Friday, August 7, 2015
Wicked star Shoshana Bean, who can currently be seen in the pre-Broadway engagement of Beaches, the new musical based on the 1985 novel by Iris Rainer Dart, can be heard singing the musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AM[SHARE]Anthony Rapp, who originated the role of Mark Cohen in Rent, is the creative consultant on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe production of that Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Jon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 6, 2015
Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's acclaimed new musical that fuses the contemporary and classic worlds to tell the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 5, 2015
A year ago 18-year-old actress Shanice Williams was getting ready to attend a performing arts college in Los Angeles. Now she's getting ready to make her television debut on NBC …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2015
A condensed "Jr." production of Children of Eden, Stephen Schwartz's epic musical based on the Book of Genesis, premiered last month in New Jersey, and Schwartz attended the sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PM[SHARE]Broadway stars will hit the streets Aug. 17 for the annual Sleep Out: Broadway Edition that raises money for Covenant House and awareness of homeless youth in the city.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 2, 2015
The new Broadway comedy An Act of God, starring Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Jim Parsons in the role of God, ends its New York City engagement Aug. 2 at Studio 54.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Female songwriters are making noise in New York City, and they deserve to be heard. As part of Playbill.com's Women in Theatre week, we talk to a few female songwriters about navigating …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2015
Emmy winner Valerie Harper, who had been playing the role of Millicent in The Ogunquit Playhouse's production of Nice Work If You Can Get It before falling ill July 29, is resting with h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PM[SHARE]An injury suffered by co-author Melissa Manchester has forced a postponement of a planned Aug. 7 reading of the new musical Sweet Potato Queens, which she co-authored with Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PM[SHARE]The two-hour series finale of "Looking," the HBO series about a group of gay friends living in San Francisco that stars Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff, will air during the f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2015
Ken Davenport, Cody Lassen, Hunter Arnold and Deaf West Theatre announced July 30 that the actors who played the rebellious students in the acclaimed Deaf West production of Steven Sater and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PM[SHARE]Emmy winner Valerie Harper, who has been playing the role of Millicent in The Ogunquit Playhouse's production of Nice Work If You Can Get It, which began performances July 22 and continu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]Emmy winner Valerie Harper, who has been playing the role of Millicent in The Ogunquit Playhouse's production of Nice Work If You Can Get It, which began performances July 22 and continu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]Joshua Harmon's Significant Other takes a look at the single gay guy whose best friends are all getting married off before his eyes. So, who better to send than one of our own single sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]Wesley Taylor, Alexandra Silber and Adam Kaplan are among the performers who will bring the popular Instagram/Twitter trend of #tbt to the stage of 54 Below Aug. 6 with #tbtLIVE Throwback Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Who better than Fun Home star Judy Kuhn to pick some of the best songs by female writers? As part of Playbill.com's Women in Theatre Week, she share her favorites in this week's Play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Dear Evan Hansen, the new, original musical by Tony Award-nominated songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul that stars "Pitch Perfect" and Book of Mormon actor Ben Platt, offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2015
How far do kids go to fit in? Benj Pasek and Justin Paul explore the teenage struggle in their new musical Dear Evan Hansen, starring "Pitch Perfect" and Book of Mormon star Ben Pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2015
Kyle Jean-Baptiste made history July 23 when he went on as Jean Valjean in the Broadway revival of Les Misérables at just 21 years old. We ask him about making history, what a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:54PM[SHARE]Although Laura Benanti can't be in attendance at tonight's #SOBLESSED Live! concert, her best friend Chelsea Nachman can! Watch as Benanti coaches Nachman how to be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Michael McGrath, who recently starred in Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century, has joined the cast of Bock & Harni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Following a sold-out engagement last fall, #SOBLESSED Live! returns to 54 Below July 27 for a concert event benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 26, 2015
Kyle Jean-Baptiste, who was cast in the Broadway revival of Les Misérables following his graduation from Baldwin Wallace University, made history July 23 when he went on as Je…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM[SHARE]A memorial for late Tony Award-winning actor Roger Rees will be held Sept. 21 at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre, home of Disney's Aladdin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]Friday, July 24, 2015
Tony and Academy Award-winning actress Liza Minnelli performs her first post-rehab concert at the IP Casino Resort Spa located in Biloxi, MS, July 24 at 8 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AM[SHARE]The film adaptation of the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical Lucky Stiff, featuring Tony winners Jason Alexander, Nikki M. James and the late Dennis Farina, is released in New York&am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wendy's Shadow, a musical based on the novel "Peter and Wendy" by J.M. Barrie, is presented as part of the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival in concert productions July 24…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway is making way for "The United Colors," according to Lea Salonga, referring to this season — Hamilton, a piece in which our Founding Fathers are portrayed by toda…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2015
Ryan Scott Oliver's We Foxes, a new Southern Gothic musical thriller about an orphan girl in search of salvation, will receive a closed reading at Playwrights Horizons July 24 under the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2015
The original Broadway cast album of the new Lin-Manuel Miranda musical Hamilton will be released this fall from Atlantic Records. The two-disc album will be produced by Ahmir "Q…
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