, 2015
As part of Playbill.com's 30 Days of Pride, the team behind the Tony-winning musical Fun Home reflect on the personal and political impact of the show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2015
John Cameron Mitchell, who returned to the New York stage for the first time since 1998 to perform in the Tony-winning Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, said playing Hedw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sara Bareilles, who is making her theatrical songwriting debut with the musical adaptation of the film "Waitress," shared her thoughts on the musical in a Google Plus hangout June …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Disenchanted!, the Off-Broadway musical that pokes fun at the world of fairy-tale princesses, will close Sunday, June 14 after 30 previews and 139 regular performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15PM[SHARE]Betsy Wolfe (Broadway’s Bullets over Broadway, The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and Matt Bittner (Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing) will topline Up Here, the new musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PM[SHARE]A concert performance of Bombshell, the fictional Broadway musical from the short-lived NBC musical series "Smash," was given June 8 in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2015
Tony winner Ruthie Ann Miles, starring in The King and I as head wife Lady Thiang, opened up about the need for more diversity onstage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]In a spin on the red-carpet tradition of asking stars, "What are you wearing?," Playbill.com has asked winners of the Tony Awards why they chose the outfits they wore to Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2015
With their wins for Best Book of a Musical (Lisa Kron) and Best Original Score (Jeanine Tesori and Kron) for the groundbreaking musical Fun Home, these writers not only take home some of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30PM[SHARE]Craig Lucas, director and choreographer of An American in Paris, the stage adaptation of the popular movie musical that received 12 Tony nominations, opened up about the risks of bringing a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:37PM[SHARE]Jessie Mueller, who won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for playing Carole King in the bio-musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, shared news about her next projec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 6, 2015
In a spin on the red-carpet tradition of asking stars, "What are you wearing?," Playbill.com has asked women of the theatre community why they chose the outfits they wore to va…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2015
The Twentieth-Century Way, a drama exploring homosexuality in 1914 Los Angeles, officially opens at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre June 3 following previews that began May 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]As part of Playbill's 30 Days of Pride, Boyd Gaines and Bryce Pinkham, respective stars of the original production and recent revival of The Heidi Chronicles, discuss the groundbreaking …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Four surprise presentations were included in the annual Lilly Awards ceremony, which recognize accomplishments of women in theatre, June 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2015
The Lilly Awards, which recognize accomplishments of women in theatre, honor award-winning actress Chita Rivera and acclaimed Broadway producer Daryl Roth at their annual ceremony June 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]In an exclusive excerpt from the Tony Awards Playbill, leading women in the theatre industry talk about guiding Broadway into a new generation.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2015
Acclaimed composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim will accept the first Master Storyteller Award from the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]The world-premiere musical Come from Away, inspired by the story of a small town hosting people on Sept. 11, begins its world-premiere production at California's La Jolla Playhou…
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