Wednesday, July 8, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AM[SHARE]An Australian production of Driving Miss Daisy, starring multiple Tony Award winners Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones, was taped for TV and will be broadcast in the U.S. July 17 by PBS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[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 10:55AM[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 10:55AM[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 10:55AM[SHARE]We all have shows we loved that closed too soon or didn't get the acclaim and long run they deserved. A new theatre company has been formed with the goal of finding these shows and givin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM[SHARE]1913 Birthday of theatre critic Walter Kerr (1913-1996), namesake of Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre. In addition to his career as a reviewer, which took him from the New York Herald&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Ryan Andes has replaced John Ellison Conlee in the July 15-18 Encores! Off-Center staging of Andrew Lippa's Wild Party, which will feature Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as Quee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39PM[SHARE]It's nice that people feel at home at Broadway theatres — but perhaps they shouldn't feel this at home.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PM[SHARE]The Ogunquit Playhouse's production of the Tony-nominated Nice Work If You Can Get It will tap into the Maine venue July 22-Aug. 15, following the current production, Victor/Vict…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:13PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Ragtime composer Stephen Flaherty and Tony-nominated director and choreographer Jeff Calhoun are among the Broadway professionals who will work with teachers from …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PM[SHARE]The folks in charge of promoting the Broadway play Hand to God are making hay of a recent incident in which an audience member tried to charge a cell phone by plugging into a prop outlet on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PM[SHARE]Ken Davenport, Broadway producer and blogger, is going out on a limb, producing a commercial limited engagement of a full-scale Broadway musical, Spring Awakening, this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PM[SHARE]The Tony-winning musical Spring Awakening, a soulful coming-of-age story by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik that sent shockwaves through Broadway in 2006, has booked Broadway's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AM[SHARE]The New York premiere of Whipping Man playwright Matthew Lopez's The Legend of Georgia McBride, about an Elvis impersonator turned drag queen, has chosen Dave Thomas Brown, recently of H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]The joys and tribulations of middle age are examined in Happy 50ish!, a "mid-life crisis musical comedy" set to bow Off-Broadway starting July 15 at The Beckett Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]The New Victory Theatre's 2015-16 season of family programming in New York will include the Off-Broadway premiere of Fly, about the Tuskeegee Airmen, and Caps for Sale The Musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]Seeing the news that an audience member attempted to charge a cell phone by plugging into a prop outlet on the stage set of Hand to God, the staff of Playbill.com came up with a list of othe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:24AM[SHARE]Everyone asks us: What's going to be the next Next to Normal? The next [title of show] or the next the next Altar Boyz?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16AM[SHARE]Penn & Teller on Broadway brings the provocative New Vaudeville magician team back to the Great White Way for a six-week stand at the Marquis Theatre, July 7-Aug. 16, with July 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16AM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2015
Beaches, the new Broadway-bound musical based on the 1988 film of the same title, officially opened its tryout July 2 at the Drury Lane Theatre in Chicago. The production has been announ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PM[SHARE]The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the new musical based on the Victor Hugo novel and the animated Disney film, which had a run at the Paper Mill Playhouse this past spring, has been recorded by S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik, who already has new projects in the pipeline for Broadway and Off-Broadway, will roll out yet another new project, Noir, as part of the upcoming N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PM[SHARE]It's nice that people feel at home at Broadway theatres — but perhaps they shouldn't feel this at home.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM[SHARE]Director John Tiffany and librettist Enda Walsh, the Tony-winning team behind Once, are working on a stage musical adaptation of the animated Disney film classic "Pinocchio," a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM[SHARE]The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the new musical based on the Victor Hugo novel and the animated Disney film, which had a run at the Paper Mill Playhouse this past spring, has been recorded by S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1939 A young Hollywood hopeful is forced to watch her own career fizzle as her boyfriend's blossoms in Lew Brown's new musical, Yokel Boy. Lois January and Buddy Ebsen star in the ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2015
Busy week for Misty Copeland, the ballerina who was promoted just last week to principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre--the first African-American actress to make that …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09PM[SHARE]Everyone asks us: What's going to be the next Next to Normal? The next [title of show] or the next the next Altar Boyz?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 4, 2015
1898 Birthday of actress Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952), longtime acting partner of Noël Coward (Private Lives, Tonight at 8:30) and star of musicals by the Gershwin brothers (Oh, Kay!…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2015
1878 The original Yankee Doodle Dandy, George M. Cohan (1878-1942) is born on the 3rd of July, (not the 4th as was family legend) says. A member of the vaudeville team The Four Cohans wi…
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