Thursday, October 1, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PM[SHARE]Something Rotten! leading lady Heidi Blickenstaff and her husband Nicholas Rohlfing are organizing a Broadway Bikes fundraising event Oct. 4 in New York City to benefit Bike MS: New York 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM[SHARE]A lawsuit filed in Nevada federal court claims that Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio effectively don't own the rights to their own life stories as told in the Tony-winning musical Jersey…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PM[SHARE]Julie Halston, Arnie Burton and Anita Gillette are among stars announced to join Nick Offerman — best known as the super-macho Ron Swanson in the NBC-TV sitcom “P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PM[SHARE]Hamilton creator-star Lin-Manuel Miranda has announced that he's planning a "mixtape" of "remixes & covers & inspired-bys" related to his hit show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PM[SHARE]Single tickets are now on sale for two of Manhattan Theatre Club’s starry upcoming Broadway productions, Our Mother’s Brief Affair with Linda Lavin and The Father with Fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PM[SHARE]Rehearsals for the world premiere of Prince of Broadway have begun! The show, a new musical celebrating the Broadway career of Tony Award-winning director-producer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PM[SHARE]It was announced Aug. 5 that newcomer Shanice Williams would step into Dorothy's silver slippers in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz, joining the original Broadway star Stephanie Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AM[SHARE]Theatre World Award winner Hoon Lee was crowned the new King of Siam in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of The King and I Sept. 29 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Jennifer Hudson, who won an Oscar for her performance in the film version of the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, is making her Broadway debut for real Nov. 10 when previews begin for the reviva…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25PM[SHARE]The ensemble and music team of the Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz Disney stage musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame gathered this week to record a studio cast album of the production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:15PM[SHARE]New York Post columnist Michael Riedel told Playbill.com he's "happy" with changes to the paper's arts coverage that will cut him back from two columns a week to just one.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PM[SHARE]The serial killer musical American Psycho — from the composer of Spring Awakening — will start previews March 24, 2016, a month later than originally announced, at the Ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM[SHARE]The serial killer musical American Psycho — from the composer of Spring Awakening — will start previews March 24, 2016, a month later than originally announced, at the Ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM[SHARE]Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, stars of the "Pitch Perfect" films, are set to return for the third installment in the hit movie series with "Pitch Perfect 3," now slated…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AM[SHARE]Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, stars of the "Pitch Perfect" films, are set to return for the third installment in the hit movie series with "Pitch Perfect 3," now slated…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Just over a week before the publication of his new book on the modern history of Broadway, New York Post columnist Michael Riedel – admired and reviled for his in-the-know,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:08PM[SHARE]Academy Award winner Christopher Walken and Emmy nominee Giancarlo Esposito are among voice actors who will be heard in Disney's live-action adaptation of "The Jungle Book,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PM[SHARE]"Disenchanted" will be the title of the long-in-development sequel to Disney's 2007 hit film "Enchanted," according to Collider.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PM[SHARE]Anthony E. Zuiker, creator of the long-running “CSI” police TV franchise, has been signed to write the libretto for the stage musical adaptation of another TV phenome…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda, the composer/lyricist/librettist/star of the acclaimed Broadway musical Hamilton was named among winners of the 2015 grants from the MacArthur Foundations—t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:29AM[SHARE]The Off-Off-Broadway Nicu's Spoon Company, in association with Identity Theater Company, opens a production of Shakespeare's Richard III designed to make audiences rethink at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
Three-time Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie is fighting cancer, according to a blog post by her husband, actor Jason Danieley.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:10PM[SHARE]Blackbird, David Harrower's drama about a woman who tracks down and confronts the man who sexually molested her when she was 12, has booked Broadway's Belasco Theatre, and will open …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PM[SHARE]In Your Arms, a new "dance-theatre musical" from the composer of Ragtime and Seussical, officially opened Sept. 24 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AM[SHARE]The 70th Annual Tony Awards will air on CBS-TV June 5, 2016 (8-11 PM ET/delayed PT) live from New York City. The location of the broadcast has not be finalized, as the Tonys continue…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]An ample number of Broadway folk were chosen by Variety, the entertainment business magazine, for its annual "Gotham 60: Influential New Yorkers in Entertainment and Media" feature.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]The Winter Garden Theatre box office opens Sept. 28 for the new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical School of Rock, which is set to have its Broadway premiere Dec. 6. The musical is based on the pop…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2015
Dates have been set for the acclaimed new musical Dear Evan Hansen by Tony Award-nominated songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. According to an Actors Equity auditio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PM[SHARE]The Actors Fund, which is best known for operating the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, NJ, spent $3.5 million to renovate and upgrade another of its housing facilities, the former Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PM[SHARE]Tony-nominated actress Sigourney Weaver, who last appeared on Broadway in 2013's Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, is returning to the world of her 1984 movie hit, "Ghostbust…
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