Friday, January 22, 2016
Empire, a new musical about the building of the Empire State Building in New York City, will have its world premiere Jan. 23 at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in La Mirada, CA…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PM[SHARE]With the National Weather Service forecasting a snowstorm moving up the East Coast of the U.S. Jan. 22 and 23, theatres in the Washington, DC, Central New Jersey and Philadelphia areas have …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PM[SHARE]With the National Weather Service forecasting a snowstorm moving up the East Coast of the U.S. Jan. 22 and 23, theatres in the Washington, DC and Philadelphia areas have begun announcing can…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PM[SHARE]Bertolt Brecht's 1939 classic anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children is getting a second staging in New York this month, but each is very different from the other.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]The Casting Society of America (CSA) presented the 31st annual Artios Awards Jan. 21, celebrating excellence in casting for film, TV, web series and 12 categories of theatre. Bernard Telsey,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM[SHARE]Long before Zac Efron appeared in the smash Disney TV movie High School Musical he appeared in his own high school musical—You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:17AM[SHARE]The studio album for the Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz Disney stage musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame, featuring many members of the original production that played in California and Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The studio album for the Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz Disney stage musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame, featuring many members of the original production that played in California and Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2016
Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce will join A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder stars Bryce Pinkham and Lauren Worsham as entertainment at the Topsy-Turvy gala planned for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PM[SHARE]David Mamet's latest play, China Doll, which opened on Broadway last fall to some of the more negative reviews of the season, reportedly has turned a profit—likely thanks to it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PM[SHARE]Nominations for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards were announced Dec. 7, and the awards will be handed out starting at 8 PM ET Feb. 15 on CBS-TV.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:22PM[SHARE]Singer/actress Christine Pedi of Off-Broadway's The NEWSical,, has responded to news that Bette Midler will star in a revival of Hello, Dolly! with her imagined version of the audit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]Christopher Jackson, who plays George Washington in the Broadway musical Hamilton, appeared on NBC's "Today" show Jan. 21 to share his thoughts about his character was develope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]Grizabella is headed for the Heaviside layer once more! Broadway's The Shubert Organization and Nederlander Organization are teaming up to produce the long-rumored revival of the And…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:14AM[SHARE]Taylor Mac, the playwright and performer whose Hir recently completed an Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons, unveils the first two sections of his planned epic, A 24-Decade His…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony-winning playwright Mark Medoff (Children of a Lesser God) has written a new drama, Marilee & Baby Lamb, about film icon Marilyn Monroe, which gets invitation-only indust…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Our Mother's Brief Affair, a new play by Tony-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, opened on Broadway Jan. 20 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19PM[SHARE]"Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?" It could be you! The incoming "SpongeBob Squarepants" musical has set audition dates in New York and Florida for the roles of Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]New York's famed Ziegfeld Theatre, which has hosted numerous top-drawer Hollywood premieres — including the current "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" — is …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PM[SHARE]Actors' Equity Association, the stage actors' union, will host the discussion "African American Artists on Broadway: Life, Work and Inspiration" with Tony winner Brian Stok…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PM[SHARE]Actress, TV personality and author Alani "LaLa" Anthony will make her debut as a Broadway producer this spring. She has joined the producing team for the previously announced Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PM[SHARE]Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer, who, on Jan. 19, returned to the role of Captain Hook — the part he originated when Finding Neverland arrived on Broadway in March 2015 &mdas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PM[SHARE]Cast members and creators of the upcoming new Broadway musical Tuck Everlasting have put together a video to explain what the show is all about.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PM[SHARE]In a supreme example of an older actor trolling a younger one, Robert De Niro tricks his "Dirty Grandpa" co-star Zac Efron into making him a turkey sandwich under the guise of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AM[SHARE]Tony-nominee Ken Watanabe will return to the role of the King of Siam in the Broadway revival of the King and I, for seven weeks starting March 1. Lincoln Center Theater's Tony-w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AM[SHARE]Two Hollywood stars who have appeared in Broadway shows recently—James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal—will return to an imaginary Times Square in the forthcoming new HBO se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AM[SHARE]Mother Courage and Her Children had its delayed opening at Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company after Kecia Lewis replaced original star Tonya Pinkins in Bertolt Brecht's moder…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:28AM[SHARE]The 2016 American Songbook series of concerts at Lincoln Center continues Jan. 20 at 8:30 PM with singer and actress Vanessa Williams.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]New York City Opera will return to life Jan. 20-24 with a modest staging of Puccini's Tosca at the Rose Theatre at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall at the Time Warner…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2016
On the eve of its return to life with a modest staging of Tosca, The New York City Opera is offering to refund money to subscribers who were left holding the bag when the company declared ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PM[SHARE]Derek McLane, who has designed 35 Broadway shows, including this season's Noises Off, China Doll and the forthcoming Fully Committed, has been asked to repeat one of the classiest gigs i…
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