Thursday, October 15, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]The Public Theater's New York premiere of Eclipsed, starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o ("12 Years a Slave"), officially opened Oct. 14 following p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:49AM[SHARE]The recent sold-out London production of Hamlet, starring Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, is broadcast to cinemas around the world Oct. 15 as part of the National T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Mortimer the Indian in The Fantasticks styles himself as The Man Who Dies, but he's gotten some serious competition over the past two years from Jefferson Mays, star of Broadway's A …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PM[SHARE]The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization has released shortened versions of two classic musicals in its library, the team's own Oklahoma! and Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer's Once…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]Taissa Farmiga, from "American Horror Story," will make her Off-Broadway stage debut in The New Group's revival of Buried Child, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winnin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]Joel and Ethan Coen, creators of the idiosyncratic cult hits "The Big Lebowski" and "Fargo," are planning a sendup of Hollywood itself in their latest film, "Hail, C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PM[SHARE]Music Theatre International (MTI) has acquired worldwide licensing rights to Woody Allen's 2014 musical comedy Bullets Over Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PM[SHARE]Josh Gad, Tony Award nominee for originating the role of Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon, will co-write a film about charismatic wrestler Gorgeous George, according to Deadline Ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]PopStar, a new musical set in the contemporary music world, will get an invitation-only industry reading in New York Oct. 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Much has been written about the Harold Prince musical revue Prince of Broadway, opening later this month in Tokyo, possibly en route to Broadway. But it is only one of two Prince-directe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]Much has been written about the Harold Prince musical revue Prince of Broadway, opening later this month in Tokyo, possibly en route to Broadway. But it is only one of two Prince-directe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]Mamie Gummer plays a disfigured veteran in Roundabout Theatre Company's Roundabout Underground world‐premiere production of Lindsey Ferrentino's Ugly Lies the Bone, which offic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson co-star in a Broadway revival of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game, officially opening Oct. 14 at the G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Duke Lafoon plays the role of George Bailey in A Wonderful Life, a stage musical adaptation of the holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life," with book and lyrics by S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Theatres from London to Broadway to Michigan will celebrate the centennial of the birth of Arthur Miller, one of the greatest playwrights produced by the United States, on Oct. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Emmy Award winner Harry Connick, Jr., who was last seen on Broadway in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, will host a new daytime variety sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:57PM[SHARE]Grammy-winning pop singer and composer Tori Amos says she'd like to see her stage musical The Light Princess open on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PM[SHARE]At a time when big Broadway musicals sometimes have to run years to turn a profit—Spider-Man ran two-and-a-half years and wound up tens of millions of dollars in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PM[SHARE]Strong reviews and word-of-mouth have prompted producers of the Broadway premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard's Fool for Love to add an extra week to its limited run. It…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Some good news for one of the co-stars of Broadway's Something Rotten! John Cariani, who plays Nigel Bottom in the hit musical and who also maintains a second career as a playwright,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]Rachel Bloom stars in the new CW comedy series "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," which features the title character occasionally bursting into song, Broadway musical-style. It debuted…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AM[SHARE]Jason Danieley, recently seen in The Visit, returns to Broadway Oct. 13 in the role of corrupt but charismatic lawyer Billy Flynn in the long-running musical Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2015
In a rare move, Andrew Lloyd Webber and R&H Theatricals have announced that youth performances of the new Broadway musical School of Rock will be granted prior to the production's de…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PM[SHARE]Music from the new musical Amélie, which is currently playing a world-premiere engagement at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, is presented Oct. 12 as part of the Kaufman Center…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PM[SHARE]The National Asian Artists Project is on a mission. It’s a mission to assert equal treatment for Asian performing artists of all kinds, but especially Asian performers in the world…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AM[SHARE]The National Asian Artists Project is on a mission. It’s a mission to assert equal treatment for Asian performing artists of all kinds, but especially Asian performers in the world…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 10, 2015
King Charles III, the Olivier Award-winning Best Play that imagines a future in which Britain's current Queen Elizabeth II has passed away and her son, the current Prince Charles, ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2015
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), will be rename…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PM[SHARE]Ruby Rakos, who appeared in the ensemble of Broadway’s Billy Elliot, has been confirmed to play the role of Judy Garland in what's being billed as the world premiere of the new…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PM[SHARE]Prolific Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik has released his latest solo album, "Legerdemain," which he will showcase in a Nov. 21 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York.
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