Thursday, August 6, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM[SHARE]Ambassador Theatre Group, the London-based company that owns 40 U.K. theatres and recently added Broadway's largest playhouse, the Lyric on 42nd Street, has expanded its internationa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]1947 Today's Variety announces that John Garfield will star in the premiere production of a new Tennessee Williams play, titled A Streetcar Named Desire. As history will have it, however…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]One of the biggest hits of the spring was Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Off-Broadway musical, Hamilton, which officially opens on Broadway Aug. 6. But it will not be the first time …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Hamilton isn't only causing fireworks at the box office.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PM[SHARE]Hamilton isn't only causing fireworks at the box office.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PM[SHARE]Tradition changes slowly at the venerable Metropolitan Opera in New York, but one long-overdue shift will occur this fall: Otello will no longer be performed with its leading character i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM[SHARE]In a classic example of intergenerational Broadway solidarity, 100-year-old Patricia Morison, the eldest living actress to have played Mrs. Anna Leonowens on Broadway, sent a singing…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM[SHARE]The Gallery Players of Brooklyn had two big announcement this week: a new leadership team and a new season, which launches Sept. 12 with a revival of Godspell. Also coming up, a revival of L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]The Gallery Players of Brooklyn had two big announcement this week: a new leadership team and a new season, which launches Sept. 12 with a revival of Godspell.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]The artistic director of a Minnesota theatre group has responded to an Aug. 4 letter from Doug Wright, president of the Dramatists Guild, which used the words "arrogant" and "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM[SHARE]Archie, the long-running comic about a group of middle-American teenagers, is coming to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PM[SHARE]The artistic director of a Minnesota theatre group has responded to a letter from Doug Wright, president of the Dramatists Guild, which used the words "arrogant" and "cowardly…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AM[SHARE]The New Group launches its 2015-16 season Aug. 5 with the Off-Broadway premiere of Philip Ridley’s dystopian British drama, Mercury Fur.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM[SHARE]Julie Andrews, who created the role of Eliza Doolittle in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady, will direct a production of the classic musical at Australia's Joan Sutherlan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]Julie Andrews, who created the role of Eliza Doolittle in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady, will direct a production of the classic musical at Australia's Joan Sutherlan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AM[SHARE]Newcomer Shanice Williams has been announced to step into Dorothy's silver slippers in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz. She joins original Broadway star Stephanie Mills, Queen Lat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:11AM[SHARE]1977 All Broadway marquee lights are dimmed tonight in honor of actor Alfred Lunt who died two days earlier. This is only the third time up to that point that such an action has been taken.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The historical hip-hop musical Hamilton, which played an acclaimed Off-Broadway run earlier this year, has taken a circuitous route to its highly anticipated Broadway bow. Take a loo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2015
"Arrogant" and "cowardly" were words used by Doug Wright, president of the Dramatists Guild, to describe guidelines posted by the Words Players Theatre of Rochester, MN f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:13PM[SHARE]Co-producer Neil Meron has tweeted that the name of the actress who has won the coveted role of Dorothy in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz will be announced the morning of Aug. 5 o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM[SHARE]Co-producer Neil Meron has tweeted that the name of the actress who has won the coveted role of Dorothy in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz will be announced the morning of Aug. 5 o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots star Billy Porter is planning to leave the 2013 Best Musical in January to take a role in a new Broadway tuner, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazett…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:28PM[SHARE]A trailer has been released for "Stonewall" — producer-director Roland Emmerich's film about the 1969 riots outside a Greenwich Village gay bar that ignited the g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]After three sold-out June shows at 54 Below nightclub, actors from the original Broadway production of Spring Awakening and its national tour are coming together again Aug. 30 to present…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[SHARE]Three-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee Frank Langella will return to Broadway in spring 2016 with the American premiere of Florian Zeller's The Father, which offers a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]1981 Melvyn Douglas dies today at the age of 80. Born in Macon, Georgia as Melvyn Edouard Heselberg, Douglas went on to become one of the more accomplished stage actors of his generation. Am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2015
Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick stars with Alice Eve in the forthcoming film "Dirty Weekend," written and directed by playwright Neil LaBute. The film is scheduled to open in c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:59PM[SHARE]Nov. 20 has been set as the premiere date for Amazon's new video adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel "The Man in the High Castle," which uses a creepy version of the Sound…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PM[SHARE]Donna McKechnie, the Tony-winning triple threat who recently stood by for Chita Rivera in the Tony-nominated musical The Visit, will release her latest CD, "Same Place, Another …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]The national touring company of The Book of Mormon opened its first official engagement in the state of Utah July 28. The show pokes fun at the Mormon religion, which is headquartered in Sal…
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