Monday, December 14, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:46AM[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 Theatre, according to a report in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 13, 2015
The 2015 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Fun Home announced Dec. 13 that it has recouped its entire $5.25 million investment in just eight months on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55PM[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, premieres D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard's Fool for Love plays its final performance today, concluding a limited run that was extended a week due to strong reviews and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 12, 2015
Ham4Ham — the impromptu performances that occur periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where Hamilton is playing — featured members of the show&a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04PM[SHARE]Forget about Hamilton. Lin-Manuel Miranda was a guest on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" Nov. 11 and got to co-star as John Adams in Colbert's new rap musical abo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM[SHARE]Forget about Hamilton. Lin-Manuel Miranda was a guest on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" Nov. 11 and got to co-star as John Adams in Colbert's new rap musical abou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM[SHARE]Friday, December 11, 2015
The box office at New York's Belasco Theatre opens Dec. 14 for the Broadway debut of David Harrower's Blackbird, the Olivier Award-winning drama with as cast headed by Jeff Danie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PM[SHARE]The Daily Mail of London is reporting that Kelli O'Hara may recreate her Tony-winning performance in Lincoln Center Theatre's hit revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Kin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of The Color Purple, featuring the Broadway debuts of Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo, announced that it will record its cast album next week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PM[SHARE]Gore-loving film director Quentin Tarantino told a Hollywood roundtable that he wants to adapt his current film comedy, "The Hateful Eight," as a stage play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM[SHARE]The acclaimed London revival of Gypsy, starring Imelda Staunton, which was filmed for broadcast, will air on BB4 Dec. 27, according to the show's Facebook page.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM[SHARE]Bruce Willis, currently starring as a bed-bound writer in Misery on Broadway, showed that he still can do his own stunt—more or less—on "The Late Show with Steph…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2015
The ultra-violent futuristic 2011 graphic novel Romeo and Juliet: The War is being adapted as a movie by Lionsgate Picture, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PM[SHARE]For the fourth year in a row Nick Kenkel will man the director's chair for the burlesque show "Broadway Bares," which is produced by and benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14PM[SHARE]Songwriter/performer Carole King, whose life formed the blueprint for Broadway's Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, will be the subject of a February 2016 segment of the PBS series &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PM[SHARE]Mike Nichols, the late performer, writer and director who left an indelible mark on stage and screen, will be remembered in a PBS documentary directed by his onetime writing and performing p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PM[SHARE]An audience member at the Nov. 9 matinee of Broadway’s Sylvia disrupted the performance to the point that the actors had to stop the show at the Cort Theatre and start the scene ov…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PM[SHARE]Hamilton, the Broadway musical based on the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton, was subject of an entire category on the Dec. 9 episode of the TV game show "Jeopardy!"&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM[SHARE]"Spotlight" and "Orange Is the New Black," a movie and a TV series both packed with Broadway actors, were among the films and shows that earned nominations for the 73rd A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AM[SHARE]Talk about typecasting! Real-life Catholic nun Sister Cristina Scuccia, who recently won a TV talent competition, opens Dec. 10 in the role of Sister Mary Robert, the shy nun with the po…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of The Color Purple, starring Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo, opens Dec. 10 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, marking the Broadway debuts of both actresses.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Ham4Ham — the impromptu performances that occur periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where Hamilton is playing — welcomed Tony Award winner Bil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:41PM[SHARE]Deaf West Theatre's acclaimed Broadway production of Spring Awakening, which is currently playing the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, has announced that it will roll out a national tour beginni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:08PM[SHARE]Hamilton, the Broadway musical based on the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton, will be the subject of an entire category on the Dec. 9 episode of the TV game show"Jeopardy!&quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PM[SHARE]As rumored since 2013, the London musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which features a score by Tony Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, will have a Broadway run, but it won…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PM[SHARE]Broadway's Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed has pushed back its opening date from April 21 to April 28—the last possible date…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PM[SHARE]Broadway's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will mark its 500th performance on the Dec. 16 matinee with a pre-show cake for the cast, crew and producers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PM[SHARE]George Takei, star of the Broadway musical Allegiance, appeared on MSNBC Dec. 8 to lambaste Republican Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump's proposal that all Muslims be banned from e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PM[SHARE]Oprah Winfrey's OWN cable network will broadcast a primetime documentary on Winfrey's return to Broadway as a producer, "Oprah Goes To Broadway: The Color Purple," airing D…
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