Sunday, January 3, 2016
"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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Hand to God, starring Steven Boyer in his acclaimed performance as a young man named Jason and his foul-mouthed hand puppet Tyrone, plays its final performance on Broadway Jan. 3. The To…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway is tying on an apron for its annual New Year house cleaning. Eleven shows have announced closings this month, including six on Jan. 3 alone.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 2, 2016
Angus McIndoe, the three-story Times Square restaurant that earned its share of Broadway lore in a comparatively brief 15 years of existence, will close its doors Jan. 3, according to a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:59PM[SHARE]Ham4Ham, the impromptu performances that occur periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is playing, started 2016 with "Saturday Night Live" com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:01PM[SHARE]Friday, January 1, 2016
FAFSA, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, was designed to make life easier for students and parents applying for all governmental college tuition aid. In practice, it may seem lik…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 31, 2015
Tony Award-winning actress Tonya Pinkins has provided Playbill.com with a complete statement detailing her decision to depart the Classic Stage Company production of Bertolt Brecht's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Tonya Pinkins has provided Playbill.com with a complete statement detailing her decision to depart the Classic Stage Company production of Bertolt Brecht's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PM[SHARE]What does the Broadway musical Hamilton have in common with the 2003 cult film "The Room"? A lot, according to Zachary Spound and Jeremy Fassler.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]Among the photos posted on the official White House web page as part of its seventh annual feature "Behind the Lens: 2015 Year in Photographs" is a shot of the company of the Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]Striking 12, the 2004 concept-concert musical by members of the pop trio GrooveLily and Tony Award-winning librettist Rachel Sheinkin, pays tribute to New Year's Eve as few other…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AM[SHARE]Queen of the Night, the lavish interactive Off-Broadway theatrical feast from Sleep No More producer Randy Weiner, ends its run at the Diamond Horseshoe supper club beneath the Paramount…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 30, 2015
The three Schuyler sisters who sang at last week's Ham4Ham, the impromptu performances that occur periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is playin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:30PM[SHARE]Fans of Brooklyn's Slave #1 Theatre are organizing a campaign to save the long-shuttered performing space and civil rights rallying site from being demolished and replaced with condo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PM[SHARE]Samantha Massell, who plays Hodel in the new Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, prompted a Twitter debate this week about audience recording of live shows, after she tweeted her anger …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]Samantha Massell, who plays Hodel in the new Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, prompted a Twitter debate this week about audience recording of live shows, after she tweeted her anger …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]New York will get its first peek at Broadway veteran Sarah Jones' new solo show, Sell/Buy/Date, in a reading Jan, 6-16 at New York Live Arts in the Chelsea neighborhood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM[SHARE]Producers for the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, featuring Academy and Golden Globe Award winner Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut, have pushed back the fir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AM[SHARE]Tap goddess Sarah Reich proves you can tap to just about anything in the latest Postmodern Jukebox video, in which she dances to John Williams' themes from the "Star Wars" movi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Benedict Cumberbatch, the British actor who starred in a phenomenally sold-out National Theatre production of Hamlet in London this past summer, has donned the cape and goatee of a comic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PM[SHARE]Broadway is tying on an apron for its annual New Year house cleaning. Come January, 11 shows have announced closings (including six on Jan. 3 alone).
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PM[SHARE]Gotta Dance, a new musical based on the acclaimed 2008 documentary of the same name about professional basketball’s first-ever, aged-60-and-older dance team, offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PM[SHARE]Shakespearean actors Kenneth Branagh and Mark Rylance have been cast in director Christopher Nolan's upcoming film "Dunkirk," about the chaotic but ultimately successful evacua…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]"A Dream of Red Pavilions," the epic 18th century Chinese novel about the rise and fall of an aristocratic family as reflected in a romance between two cousins, will get its world&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AM[SHARE]Queen of the Night, the lavish interactive Off-Broadway theatrical feast from Sleep No More producer Randy Weiner, at the Diamond Horseshoe supper club beneath the Paramount Hotel, will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AM[SHARE]Queen of the Night, the lavish interactive Off-Broadway theatrical feast from Sleep No More producer Randy Weiner, at the Diamond Horseshoe supper club beneath the Paramount Hotel, will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AM[SHARE]Monday, December 28, 2015
Times Square has always existed in a perpetual state of change, but it's worth taking a moment to say farewell to two of its landmarks departing this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PM[SHARE]Death of the Liberal Class, a stage adaptation of the best-selling 2010 book by Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, will have its world premiere at Off-Broadway's New Ohio Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:06PM[SHARE]The King will have Broadway all to himself this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PM[SHARE]In an interview with PBS News, comedian Steve Martin, co-composer of the new musical Bright Star, says he "grew up on musicals."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM[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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