Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Allegiance, the autobiographical Broadway musical co-starring George Takei, and based on events in his family during World War II, will close Feb. 14 after 37 previews and 113 regular pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PM[SHARE]Comedienne and actress Rita Rudner joins Emmy winner Charles Shaughnessy as co-stars of the U.S. premiere of the play Act 3..., which begins previews Jan. 6 at Laguna Playhouse in Califo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:22PM[SHARE]The close-harmony a capella singing group Boyz II Men had joined the cast of the upcoming broadcast of Grease: Live, scheduled for broadcast Jan. 31 on Fox-TV.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]Brynn O'Malley, who has attracted a following from her Broadway appearances in Honeymoon in Vegas, Annie and Sunday in the Park With George, makes a guest appearance Jan. 6 on the NBC…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]Disney has released a teaser for its forthcoming animated film "Moana," which has music by Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer of Hamilton and In the Heights.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]The hit Broadway musical Hamilton resumes its front-of-the-theatre ticket discount lottery Jan. 6 after massive traffic overwhelmed its discount website on its first day…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AM[SHARE]Jennifer Hudson appeared on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" Jan. 5 to share stories about making her Broadway debut in The Color Purple. Hudson, who plays the magnetic Shug Avery in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Tony nominee Elizabeth "Liz" Swados, composer and director of groundbreaking and experimental musicals in the 1970s, culminating in the Broadway productions of Runaways and Doonesb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59PM[SHARE]"Service Unavailable. Please try again later." That's what potential ticket buyers saw on the new website set up to handle the Hamilton discount lottery for much of its first d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PM[SHARE]"Service Unavailable. Please try again later." That's what potential ticket buyers saw on the new website set up to handle the Hamilton discount lottery for much of its first d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PM[SHARE]Ellyn Marie Marsh, who can be seen in Broadway's Kinky Boots, performed her own kicky, uptempo 1950s version of the mournful Adele hit "Hello" as part of a Jan. 3 concert at Jo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PM[SHARE]The American Theatre Wing’s 70th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards, which are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, are still five months aw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18PM[SHARE]A day after Hamilton announced that it was moving its daily discount lottery online, another Broadway hit, the Tony-winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is foll…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]Pop superstar Ariana Grande made a surprise guest appearance at a Jan. 5 concert given by Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown and Broadway star Shoshana Bean at the Catalina Bar &am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PM[SHARE]"Service Unavailable. Please try again later." That's what potential ticket buyers were seeing on the new website set up to handle the Hamilton discount lottery on its first da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PM[SHARE]"Service Unavailable. Please try again later." That's what potential ticket buyers were seeing on the new website set up to handle the Hamilton discount lottery on its first da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PM[SHARE]Actors from shows as diverse as Hamilton and This Is Our Youth were named to Forbes magazine's annual "30 Under 30" list of "Today's Brightest Young Stars And The Futu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]A looming clash between Actors' Equity Association and Cirque du Soleil Theatrical, producers of the forthcoming Broadway musical Paramour, was averted this week with an agreement betwee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick's musical Disaster!, a parody of 1970's disaster movies, which begins previews Feb. 9 and officially opens Mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AM[SHARE]Monday, January 4, 2016
Actress and recording artist Victoria Justice (“Victorious”) and Ryan McCarten (“Liv & Maddie,” Heathers the Musical) have been announced to p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PM[SHARE]Actress and recording artist Victoria Justice (“Victorious”) and Ryan McCarten (“Liv & Maddie,” Heathers the Musical) have been announced to p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PM[SHARE]The daily discount-ticket lottery at the hit Broadway musical Hamilton is going digital, and the matinee-day Ham4Ham concerts on the steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre are being te…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is commemorating the 400th anniversary of its namesake’s death by sending out rare original copies of the First Folio of his plays…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PM[SHARE]Full casting has been announced for Cirque du Soleil's forthcoming first-ever, made-for-Broadway musical Paramour, scheduled to start previews April 16 at the Lyric Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PM[SHARE]The daily discount-ticket lottery at the hit Broadway musical Hamilton is going digital, and the matinee-day Ham4Ham concerts on the steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre are being te…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PM[SHARE]The daily discount-ticket lottery at the hit Broadway musical Hamilton is going digital, and the matinee-day Ham4Ham concerts on the steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre are being te…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PM[SHARE]Broadway actress Kecia Lewis will assume the title role of the Classic Stage Company production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, succeeding Tonya Pinkins, wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PM[SHARE]Tim Federle, author of the Broadway-set novel "Better Nate Than Ever," has joined Claudia Shear as co-librettist of the upcoming new Broadway musical Tuck Everlasting.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 3, 2016
Ham4Ham, the impromptu performances that occur periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is playing, featured the show's women performing a remixed v…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27PM[SHARE]The Broadway premiere of Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games, created, directed by and starring Michael Flatley, ends its scheduled limited run at the Lyric Theatre Jan. 3, and will head back…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PM[SHARE]"Galavant," ABC-TV's parody musical series that premiered in early 2015 with a score by Tony and Academy Award-winning songwriter Alan Menken, launches its second seaso…
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