Thursday, June 25, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1887 Birthday of legendary director George Abbott (1887-1995) whose long life (107 years) and colossal catalog (more than 110 Broadway shows, sometimes also as producer, writer or even a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Kristin Chenoweth, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Tituss Burgess and other Broadway favorites will sing at Voices for the Voiceless: Stars For Foster Kids, a one-night-only concert even…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PM[SHARE]In one of the stranger assignments in recent years, Broadway stars including Adam Pascal, Barry Bostwick, David Hasselhoff and Paul Sorvino play combatants in the forthcoming new movie music…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PM[SHARE]Tituss Burgess, the Broadway star who can currently be seen on the hit Netflix series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," is co-writing on a new musical based on a Whitney Houston fil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AM[SHARE]Aaron Lazar, Ana Gasteyer and Tony winner Dan Fogler join Jonathan Groff in the New York City Center's Encores! Off-Center series revival of William Finn and James Lapine's&n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Annaleigh Ashford, a Tony winner for her performance in You Can't Take It With You, will return to Broadway playing an adorable pooch in A.R. Gurney's comedy Sylvia, which w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1942 Gypsy Rose Lee and Bobby Clark are featured in Michael Todd's musical revue, Star and Garter, which opens a 609-performance run at the Music Box Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Although the hit Broadway comedy Fish in the Dark has slipped off the sellout list since Tony Award-winning comic actor Jason Alexander, replaced author/star Larry David June 9, Alexande…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:32PM[SHARE]Students at a New Mexico university have mounted an unorthodox production of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago, set entirely inside a modern-day women's prison, in which the inmates…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PM[SHARE]Tom Holland is living the dream of every kid who takes a local dance class. Holland, who was spotted at the showcase for his suburban London dance school and cast as a replacement in the tit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PM[SHARE]Michael C. Hall, star of TV's "Dexter" and a recent replacement as star of Broadway's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, has been chosen to star in this fall's world premiere o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PM[SHARE]Michael C. Hall, star of TV's "Dexter" and a recent replacement as star of Broadway's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, has been chosen to star in this fall's world premiere o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award nominee Michele Lee, who co-starred as Rosemary in the movie version of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, is returning to Broadway July 5 as Madam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson will co-star in a Broadway revival of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game, which will begin previews Sept…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]Three-time Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf has replaced Elizabeth Marvel as leading lady in the Broadway adaptation of Stephen King's Misery opposite Emmy and Golden Globe Award win…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AM[SHARE]1927 Birthday of Robert Louis Fosse, better known as Bob Fosse (1927-1987), master director-choreographer known for his sexy hip-swiveling dances in shows including The Pajama Ga…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2015
The two performances of Broadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque, a show inspired by the Golden Age of Broadway, earned a record $1,598,501 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, more than $…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:19PM[SHARE]The full cast has been announced for The American Repertory Theater's upcoming production of the world premiere of Waitress, the new Sara Bareilles musical that will play the Cambridge, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:55PM[SHARE]The Walk of Fame Selection Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has announced the new group of 29 entertainment professionals in motion pictures, television, live theatre, radio an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52PM[SHARE]Neil Patrick Harris' new hourlong TV variety show, "Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris," will premiere Sept. 15 on NBC, according to Deadline Hollywood, but will be shown …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PM[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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PM[SHARE]The full cast of Broadway's Beautiful: The Carole King Musical will perform the show's score, concert-style, for free, outdoors in Central Park this summer as part of the City Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AM[SHARE]"Downton Abbey," the hit PBS television show chronicling the life of the wealthy British Crawley family through the social and economic upheaval before, during and following World …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AM[SHARE]"Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream," Taymor's imaginative rethinking of Shakespeare's classic that was filmed before a live audience during its 2014 run at T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26AM[SHARE]1920 Opening night of the starry Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 at the New Amsterdam Theatre, featuring performances by Fanny Brice, W.C. Fields and Moran & Mack; and music by Irving Berlin, H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 21, 2015
Gigi, the new Broadway adaptation of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s Oscar- and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, plays its final performance June 21 at the Neil Sim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1903 Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) is born today. His distinctive looping line drawings will capture the essence of Broadway shows from the 1920s through the early 2000s. The Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 20, 2015
The long-running Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks narrowly averted closing May 3 when a pair of deep-pocketed fans stepped in to help producers with a sum that they sai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1905 Birthday of playwright Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), who will go on to write The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, Watch on the Rhine and the book to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 19, 2015
Actor and folksinger Theodore Bikel is getting a salute in New York City June 21 with the premiere of a documentary film intertwining his life with that of the Yiddish-language writer Sh…
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