Monday, September 14, 2015
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&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Rumer Willis, a winner of the TV show "Dancing With the Stars" and the eldest daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, makes her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the current revival…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Drama League kicks off its fall schedule of events with one of its Up Close evenings, an intimate discussion with Tony winner Christian Borle, currently performing in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2015
Playbill.com offers the best of after-hour shows; click on the links to take you to the events' websites and to purchase tickets directly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2015
Side Show's Emily Padgett and Bridges of Madison County star Whitney Bashor are among the Broadway names who will celebrate the music of New York-based songwriters Matte O'Brien …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:01PM[SHARE]Women's theatre collective Nora's Playhouse will stage the story of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Off-Broadway this fall. Penned by Laurence Leamer and starring Tony nominee Kathleen C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PM[SHARE]Chicago's City Lit Theatre, which is dedicated to staging adaptations of literary works, has announced its 2015-16 season. Kicking off the season will be a theatrical adaptation of N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced casting for two of its upcoming Chicago premieres: Domesticated, by ensemble member and Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris; and The Flick, by fellow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AM[SHARE]Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown's residency at SubCulture continues Sept. 11 with a concert featuring Andréa Burns (Songs for a New World, In the Heights) and Jos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Theater for the New City presents Bike Shop, The Musical, helmed by Gretchen Cryer, who starred in and wrote the book and lyrics for the long-running I'm Getting My…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2015
The Know: Don't miss out on this week's must-see shows and events! Sept. 10-20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PM[SHARE]The Public Theater has announced casting for its Mobile Shakespeare Unit production of The Comedy of Errors, to be helmed by Center Stage artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah. The producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44PM[SHARE]Harlem's National Black Theatre has announced the line-up for its 2015-16 season, kicking off this October with a New York City premiere production by Chisa Hutchinson. The 47th …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PM[SHARE]Now in its 27th year, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals will invite theatre producers from around the world to preview eight new shows in development. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[SHARE]Legendary jazz singer-songwriter Billie Holiday will appear in concert at the Apollo Theater in Harlem via hologram this fall. The show is made possible by Hologram USA, the company that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]Blogger Perez Hilton stars as family patriarch Danny Tanner in Full House! The Musical!, an unauthorized musical parody of the ABC family sitcom TV series that starred Bob Saget. Following a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new two-actor musical Daddy Long Legs — by Tony Award-nominated composer-lyricist Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre) and Tony-winning librettist-director John…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Page 73's production of Max Posner's comedy Judy, helmed by two-time Obie winner Ken Rus Schmoll, officially opens at the New Ohio Theatre Off-Broadway Sept…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Selected from nearly 200 FringeNYC shows as a "Best Of," The Commedia Rapunzel will play additional performances at the FringeNYC Encore Series at SoHo Playhouse. The family-fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PM[SHARE]Broadway actors Victoria Mack (Venus in Fur) and Ian Kahn (Enron) have been cast in the Actors Company Theatre staging of Hard Love, the romantic drama by Israeli playwright Motti Lerner. Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM[SHARE]Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group has announced the 49th season line-up for the Mark Taper Forum. The five-play slate features emotionally-charged works, including Ayad Akhta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PM[SHARE]This year's Rockers on Broadway benefit concert from the Path Fund will be 80's themed, taking place Nov. 9 at downtown venue Le Poisson Rouge. The line-up for the 22nd annual ev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PM[SHARE]The Roundabout Theatre Company and Daniel Robert Sullivan, who played Tommy DeVito in the long-running Toronto production of Jersey Boys, have helped a team of New York City teenagers de…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PM[SHARE]Cherry Lane's Off-Broadway staging of Alan Hruska's Laugh It Up, Stare It Down officially opens Sept. 9 following previews that began Aug. 26. Featured in the cast is Katya Campb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PM[SHARE]The Ultimate Drag Off, the Off-Broadway interactive drag game show musical, will mark its tenth anniversary when it kicks off in a new Upper West Side location this month. Hosted by Miss…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2015
The Atlantic Theater Company has announced the slate for its Amplified Reading Series, presenting six new plays throughout the season. It has also named playwright David Mitchell Robinson, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PM[SHARE]Tickets are now on sale for Manhattan Theatre Club's productions of Ripcord, the world-premiere comedy by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire; Prodigal Son, the world-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]Washington, D.C.'s sixth annual Mutual Inspirations Festival will celebrate Czech author and playwright Karel Čapek, whose works received several Broadway productions. He is well…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Richard Donner, director of the 1985 hit film "The Goonies," has told Yahoo Movies that plans are afoot to adapt the story into an immersive theatre show Off-Broadway. The show…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM[SHARE]The line-up for the 2015 New Yorker Fest, running Oct. 2-4, has been announced. Featured among the line-up are stage favorites Lin-Manuel Miranda, Larry Kramer, Sigourney Wea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theater debuts its staging of The Tempest Sept. 8, with Larry Yando in the lead role of the sorcerer, Prospero. The production is directed by Aaron Pose…
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