Thursday, January 2, 2014
American Songbook at NJPAC, a new music performance series from New Jersey public television network NJTV and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), will be broadcast throughout the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PM[SHARE]Press agent Leslie Baden Papa, of The Hartman Group — the theatrical press agency that will shut its doors Jan. 5 — will launch Vivacity Media Group, a new entertainment public r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PM[SHARE]Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County," the film based on the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning work about a dysfunctional family that reunites when tragedy strikes, took home…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Singer-songwriter Drew Gasparini, who played a sold-out concert at 54 Below in December, will return to the Manhattan nightspot for an encore engagement this month. In anticipation of From H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Diane Paulus, the Tony Award-winning director of the Broadway revival of Pippin, and composer Stephen Schwartz will offer post-show talkbacks at Pippin in January 2014.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM[SHARE]"The Road to Rock of Ages," a web series chronicling the journey of the 2009 Broadway musical, was released this month on YouTube. Watch the four episodes here.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PM[SHARE]Singers, recording artists and brothers Will Nunziata and Anthony Nunziata premiere their original Pops Symphony Orchestra show with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra on New Year's Eve.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2013
Wicked, the megahit, high-flying musical that recently celebrated its tenth year on Broadway, has set a new record by becoming the first Broadway musical to gross over $3 million in one week…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PM[SHARE]The Titan Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Angela Iannone's This Prison Where I Live, starring Broadway actor Reese Madigan, Jan. 22-26, 2014, at The Secret Theatre in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:33PM[SHARE]Ratings for the Annual Kennedy Center Honors — which, this year, celebrated opera singer Martina Arroyo; pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer Herbie Hancock; pianist, singer a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]Godspell director Daniel Goldstein will helm industry readings of Make Me Bad, a new musical featuring a score by Drew Gasparini ("Smash") and a book by actor-writer Alex Brightman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PM[SHARE]Tim Kazurinsky, Nick Adams and Jenny Florkowski will join the company of the first North American tour of the hit musical Wicked Feb. 4, 2014, at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]The high-flying musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, which underwent the longest preview period in Broadway history and faced many obstacles on its road to opening night, will not join the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff, who voices the character of Kristoff in the Disney animated movie "Frozen," visited the students at Conestoga Valley's Brownstown Elementary …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County," the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning work about a dysfunctional family that reunites when tragedy strikes — which was released i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2013
Singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen, who shot to fame with the #1 hit single "Call Me Maybe," will succeed Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes as the next star of Broadway's Cinderel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36PM[SHARE]Big Fish, the new Broadway musical based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the subsequent 2003 film by John August that opened Oct. 6, ends its Broadway run Dec. 29 at the Neil Si…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2013
Ariana DeBose, who played Mary Wilson in the hit Broadway musical Motown and understudied the role of Diana Ross — originated by Tony Award nominee Valisia LeKae — will play 54 B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PM[SHARE]The Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger will not be joining the Tony Award-winning revival of Pippin, according to a representative for the musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County," the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning work about a dysfunctional family — led by Oscar winner Meryl Streep — that reunites …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 26, 2013
The Wild Root Company will present a benefit reading of Gloria, a brand-new screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and Damned," Jan. 6, 2014, at The Main…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PM[SHARE]The Music of Maglione and Ruiz... Wait, Who?, featuring the songs of new musical theatre composers David Maglione and Tomas Ruiz, will be offered Jan. 18, 2014, at Stage 72 at The Triad.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]Actress and singer Nicole Scherzinger, best known as the lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls, is at the top of a short list of names to succeed Tony Award-winning actress Patina Miller in the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AM[SHARE]Disney Enterprises has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Phase 4 Films for changing the title of its recent film "The Legend of Sarila" to "Frozen Land," cla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AM[SHARE]The History Theatre has partnered with the Minnesota History Center to present the 2014 RAW STAGES New Works Festival, featuring four staged readings of new scripts that are currently in dev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Tony Award-nominated playwright David Ives (Venus in Fur) has joined the creative team of the Broadway-aimed musical Houdini, a representative for the production confirmed to Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PM[SHARE]The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) will present the "Before" trilogy — "Before Sunrise," "Before Sunset" and "Before Midnight"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PM[SHARE]Debbie Allen Dance Academy's The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker at Royce Hall at UCLA in Los Angeles has been named winner of the 7th Annual Goldstar National Nutcracker Award.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AM[SHARE]Producers of the high-flying Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark have requested the Empire State Building be lit in red and blue in honor of the production's final performance …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2013
Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman has bowed out of Houdini, the upcoming musical aiming for a 2015-16 Broadway arrival, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PM[SHARE]Prospect Theater Company will present the New York premiere of Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster's Jasper in Deadland, a new musical that follows 16-year-old Jasper as he journeys into…
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