Tuesday, August 11, 2015
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]Birdland Jazz Club, located on 44th Street at the western edge of the Times Square theatre district, has announced that it will add a 100-seat theatre space on the club's lower level…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PM[SHARE]Birdland Jazz Club, located on 44th Street at the western edge of the Times Square theatre district, has announced that it will add a 100-seat theatre space on the club's lower level.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes (Cinderella), Corey Cott (Gigi) and Tony-winner Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone) will star in Bandstand, a new musical directed and choreographed by Andy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PM[SHARE]South African researchers have detected traces of cannabis (marijuana) in smoking pipes found in a Stratford-upon-Avon location that once was the garden of William Shakespeare. Which…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PM[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, will have its w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PM[SHARE]Will King George III's descendants get to hear him sing in his hometown?
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AM[SHARE]1867 Actor-producer Joseph Weber, of the vaudeville comedy team Weber and Fields, is born today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]In one of the stranger assignments in recent years, Broadway stars including Adam Pascal, Barry Bostwick, David Hasselhoff and Paul Sorvino play combatants in a new movie musical, "Alle…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 10, 2015
Men are from Mars–Women are from Venus LIVE!, a play adapted from John Gray's 1992 bestselling self-help book about the differences between the genders, will land Off-B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:49PM[SHARE]Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and her husband, Tony Award nominee Will Swenson, opened Aug. 9 at Williamstown Theatre Festival A Moon for the Misbegotten, Nobel laureate Euge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PM[SHARE]Duke Lafoon will play 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]Montego Glover, who earned a Tony nomination as leading lady of the musical Memphis, will assume the role of Fantine in Broadway's Les Misérables beginning Sept. 1, the same d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PM[SHARE]United Flight 232, a drama that relives the harrowing last 44 minutes before the crash of a real-life airliner, will get its world premiere next spring at The House Theatre of Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PM[SHARE]Producers Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing have announced the supporting cast for the national tour of Beautiful — The Carole King Musical, which launches Sept. 15 at the P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]1911 Birthday of playwright Jerome Chodorov, who wrote the play, My Sister Eileen, which he later adapted as the book for the musical Wonderful Town, which won him a Tony Award. Other plays …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 9, 2015
1967 Playwright Joe Orton is found dead today in his London flat. Also found dead is his companion, writer and actor Kenneth Halliwell. It appears that Halliwell murdered the Loot playwright…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Up Here, the new musical by the songwriters of Disney's blockbuster "Frozen," officially opens its world-premiere engagement Aug. 9 at La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, CA, f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 8, 2015
1975 Liza Minnelli to the rescue! With only six days to learn the role of merry murderess Roxie Hart, the Academy Award-winning stage and film star agrees to fill in for an ailing Gwen V…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2015
The Cayenne Comedy website has posted a parody of the Aladdin song "A Whole New World," in which Aladdin and Jasmine trade their "magic carpet ride" for a ride on the sub…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PM[SHARE]Penn & Teller on Broadway, which brings the provocative New Vaudeville magician team back to the Great White Way for a six-week stand, has recouped its entire initial investment of $…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PM[SHARE]Producers of the upcoming Broadway production of A.R. Gurney's play Sylvia have chosen the "K-9 model" who will be the real-life face of the cute doggie character being…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PM[SHARE]Rumer Willis, the eldest daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the current revival of Chicago a little bit later than originally planned. The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth will lend her voice to the latest project in the "My Little Pony" franchise, an animated feature film planned for 2017, according to Deadline Hollyw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AM[SHARE]1886 Future stage actress and second wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., Billie Burke is born today in Washington, D.C. Born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton, Burke spent her childhood in England,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 6, 2015
Casting has been announced for the planned 2016 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Salem-set witch hunt drama, The Crucible, with a score by Philip Glass.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58PM[SHARE]The fifth annual Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival has announced production dates for its 2016 lineup, and included in the slate is the Broadway-aimed From Here to Eternity, penned b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]The fifth annual Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival has announced production dates for its 2016 lineup, and included in the slate is the Broadway-aimed From Here to Eternity, penned b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]August 11 has been set as the date of a memorial service for Robin Phillips, who led Ontario's Stratford Festival in the mid-to-late-1970s, and died July 25 just out…
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