Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The Off-Broadway company Soho Rep, which had a hit with An Octoroon last year, opens its 2015-16 season Oct. 20 with the new science-fiction Civil War musical Futurity, by the co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
Two-time Tony-winning actor John Cullum watched Oct. 16 as officials from the American Theatre of Actors renamed the 140-seat Chernuchin Theatre after him.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PM[SHARE]A sexy duet version of "Defying Gravity" with Aaron Tveit and Rachel Tucker kicks off the new "Out of Oz" series of reimagined versions of songs from the long-running…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]"Witch's Night Out," an animated Canadian TV special that debuted in 1978 with the voices of Gilda Radner and Catherine O'Hara, among others, is being adapted as a stage mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]Christopher Jackson, currently co-starring as George Washington in the Broadway musical Hamilton, sang "The Star Spangled Banner" Oct. 18 before the start of Game 2 of the Nati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AM[SHARE]Larry David, star of Broadway's Fish in the Dark, brought down the house on the Oct. 17 "Saturday Night Live" cold open, in which he impersonated presidential candidate Bernie …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:52AM[SHARE]PopStar, a new musical set in the contemporary music world, is getting an invitation-only industry reading in New York Oct. 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 18, 2015
Lee Pelton, president of the Emerson College in Boston, used an Oct. 18 column in the Boston Globe to defend plans to repurpose the historic Colonial Theatre, Boston's oldest continually…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes (Cinderella), Corey Cott (Gigi) and Tony winner Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone) star in The Bandstand, a new musical directed and choreographed by Andy Blan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of the York Theatre Company's revamped Rothschild & Sons, starring Glory Crampton and Broadway vet Robert Cuccioli, officially …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world-premiere stage musical Amélie, based on the Academy Award-winning 2001 French film, ends its extended run Oct. 18 at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 17, 2015
Mary Zimmerman, the bold Chicago-based director who once filled a Broadway stage with a giant pool for an adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (and won a Tony Award for it), is g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The recent London stage production of The Rocky Horror Show screens in the U.S. at midnight between Oct. 17 and 18 on BBC America to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the show's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Men darf akhting geybn." That's "attention must be paid" in Yiddish — just one of the famous Arthur Miller lines ringing out through Nov. 22 as New Yiddish…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Theatres from London to Broadway to Michigan are celebrating the centennial of the birth of Arthur Miller, one of the greatest playwrights produced by the United States, on Oct. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2015
Nominees for the 44th Annual Vivian Robinson/Audelco Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre, for work in New York City, were announced Oct. 15 at a ceremony in Harlem, NY.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15PM[SHARE]The Oct. 15 live international screening of Hamlet, starring Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, was seen by more than 225,000 people around the world, making it the larges…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PM[SHARE]Sing Out, Louise! Productions and ATA have announced a digital lottery and the rush ticket policy, in effect as of Oct. 16, for the new American musical Allegiance, which is currently in pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PM[SHARE]James Lecesne's solo play The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, which wraps up its 12-week commercial run Off-Broadway Oct. 18, is headed for a West Coast engagement in Janu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PM[SHARE]The new Broadway comedy Sylvia, which features Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford as an adorable pooch, is hosting a "pop-up adoption" Oct. 18 at the Cort Theatre. Prospective "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PM[SHARE]Tickets to the serial killer musical American Psycho—from the composer of Spring Awakening—go on sale Oct. 19 to members of the Audience Rewards program only. Tickets go …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PM[SHARE]The 140-seat Chernuchin Theatre, one of the four theatres housed at the Off-Broadway American Theatre of Actors (314 West 54th Street, near Eighth Avenue in New York), is being renam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"Bridge of Spies," Steven Spielberg's first film since "Lincoln," arrives in cinemas Oct. 16, starring Oscar winner Tom Hanks as James Donovan, and three-time Ton…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
Thai pop superstar Bie Sukrit is making his American stage debut in Seattle's Fifth Avenue Theatre production of the new Maltby & Shire musical Waterfall, which officially opens Oct.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]Bill Rauch, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, took to the pages of American Theatre magazine to explain and defend his plans to have contemporary playwrights "tr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PM[SHARE]Powerful demand for tickets has prompted Boston's Huntington Theatre Company to add a week to the limited run of its stage adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning novel A Confederacy of D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Producers Dori Berinstein and Bill Damaschke have announced complete casting for Gotta Dance, a new musical based on the acclaimed 2008 documentary of the same name about profession…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth, recently on Broadway in On the Twentieth Century, reportedly has been asked to reprise her role as Maleficent in a planned sequel to the hit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]Upcoming and recent cast album releases (and significant theatre-related recordings).
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]To celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," source material for the 2005 musical Monty Python's Spamalot, a special 40th Anniversary Edition will be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]Dancer/choreographer Michelle Dorrance, who was recently named winner of a 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Grant, appeared on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Oct. 14 to help…
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