Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Starting at 6:30 AM (ET) Nov. 18, fans of Broadway's The Lion King will be able to experience the opening number, "Circle of Life," the way only the actors have been able to do…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:09PM[SHARE]Producers of NBC-TV's The Wiz Live! said Nov. 17 that their next project will be the promised stage adaptation of the Marilyn Monroe-inspired musical Bombshell, which was born fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PM[SHARE]Tenor Alfie Boe, currently appearing as Jean Valjean in the Broadway production of Les Misérables, left "Today" co-host Kathie Lee Gifford in tears with his Nov. 16 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:28PM[SHARE]A film based on Michael John LaChiusa's 1993 musical Hello Again has started shooting in New York, according to the Daily Mail.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PM[SHARE]The Nov. 7 episode of "Saturday Night Live" poked fun at the popularity of the new Broadway musical Hamilton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]Monday, November 16, 2015
The 46-track cast album of the new musical Hamilton is going where no other Broadway score has gone before: #1 on the Billboard chart of rap albums.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PM[SHARE]Tickets are on sale Nov. 16 for the new musical Bright Star, from Grammy and Emmy winner Steve Martin and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Edie Brickell. Previews start Feb. 25, 2016…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning writers will roll out four world premieres for the 2016-17 season at La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PM[SHARE]Broadway's Stephen Sondheim, Barbra Streisand and Gloria Estefan were named 2015 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Nov. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PM[SHARE]Broadway traditionally experiences a rush of shows opening in late April just before the deadline for Tony Awards eligibility. It looks like 2016 will be no exception.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Broadway traditionally experiences a rush of shows opening in late April just before the deadline for Tony Awards eligibility. It looks like 2016 will be no exception.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]The theatres of Paris are scheduled to reopen Nov. 16 in the wake of the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks that left 129 people dead and more than 180 wounded.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PM[SHARE]Five-time Grammy Award nominee and two-time Emmy Award winner Andreas Carlsson has joined the creative team of Cirque du Soleil's forthcoming first-ever, made-for-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PM[SHARE]An actress from the upcoming Broadway musical Paramour will perform as part of the 89th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]The current Off-Broadway production of the hit musical Avenue Q plays its 2,535th performance Nov. 16, surpassing its original, Tony-winning Broadway run.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]Nora, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, gets its English-language premiere Off-Broadway starting Nov. 16 as part of the 92nd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 15th Annual 24 Hour Plays: On Broadway, featuring Taran Killam, Edie Falco, Ke$ha, Rosie Perez and Molly Ringwald, is presented Nov. 16 at 8 PM at Broadway's American Airlines Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tickets go on sale today for two Off-Broadway play and concert series, one at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and one at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 15, 2015
Shakespeare in Love, a stage version of the Oscar-winning film of the same name that opened in July 2014 at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre, will make its North American debut in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tickets go on sale Nov. 15 to the general public for Academy and Golden Globe Award winner Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 14, 2015
The French cabinet ordered all theatres, concert halls and other performing spaces in Paris closed until further notice after a series of terror attacks Nov. 13 left more than 120 people dea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:47AM[SHARE]Master Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim gave Billboard magazine a wide-ranging interview in which he talked about the Hamilton phenomenon, his taste in popular music and his upcoming n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2015
At least 60 people were reported killed in a series of apparently coordinated gun attacks in Paris Nov. 13, according to various news sources. Police stormed the Bataclan theatre, freeing ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:45PM[SHARE]At least 40 people were reported killed in a series of apparently coordinated gun attacks in Paris Nov. 13, according to various news sources. At least 100 hostages were being held inside th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PM[SHARE]Police were reporting 112 concertgoers killed as part of a series of apparently coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris Nov. 13, according to various news sources. Police stormed the Bataclan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PM[SHARE]At least 60 people were reported killed in a series of apparently coordinated gun attacks in Paris Nov. 13, according to various news sources. Police stormed the Bataclan theatre, freeing as…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PM[SHARE]Young actor Sterling Knight, who played "Alex" in the 2009 Zac Efron film "17 Again," stepped into the leading role of "Young Mike" for a Nov. 13 industry readi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PM[SHARE]Hamilton creator/star Lin-Manuel Miranda says he's open to women playing the Founding Fathers in his musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PM[SHARE]Tickets go on sale Nov. 15 to the general public for Academy and Golden Globe Award winner Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AM[SHARE]Stage, film and TV stars Kristin Chenoweth and Matthew Morrison will join First Lady Michelle Obama in hosting "Broadway at the White House," a Thanksgiving TV special on the TLC n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AM[SHARE]The Broadway productions of The Lion King and Chicago will celebrate anniversaries this week that few other shows can boast.
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