Monday, August 3, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PM[SHARE]The forthcoming new Broadway musical Allegiance, which will star Tony Award winner Lea Salonga, "Star Trek" veteran George Takei and "Glee" star Telly Leung, will chronic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AM[SHARE]The full cast of Broadway's Beautiful: The Carole King Musical performs the show's score, concert-style, for free, outdoors in Central Park Aug. 3 as part of the City Parks Found…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1921 Composer Richard Adler is born today. Along with Jerry Ross he will go on to write two of the most influential musicals of the 1950s: The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees. The successful pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Bears in Space, a surreal comedy that mixes live and puppet characters like Avenue Q, transfers to London's Soho Theatre Aug. 3. The show is produced by Collapsing Horse Theatre, pet pro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 2, 2015
Previews start Aug. 2 for the world-premiere production of Sara Bareilles' new musical, Waitress, at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. The production will have its officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1900 Birthday of actress and singer Helen Morgan, who rose to fame as a nightclub performer. She had a show at Billy Rose's Backstage Club, where the crowded conditions made her perch on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2015
An injury suffered by co-author Melissa Manchester has forced a postponement of a planned Aug. 7 reading of the new musical Sweet Potato Queens, which she co-authored with Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2015
Ken Davenport, Cody Lassen, Hunter Arnold and Deaf West Theatre announced July 30 that the actors who played the rebellious students in the acclaimed Deaf West production of Steven Sater and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PM[SHARE]1983 Broadway lyricist Howard Dietz dies today at age 87. With composer Arthur Schwartz, Dietz wrote the score for The Band Wagon. Other songs by the duo include "Dancing in the Dark,&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Tituss Burgess, who can currently be seen on the hit Netflix series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," tweeted an impromptu lip-synch of Beyonce's "***Flawless" with th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Len Cariou, Billy Crudup and Liev Schreiber join Tony nominees Brian d'Arcy James (currently on Broadway in Something Rotten!), Mark Ruffalo and Stanley Tucci, plus Ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]Hot on the heels of news that Grammy Award-winning singers Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah have joined the cast of the upcoming live broadcast of the Tony Award-winning musical The W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM[SHARE]As the Aug. 6 opening night of Hamilton draws closer, the list of songs titles in the printed Playbill is becoming finalized. That's usual. What's unusual is the fact that the show h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PM[SHARE]The American Repertory Theater's upcoming production of the world premiere of Waitress, the new Sara Bareilles musical, will play the Cambridge, MA venue Aug. 2-Sept. 27 with an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PM[SHARE]Now we know exactly how much the empty air above Broadway is worth: $445 per square foot.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM[SHARE]A deer made an unscheduled stage debut at Virginia's Signature Theatre July 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46AM[SHARE]1981 An ad in Variety today accuses theatre critic John Simon of being "racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, vicious, and derisive." Included in the ad/protest are excerpts from S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Grammy Award-winning singers Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah are the latest stars to board NBC's live broadcast of the Tony Award-winning musical The Wiz, according to EW.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:29PM[SHARE]At least they won't have to appear on a catwalk.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM[SHARE]The 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced the winners of its annual awards for outstanding achievement. This year's festival ran July 7-27, and introduced new musicals…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PM[SHARE]Tyler Lea has been named successor to Tony Award winner Alex Sharp in the lead role of Broadway's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which plays the Barrymore Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony winner Matthew Broderick, recently seen in Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play, will return to Broadway this fall in A.R. Gurney's comedy Sylvia, which…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PM[SHARE]James Lecesne's solo play The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, which recently played a limited engagement at Dixon Place in New York, officially opened its 12-week commercial r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Up Here, the new musical by the songwriters of Disney's blockbuster "Frozen," begins its world-premiere engagement July 28 at La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1920 Two of Broadway's greatest songwriting talents make their mainstem debuts today: lyricst Lorenz Hart, age 25, and composer Richard Rodgers, age 18, open their first musical, Poor Li…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2015
Unspeakable, a "dramatic fantasia" inspired by the life of comedy star Richard Pryor, is scheduled for an Oct. 6 premiere in Chicago, three years after a previous production derail…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PM[SHARE]The national touring company of The Book of Mormon will play its first official engagement in the state of Utah July 28. The show pokes fun at the Mormon religion, which is headquartered in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Noting that "America's films are among its greatest exports," BBC Culture, part of the British Broadcasting Company, polled film critics from around the world to determine the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM[SHARE]Tickets go on sale July 27 for the Broadway transfer of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, which was named Best Revival at the 2015 London Olivier Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM[SHARE]Tickets go on sale July 27 for the Broadway transfer of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, which was named Best Revival at the 2015 London Olivier Awards.
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