Thursday, December 17, 2015
Producers Frank Marshall, Mindy Rich, Anita Waxman and Beth Williams announced that they are developing a new musical featuring the country-flavored songbook and laid-back "life…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PM[SHARE]The Broadway musical Once may have closed last January, but the show's powerhouse bowling team lives on. The Broadway Bowling League completed its fall 2015 season with the Hoover Fixer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]Film, TV and Broadway star Dick Van Dyke, who originated the role of Caractacus Potts in the film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," performed the movie's title tune on the TV talk sho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AM[SHARE]Ham4Ham — the impromptu performances that occur periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where Hamilton is playing — welcomed Broadway star Norm Le…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:55AM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award-winning actor Michael Cerveris stars in an invitation-only Dec. 17 industry reading of the new musical The Goree Girls, about the inmates of a women&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), the British-based live-theatre company that established a Broadway beachhead in 2014 with the purchase of Broadway's biggest theatre, the Lyric, h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Laura Benanti returned home for the holidays in 2014 to rediscover her childhood roots. Watch again this year as she searches for her beloved stuffed animal, puts on her fa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PM[SHARE]Taylor Mac, the playwright and performer whose Hir recently completed an Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons, will unveil the first two sections of his planned epic, A 24-Decade…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PM[SHARE]NBC has opted to cancel the television variety series "Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris" after a single season, according to Deadline Hollywood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]NBC has opted to cancel the television variety series "Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris" after a single season, according to Deadline Hollywood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]The Atlantic Theater Company staging of These Paper Bullets! officially opened Off-Broadway Dec. 15. The modish twist on Much Ado About Nothing is wri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM[SHARE]The Force of Broadway is definitely with the new Hollywood blockbuster "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Here's what to look (and listen) for in the film that opens Dec. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AM[SHARE]It's a big month for composer Shaina Taub: First, Old Hats, then Twelfth Night, and now, rolling out Dec. 16, the solo CD "Visitors." An audio clip can be heard below, along wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AM[SHARE]Broadway's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time marks its 500th performance on the Dec. 16 matinee with a pre-show cake for the cast, crew and producers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time marks its 500th performance on the Dec. 16 matinee with a pre-show cake for the cast, crew and producers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2015
NBC has opted to cancel the television variety series "Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris" after a single season, according to Deadline Hollywood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35PM[SHARE]Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Bridges of Madison County and Dear Evan Hansen producer Stacey Mindich has been named the 2016 recipient of the Commercial Theater Institute's Robert White…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PM[SHARE]Tony winner Jessie Mueller channels her character in composer Sara Bareilles' Broadway-bound musical Waitress in a newly released video.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PM[SHARE]We've had Nunsense, Nunsense II, Nunsense Jamboree, Nunsense A-Men, Nuncrackers and even Nunset Boulevard, but composer Dan Goggin's reported $500 million cottage (or we should s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:53PM[SHARE]Jeff Harnar, Mark Nadler, Molly Pope and Steve Ross are among performers who will take part in It's De-Lovely, a salute to Broadway composer Cole Porter on the 125th anniversary of h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PM[SHARE]Billboard magazine has chosen the original cast album of Hamilton as the #2 album of 2015, just behind Kenrick Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly," and several notches ahead of curre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PM[SHARE]Grease: Live hasn't aired yet, but Fox-TV already has its next live musical special lined up. "The Passion," a two-hour original musical pageant about the final hours o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PM[SHARE]Singer Josh Groban appeared on "The Late Late Show" with Tony Award winner James Corden to sing soulful versions of "Baa Baa Black Sheep," "Frère Jacques&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]Gore-loving film director Quentin Tarantino announced at the New York premiere of his latest current film "The Hateful Eight" that he wants to see an adaptation of it on Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AM[SHARE]Producers have posted the first trailer for the forthcoming "Harry Potter" film spinoff, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:38AM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2015
Two-time Tony Award-winning actor Michael Cerveris will star in an invitation-only industry reading of the new musical The Goree Girls, about the inmates of a women'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:28PM[SHARE]Donald Trump as Rum Tum Tugger? Chris Christie as Bustopher Jones? A new YouTube video tries to imagine what would happen if the Iowa Republican Committee hired Andrew Lloyd Webber to stage …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]Donald Trump as Rum Tum Tugger? Chris Christie as Bustopher Jones? A new YouTube video tries to imagine what would happen if the Iowa Republican Committee hired Andrew Lloyd Webber to stage …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AM[SHARE]Chris Jones, long-time theatre critic for the Chicago Tribune, will share the $10,000 2014-15 George Jean Nathan Award for drama criticism with Princeton professor Brian Eugenio Herr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AM[SHARE]Dick Van Dyke, who received a Tony Award for originating the role of Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie, celebrated his 90th birthday with a flash mob singing and dancing songs from his film …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AM[SHARE]Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare's comedy of cross dressing and secret love, will sing again in a new musical being planned by New York's Public Theater, according to a report in T…
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