Tuesday, September 22, 2015
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2015
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, will help the next generation of musical theatre writers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, will help the next generation of musical theatre writers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PM[SHARE]The complete cast has been announced for the new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical School of Rock, which opens on Broadway Dec. 6 at the Winter Garden Theatre. The musical is based on the popular …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]Taran Killam, who recently appeared as the sadistic dentist Orin opposite Ellen Greene in the recent City Center Encores! revival of Little Shop of Horrors, has been tapped to play president…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM[SHARE]The two-disc, physical Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, will be released digitally Sept. 25, but the entire al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:06AM[SHARE]The two-disc, physical Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, will arrive in stores Oct. 16, but clips were made ava…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:06AM[SHARE]Actress Rumer Willis, who was slated to make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running revival of Chicago Sept. 14, joins the Kander and Ebb hit Sept. 21 at the Ambassador The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Hollywood Arms, the autobiographical 2002 play by actress Carol Burnett and her late daughter Carrie Hamilton, receives a special concert reading at Merkin Concert Hall Sept. 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
Three-time Tony Award-nominated actor Terrence Mann has been announced to take over the role of Captain Hook in the Broadway production of Finding Neverland. He succeeds Australian m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PM[SHARE]Four-time Grammy-nominated singer/keyboardist Karrin Allyson rolls out her new CD of Rodgers & Hammerstein hits, titled "Many a New Day (Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & H…
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]Thursday, September 17, 2015
Cry-Baby, the 2008 Broadway musical that managed only 68 performances despite a high-power creative team, is getting a long-delayed original cast album — and an origina…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 16, 2015
The new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which opened July 16 to mixed reviews and struggled to find an audience, announced that it will play its final performance Oct. 25 at the Nederlander …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05PM[SHARE]The stage musical adaptation of the Oscar-nominated French film "Amélie," which is currently playing an extended world-premiere run at the Berkeley Repertory The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PM[SHARE]In Your Arms, a new "dance-theatre musical" from the composer of Ragtime and Seussical, opens the 2015-16 season at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA, Sept. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Actress Rumer Willis, who was slated to make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running revival of Chicago Sept. 14, will now begin performances in the production Sept. 21 at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM[SHARE]The anticipated Broadway production of Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed will continue next summer without one of its major stars. Record…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]"Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris" premieres Sept. 15 on NBC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) stars in a new hour-long TV variety show, "Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris," premiering Sept. 15 at 10…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Stokes is stoked.
Tony-winning Broadway leading man Brian Stokes Mitchell is back in the New York limelight in a big way this season, debuting his first club gig at the tony Caf&ea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 14, 2015
Actress Rumer Willis, who was slated to make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running revival of Chicago Sept. 14, will not begin performances tonight as scheduled.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PM[SHARE]The stage musical adaptation of Amélie, starring Samantha Barks in the title role, has extended its run for an additional week of performances at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PM[SHARE]Rumer Willis, a winner of the TV show "Dancing With the Stars" and the eldest daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, makes her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the current revival…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2015
In honor of its 30th season, Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company will offer $30 tickets to every preview performance of all seven shows being offered during 2015-16. The seas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival, plays its final performance at the Belasco Theatre Sept. 13 at 3 PM. Taye Diggs is the show's final star.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2015
Ham4Ham, the impromptu concerts that happen periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is playing, showed "Love for the Techies" Sept. 11, and sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56PM[SHARE]Two longtime associates of late TV talk-show legend Joe Franklin are asking the public's help in their campaign to "co-name" a stretch of New York's West 43rd Stree…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PM[SHARE]Two longtime associates of late TV talk-show legend Joe Franklin are asking the public's help in their campaign to "co-name" a stretch of New York's West 43rd Stree…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PM[SHARE]Casting is now complete for Broadway's Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, which will star record-breaking six-time Tony Award wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]As a comedy skit for "The Late Late Show," host (and Tony winner) James Corden goes to the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, believing he is going to play the title role of The Phan…
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