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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:56PM[SHARE]"How did they do that?!?" That's how most people react to really well-executed magic illusions. Disney is planning to offer the answer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PM[SHARE]Forget about Sweeney Todd. Broadway's new man-eating champs could be the carnivorous sea monsters of "Sharknado," according to a report in the New York Daily News.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2015
1895 Birthday of Oscar Hammerstein II, scion of a notable theatrical family who went on to become its most famous and honored member as a lyricist and librettist. Hammerstein enjoyed a major…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Penn & Teller on Broadway brings the provocative New Vaudeville magician team back to the Great White Way for a six-week stand, officially opening July 12 and continuing through Aug.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 11, 2015
Stephen Root ("Justified") and Marque Richardson ("Dear White People")
have landed key roles in HBO's TV adaptation of the 2014 Tony-winning Best Play All the W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]Dan Fogler, a Tony Award winner for The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee, has joined the cast of the "Harry Potter" film spinoff "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM[SHARE]1915 A King is born today... in the form of Yul Brynner. Brynner will, of course, go on to star as one half of the title of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The King And I, opposite Gert…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2015
Nick Silvestri, the 19-year-old college student who "broke the internet" when news got out that he had tried to charge his cell phone by plugging into a prop outlet on the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PM[SHARE]The all-Canadian cast of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: The Musical was in the recording studio July 10, capturing the Alan Menken and David Spencer score for a forthcoming cast al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PM[SHARE]"Can a sandwich turn people into zombies?" That's the operational question in ZM, the latest musical by Tony-winning Urinetown writers Greg Kotis and Mark Hollman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]The Ogunquit Playhouse's production of Nice Work If You Can Get It will tap its way into the Maine venue July 22-Aug. 15, following the current production, Victor/Victoria, which wra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PM[SHARE]It's been a curious week for Beowulf Boritt, the Tony-winning designer of Act One, who also designed sets for this season's On the Town and the upcoming Thér&egrav…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AM[SHARE]It's been a curious week for Beowulf Boritt, the Tony-winning designer of Act One, who also designed sets for this season's On the Town and the upcoming Thér&egrav…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AM[SHARE]It's been a curious week for Beowulf Boritt, the Tony-winning designer of Act One, who also designed sets for this season's On the Town and the upcoming Thér&egrav…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AM[SHARE]"The Gallows," a new horror film set in a haunted theatre, opens in cinemas across the U.S. July 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2015
"I was the one." Meet Nick Silvestri of Seaford, Long Island. On July 2 he entered Broadway legend by doing something nearly all of us do every day: he plugged in his cell phone ch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:11PM[SHARE]Pulitzer finalist Stephen Karam's 2007 Off-Broadway hit, Speech & Debate, reportedly is being filmed with original stage star Sarah Steele, who has since gone on to fame playing …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PM[SHARE]The New York Musical Theater Festival will present Women of Note, a one-night-only concert celebrating women writers in musical theatre. The event will feature songs by the Tony-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tony and Olivier winner Patti LuPone, who has confronted audience members who take pictures or use cell phones during a performance, issued a statement questioning her continued work on stag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Cassie Beck, Reed Birney, Jayne Houdyshell, Greg Keller, Sarah Steele and Joyce Van Patten will star in Pulitzer Prize finalist Stephen Karam's newest play, The Humans, which wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Patti LuPone apparently had it up to here with a persistent texter during the July 8 evening performance of her play Shows for Days at Lincoln Center and literally snatched it out of her han…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:35AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel has turned to members of the "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" house band to produce the forthcoming original cast album of the Broadway musical Hamilton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:57AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel has turned to members of the "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" house band to produce the forthcoming original cast album of the Broadway musical Hamilton.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:56AM[SHARE]1930 In today's Variety, a review of a new vaudeville show at the Eighty Sixth Street Theatre singles out a newcomer from the world of cabaret. Reads the review: "She is a good look…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Comedian Colin Quinn returns to the New York stage this summer with his latest solo comedy, Colin Quinn The New York Story, which is directed by fellow comic Jerry Seinfeld.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2015
The upcoming Broadway revival of Spring Awakening, which will be performed by an ensemble consisting of hearing, deaf and hard-of-hearing actors, will hold a open call for deaf actor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PM[SHARE]Six of the more than two dozen musicals being presented at the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival's have reported ticket sales strong enough that they will extend their planned limit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown conducted selections from his 2014 musical The Bridges of Madison County as part of a special July 2 concert with the Des Moin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PM[SHARE]A musical based on Ian Fleming's suave super spy James Bond is definitely still on track for Broadway, according to its producer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PM[SHARE]Ian Armitage, the six-year-old theatrical wunderkind who reviews and blogs about Broadway shows, has written a new "nicer" ending for the forthcoming Broadway musical Hamil…
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