Friday, April 20, 2012
Australian comedian, musician and composer Tim Minchin, who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway-bound Matilda The Musical, has been cast in the Showtime series "Californication,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]The FEED Foundation and Clarins will present the first Clarins Million Meals Concert for FEED, celebrating FEED's fifth anniversary, May 30 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[SHARE]"American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks, who appeared as Teen Angel in the Broadway revival of Grease, has signed on with Caesars Entertainment-owned Bally's Las Vegas Hotel and Ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AM[SHARE]Casa 0101 Theater artistic director Josefina López presents the American premiere of Armand Gatti's The Imaginary Life of the Street Sweeper, August G., translated into English an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Epic Theatre Ensemble presents William Shakespeare's Macbeth as part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, a national program of the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Ar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists will present Mad Dogs & Educated Fleas: Noël & Cole, A Battle of Wits, featuring the songs of Cole Porter and Noël Coward, May 5-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Felicia Fields, Lillian Castro and Michael Lindner star in the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray, which officially opens April 19 at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Alice Ripley, who was last seen Off-Broadway in Wild Animals You Should Know, has released a new music video entitled "Beautiful Eyes."
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PM[SHARE]The first class of Doris Duke Artists—an unprecedented new initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which awards artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and multidiscip…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who is currently represented on Broadway with The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, will be inducted into the New York Foundation for the Art…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Viola Davis and Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain, who both starred in the Academy Award-nominated film "The Help," are among "the most influential people in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AM[SHARE]Food For Thought Productions kicks off its 2012 season with a staged reading of Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes April 19 at the company's new home, the Beckett Theatre at Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Miriam Kulick's one-woman show, Open Hearts, a poignant and comedic journey about love of self, the acceptance of family and the courage to move forward, begins performances April 19 in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2012
ABC Family's "Bunheads," a dance-drama series starring Tony Award-winning Anything Goes star Sutton Foster, will make its debut June 11. Here is a first look at the series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]"Smash" and Broadway star Will Chase will join the Colorado Symphony for its upcoming concert, Shuffle, April 27 at the Boettcher Concert Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM[SHARE]Drama Desk nominee Bryan Batt (La Cage Aux Folles) and Bruce Vilanch (Hairspray) will be among the cast of the South Florida premiere of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, which w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]The newest edition of The Meeting*, a gay romp through politics, social news, music, comedy skits and more, will be presented April 19 at the Duplex.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AM[SHARE]Edgar Lee Masters' The Spoon River Anthology receives a new production, conceived and directed by Jimmy Maize and featuring a cast of 100 performers, beginning April 18 at the Riverside …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Singer-actor Alfie Boe, who won a joint Tony Award for his work in the Broadway revival of La Bohème, will release his second album, "Alfie," along with the DVD "Alfie …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PM[SHARE]Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman guest starred on the April 16 episode of NBC's "Smash," entitled "The Movie Star." Here is a clip of her musical performance, "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PM[SHARE]Riverfront Theater has announced the lineup for its inaugural season, which will kick off May 30 and take place along the Chicago River inside a 70-foot tall, 22,000-square foot temperature-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PM[SHARE]The Tribeca Film Festival, presented by American Express and held April 18-29 in New York City, announced its jurors for the 2012 festival. Irwin Winkler has been named president of the jury.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Roger Bart and Dan Futterman (Angels in America) have landed recurring roles on the USA Network series "Political Animals," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AM[SHARE]Stage and screen actors Christine Estabrook and Dana Delany will return to the ABC drama "Desperate Housewives" for the show's May 13 series finale, according to The Hollywood …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2012
"Glee" and Spring Awakening star Lea Michele, Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters and "Smash" star Megan Hilty recently sat down with "Entertainment Tonight" to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PM[SHARE]SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston, MA, has announced its 2012-13 season, which will include the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park and the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PM[SHARE]The Alloy Theater Company will present a new production of William Luce's Brontë: A Portrait of Charlotte beginning Off-Broadway May 3, prior to an official opening May 8, at Theate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]Newsies, the Disney musical that officially opened March 29 at the Nederlander Theatre, was recently featured on "Good Morning America" with "GMA" correspondent Cameron M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Ellen Burstyn will join the cast of the USA Network series "Political Animals," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]The Fox hit television show "Glee" will showcase songs from the 1977 movie "Saturday Night Fever" on the series' upcoming episode, "Saturday Night Glee-ver,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane, Lisa Brescia and Jordan Baker are among the speakers at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts' 127th graduation ceremonies April 16 at Broadway&#…
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