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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards appear to be boosting sales of newly released cast albums of the winning shows. The original Broadway cast recording of the musical Fun Home reclaimed the top spot o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM[SHARE]An all-new version of Alan Menken and David Spencer's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: The Musical, featuring an all-Canadian cast, opened in Montreal June 7. Here i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM[SHARE]It Shoulda Been You, the new musical comedy about a wedding gone awry that stars Tyne Daly, Lisa Howard, Harriet Harris, David Burtka and Sierra Boggess, will get a cast album, according to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06AM[SHARE]It Shoulda Been You, the new musical comedy about a wedding gone awry that stars Tyne Daly, Lisa Howard, Harriet Harris, David Burtka and Sierra Boggess, will get a cast album, according to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06AM[SHARE]Ian McKellen, who has embodied Gandalf and Magneto on film, in addition to a lifetime of Shakespearean work on the stage, assumes another iconic role, Sherlock Holmes, in the new film &l…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1939 Lee and J. J. Shubert collaborate with Hellzapoppin creators Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson to present The Streets of Paris on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. The revue's stars inc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2015
Groucho Marx, part of the Marx Brothers comedy team that triumphed in vaudeville and Broadway musicals before becoming film icons, lived out his twilight years under the thumb of a personal …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PM[SHARE]The new Broadway musical Finding Neverland will release its original cast recording July 17, pushed back from the originally announced June 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda, author and star of the Broadway-bound musical Hamilton, awoke Wednesday to the news that the U.S. government is planning to add the face of a woman TBA to the ima…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2015
The company of An American in Paris was named winner of the ninth annual "ACCA" Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus. The award will be presented at 4 PM June 16 during …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1888 Birthday of Broadway comedian Bobby Clark (1888-1960), best known for his drawn-on eyeglasses and slapstick comedy style, often in tandem with sidekick Paul McCullough. Clark…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Philip S. Birsh, Chief Executive Officer and President of the iconic Playbill theatre programs and the family of websites led by Playbill.com, will accept the annual Friend of Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 15, 2015
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 03:23PM[SHARE]1894 Birthday of Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), orchestrator of Broadway classics including the original Sunny; Show Boat; Anything Goes; Oklahoma!; Annie Get Your Gun; Kiss Me, Kat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AM[SHARE]Just days after filing a lawsuit against the producer of "Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream," the plaintiffs announced that they have unilaterally withdrawn the suit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 14, 2015
1929 Birthday of Broadway composer Cy Coleman, (1929-2004) whose multidextrous scores for shows like Sweet Charity, I Love My Wife, On the Twentieth Century, The Will Rogers Follies, The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]There is no Tony Award for Broadway's music directors, possibly because few people, even in the theatre business, fully understand what they do and how important they are to the way show…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 13, 2015
1963 Stage actor Howard Da Silva finds himself at the other end of the spectrum: as director of a Lewis John Carlino double bill. Shelley Winters and Jack Warden star in the two one acts, Sn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Emmy winner and Tony nominee Alec Baldwin stars in a revival of Arthur Miller’s classic drama about responsibility, All My Sons, which officially opens June 13 following previews t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 12, 2015
Alan Cumming, the Tony-winning actor who co-hosted the 69th Annual Tony Awards with Kristin Chenoweth, has penned a column about the experience for the London newspaper, The Globe an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PM[SHARE]Elisabeth Moss' Tony Award nomination for The Heidi Chronicles apparently has inspired her. She will play the lovelorn Masha in a forthcoming movie version of Anton Chekhov's The Sea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM[SHARE]Singer-songwriter-actor Nick Jonas, star of TV's "Camp Rock" and "Kingdom," has appeared in the London company of Les Miserables as Marius, and did a stint on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PM[SHARE]George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, the songwriting team behind Honk!, Betty Blue Eyes and the new songs for Mary Poppins, have announced that they are writing a new musical based on the book &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AM[SHARE]New Fish in the Dark star Jason Alexander took time out of his first week on the show to appear on the ABC talk show "LIVE with Kelly and Michael," and wowed them with one of the m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2015
Just days after filing a lawsuit against the producer of "Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream," the plaintiffs announced that they have unilaterally withdrawn the suit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:28PM[SHARE]Just days after filing a lawsuit against the producer of "Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream," the plaintiffs announced that they have unilaterally withdrawn the suit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:28PM[SHARE]The forthcoming epic science-fiction film "Jurassic World" is inhabited by almost as many Broadway veterans as it is by ferocious dinosaurs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PM[SHARE]It looks like the movie musical "Pitch Perfect 2," which sang up $161 million (so far) in ticket sales in the U.S. alone over the past month, is going to get a sequel, according to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PM[SHARE]It looks like the movie musical "Pitch Perfect 2," which sang up $161 million (so far) in ticket sales in the U.S. alone over the past month, is going to get a sequel, according to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PM[SHARE]The original Broadway cast recording of the new, Tony-nominated musical Something Rotten! hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Broadway chart in its first week in digital release.
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