Monday, August 17, 2015
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&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]1871 Playwright Jesse Lynch Williams is born today. During the 1917-1918 theatre season, Williams' play, Why Marry, will win the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for drama.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 16, 2015
1913 Montague Glass' comedy Potash and Perlmutter begins a hit run at the Cohan Theatre, starring George Sidney and Alexander Carr as the hapless pair.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[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]Saturday, August 15, 2015
1879 The legendary Barrymore theatre family gets one more to add to its roster today as Ethel Barrymore is born. Her father is actor Maurice Barrymore and her brothers are John and Lionel. B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
Fans and friends of Washington DC-based stage and film director Gabriele Jakobi have organized an online fundraising campaign to help her with medical bills, following a devastating earl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PM[SHARE]The pilot for the TV series "The Accidental Wolf," starring Tony-winner Kelli O'Hara, was chosen as an official selection in the upcoming New York Television Festival&apos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PM[SHARE]Tony nominee Stephen Fry will join Emma Bunton (a.k.a. Baby Spice of the Spice Girls) and "The Great British Bake Off" host Mel Giedroy in the upcoming special London performance o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PM[SHARE]The new U.K. revival of Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's 1974 Broadway musical Mack & Mabel, starring Michael Ball and Rebeccca LaChance in the title roles, is considering a Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:09AM[SHARE]Select cities this fall will have the rare chance of witnessing an original Broadway cast reunion when If/Then, the original musical from Next to Normal creators Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM[SHARE]You're Standing in My Way: A New Song Cycle, the latest complete set of lyrics from the composer of Falsettos, A New Brain and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, has its world p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1888 Comedian DeWolf Hopper debuts his dramatic recitation of the poem Casey at the Bat at Wallack's Theatre. It will become a cornerstone of his act for the next 40 years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 19th Annual New York Fringe Festival, billed as the largest multi-arts festival in North America, is set to roll out nearly 200 plays, musicals, solo shows and specialty shows over t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2015
The issue of The Hollywood Reporter has something unusual on the cover: a story about a Broadway show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PM[SHARE]The first trailer has been released for "Trumbo," a new film about the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PM[SHARE]Following a successful world-premiere production that is still running at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, Sara Bareilles' new musical, Waitress, has announced that i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM[SHARE]1895 Bert Lahr (nee Irving Lahrheim), the future stage and screen clown, is born today in New York. Following an early career in Vaudeville, Lahr will enjoy a widely successful career on Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
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 08:30PM[SHARE]Writer-director Randy Johnson, who created A Night With Janis Joplin, which played on Broadway 2013-14, is working on a musical about another female rock pioneer, Rosetta Tharpe.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:18PM[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, has pushed back the re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PM[SHARE]Child performers from Broadway shows School of Rock, Finding Neverland, Matilda the Musical and others will gather Sept. 2 and 3 at 54 Below cabaret to perform and record the score to the 19…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PM[SHARE]A song list has been posted for Act I of the Japanese world premiere of Prince of Broadway, a new musical celebrating the Tony-winning Broadway career of producer-director Harold Pri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson will co-star in a Broadway revival of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game, which will begin previews Sept…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PM[SHARE]Thom Yorke, lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter for the three‐time Grammy Award‐winning alternative rock band, Radiohead, will compose original music for the Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thom Yorke, lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter for the three‐time Grammy Award‐winning alternative rock band, Radiohead, will compose original music for the Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[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 08:35AM[SHARE]1881 Birthday of Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959), who began his career as a Broadway actor in shows including Hearts Are Trumps and To Have and To Hold, and a Broadway playwright and produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Phylicia Rashad joins fellow original cast members André De Shields and Dee Dee Bridgewater for the Aug. 12 free concert performance of music from The Wiz in New York's Centra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
David Byrne, having enjoyed an international hit with the musical Here Lies Love about Philippines First Lady Imelda Marcos, is turning to another bigger-than-life female history-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:21PM[SHARE]David Byrne, having enjoyed an international hit with the musical Here Lies Love about Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, is turning to another bigger-than-life female history-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:58PM[SHARE]David Byrne, having enjoyed an international hit with the musical Here Lies Love about Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, is turning to another bigger-than-life female history-…
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