Monday, June 29, 2015
Something Rotten! leading lady Heidi Blickenstaff and her husband Nicholas Rohlfing are organizing a Broadway Bikes fundraising event Oct. 4 in New York City, to benefit Bike MS: New York 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PM[SHARE]The Dramatists Guild Fund, the charitable arm of the playwrights' union The Dramatists Guild of America, has announced that composer Andrew Lippa (Big Fish, I Am Harvey Milk, The Addams …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PM[SHARE]Audra McDonald, who won a record-breaking sixth Tony Award for her performance in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, gave a solo concert April 29 at Carnegie Hall, which has made a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PM[SHARE]Casting has been announced for the eight new plays being developed this summer at the annual National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. Tony A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Cast members from the long run of the Broadway musical Newsies will hold a pair of reunion concerts Aug. 24 at 54 Below nightclub in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]"Larry Kramer In Love & Anger," a new documentary film about the gay rights and health activist who authored the Tony-winning Broadway play The Normal Heart, debuts June 29…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1954 A star is born as Carol Haney's understudy in The Pajama Game goes on in place of the ailing actress and is discovered by theatre critic George Freedly. Writes Freedly in his review…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2015
1902 Birthday of Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), one of the most prolific and successful Broadway composers. His greatest successes came in partnership with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Playbill.com offers a visitor's guide to real New York places mentioned in Broadway musicals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Playbill.com offers a visitor's guide to real New York places mentioned in Broadway musicals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 27, 2015
One day after previews began for the new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, President Barack Obama sang the traditional hymn at the funeral for one of the South Carolina historic black church m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19PM[SHARE]Kelsey Grammer is planning to take time off from his role as Captain Hook in the Broadway musical Finding Neverland this summer, but will return in the fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PM[SHARE]1888 Birthday of Antoinette Perry (1888-1946), an actress and groundbreaking woman stage director who will help found the American Theatre Wing. In gratitude, the Wing will name its annu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 26, 2015
A family secret lies at the heart of "Big Stone Gap," a forthcoming new film set in Appalachia — but populated with nearly a dozen Broadway actors.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PM[SHARE]Jonathan Groff stars as a songwriter with a brain tumor in the William Finn/James Lapine musical A New Brain, running through June 27 at the New York City Center as part of its annual Encore…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PM[SHARE]In honor of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision regarding marriage equality for all, the Broadway musical It Shoulda Been You is offering a buy-one, get-one-free…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PM[SHARE]Richard Dreyfuss has been cast as Bernie Madoff in an ABC miniseries about the master Ponzi schemer who defrauded his family and closest friends"including many showbiz celebrities"of million…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PM[SHARE]In honor of the Supreme Court's historic ruling on gay marriage in America, here is a roundup of how the theatre community has dealt with this issue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1890 (probably) Actress Jeanne Eagels, best known for playing Miss Thompson in Rain, is born today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2015
Nora, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, will get its English-language premiere Off-Broadway as part of the 92nd season at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:23PM[SHARE]Amazon's new video adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel "The Man in the High Castle," uses a creepy version of the Sound of Music song "Edelweiss" as its theme mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:49PM[SHARE]"Larry Kramer In Love & Anger," a new documentary film about the gay rights and health activist who authored the Tony-winning Broadway play The Normal Heart, will debut Jun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM[SHARE]A year after the project was first discussed, the writer/director of the 1995 film comedy "Clueless" confirmed June 25 that a musical version of the story is being developed for Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:28PM[SHARE]A year after the project was first discussed, the writer/director of the 1995 film comedy "Clueless" confirmed June 25 that a musical version of the story is being developed for Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:28PM[SHARE]Camp David, a new drama about President Jimmy Carter's Nobel Prize-winning efforts to bring the leaders of Israel and Egypt to sign a peace agreement after years of war, is being pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PM[SHARE]Camp David, a new drama about President Jimmy Carter's Nobel Prize-winning efforts to bring the leaders of Israel and Egypt to sign a peace agreement after years of war, is being pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PM[SHARE]Kelsey Grammer is planning to take time off from his role as Captain Hook in the Broadway musical Finding Neverland this summer, but will return in the fall. Exact dates will be announced at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PM[SHARE]Bend It Like Beckham, a new British stage musical based on the 2002 film of the same name about fans of U.K. football (soccer) hero David Beckham, opened June 24 at the Phoenix Theatre in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:13PM[SHARE]"Larry Kramer In Love & Anger," a new documentary film about the gay rights and health activist who authored the Tony-winning Broadway play The Normal Heart, will debut Jun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]"Larry Kramer In Love & Anger," a new documentary film about the gay rights and health activist who authored the Tony-winning Broadway play The Normal Heart, will debut Jun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AM[SHARE]Helen Mirren's Tony-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's Broadway and West End drama The Audience will be broadcast as a special event in selected movie th…
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