Thursday, May 24, 2012
New Dramatists honored two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters, recently on Broadway in the critically acclaimed, Tony-nominated revival of Follies, with the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PM[SHARE]Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs and Steven Pasquale were on hand for the May 23 performance of Broadway's Clybourne Park. They headed backstage after the show to meet with the cast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PM[SHARE]New York's cabaret community celebrated 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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Last month Lauren Kennedy and Nikka Graff Lanzarone introduced Into the Woods veteran "Twan Baker," their co-star in the Westport-Baltimore production of the Sondheim-Lapine musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PM[SHARE]New York Theatre Workshop presented its 2012 spring gala, honoring board chair Barbara Warner Howard, Thomas Schumacher and Disney Theatrical Group, May 22 at the Plaza.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]PS Classics released the two-disc Broadway revival cast album of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, featuring Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, May 22. Cast members celebrated…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PM[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 11:38AM[SHARE]Paper Mill Playhouse's upcoming production of Once On This Island, which features book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty, will begin May 30 with an official opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Meredith Willson's The Music Man, the Americana-striped musical comedy about a corrupt salesman who charms — and is charmed by — a small town in Iowa, began performances in-t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PM[SHARE]Sanaa Lathan, Gabourey Sidibe, Hank Aaron, Holly Robinson Peete and Diahann Carroll are among the celebrities who have paid a visit to Broadway's starry revival of A Streetcar Named Desi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PM[SHARE]The 57th Annual Obie Awards, honoring the best of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, were given out at a ceremony May 21 at Webster Hall in Greenwich Village.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PM[SHARE]Brian Stokes Mitchell, Blair Underwood, Angela Lansbury and more were on hand May 21 for the Actors Fund Annual Gala honoring Harry Belafonte, acting duo Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller and rea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]Spencer Kayden, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for her performance in Roundabout's Don't Dress for Dinner, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2012
Real-life married couple Robyn Hurder and Clyde Alves are currently appearing onstage together in the Broadway production of Nice Work If You Can Get It. They share a recent two-show day wit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PM[SHARE]On May 7, Broadway's Godspell introduced the talented young performers who are set to perform onstage at Circle in the Square Theatre May 22 as "The Godspell Cast of 2032." Her…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM[SHARE]Old Jews Telling Jokes, which is co-created by Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent, officially opens May 20 following previews that began May 1 at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]Will Eno's Title and Deed, a new solo play about a mysterious traveler, opened in its American premiere May 20 following previews from May 8 as part of Signature Theatre Company's se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2012
Winners of the 78th Annual Drama League Awards were announced May 18 at a ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Times Square hosted by Tony Award winners Stockard Channing and John Larroquette.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM[SHARE]Following its current tour, Bring It On: The Musical, the new stage production set in the world of competitive cheerleading, will begin a limited engagement at Broadway's St. James Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]An unlikely love triangle takes shape in the American premiere of Mike Bartlett's comedy Cock, about a man, his boyfriend and his new girlfriend, which officially opened Off-Broadway May…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2012
Following acclaimed openings in Washington and New York, the Kennedy Center's Broadway production of the award-winning musical Follies, which was recently nominated for eight Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PM[SHARE]James LaRosa, currently starring as Mark Cohen in Bristol Riverside Theatre's staging of Rent, offers an exclusive backstage look at the production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater this week joined New York's three-theatre club—members of this exclusive group include the Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club and, most recen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Anne Hathaway, Benjamin Walker, Lin-Manuel Miranda and more were on hand at Lapham’s Quarterly's first annual gala. Decades Ball: The 1920s was held May 14 at 583 Park Avenue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11PM[SHARE]On May 1 John Lithgow received his 6th career Tony nomination for his leading performance in The Columnist. He is a two-time winner for The Changing Room and Sweet Smell of Success. Playbill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PM[SHARE]Jennifer Evans, Benjamin J. McHugh, Jaimie Kelton and Hannah Lewis lead the Astoria Performing Arts Center's intimate production of the Tony-winning musical The Secret Garden, which bega…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]After more than 5,000 auditions, the Broadway revival of the Tony-winning musical Annie announced its cast of orphans on May 15. Here is look at the young ladies who will be delivering such …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Darren Criss, Laura Osnes, Nick Adams and many more were on hand May 14 at the 13th Annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, "the only major theatrical prize awarded solely by votes cast …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]On May 5 Loston Harris (longtime piano player at the Carlyle's Bemelman’s Bar) invited End of the Rainbow star Tracie Bennett to hear him perform.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PM[SHARE]Spend a two-show day with Christina Bianco, who plays a variety of real-life characters in the Off-Broadway musical revue NEWSical the Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PM[SHARE]The Town Hall's Broadway by the Year concert series continued May 14 at 8 PM with The Broadway Musicals of 1975.
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