Friday, August 21, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2015
Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in an upcoming Hollywood film version of Homer's "The Odyssey," according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PM[SHARE]Cast members from the blockbuster new musical Hamilton, which recently opened to widespread critical acclaim at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, are recording the show's cast album this wee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Betty Buckley and Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York head the cast of the Bay Street Theater's production of the award-winning musical Grey Gardens, which official…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]Sara Bareilles' new musical Waitress officially opens Aug. 20 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. While still in previews at A.R.T., the musical announced that it will mo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19AM[SHARE]Previews begin Aug. 20 for the New York premiere of Whipping Man playwright Matthew Lopez's The Legend of Georgia McBride, about an Elvis impersonator turned drag queen. Dave Thomas Brow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19AM[SHARE]1884 Actress Julia Sanderson, one of musical theatre's leading ladies during the first decades of the 20th century, is born today as Julia Sackett. Shows in which she starred included Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Matilda The Musical director Matthew Warchus told the Sydney Morning Herald Aug. 18 that the movie adaptation of the hit Broadway and London musical Matilda is now in pre-production and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PM[SHARE]Christopher Denham, who co-starred on Broadway in "Master Harold"… and the boys and The Lieutenant of Inishmore, will join Oscar winner Al Pacino in the Broadway deb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]Tony-nominated actor Patrick Stewart, who was most recently seen on Broadway in the 2013 double-bill of Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land had a very different assignment for h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AM[SHARE]Cirque du Soleil, the Canada-based circus-style entertainment company, will take over Broadway’s Lyric Theatre next spring for its first-ever made-for-Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]Building on the success of event-type cinema screenings of operas like Aida and occasional Broadway shows like The Audience, Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies are screening the sin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1873 Birthday of comedian Fred Stone (1873-1959) who, partnered with David Montgomery, became one of the most beloved Broadway performers of the early 20th century. Among their notable h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Matthew Broderick, Vanessa Williams and Blythe Danner are among celebrities who will take part in a reading of Eugene Pack's stage comedy Sharpies 8 PM Aug. 20 at Guild Hall theatre in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:08PM[SHARE]The "Broadway 4D" project in the heart of Times Square — which plans to immerse theatregoers in a film experience that celebrates the history of Broadway musicals &md…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PM[SHARE]The "Harry Potter" film spinoff, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," has begun filming in Leavesden, U.K., according to Entertainment Weekly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PM[SHARE]The "Harry Potter" film spinoff, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," has begun filming in Leavesden, U.K., according to Entertainment Weekly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PM[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 03:35PM[SHARE]Chris Jackson, who plays George Washington in the Broadway musical Hamilton, was welcomed as a guest on WNYW-Fox 5's local morning show "Good Day New York" Aug. 18 by the t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PM[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 11:11AM[SHARE]Daniel Radcliffe, star of the "Harry Potter" films and a frequent visitor to Broadway (How To Succeed, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Equus) is co-starring in a reboot of the "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM[SHARE]1873 Birthday of Otto Harbach (1873-1963) who will write lyrics and/or book for more than three dozen musicals including Roberta; No, No, Nanette; The Cat and the Fiddle; Rose-Marie …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2015
Cry-Baby, a 2008 Broadway musical that managed only 68 performances despite a high-power creative team, is getting a long-delayed original cast album--and an original cas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:20PM[SHARE]In Your Arms, a new musical from the songwriters of Ragtime and Seussical will open the 2015-16 season at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA. The show will star Tony-winner Donna McK…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PM[SHARE]In Your Arms, a new "dance-theatre musical" from the songwriters of Ragtime and Seussical, will open the 2015-16 season at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA. The show will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PM[SHARE]In Your Arms, a new "dance-theatre musical" from the songwriters of Ragtime and Seussical, will open the 2015-16 season at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA. The show will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PM[SHARE]Broadway's Matilda The Musical is bringing in a new set of leads Sept. 8 to support the ongoing Christopher Sieber as Miss Trunchbull, including Broadway favorites Amy Spanger as Mrs. Wo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PM[SHARE]Actress E'Dena Hines, the step-granddaughter of actor Morgan Freeman, was stabbed to death early Aug. 16 in front of her home at West 162nd Street in Manhattan. She was 33.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PM[SHARE]There are many kinds of actor nightmares, but this looks like a new one.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]There are many kinds of actor nightmares, but this looks like a new one.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]The box office at Broadway's Marquis Theatre opens Aug. 17 for On Your Feet!, the new musical based on the lives of seven-time Grammy winner Gloria Estefan and her husband, producer&…
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