Tuesday, October 6, 2015
The Broadway revival of the musical The Color Purple, starring Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo, opens its box office at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre at 10 AM Oct. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway company Soho Rep, which had a hit with An Octoroon last year, opens its 2015-16 season Oct. 6 with the new musical Futurity, by the composer of Octoroon, featuring T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Lee Roy Reams has directed a lot of great divas in Hello, Dolly!, including Carol Channing herself in the final Broadway revival. But he may finally have come upon the ideal casting for the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz a new musical about the life of beloved film star Judy Garland, was announced as part of the 2016 season at Goodspeed Musicals in East Haddam, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:18PM[SHARE]The Australian rock band INXS is hoping to follow in the footsteps of The Four Seasons, ABBA and Carole King and see their song catalog turned into a Broadway musical, according to a report …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PM[SHARE]The Warner Bros. film "Pan," which stars Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman as the pirate Blackbeard in a new prequel to the "Peter Pan" story, opens Oct. 9 in U.S. cinemas.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PM[SHARE]Piece of My Heart, the Off-Broadway musical about rock pioneer Bert Berns, will be produced on Broadway in 2016.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]Tony winners Bebe Neuwirth and Patina Miller displayed their vocal chops on the Oct. 4 episode of the CBS-TV drama series "Madame Secretary," about a maverick U.S. Secretary of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]Tony winners Bebe Neuwirth and Patina Miller displayed their vocal chops on the Oct. 4 episode of the CBS-TV drama series "Madam Secretary," about a maverick U.S. Secretary of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]The upcoming Broadway musical Tuck Everlasting is planning an unusual promotional campaign to set it apart in what looks to be a busy and competitive spring of Broadway musicals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]Chuck Cooper, Andy Karl, Judy Kaye, Ron Raines and Brad Oscar will join "Smash" star Megan Hilty in New York City Center's concert performance of the Irving Berlin classic Anni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AM[SHARE]Original A Chorus Line cast member Baayork Lee is hosting Past, Present & Future, an Oct. 5 benefit gala celebrating five years since the founding of her organization, the National Asian…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:23AM[SHARE]It's now the longest-running show in New York history, and it's coming back Oct. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 4, 2015
Something Rotten! leading lady Heidi Blickenstaff and her husband Nicholas Rohlfing host the Broadway Bikes fundraising event Oct. 4 in New York City to benefit Bike MS: New York 2015, a cha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 3, 2015
The Broadway musical Hamilton showed that it's planning for the future when 7-year-old Iain Armitage (a.k.a Iain Loves Theatre) rapped the role of Thomas Jefferson for the crowd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09PM[SHARE]The Broadway musical Hamilton showed that it's planning for the future when 7-year-old Iain Armitage (a.k.a Iain Loves Theatre) rapped the role of Thomas Jefferson for the crowd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09PM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2015
President Barack Obama will return to the Broadway musical Hamilton Nov. 2, which has been bought out for an election-eve Democratic Party fundraiser.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:37PM[SHARE]"Dancing With the Stars" winner Rumer Willis, who is currently starring as Roxie Hart in the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago, will play two concerts at Feinstein's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PM[SHARE]Following a sold-out world-premiere production at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, Sara Bareilles' new musical, Waitress, will start Broadway previews March 25, 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PM[SHARE]Following a sold-out world-premiere production at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, Sara Bareilles' new musical, Waitress, will start Broadway previews Marc,and op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM[SHARE]Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer, who originated the role of Captain Hook when Finding Neverland arrived on Broadway this past spring, will return to the musical at the Lunt-Fontanne Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AM[SHARE]Brian Friel, the prolific Tony-winning Irish playwright whose Dancing at Lughnasa; Wonderful Tennessee; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Translations; and Faith Healer have all been seen on B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:49AM[SHARE]The first preview of Broadway's Thérèse Raquin Oct. 1 was disrupted when a fan in the mezzanine began shouting his love for leading lady Kiera Knightley, and attempted to propose marr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:07AM[SHARE]The first preview of Broadway's Thérèse Raquin Oct. 1 was disrupted when a fan in the mezzanine began shouting his love for leading lady Kiera Knightley, and attempted to propose marr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06AM[SHARE]The second official trailer from the latest movie version of Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender in the title role, has been released.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The New Victory Theater's 2015-16 season of family programming in New York, which kicks off Oct. 2, includes the Off-Broadway premiere of Fly, about the Tuskeegee Airmen, and Cap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender ("Inglourious Basterds") and Oscar winner Marion Cotillard ("Nine") star in the latest movie version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, which …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Annaleigh Ashford, a Tony winner for her performance in You Can't Take It With You, returns to Broadway playing an adorable pooch in A.R. Gurney's comedy Sylvia, which begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
Having been told by Radio City Music Hall that the 6,200-seat theatre will not likely be available for the annual Tony Awards ceremony next year, the Tonys are considering the David H. K…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PM[SHARE]Producer Ben Sprecher says he has found new investors for his storm-tossed musical based on the haunting Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca, and is continuing to move ahead toward a full Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52PM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, helps the next generation of musical theatre writers whe…
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