Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Hamilton, the critically acclaimed new musical written by and starring Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, will transfer to Broadway, beginning previews July 16 at the Richard Rodgers …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PM[SHARE]Arnie Burton, an original cast member of 39 Steps, will reprise his role of Clown #2 in the Off-Broadway return of Patrick Barlow's Tony Award-nominated comedy, based on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PM[SHARE]Following a 65-year run at the Jersey Shore in Beach Haven, NJ, Surflight Theatre will shut its doors. Despite efforts by management and trustees to keep operations going, the company fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]Café Carlyle welcomes back Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of music legend Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley, for a two-week engagement Feb. 24–March 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2015
Hamilton, the highly anticipated new musical from Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda that fuses contemporary and classic to tell the story of America's Founding Father, may be head…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]Actors' Equity Association has created a proposal for a new Los Angeles 99-Seat Theatre Plan contract, which would guarantee actors and stage managers are paid a salary no less than …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[SHARE]The film remake of "Annie," which garnered a mostly negative response from critics, received the Razzie Award, satirizing the worst achievements in film for 2014, for Worst Remake,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]Wendy's Shadow, a musical based on the novel "Peter and Wendy" by J.M. Barrie — which had a reading Nov. 24, 2014, at the Irvington Town Hall Theater — is p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Aaron Clifton Moten and John Douglas Thompson star in the premiere of Young Man Langston, a dramatic reading from the letters of Langston Hughes, Feb. 23 at the 92nd Street Y.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The box office for the new Broadway production of Gigi, starring Vanessa Hudgens in the title role, opens Feb. 23 at 10 AM at the Neil Simon Theatre. Broadway performances are scheduled to b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2015
Ian Lake and Trish Lindström, two actors with numerous credits from the Stratford Festival, lead the Toronto sit-down production of the Tony-winning musical Once, which offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 21, 2015
Tickets go on sale for the new Broadway comedy An Act of God, starring Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Jim Parsons, Feb. 21. Performances are scheduled to begin May 5 at Studio 54.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2015
Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, who co-starred in "Love Story," will star in an upcoming national tour of Love Letters, A.R. Gurney's romance about first loves and second …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:13PM[SHARE]"Smash" star and Broadway actress Krysta Rodriguez announced yesterday that she was diagnosed with breast cancer two months after her 30th birthday. She opens up exclusively to Pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PM[SHARE]Hand to God, starring Steven Boyer in his acclaimed performance as a boy and his foul-mouthed hand puppet, will now begin previews March 14, two days later than its originally scheduled …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:36PM[SHARE]Jake Cannavale, son of two-time Tony nominee Bobby Cannavale, swore he wouldn't follow in his father's footsteps and pursue a career in acting. So how did he end up making his Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2015
Daniel Goldstein, who directed the Broadway revival of Godspell, will direct a reading of the new one-man musical DIVA, featuring a score by composer-lyricist Alexander Sage Oyen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PM[SHARE]The new Broadway musical Finding Neverland, a story about how Peter became Pan, will host an inaugural fundraiser to benefit Alliance To Rescue Victims of Trafficking (ATRVT) March 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PM[SHARE]An inaugural fundraiser to benefit Alliance To Rescue Victims of Trafficking (ATRVT) will be held March 21 at the new Broadway musical Finding Neverland, a story about how Peter became Pan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PM[SHARE]The dispute over the acquisition of Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre continues, and following a meeting in New York City court Feb. 19, a judge is urging Second Stage Theatre and the Helen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM[SHARE]Krysta Rodriguez, who starred in the Broadway musical First Date and the NBC musical drama "Smash," has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She has launched ChemoCouture, a new blog…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, who will host the Academy Awards this Sunday, recently sat down on "The Ellen Show" to get some advice on his hosting gig.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]54 Sings Heart, an evening featuring songs made famous by the powerhouse band Heart, will be presented Feb. 21 at 54 Below. In anticipation of the concert, members of the cast pick their fav…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Joe Carroll (Cinderella, Once), Eric LaJuan Summers (Motown), Genson Blimline (Rock Of Ages) and Larry Owens (Fat Camp) have joined the lineup for a concert version of Very Very Rock Show, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43PM[SHARE]Award-winning comedians and writers Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have been announced to lend their voices as the New York Public Library's famed lion statues in New York Spring Spectacul…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PM[SHARE]"Pitch Perfect" star Skylar Astin, an original cast member of the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening, has been cast in ABC's untitled NBA comedy, according to The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PM[SHARE]We catch up with Darren Criss, who will step into the high heels of glam rocker Hedwig in the Tony-wining revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch this April. He looks back on "Glee&quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan, who stars as Jamie in "The Last Five Years," performed "Moving Too Fast" from the film — accompanied by the musical's Tony…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AM[SHARE]Midnight at 9:30, featuring songs with a midnight theme, is held Feb. 18 at 9:30 PM at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Art is imitating life for three-time Tony Award nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger, who was last seen on the New York stage in Lincoln Center Theater's The Oldest Boy — a stor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PM[SHARE]The film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, starring Tony Award nominees Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, ranked No. 1 for its opening weekend on the iTunes Independ…
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