Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Theatrical Rights Worldwide has secured licensing rights for the Andrew Lippa musical Big Fish, based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the subsequent 2003 film by John August. It will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]Broadway for Self Help Africa, which brings together Broadway stars for a night of song and celebration benefiting Self Help Africa Inc., will be held March 3 at (le) Poisson Rouge in New Yo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM[SHARE]Second Stage Theatre's production of The Happiest Song Plays Last, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes and directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Ghostlight Records releases the original cast recording of the new musical comedy Murder for Two in stores Feb. 11. Original cast members Jeff Blumenkrantz and Brett Ryback celebrate th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Grammy Award-winning artist K.D. Lang succeeds fellow Grammy winner Fantasia Barrino, who won critical praise for her performance as the first special guest star vocalist in After Midni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Samson and Delilah, A Love Story," a concept recording of the new musical love story featuring Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young, hits shelves Feb. 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2014
Tony Award winner Cynthia Nixon will star opposite Saoirse Ronan in "Stockholm, Pennsylvania," written and to be directed by Nikole Beckwith, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:34PM[SHARE]Susan Blackwell ([title of show]), Donna Vivino (Wicked), Ben Platt (The Book of Mormon), Ben Fankhauser (Newsies) and Emma Hunton (Spring Awakening) have joined the lineup of performers who…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PM[SHARE]Cast members from the Tony Award-nominated musical revue Smokey Joe's Café reunited Feb. 9 — exactly 19 years following its first performance on Feb. 9, 1995 — for On …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PM[SHARE]Producers of Off-Broadway's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 are planning a feature film adaptation of the Dave Malloy electropop opera — which is based on a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AM[SHARE]Alex Brightman,
Max Crumm, Ariana DeBose and Krysta Rodriguez are among the performers singing Love Songs Feb. 10 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Feels Like The First Time, a benefit concert presented by the website The Craptacular that brings together a host of Broadway stars at (le) Poisson Rouge in New York City, is held Feb. 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Songwriter Joey Contreras makes his West Coast concert debut Feb. 10 at Rockwell: Table and Stage in Los Angeles. Alex Newell, who plays Wade "Unique" Adams on the Fox hit mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2014
LaTanya Richardson Jackson will replace Tony Award-winning actress Diahann Carroll as Lena Younger in the Broadway return of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, starring Denzel Was…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM[SHARE]LaTanya Richardson Jackson will replace Tony Award-winning actress Diahann Carroll as Lena Younger in the Broadway return of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, starring Denzel Was…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PM[SHARE]Grammy Award winner Fantasia Barrino, who won critical praise for her performance as the first special guest star vocalist in After Midnight, plays her final performance in the jazz-age…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) presents the "Before" trilogy — "Before Sunrise," "Before Sunset" and "Before Midnight" &m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Cast members from the Tony Award-nominated musical revue Smokey Joe's Café reunite Feb. 9 — exactly 19 years following its first performance on Feb. 9, 1995 — for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2014
Broadway Sings 2014, hosted by John Mooney, will be held Feb. 9 at the PS 166 Auditorium. Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, Georgia Stitt and Julia Murney are among the evening's per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:37PM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2014
AnthonyKen, LLC. and Sheryl Lee Ralph/The D.I.V.A. Foundation will present Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical beginning Sept. 5, prior to an official opening Sept. 12, at the Theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PM[SHARE]Karen Mason, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Carole J. Bufford, Gabrielle Stravelli, Connor Donahue and Carlo Maria are among the artists who will celebrate Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:59PM[SHARE]The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and conductor John Morris Russell have announced the Pops' 2014-15 season, the fourth under the direction of Russell. A semi-staged concert of The Music Man…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PM[SHARE]The Broadway cast of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, the new musical comedy that boasts Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays playing eight different roles, will be released by d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]The first annual Davenport Songwriting Contest, presented by Broadway producer Ken Davenport, was held Jan. 30 at the Davenport Theatre. Here are highlights from the evening.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Paul Nolan, who made his Broadway debut in the 2012 revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar, returns to the Great White Way as the new "Guy" in the Tony Award-w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Rocky, the new Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty musical based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name, has announced a day-of-performance lottery for Golden Circle seats in the first two rows…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]John Carney, the Dublin-based writer and director of the movie "Once" — which inspired the Tony Award-winning musical of the same name — will team up with U2's Bono…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey and Daniel Stern, who starred in Broadway's The Other Place, have been cast in WGN America's 13-episode drama series "Manhattan," acc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]"Samson and Delilah, A Love Story," a concept recording of the new musical love story featuring Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young, is released digitally by Broadway Records Feb. 7. The C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Til Divorce Do Us Part: The Musical, an original musical comedy revue based on the real-life story of Ruthe Ponturo, who wrote the piece while going through her divorce from a Broadway produ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]New works by Matthew Lopez ("The Newsroom," The Whipping Man), Eric Schmiedl, Idris Goodwin, Marcus Gardley and Pulitzer Prize for Drama nominee James Still are among the selected …
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