Monday, July 20, 2015
Walking down 45th Street this week, Broadway fans may be shocked to see the classic marquee of the Music Box Theatre in a state of disassembly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]1961 Stop The World - I Want To Get Off opens tonight at the Queen's Theatre on London's West End. The musical, which follows the life of one man from birth to death, will run 4…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 19, 2015
Chicago's been running forever, hasn't it? And Rocky Horror was always a cult hit, right? Not so fast. Playbill.com looks back at musicals long considered successes which were surpri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1938 Stage and film actor Burgess Meredith divorces Margaret Perry today. Perry, an actress, is the daughter of Antoinette Perry, after whom the Tony Awards are named. The union was rather s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 18, 2015
1928 Following the birth of "talkie" films, Variety prints an article focusing on the amount of legit theatre talent that is being sought for this new medium. Among those stage act…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2015
Topping a banner week in which he was nominated for a Grammy Award and is wrapping up his stint in Broadway's Hedwig and the Angry Inch Darren Criss has announced his next undertaking, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PM[SHARE]The big news in Tullahoma, TN last weekend is what didn't happen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PM[SHARE]Bend It Like Beckham, the new British musical version of the 2002 film of the same name, is getting set to original its cast album and has released teasers for two tracks from the score, whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM[SHARE]Tony nominee Ken Watanabe played his final performance as the King in Broadway's The King and I this past weekend. The cast and crew compiled an affectionate farewell video loaded with s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]Greta Gerwig, whose 2012 movie "Frances Ha" became a cult favorite, has taken on another gawky New York artsy character in her latest film, "Mistress America," which was …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AM[SHARE]Daniel Radcliffe, the "Harry Potter" star who has starred on Broadway three times in recent years, got to try a different line of work when he agreed to be filmed working for an ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AM[SHARE]1953 Actress Maude Adams dies today. Born in 1873, Adams, at the age of 32, played the title role in James M. Barrie's Peter Pan when it had its American premiere at the Empire Theatre i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]An Australian production of Driving Miss Daisy, starring multiple Tony Award winners Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones, is broadcast July 17 by PBS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Director/writer Woody Allen's latest film, "Irrational Man," starring Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix, debuts July 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The original Broadway cast recording of Finding Neverland is available for digital download and as a CD in stores starting today, pushed back from the originally announced June 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2015
Sutton Foster, Stephen Pasquale and Brandon Victor Dixon star in a concert-style production of Andrew Lippa's 2000 musical The Wild Party at the New York City Center through July 18 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre is partnering with Connecticut's venerable Westport Country Playhouse to co-produce the world premiere of A.R. Gurney’s Love and Mo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PM[SHARE]Nominations for the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring excellence in television, have been announced. The annual awards ceremony will be broadcast live on Fox-TV Sept. 20 from the Micr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]1924 Broadway premiere of George Dibdin-Pitt's Sweeney Todd, one of numerous adaptations of the penny-dreadful tale of murder and cannibalism that would later be adapted as a mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2015
The Broadway play An Act of God has recouped its entire $2.9 million capitalization in just 10 weeks of performances–very prompt by Broadway standards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PM[SHARE]Dylan McDermott, square-jawed star of the ABC lawyer series "The Practice," will play a vengeance-seeking cotton gin owner in a new stage adaptation of Tennessee Williams&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PM[SHARE]Tony-winning Broadway actress Laura Benanti has joined forces with singing duo The Skivvies to add their two cents to the controversy over cell phone use in theatres. And they do it in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced July 15 the selection of individuals who will receive the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced July 15 the selection of individuals who will receive the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]1856 Birthday of prolific producer Charles Frohman (1856-1915) who, often in collaboration with his brothers Daniel and Gustave, produced dozens of Broadway shows including Sherlock Holm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2015
A February 2016 start of previews has been scheduled for American Psycho, the stage musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, with music by Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening).
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PM[SHARE]Magicians Penn & Teller appeared on "The Wendy Williams Show" July 14 to promote Penn & Teller on Broadway a show that has brought the provocative New Vaudeville magician t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PM[SHARE]"She's Funny That Way," Peter Bogdanovich's upcoming screwball comedy about a married Broadway director who falls in love with a former prostitute while working on a new sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]1918 Birthday of playwright Arthur Laurents, who will write numerous plays including The Time of the Cuckoo and Invitation to a March, but who is best known as librettist for musical classic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2015
An open call will be held in Los Angeles July 20 for the leading role of Dorothy in NBC's upcoming live presentation of The Wiz, according to Deadline Hollywood. A New York open call was…
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