Friday, September 25, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PM[SHARE]Are you up for a night on the town with Alan Cumming? Do you long to own the caftan Bette Midler wore in I'll Eat You Last? Do you dream of making your Broadway debut as a walk-on in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PM[SHARE]Kelvin Moon Loh, a member of the ensemble and Lun Tha understudy in the Broadway revival of The King and I, took to Facebook to react to the behavior of an autistic child at the show's S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM[SHARE]Kelvin Moon Loh, a member of the ensemble and Lun Tha understudy in the Broadway revival of The King and I, took to Facebook to react to the behavior of a child with autism at the show's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AM[SHARE]Kelvin Moon Loh, a member of the ensemble and Lun Tha understudy in the Broadway revival of The King and I, took to Facebook to react to the behavior of a child with autism at the show's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AM[SHARE]Kelvin Moon Loh, a member of the ensemble and Lun Tha understudy in the Broadway revival of The King and I, took to Facebook to react to the behavior of an autistic child at the show's S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AM[SHARE]"Stonewall" — producer-director Roland Emmerich's controversial film about the 1969 riots outside a Greenwich Village gay bar that ignited the gay rights movement…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
Avery Fisher Hall at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was formally renamed David Geffen Hall Sept. 24, after the music and entertainment mogul made a $100 million gift …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44PM[SHARE]Jason Danieley, recently seen in The Visit, will return to Broadway Oct. 13 in the role of corrupt but charismatic lawyer Billy Flynn in the long-running musical Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PM[SHARE]"Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris" premiered Sept. 15 on NBC and is doing so much better than expected in the ratings that network executives have postponed a time-slot …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PM[SHARE]Hamilton co-star Leslie Odom Jr. sang "The Star Spangled Banner" at the start of a New York "subway series" baseball game Sept. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PM[SHARE]A new trailer has been released for "Stonewall" — producer-director Roland Emmerich's controversial film about the 1969 riots outside a Greenwich Village gay bar …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]Ham4Ham, the impromptu concerts that happen periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is playing, showed that it had "Magic to Do" for the crowd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]David Javerbaum's An Act of God, which played a limited run on Broadway at the start of the current season starring Emmy winner Jim Parsons, will make its San Francisco debut in 2016 sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]NYU Steinhardt’s Program in Vocal Performance is hosting a revival of the musical Grand Hotel, whose Tommy Tune-helmed Broadway premiere in 1989 earned 12 Tony nominations and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]In Your Arms, a new "dance-theatre musical" from the composer of Ragtime and Seussical, officially opens Sept. 24 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2015
The stage musical adaptation of Amélie, starring Samantha Barks in the title role, has extended its world-premiere run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre for a second time.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PM[SHARE]Viola Davis, who made TV history Sept. 20 when she became the first African American woman to win an Emmy Award as Lead Actress in a Drama, is planning to collaborate with Pulitzer-winni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM[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 03:33PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Idina Menzel can add a new feather to her cap. In addition to her Tony Award (for Wicked) her performance of the Oscar-winning song "Let It Go" from the anima…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PM[SHARE]The Broadway comedy Hand to God is offering a special ticket discount to coincide with the New York visit of Pope Francis this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards have been told by Radio City Music Hall that the 6,200-seat theatre will not be available for the annual ceremony next year, according to a report in The New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PM[SHARE]Pope Francis will be visiting New York City Sept. 24-26, and police are planning what they call an "unprecedented level of security"— which includes street closings t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM[SHARE]Pop novelist Jackie Collins, who died Sept. 19 at age 77, left behind the unproduced script for a play, according to The New York Post.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AM[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, beginning previews Sept. 23 at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Lin-Manuel Miranda quotes from the 1969 Tony-winning musical 1776 in his current hit Hamilton, and has acknowledged being inspired by the earlier musical. Now the influence appears r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda quotes from the 1969 Tony-winning musical 1776 in his current hit Hamilton, and has acknowledged being inspired by the earlier musical. Now the influence appears r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PM[SHARE]The Shubert Organization, Broadway's largest theatre owner, has announced that it has partnered with Accent Media to create a new website, www.broadway.tickets, to give theatregoers a si…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PM[SHARE]The musical Jersey Boys plays its 4,093rd performance Sept. 22, surpassing the run of Miss Saigon to become the 12th longest-running show in Broadway history.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PM[SHARE]Pope Francis will be visiting New York City Sept. 24-26, and police are planning what they call an "unprecedented level of security"— which includes street closings t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]An idea for a lighthearted news item about a funny coincidence turned into a touching story about the legacy of a young man who loved theatre and died too soon.
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