Monday, April 7, 2014
Mickey Rooney, the prolific actor who died April 6 at the age of 93, will be honored by Turner Classic Movies with a 13-film marathon April 13, Deadline.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for the Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of When We Were Young And Unafraid, Sarah Treem's new play about an underground women's shelter in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning director and lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr. issued a statement to Playbill.com following Ben Rimalower's article "Game Changers: The Broadway Musicals That Shaped t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PM[SHARE]Classic Stage Company's First Look Festival begins April 7 with a presentation of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PM[SHARE]John Pinette, who starred as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray on Broadway and on tour, died April 5 at the age of 50, ABC News reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PM[SHARE]The San Diego Opera has received a $1 million gift from a board member that is intended to assist the the company in developing a new business model, the Los Angeles Times reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]The Broadway cast of the Jeanine Tesori-Brian Crawley musical Violet, including Sutton Foster, Colin Donnell and Joshua Henry, head to the recording studio April 7 to record a new two-disc P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]Emmy nominee Benedict Cumberbatch will star in a film adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III for BBC Two, Deadline.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AM[SHARE]The 18th Annual Independent Reviewers of New England Awards are presented April 7 at The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Emmy nominee Lena Dunham receives the Point Foundation's Horizon Award at the Point Honors New York Gala April 7 at the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Signature Theatre honors award-winning orchestrator Jonathan Tunick with the Stephen Sondheim Award at a black-tie gala benefit April 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Atlantic Theater Company's production of The Threepenny Opera, featuring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham and Tony nominees Laura Osnes and Mary Beth Peil, officially open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 6, 2014
New York Theatre Workshop's production of Caryl Churchill's Love and Information concludes its run April 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Yale School of Music and the Yale School of Drama present the dark comedy The Soldier's Tale, starring Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris, at Carnegie Hall April 6 at 7:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of David Henry Hwang's Kung Fu concludes its run at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre April 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2014
Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer talks with Playbill.com about directing the Broadway premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The winner of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award will be announced April 5 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, during the Humana Fes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 4, 2014
The HBO series "Silicon Valley," which features the late actor Christopher Evan Welch, will not adjust its plot following Welch's passing, TheWrap.com reports. The new TV show …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:37PM[SHARE]Additional casting has been announced for the one-night-only benefit concert of the cult classic Reefer Madness that will be held at New World Stages April 19 at 11:59 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]The cast and creative team have been announced for the U.S. premiere of Lisa Tierney-Keogh's Four Last Things, the story of a young woman struggling with her life, which will begin perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston, who is currently on Broadway in All the Way, is writing a memoir, Deadline.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell presents a solo concert to benefit Hunter College Elementary School April 4 at 7:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2014
The April 8 episode of "Glee," titled "Bash," will feature performances of songs written by award-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PM[SHARE]The Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will play the Walnut Street Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PM[SHARE]The Signature Theatre will honor award-winning orchestrator Jonathan Tunick with the Stephen Sondheim Award at a black-tie gala benefit April 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PM[SHARE]Studio Theatre will not present Taylor Mac's play Hir as part of its upcoming season due to a misunderstanding about the direction of the play, the Washington Post reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright's historical drama Camp David officially opens April 3 after previews that began March 21 at Arena Stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Hartford Stage presents the East Coast premiere of Somewhere, a dance-filled piece by Matthew Lopez (The Whipping Man) about a Puerto Rican family in 1959 New York City. Performances begin A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A starry concert presentation of Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls, starring Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, Patrick Wilson, Sierra Boggess and Megan Mullally, is held April 3 at Carnegie Ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
The first day of single ticket sales for the 2014 Lincoln Center Festival broke records March 31, taking in $704,000 at the box office.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM[SHARE]The New York premiere of My Mother Has 4 Noses, the autobiographical musical play about caring for an ailing parent, will conclude its Off-Broadway run at The Duke April 19.
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