Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth appeared on "Conan," host Conan O'Brien's TBS talk show, Aug. 25 to discuss her recent Broadway appearance in On the Twentieth Century and h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane and Emmy winner Debra Messing are among stars scheduled to take part in an Oct. 26 reading of six new 10-minute plays by actor/playwright Wesle…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1880 Broadway director-producer Philip Moeller is born today in New York. Among his greatest theatrical achievements are productions of Biography, Elizabeth the Queen, Mourning Becomes E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Brian d'Arcy James, star of Broadway's Shrek and Something Rotten!, recalls his life-changing experiences at Northwestern University.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A lot of colleges have gorgeous and impressive theatre facilities, but none quite like Circle in the Square Theatre School. As part of Playill.com's Back to School week (#BwayBacktoSchoo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Burning Man, the "temporary metropolis dedicated to art and community," pops up in the barren Black Rock Desert of Nevada each summer, playing host to some 70,000 artists and fans.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Amy Yakima, winner of the TV competition show "So You Think You Can Dance," makes her Broadway debut in the role of Peter Pan in Broadway's Finding Neverland starting Aug. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PM[SHARE]Amy Yakima, winner of the TV competition show "So You Think You Can Dance," makes her Broadway debut in the role of Peter Pan in Broadway's Finding Neverland starting Aug. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PM[SHARE]Women's Project Theater, founded in 1978 to develop, produce and promote the work of women theatre artists, has announced its upcoming season lineup at its new artistic home under a new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Movie and TV star Kevin Bacon will return to the stage in an adaptation of the short story that also inspired Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "Rear Window," about a wheelchair-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Misty Copeland, the ballerina who was promoted in June to principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre — the first African-American actress to make that leap — m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Misty Copeland, the ballerina who was promoted in June to principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre--the first African-American actress to make that leap--makes m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1918 Birthday of composer Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), who will bridge the worlds of classical and Broadway, both as conductor for the New York Philharmonic and as composer of classic …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2015
Jennifer Hudson, who will play Shug Avery in the upcoming Broadway revival of The Color Purple recorded the title song with her co-star Cynthia Erivo for Entertainment Weekly and People …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:24PM[SHARE]"Men darf akhting geybn." That's "attention must be paid" in Yiddish--just one of the famous Arthur Miller lines that will ring out this fall when New Yiddish…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PM[SHARE]Chicago's Black Ensemble Theatre has chosen Kevin Pollack to play the role of film critic Roger Ebert in the new musical The Black/White Love Play (The Story of Chaz and Roger Ebert), th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PM[SHARE]A new cast is stepping into Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama The Flick, which premiered in 2013 at Playwrights Horizons to critical acclaim, and then re-opened…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway company Soho Rep, which had a hit with An Octoroon last season, has announced details of its 2015-16 season, which will include the musical Futurity by the composer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AM[SHARE]Cast members from the long run of the Broadway musical Newsies hold a pair of reunion concerts Aug. 24 at 54 Below nightclub in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 23, 2015
Today, like never before, education is the key to success in the world of the performing arts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1852 Broadway premiere of Uncle Tom's Cabin, based on the novel about slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Students applying to colleges and universities this fall share the tasks of filling out forms, writing essays and getting letters of recommendation, etc. But performing arts students have on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The process of applying to college is filled with often-bewildering and potentially life-changing choices for any student. But performing arts students find themselves with an extra …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]In honor of what would have been Broadway and Hollywood dancer Gene Kelly's 103rd birthday Aug. 23, two cast members from the Broadway revival of On the Town recreated, step for step, on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Today, like never before, education is the key to success in the world of the performing arts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]FAFSA, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, was designed to make life easier for students and parents applying for all governmental college tuition aid. In practice, it may seem lik…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]High school classes are about to begin, but seniors who want to pursue studies of theatre, music or dance now find themselves confronting one of the biggest decisions of the lives: Where to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 22, 2015
1922 Theoni V. Aldredge, one of Broadway's foremost costume designers of the late 20th century, is born today in Greece. Included among her dozens of Broadway projects will be A Chorus L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12AM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2015
Sara Bareilles' new musical Waitress officially opened Aug. 20 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. While still in previews at A.R.T., the musical announced that it will m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:33AM[SHARE]It Shoulda Been You, the recent Broadway musical comedy about a wedding gone awry that starred Tyne Daly, Lisa Howard, Harriet Harris, David Burtka and Sierra Boggess, is released digitally …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1944 Robert Wright and George Forrest put words to classical themes by Edvard Grieg to create the operetta Song of Norway, based on Grieg's life. It opens an 860-performance run toda…
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