Friday, September 11, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]The world-premiere musical Amélie, based on the imaginative Academy Award-nominated quirky French film of the same title, officially opens Sept. 11 at the Berkeley Repertory Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2015
The Triad cabaret in New York is hosting a Broadway-themed Burlesque-style variety show titled Broadway VarieTEASE Sept. 21 and 28, featuring actors from recent, current and upcoming…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PM[SHARE]Serino/Coyne, billed as "the nation’s leading live-entertainment marketing agency," has announced that Angelo Desimini, currently chief operating officer, is assuming…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PM[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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PM[SHARE]Chicago's Second City comedy club has announced that it will cancel all performances through Sept. 20 due to damage from last month's fire that broke out on the performance venue'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM[SHARE]President Barack Obama presents the National Medals of Arts Sept. 10 at 3 PM ET in an East Room ceremony at the White House.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Ham4Ham, the impromptu concerts that happen periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is playing, had Fun Home's Joel Perez as special guest on Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56PM[SHARE]Move over Fun Home, there's another funeral home musical in the works. Deadline Hollywood reports that Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's Storyline Entertainment, producer of TV's "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PM[SHARE]At Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, murder will be followed by witchcraft. Less than 24 hours after A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder announced its January closing at the Kerr, A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PM[SHARE]Christopher Innvar has joined the starry lineup for A Chekhov and Shaw Comedy Night, being presented 7 PM Sept. 21 as part of Gingold Theatrical Group’s Project Shaw at Symphony Sp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PM[SHARE]Christina Sajous, an actress who has appeared in four Broadway shows including Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and American Idiot, is a partner in a lawsuit involving police and a New York…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PM[SHARE]Christina Sajous, an actress who has appeared in four Broadway shows including Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and American Idiot, is a partner in a lawsuit against a New York cab driver s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will perform in the world premiere of the oratorio I Am Anne Hutchinson alongside the composer, Broadway songwriter Andrew Lippa, April 23-24, 2016, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PM[SHARE]Hand to God, starring Steven Boyer in his acclaimed performance as a boy and his foul-mouthed hand puppet, will play its final performance on Broadway Jan. 3, 2016. The Tony-nominate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PM[SHARE]The recent Broadway musical It Shoulda Been You, featuring a score by Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi, has been acquired for worldwide licensing by Music Theatre International (MTI).
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, which bills itself as the oldest theatrical organization in the United States, is being urged to get with the times and start allowing wom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AM[SHARE]An Elvis impersonator turns drag queen in the New York premiere of The Legend of Georgia McBride, by Whipping Man playwright Matthew Lopez. The production officially opens Sept. 9 at MCC The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Shakespeare in Love, a stage version of the Oscar-winning film of the same name that opened last summer at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre, will make its North American debut in 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM[SHARE]Shakespeare in Love, a stage version of the Oscar-winning film of the same name that opened last summer at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre, will make its North American debut in 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PM[SHARE]Broadway's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will mark its first anniversary on Broadway Sept. 10 with a special $9.10 ticket lottery.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PM[SHARE]Broadway's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will mark its first anniversary on Broadway Sept. 10 with a special $9.10 ticket lottery.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PM[SHARE]Australian actor Anthony Warlow, who has been playing Captain Hook — the role created by Kelsey Grammer — in Broadway's Finding Neverland, has extended his run in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PM[SHARE]Christopher Gattelli, who won the 2012 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his choreography in Newsies, has joined the creative team of the Broadway-bound The SpongeBob …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AM[SHARE]Jean Darling, the first actress to sing "When I Marry Mr. Snow" as the original Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel, died Sept. 4 at age 93.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM[SHARE]Judy Carne, the comic actress who was a member of the ensemble of the late 1960s TV phenomenon "Laugh-In" and starred on Broadway in a revival of The Boy Friend, died Sept. 3, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:22AM[SHARE]The New York premiere of Stupid Fu**ing Bird, Aaron Posner's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, which moves the action to the here and now, will be one of the highlights of t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 6, 2015
Ham4Ham, the impromptu concerts that happen periodically on the front steps of the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is playing, had a special guest Sept. 5: Matthew Morrison, currently…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:05AM[SHARE]The Tony-nominated revival of On the Town at the Lyric Theatre features two different artists performing the role of Ivy at the final performances Sept. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
Lauren Klein and Arian Moayed have joined the cast of Pulitzer Prize finalist Stephen Karam's newest play, The Humans, which will make its New York debut Off-Broadway this f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM[SHARE]President Barack Obama will present the National Medals of Arts Sept. 10 at 3 PM ET in an East Room ceremony at the White House.
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