Tuesday, January 19, 2016
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM[SHARE]Alan Cumming has bared almost all for the cover of his new CD, "Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs: Live at the Cafe Carlyle."
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PM[SHARE]The 2016 American Songbook series, featuring evenings dedicated to Maltby & Shire and the late Peggy Lee, as well as solo concerts from Liz Callaway, Vanessa Williams, Rita Moreno, A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]Boston's Huntington Theatre Company's recent hit stage adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces," is now being "fine tuned for Broadway,&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PM[SHARE]School of Rock — The Musical, which recently opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway, has joined the growing rank of shows offering online discount lotteries instead of fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]Bette Midler announced Jan. 18 that she is returning to Broadway in 2017 to play Dolly Gallagher Levi in a major revival of the musical Hello, Dolly! Here are some fact you should k…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]Bette Midler has announced that she will play Dolly Gallagher Levi in a Broadway revival of the blockbuster 1964 musical, Hello, Dolly!
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:36AM[SHARE]Bette Midler has announced that she will play Dolly Gallagher Levi in a Broadway revival of the blockbuster 1964 musical, Hello, Dolly!
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:36AM[SHARE]Bette Midler has announced that she will play Dolly Gallagher Levi in a Broadway revival of the blockbuster 1964 musical, Hello, Dolly!.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:35AM[SHARE]Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer, who originated the role of Captain Hook when Finding Neverland arrived on Broadway in March 2015, returns to the musical at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway Week ticket discounts return Jan. 19-Feb. 5. The semi-annual promotion offers theatregoers the chance to purchase two-for-one tickets to a range of Broadway shows, i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 18, 2016
Bette Midler, who has been closely involved with several Broadway-related projects during the past few years, tweeted the evening of Jan. 18 a teaser about "an announcement coming t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54PM[SHARE]Applications are now being accepted for the sixth annual Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, which provides a secluded summer getaway for writers of new musicals in the Hudson Valley.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PM[SHARE]The incoming Broadway musical Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed starts rehearsals Jan. 18 in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan will star in a forthcoming new movie, "Stan & Ollie," which will trace the comedy team's late-career stage work, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PM[SHARE]Hamilton $10 bills are rarely counterfeited. They're just not valuable enough to be worth the forgers’ time. Hamilton Broadway tickets, on the other hand, are apparently a diff…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 17, 2016
"High School Musical," the Disney TV movie that introduced a whole generation of youngsters to the world of theatre, and led to two hit sequels, is headed for a major televised reu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PM[SHARE]Million Dollar Quartet, the musical that dramatizes the historic recording session of four American rock icons who came to light in the '50s, ends its seven-year run in Chicago Jan. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 16, 2016
1908 or 1909 or 1912 There's no birthday like Merm's birthday. Ethel Zimmermann is born in Astoria N.Y. today. In years to come she will be acting and belting all over town as Ethel …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 15, 2016
Pippa Pearthree and Jessica Lee Goldyn are among newly announced performers who complete the cast for the upcoming new Broadway musical Tuck Everlasting, which begins previews March 31 and o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]The Dramatists Guild of America has announced recipients of its annual awards, which will be presented Feb. 22 at The American Airlines Theatre Penthouse Lobby in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PM[SHARE]More than two-dozen playwrights and authors of theatre books have scheduled autograph sessions at The Drama Book Shop's booth at BroadwayCon Jan. 22-24 in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PM[SHARE]Fox-TV has announced that its fall broadcast of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" has added to the cast Tim Curry, who created the iconic role of "sweet transvestite" m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PM[SHARE]Actor Chris Foley tells how he escaped a Wall Street career and embraced his inner performer in Off The Desk (Tales of A Mediocre Stockbroker), his new solo show starting previews J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PM[SHARE]Willie Nelson says George and Ira Gershwin wrote "some of the greatest songs ever," and the country music star is putting his money where his vocal cords are, releasing "Summe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AM[SHARE]Broadway personalities including Sherie Renee Scott, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Jack O'Brien, Nikki M. James, Michael Riedel, Sydney Lucas and Laura Osnes took part in a "National Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Laura Benanti has teamed up with the red-hot and scantily-clad club duo The Skivvies to record the single "I Like Musicals," available exclusively on Play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Lazarus, the Off-Broadway musical with a score by the late David Bowie and book by Enda Walsh, is being considered by producers for a Broadway transfer, according to The New York Post.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]This year's star-studded Junior Theater Festival, which invites students and teachers from 115 educational musical theatre groups — representing 28 U.S. states, the Distric…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"The Lady in the Van," the film adaptation of the West End hit penned by Alan Bennett, had a limited release in New York and Los Angeles starting Dec. 4, 2015, to make the film and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
Alison Luff assumes the role of Fantine in the Broadway production of Les Misérables beginning Feb. 4 at the Imperial Theatre.
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