Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Cameron Mackintosh's production of Les Misérables, currently playing in Sydney, Australia, will open at Singapore’s Esplanade Theatre in May 2016, marking 20 years s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PM[SHARE]Abrons Arts Center will present Just Like a Woman, a free, three-day program of performances, installations, cabarets, screenings, panels and book launches that examine representations o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway company Kitchen Theatre will continue its 25th anniversary season with the regional premiere of Lauren Gunderson's I And You, the story of two young people from differen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PM[SHARE]In celebration of performances beginning on Halloween, Second Stage has announced specially priced $10 tickets to the first preview of Invisible Thread on Oct. 31. The Off-Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tony nominee Lauren Worsham (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder) will headline Heartbeat Opera's new benefit performance of Miss Handel, a show that blends Baroque art, drag, imm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM[SHARE]Spoiler alert! As chronicled in the Broadway musical Hamilton, a life-long rivalry between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton ends in a fatal duel, leaving the latter dead. The actual pis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Spoiler alert! As chronicled in the Broadway musical Hamilton, a life-long rivalry between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton ends in a fatal duel, leaving the latter dead. A recreation o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Following previews that began Oct. 1, the world premiere production of Ripcord by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire officially opens at Manhattan Theatre Club Oct. 20. The Off&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Following an acclaimed, sold-out run this summer, comedian Colin Quinn returns to Off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre with his solo show, Colin Quinn The New York Story, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
Saratosa's Florida Studio Theatre has kicked off the 25th anniversary of its Write a Play program, a year-long initiative that introduces theatre to young audiences with the mission …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PM[SHARE]Women's Project Theatre has announced further casting for the Off-Broadway premiere of Dear Elizabeth, Sarah Ruhl's two-hander, pieced together from the real-life letters…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PM[SHARE]The long-running Off-Broadway production of Avenue Q has released a video urging women not to miss their annual breast exam, in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In addit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PM[SHARE]The long-running Off-Broadway production of Avenue Q has released a video urging women not to miss their annual breast exam, in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In addit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PM[SHARE]Cambridge's American Repertory Theater announced it will stage a new immersive staging of Dave Malloy's electropop opera Natasha Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. The staging wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]Cambridge's American Repertory Theater announced it will stage a new immersive staging of Dave Malloy's electropop opera Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. The staging wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM[SHARE]Cambridge's American Repertory Theater announced it will stage newly re-imagined production of Dave Malloy's electropop opera Natasha Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. The st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM[SHARE]Celebrated musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors, recently seen at New York's City Center starring original Audrey Ellen Greene and Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, will embark on an Aust…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]Photographer Josh Lehrer has taken photographs of the Broadway cast of Hamilton using a camera lens from the mid 1800's. To date, three of the beautiful, sepia-toned images have been…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM[SHARE]Tony winner Ben Vereen (Wicked, Pippin, Jesus Christ Superstar) is directing the rock musical Hair at the Venice Theatre in Florida this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AM[SHARE]Following speculation last month, New York Theatre Workshop has confirmed that "Bond" man Daniel Craig will return to the stage as famous villain Iago in its upcoming production of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AM[SHARE]The Apollo Theater hosts the 31st Annual New York Dance and Performance Awards (The Bessies) Oct. 19, recognizing exceptional and groundbreaking work in choreography, performance, music comp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]There's a new queen of comedy on Broadway and her name is Lesli Margherita. Fresh from her Broadway debut as Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda The Musical, the star is now danci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]92Y continues its fall theatre programming Oct. 19 with Gloria and Emilio Estefan in a Q&A with Oscar and Tony winner Rita Moreno. The showbiz couple are discussing their new Broadway mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 18, 2015
Lee Pelton, president of the Emerson College in Boston, used an Oct. 18 column in the Boston Globe to defend plans to repurpose the historic Colonial Theatre, Boston's oldest continually…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PM[SHARE]Midtown Direct Rep (MDR) presents a one-night-only reading of The Impossibility of Now, a new comedy by Y York, Oct. 18. The staged presentation features Broadway performers and real…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes (Cinderella), Corey Cott (Gigi) and Tony winner Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone) star in The Bandstand, a new musical directed and choreographed by Andy Blan…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of the York Theatre Company's revamped Rothschild & Sons, starring Glory Crampton and Broadway vet Robert Cuccioli, officially …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Los Angeles' Academy of Music for the Blind presents its annual benefit concert Oct. 18 in an evening that features Roger Bart, Tony winner for his role in You're A Good Man, Charlie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 17, 2015
In a ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this month, Off-Broadway theatre St. Ann's Warehouse revealed its new home in an iconic pre-civil war tobacco warehouse under the Brookly…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2015
The Apollo Theater in Harlem, NY, hosts the Breakin' Convention hip hop dance festival this weekend, with events that kicked off Oct. 14. The line-up features celebrated French dance…
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