Friday, September 18, 2015
Broadway vet and two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington has announced that he will direct and act in a screen adaptation of August Wilson's Fences for HBO, the same play that won hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AM[SHARE]Staten Island's Harbor Lights Theater Company begins performances of the Tony and Pulitzer-winning musical Rent Sept. 18. The staging is in celebration of the show's upcoming 20t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2015
The Know: Don't miss out on this week's must-see shows and events! Sept. 17-27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PM[SHARE]The Broadway League has announced details for the annual National High School Musical Theatre Awards, also known as the Jimmy Awards, named in honor of legendary Broadway producer/theatre ow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18PM[SHARE]The New York Theatre Workshop has announced full casting for its upcoming world-premiere production of Lazarus, by Tony-winning playwright Enda Walsh (Once) with music by David Bowie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PM[SHARE]Tony-winning producer Carole Shorenstein Hays has unveiled plans for the future of San Francisco's historic Curran Theatre, setting a reopening date for early 2017. During the extens…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Chicago's Signal Ensemble will close its doors after a 13-season history, according to local news source The Sun Times. The news follows last month's announcement that the celebr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PM[SHARE]Broadway veteran Mark Jacoby is among the cast of Bristol Riverside Theatre's staging of William Inge's celebrated romantic comedy, Bus Stop, playing this fall in Philadelph…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]The New York premiere of Lucas Hnath's The Christians officially opens Sept. 17 at Playwrights Horizons following previews that began Aug. 28. The production, which exa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Chicago's acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its 40th anniversary season Sept. 17 with the world-premiere adaptation of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's East of E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Rattlestick Playwrights Theater kicks off its 2015-16 season Sept. 17 with the official opening of the world premiere of Michael Laurence's Hamlet in Bed, billed as a "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 16, 2015
The Vineyard has announced that the first show of its season, the new musical comedy Gigantic, will now be staged at The Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row in Mahattan's thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PM[SHARE]American Theatre Magazine has released its list of the Top Ten Most-Produced Plays of the 2015-16 season, offering an overview of the most popular names and works being staged in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM[SHARE]Broadway stars Bryce Pinkham and Lucas Caleb Rooney have found a home for their charity organization, Zara Aina, dedicated to helping at-risk kids in Madagascar through theatrical story&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]The West End premiere of Broadway's Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots officially opened Sept. 15 at the Adelphi Theatre, following previews that began Aug. 21. The cast is led by Killia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]Stage and screen legend Carol Burnett appeared on the Today Show to talk about the release of "The Carol Burnett Show: The Lost Episodes," a new DVD that features never-before&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM[SHARE]The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has announced a call for submissions for the 2016 National Playwrights Conference. The program has helped the development of such works as Lindsey…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]The Brooklyn Academy of Music's 2015 Next Wave Festival kicks off Sept. 16 with a line-up that features 32 theatre, dance, music, opera and performance art productions from around th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Two acclaimed shows Off-Broadway have announced extensions: MCC's The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez will play an additional week through Oct. 11; and Dick Scanlan and Sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PM[SHARE]The Sundance Institute has announced that it will significantly expand its cultural exchange program with a new initiative to support theatre-makers from the Middle East and North Africa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PM[SHARE]Entertainment magazine Collider caught up with Luke Evans at the Toronto International Film Festival and asked the stage and screen star about his experience on the set of the Disney live…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PM[SHARE]With the help of high-profile LGBT activists like Dan Savage and Rosie O'Donnell, an online crowd-funding campaign to send a Michigan teenager from a conservative Christian famil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PM[SHARE]The Guinness Book of World Records' longest-running play in the history of the U.S., Shear Madness, is heading to Off-Broadway's New World Stages next month. The sho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]The London premiere of Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, seen in 2010 at Off-Broadway's Ensemble Studio Theater, officially opened Sept. 14 starring Nicole Kidman. Following previews…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AM[SHARE]Monday, September 14, 2015
Broadway composer and arranger Kim Scharnberg is planning a different kind of wedding to fellow musician and partner Grynn Griffin this month. The couple is planning a reception that will do…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Downtown Manhattan's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present the world premiere of The Elephant in Every Room I Enter, Gardiner Comfort and Kel Haney's play about the challeng…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PM[SHARE]"The Daily Show" correspondent and humorist Hasan Minhaj will make his theatrical debut this fall in the Off-Broadway production of Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King. The show, whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]Following their on-stage romance in the recent Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline this summer, real-life couple Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater will again appear together…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PM[SHARE]Following her directorial debut earlier this year, Cynthia Nixon returns to the Off-Broadway scene to direct Staceyann Chin's autobiographical solo show, MotherStruck!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Frank D. Gilroy passed away from natural causes at age 89 on Sept. 12, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]A decade before Tony nominee Vanessa Williams made her Broadway debut in the 1993 staging of Kiss of the Spider Woman, she was crowned Miss America and the pageant's first ever African&#…
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