The Diamond Horseshoe, the space several levels beneath Manhattan's Paramount Hotel that served as a Broadway theatre in the 1970s, reopens Feb. 18 as a "glittering and decadent nig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PM[SHARE]Chicago's innovative American Theater Company has named Will Davis, a New York-based director and choreographer, as its permanent new artistic director, effective immediately. He suc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PM[SHARE]J.L. Williams, a cast member of the upcoming Broadway musical Shuffle Along who went missing for four days before winding up in a New York hospital, has thanked his well-wishers and prom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PM[SHARE]Actress Ann Sanders made a bit of history this week when she stepped into the role of Anna Leonowens in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I, replacing Tony winner Kelli O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]The annual Broadway Backwards fundraising concert in New York has announced a lineup of Broadway stars for its March concert date, including Tituss Burgess ("Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM[SHARE]The first international high school production of the new musical Amazing Grace, which played its final performance on Broadway Oct. 25, 2015, will be presented in Nairobi.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PM[SHARE]Arena Stage in Washington, DC, announced a 2016-17 season that will launch this summer with the world premiere of a new musical biography of six-time Grammy Award-winning R&a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PM[SHARE]Meryl Streep, as previously reported, will star in "Florence," a film about the late, vocally challenged opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins. A trailer of the Oscar-winning ac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Sandy Duncan has left the cast of Broadway's Finding Neverland just days after coming aboard the musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]Nerds, the new musical about tech giants Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, will begin Broadway previews April 1, one day later than originally announced. The production will bow at the Longacre The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PM[SHARE]Tickets go on sale to the general public Feb. 16 for the midsummer Broadway encore of Motown The Musical, the hit show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, which ended a 738&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Grammy Awards show will welcome back musical theatre this year. The cast of the Broadway phenomenon Hamilton will perform their show's opening number on the Grammy broadcast Feb. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]There is a long history of our commanders-in-chief appreciating the limelight — and sometimes even treading the boards themselves. In honor of Presidents' Day, we look …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Composer Marvin Hamlisch's final complete stage score is performed in New York City for the first time Feb. 15 when the cast of the 2012 world-premiere production reunites for a conc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]School of Rock — The Musical, which recently opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway, will hold an open casting call for replacements, described as "a new wave of pint…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 69th Annual Tony Awards broadcast and writer Dave Boone are nominated for a Writers Guild Award in the Comedy/Variety – Music, Awards Tributes – Specials category. Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]New York blogger Randy Rainbow has turned his satirical sights on Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, who dropped out of the race after a poor showing in the Feb. 8 New Hampshir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PM[SHARE]Performer and interviewer Richard Skipper will host theatre columnist and author Peter Filichia Feb. 13 at the American Popular Song Society in Manhattan. They will discuss Filichia's bo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]Hamilton's Leslie Odom, Jr., a recording artist on his own before achieving stage stardom playing Aaron Burr in Hamilton, has released a soulful new single, "Good For You" on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Chuck Cooper and LaChanze as well as Tony nominee Norm Lewis star in the City Center Encores! staging of the 1940 Vernon Duke-John Latouche musical Cabin in the Sky, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51PM[SHARE]The stage adaptation of Disney's hit animated film musical Frozen will premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in August 2017 prior to a spring 2018 Broadway arrival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57PM[SHARE]The box office will open Feb. 15 for Sara Bareilles' Broadway musical Waitress, starring Tony winner Jessie Mueller.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PM[SHARE]Tony nominee Ken Watanabe, who postponed his return to the role of the King of Siam in Lincoln Center Theater's Tony-winning Broadway revival of The King and I after undergoing lapar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PM[SHARE]Producers Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing announced that Ben Jacoby, previously seen in the U.S. tour of The Phantom of the Opera, has been chosen to take over role of songwriter Ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]The York Theatre Company's production of Cagney, the musical biography of legendary movie tough guy and dance man James Cagney, is transferring to a full-scale commercial Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]The day after "Frozen" makes its Disney Channel premiere Feb. 14, animated characters voiced by two Broadway favorites, Megan Mullally and Josh Gad, will make return appearances on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM[SHARE]Famed comedic actress Carol Burnett, whose Evening of Laughter and Reflection sold out its upcoming extended engagement at the Chicago Theatre in the Windy City, will bring the show to New Y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway League has released its annual study "Demographics of the Broadway Audience" for the 2014-15 season on Broadway. More than two-thirds were female and, surprisi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PM[SHARE]Brian Gari, the songwriter grandson of one-time Broadway superstar Eddie Cantor, is planning a concert of songs he wrote for a musical about his grandfather's life.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PM[SHARE]Tracy Letts' 2009 Broadway play Superior Donuts is being adapted as a TV series by CBS, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]The Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which closed Oct. 25, 2015, at the Nederlander Theatre, has been recorded by DMI Soundtracks and will be released in digital and CD formats on Feb. 26.
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