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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:09PM[SHARE]The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of the award-winning Michael Frayn comedy Noises Off officially opened Jan. 14 at the American Airlines Theatre. Andrea Martin, Mega…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM[SHARE]The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of the award-winning Michael Frayn comedy Noises Off officially opened Jan. 14 at the American Airlines Theatre. Andrea Martin, Mega…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM[SHARE]The daily discount lottery at the hit Broadway musical Hamilton will continue to be offered outdoors on the steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre, but Ham4Ham, the impromptu performances that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PM[SHARE]Liked "The Wiz"? Looking forward to "Hairspray"? A prominent NBC executive told reporters Jan. 14 that what he'd really like to do is a TV version of the Broadway sma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM[SHARE]The American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice have announced the judges for the 61st Annual Obie Awards, which will be held May 23 at Webster Hall in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PM[SHARE]The American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice have announced the judges for the 61st Annual Obie Awards, which will be held May 23 at Webster Hall in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PM[SHARE]"American Idol" finalist and "Glee" actor Adam Lambert has joined the cast of Fox-TV's fall broadcast of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." He will play E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PM[SHARE]In the eight Harry Potter films British stage actor Alan Rickman, playing the glowering professor Severus Snape, bedeviled Daniel Radcliffe in the films' title role. However, upon Rickma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PM[SHARE]DNCE, the four-member band fronted by Joe Jonas, has joined the cast of the upcoming broadcast of Grease: Live, scheduled for broadcast Jan. 31 on Fox-TV.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]Promising "the most progressive technology ever seen on Broadway," Nerds, the new musical about tech giants Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, has booked Broadway's Longacre Theatre fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AM[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 09:59AM[SHARE]Theatre folk took prominent places among the nominees for the 88th Annual Academy Awards, saluting excellence in movie work, which were announced Jan. 14 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AM[SHARE]Alan Rickman, the British stage actor who achieved immortality in his signature role as the forbidding potions master Prof. Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films, has died of cancer at age…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 13, 2016
The Kleban Foundation has announced that the 26th annual Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has been awarded to Stacey Luftig, and the 26th annual Kleban Prize for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PM[SHARE]The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton in her run for president this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM[SHARE]Master actor Brian Bedford, whose six-decade career was highlighted by seven Tony Award nominations and one win, has died at age 80
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PM[SHARE]The annual Broadway Backwards concert — featuring male singers performing songs traditionally sung by women and women singing tunes written for men — will be presented Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[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 is scheduled for an invitation&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PM[SHARE]Cast member Nancy Ticotin performed a number from the new Broadway-bound musical Gotta Dance, for the Chicago Tribune.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM[SHARE]New York City Opera, which collapsed under a pile of debt in 2013, will get the chance to rise from its deathbed like Violetta in La Traviata and sing again thanks to a decision from the Ban…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AM[SHARE]Leslie Caron, original leading lady of the 1951 movie musical classic "An American in Paris" made her long-awaited visit to the Broadway musical adaptation at the Palace Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Jan. 12 was one fine day for producers Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing, who were able to announced that their national tour of Beautiful — The Carole King Musical recouped…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30PM[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 to Feb. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM[SHARE]Nick Cordero, who played the tap-dancing theatre-loving gangster in the lead role of Woody Allen's musical Bullets Over Broadway, will return to Broadway this spring in the male …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:49PM[SHARE]David Margulies, an actor who successfully moved back and forth from stage to TV to film with memorable portraits of harried ethnic characters, died Jan. 11 at age 78, according to his agent…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PM[SHARE]Leafing through their Playbills, theatregoers may pause over an odd word below the Cast of Characters in most musicals — "Swings."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]The sixth annual Clive Barnes Awards were presented to Gabe Stone Shayer for dance and Dave Thomas Brown for theatre in a Jan. 11 ceremony at The Walter Reade Theatre in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]Monday, January 11, 2016
It was a bittersweet Monday for the cast of David Bowie's Off-Broadway musical Lazarus. As the rest of the world was hearing news of his death from cancer, the cast was in the record…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31PM[SHARE]The red-carpet season is underway, and lots of theatre folk are eligible this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM[SHARE]Tony nominee Kate Baldwin will play Anna Leonowens opposite the King of Paolo Montalban in the forthcoming Chicago production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I.
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