Friday, June 21, 2013
Tony Award-winning lyricist Don Black celebrates his birthday June 21. To mark the occasion, Playbill.com looks at clips from his musical projects, such as Bonnie & Clyde, Song and Dance…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2013
Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, whose The Last Five Years was recently seen Off-Broadway, celebrates his birthday June 20. Playbill.com looks back at Brown's career …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PM[SHARE]Bryan Terrell Clark — who plays legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye — took video camera in hand and led Playbill on a backstage tour of the Broadway hit Motown.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PM[SHARE]The Tony-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie closed June 20, 2004, after 903 performances. The production originally starred Sutton Foster, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Harriet Harris.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Producers announced June 17 that the iconic John Cameron Mitchell-Stephen Trask rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch would receive its Broadway debut in 2014 starring Emmy Award nominee Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]Michael Urie stars as a struggling Los Angeles actor who finds himself working in Barbra Streisand's basement in Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar, which returns Off-Broadway and b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2013
Special Tony Award recipient Barry Manilow, who was most recently seen on Broadway in his solo concert Manilow on Broadway, celebrates his birthday June 17. Playbill.com takes a look at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner John Gallagher, Jr., who debuted on Broadway in Rabbit Hole and later rocked-out in Spring Awakening and American Idiot, celebrates a birthday June 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2013
Billy Crystal's Tony Award-winning 700 Sundays and the dance-heavy Forever Tango are on their way back to Broadway for return engagements. We wondered: What other productions should retu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2013
The new musical Kinky Boots, featuring a score by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, recently stomped away with six Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Choreograph…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2013
What does it take to direct a killer opening number for the Tony Awards? A behind-the-scenes video captures Emmy Award-wining director Glenn Weiss' direction during the final moments of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2013
The Broadway community gathered at Radio City Music Hall June 9 for the biggest night of the theatrical season – the Tony Awards. The star-studded, music-filled evening was full of mem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Pippin, starring Matthew James Thomas and Tony Award winner Patina Miller, earned four Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical at the 67th Annual Tony Awards …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
Playbill.com asked our readers to vote for the nominated artists and productions they would like to see take home the coveted Tony Awards June 9 at Radio City Music Hall. Now that the 6…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2013
In addition to the 67th Annual Tony Awards telecast, which begins at 8 PM ET on CBS hosted by Emmy winner Neil Patrick Harris, theatre lovers will also want to join Playbill.com staff member…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2013
With the theatre community buzzing about who will take home trophies at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, Playbill.com recently asked our readers to join the dialogue and vote for who they would …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2013
The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus has revealed a sneak peek at the world-premiere presentation of Tony Award-nominated composer Andrew Lippa's oratorio I Am Harvey Milk, which will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
The 67th Annual Tony Awards are just days away, so the staff at Playbill.com thought it would be a good time to take a look back at some of our favorite (Tony Award-winning) performances fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]The 2013 Tony Awards will be held June 9 at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast live on CBS. In anticipation of Broadway's biggest night, CBS put together a series of promotional videos …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Playbill.com editor in chief Adam Hetrick will live blog from the Tony Awards press room June 9, beginning at approximately 7 PM ET, to give readers a first-hand account of winners' reac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]Sasha Allen, who appeared on Broadway in Hair and on screen in the cult movie "Camp," stepped into the national spotlight as a contestant on the NBC star-making series "The Vo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards are less than a week away, and time is running out for our readers to vote for their favorite Tony Award nominees.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2013
Everybody is saying "Yeah!" this season with the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots, which features a Tony Award-nominated score by Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18PM[SHARE]The 1975 Tony Award-nominated Best Musical Chicago, featuring the music of John Kander and Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway June 3, 1975. In celebration of the iconic musical, Playbill.com looks…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 2, 2013
In the new series Playbill Video Week in Review, Playbill.com recaps its weekly coverage of Broadway performances, celebrity interviews, web series and opening nights – in case they we…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Earlier this week, the New York Post reported that producers were eager to lure Bette Midler back to Broadway, possibly in a revival of Hello, Dolly! following her current engagement in I…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2013
Idina Menzel, who took home the Tony Award in 2004 for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked, celebrates her birthday May 30. Playbill looks back at her career.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]In the midst of "May Madness" Playbill.com continues its new Tony Awards poll, which allows readers to vote for their favorite Tony Award nominees.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2013
The world-premiere musical King Kong, which features a giant, six-meter-tall high-tech puppet as its star, premiered in Australia May 28. As audiences are getting their first look in Melbour…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 25, 2013
After two seasons the NBC musical series "Smash" takes its final bow May 26. Before the cast sings their 11 o'clock number, Playbill.com has put together a collection of some o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2013
NBC's "Smash" ends its run May 26. The Playbill Vault has all the Playbill covers from the fictional productions featured throughout the series.
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