Wednesday, December 9, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]Wayne Brady of Kinky Boots (with a hand from Lin Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson of Hamilton) broke the Lion King’s three-year Best Onstage Performance streak at the 27t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Misery, the new Broadway suspense thriller that stars Emmy Award winners Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf, has announced its student rush policy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]Nominations for the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced Dec. 9 at the Pacific Design Center’s SilverScreen Theater in West Hollywood, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]The musical Daddy Long Legs will make a bit of theatre history Dec. 10 at 8 PM ET when it becomes the first-ever Off-Broadway performance to be live streamed online to the world for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]The Illusionists — Live on Broadway, the extravaganza of magic that opened a seven-week Broadway run at the Neil Simon Theatre Nov. 19, can be seen in an hour-long TV speci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Wayne Brady of Kinky Boots (with a hand from Lin Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson of Hamilton) broke the Lion King’s three-year Best Onstage Performance streak on at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:46PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Dames at Sea has announced that an online lottery, giving fans a chance at $32 tickets, will begin with the Dec. 8 evening performance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PM[SHARE]The Tony-winning Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch will launch its national tour next fall with a four-week engagement in San Francisco.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Though talks are underway to produce London and national touring versions of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, producers announced Dec. 8 that Chicago will get its own separate, sit-dow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AM[SHARE]Talk about typecasting! Real-life Catholic nun Sister Cristina Scuccia, who recently won a TV talent competition, has been cast as Sister Mary Robert, the shy nun with the powerful voice…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]In the wake of the successful broadcast of The Wiz Live!, NBC is again expanding its relationship with Broadway, announcing that is developing an original TV musical, "Voice of the City…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2015
Lazarus, a new musical by by Tony-winning playwright Enda Walsh (Once) with music by David Bowie, opened Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop Dec. 7.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:20PM[SHARE]Check out the theatrical new music video "The Watcher" from the Indie-pop band Sky-Pony, headed by Lauren Worsham of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]The National Asian Artists Project, Baayork Lee's organization designed to showcase Asian-American performers, especially in the field of musical theatre, is hosting a program of fou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre hosts a Dec. 7 memorial service for Brian Friel, the Irish playwright who was, for decades, a leading voice on stages on both sides of the Atla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 6, 2015
School of Rock – The Musical, the first new Andrew Lloyd Webber show to open on Broadway in a decade, officially opens Dec. 6 at the Winter Garden Theatre, where his Cats ran for n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Stephen Colbert, host of the CBS talk show "The Late Show," emcees the Dec. 6 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, saluting singer-songwriter Carole King, actresses Cicely Tyson and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
New York City Opera, which collapsed under a pile of debt in 2013, may get the chance to rise from its deathbed like Violetta in La Traviata and sing again thanks to an agreement reached by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM[SHARE]Tony, Emmy and Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino returns to Broadway in David Mamet's new drama China Doll, officially opens to the press Dec. 4. Critics have begun filing their reviews.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]Tony, Emmy and Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino returns to Broadway in David Mamet's new drama China Doll, officially opening Dec. 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"The Lady in the Van," the film adaptation of the West End hit penned by Alan Bennett, has a limited release in New York and Los Angeles starting Dec. 4, to make the film and its c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Elza Zagreda — who is featured in the new Bravo comedy TV series "Odd Mom Out" alongside Andy Buckley from "The Office" — revives her acclaimed solo s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The latest movie version of Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender in the title role, opens in selected U.S. cinemas Dec. 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2015
Barbra Streisand, is returning to director's chair for an upcoming film based on the life of the Empress of Russia, "Catherine the Great," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:31PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning Long Day's Journey Into Night, which will be produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company, in association with R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:04PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning Long Day's Journey Into Night, which will be produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company, in association with R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PM[SHARE]The New York Times took an unusual step this week when it reviewed Lin-Manuel Miranda's alternate, Javier Muñoz, for his performance in the Broadway smash Hamilton, which …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PM[SHARE]On Dec. 3, the Writers Guild nominated the 69th Annual Tony Awards broadcast and writer Dave Boone with a nomination in the Comedy/Variety – Music, Awards Tributes – Spec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PM[SHARE]The Fred Ebb Foundation announced Dec. 3 that it would donate $1.65 million to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, tying last year's donation, which was the largest single contribution in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PM[SHARE]David Henry Hwang, whose M. Butterfly won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Play, is recovering after an apparently random slashing attack near his home in Fort Green, Brooklyn.
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