Friday, February 5, 2016
Harry Melling, who appeared in the Harry Potter film franchise as Harry's viciously spoiled cousin Dudley, takes his bow today as both Jason and his possessed puppet Tyrone in the London…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Alan Cumming has bared almost all for the cover of his new CD, "Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs: Live at the Cafe Carlyle," which gets its official release Feb. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway debut of David Harrower's Blackbird, the Olivier Award-winning drama with a cast headed by Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams, arrives on Broadway Feb. 5 at the Belasco …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Joel and Ethan Coen, creators of the idiosyncratic cult hits "The Big Lebowski" and "Fargo," are sending up Hollywood itself in their latest film with music, "Hail, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 4, 2016
Arthur Miller's Salem-set witch-hunt drama, The Crucible has postponed its first Broadway preview by a day so that its co-star, Saoirse Ronan, can attend the Academy Awards, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28PM[SHARE]The first amateur production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock — The Musical will open in March, performed by the students of the Oakland School for the Arts at the Curr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PM[SHARE]Tony winner Alan Cumming appeared on Seth Meyers' "Late Night" Feb. 3 to perform a sneak preview of the big soliloquy from what he claimed was a new musical, Hoover Dam. The so…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for the new musical American Psycho, which is based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Performances begin at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]Grease: Live just aired, but Fox-TV already is already gearing up for its next live musical special. The Passion, a two-hour original musical pageant about the final hours of Jesus C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PM[SHARE]An all-star lineup of "Disney on Broadway" stars is being promised for the Theatre Development Fund's (TDF) 2016 gala, saluting Disney Theatrical Productions and its presid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]The Educational Theatre Association released its annual survey of most-produced musicals and plays at America's high schools in 2014-2015. The top-produced show depicts the g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM[SHARE]Famed comedic actress Carol Burnett, whose Evening of Laughter and Reflection played an extended sold-out engagement at the Chicago Theatre last year, will bring the show to New York'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]Rosie O'Donnell, who hosted the Tony Awards broadcast in 1997, 1998 and 2000, visited "The Late Late Show with James Corden" Feb. 3 to give Corden some tips on his planned host…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]Alison Luff assumes the role of Fantine in the Broadway production of Les Misérables beginning Feb. 4 at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Songwriter/performer Carole King, whose life formed the blueprint for Broadway's Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, will be the subject of a February segment of the PBS series "Ame…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PM[SHARE]Pop singer Christina Milian has joined the cast of Fox's fall remake of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." The production will be shot this March in Toronto and shown at a date t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of The Color Purple, featuring the Broadway debuts of Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo, announced that it has pushed back release of its cast album for a second time, t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PM[SHARE]The new musical featuring the country-flavored songbook and laid-back "lifestyle" of "Margaritaville" singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett will have its world prem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PM[SHARE]Daveed Diggs, who plays Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the Broadway hit Hamilton, will guest star on the Feb. 3 episode of "Law & Order" with fellow cast memb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]An Italian actor is in a coma after a lynching scene went wrong in a stage play and the actor was strangled, according to The Independent and other sources.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, featuring Academy and Golden Globe Award winner Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut, has announced a special ticket discoun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]The Grammy Awards show will welcome back musical theatre this year. USAToday reports that the Broadway phenomenon will perform the show's opening number on the Grammy broadcast Feb. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]The Grammy Awards show will welcome back musical theatre this year. USAToday reports that the Broadway phenomenon will perform the opening number of the Grammy broadcast Feb. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AM[SHARE]Million Dollar Quartet, the Broadway musical that dramatizes the historic recording session of four American rock icons who came to light in the '50s, is being adapted as an eight-ep…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The hit Broadway musical Hamilton resumed its digital discount lottery Feb. 2, nearly a month after massive traffic overwhelmed its discount website on its first day, Jan. 5. The revamped we…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM[SHARE]Graham Phillips (ABC’s "The Good Wife") and Eamon Foley (Everyday Rapture, Assassins) — member of the original cast of the Broadway musical 13 &mda…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:22PM[SHARE]Talk about greased lightning! Carrie Havel, associate director of the Jan. 31 Grease: Live special on Fox, posted a film clip of herself and her team literally calling the shot during the br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]Fresh off his performance in Fox-TV's Grease: Live, Broadway star Aaron Tveit will join Lea Salonga, Megan Hilty, Cynthia Erivo, Tituss Burgess and other stars at MCC Theater's a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PM[SHARE]Actress Viola Davis, who has been nominated for a Tony Award each time she has appeared on Broadway, said the promotion of diversity in casting "is not [just] a trending topic."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AM[SHARE]Tony winner James Corden, who emcees "The Late Late Show" on CBS, will host the 70th Annual Tony Awards this June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AM[SHARE]Monday, February 1, 2016
The hit Broadway musical Hamilton will resume its digital discount lottery Feb. 2, nearly a month after massive traffic overwhelmed its discount website on its first day, Jan. 5.
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