Thursday, June 11, 2015
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[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 01:07PM[SHARE]Comedian Colin Quinn is returning to the New York stage this summer with his latest solo comedy, Colin Quinn The New York Story, which will be directed by fellow comic Jerry Seinfel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AM[SHARE]Christopher Lee, the resonant-voiced British actor who lent his forbidding basso to seven decades of horror, fantasy and adventure films, has died at age 93.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:04AM[SHARE]"Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream," the Lion King director's imaginative rethinking of Shakespeare's classic that was filmed before a live audience during i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53AM[SHARE]As part of Playbill.com's 30 Days of Pride, we offer a look back at the rise of gay consciousness in commercial American theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Philip S. Birsh, Chief Executive Officer and President of the iconic Playbill theatre programs and the family of websites led by Playbill.com, has been named winner of the annual Friend of O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PM[SHARE]"Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream," the Lion King director's imaginative rethinking of Shakespeare's classic that was filmed before a live audience during …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PM[SHARE]"Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream," the Lion King director's imaginative rethinking of Shakespeare's classic that was filmed before a live audience during i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PM[SHARE]Upon winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for The King and I June 7, Kelli O'Hara gave an acceptance speech capped by a promise that she would do "The Worm.&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PM[SHARE]Marion Cotillard, the French actress who played Luisa in the film version of the Broadway musical Nine, will sing the title role in the opera Joan of Arc at the Stake with the New York Philh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PM[SHARE]Marion Cotillard, the French actress who played Luisa in the film version of the Broadway musical Nine, will play the title role in the dramatic oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake with the Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PM[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 01:10PM[SHARE]The company of An American in Paris has been named winner of the ninth annual "ACCA" Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AM[SHARE]TV star Raven-Symoné, who made her Broadway debut in 2012 as the wimple-wearing disco diva of Broadway's Sister Act at the Broadway Theatre, has been tapped as new co&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM[SHARE]Building on the success of event-type cinema screenings of operas like Aida and occasional Broadway shows like The Audience, Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies are planning to scree…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]1922 Birthday of Frances Ethel Gumm, better known as Judy Garland (1922-1969), star of numerous Hollywood film musicals including "The Wizard of Oz." Her Broadway experience co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Gigi, the new Broadway adaptation of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s Oscar- and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, will play its final performance on Sunday, June 21 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:40PM[SHARE]Disenchanted!, the Off-Broadway musical that pokes fun at the world of fairy-tale princesses, will close Sunday, June 14 after 30 previews and 139 regular performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15PM[SHARE]Just weeks after taking over as president of the Dramatists Guild of America, Doug Hughes has stepped into the controversy over who gets seen on the Tony Awards broadcast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PM[SHARE]Just weeks after taking over as president of the Dramatists Guild of America, Doug Hughes has stepped into the controversy over who gets seen on the Tony Awards broadcast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PM[SHARE]How do you cram an entire Broadway season into a live, three-hour telecast? Making room for speeches (sadly, not all of them), musical performances and specialty moments is a tall order.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM[SHARE]Betsy Wolfe (Broadway’s Bullets over Broadway, The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and Matt Bittner (Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing) will topline Up Here, the new musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PM[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 02:01PM[SHARE]A couple from TV's "The Bachelorette" made their Broadway debuts with a walk-on in Disney's Aladdin at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AM[SHARE]New ratings figures for the 69th Annual Tony Awards, which aired June 7 on CBS opposite game two of the NBA Finals, were significantly lower than the preliminary ones announced June 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AM[SHARE]And so, with the Tony Awards, the 2014-15 Broadway season comes to an end. But the 2015-16 season is already underway--and it promises to be a busy one. A total of 37 shows …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1891 Birthday of composer Cole Porter (1891-1964), whose witty, urbane songs will grace five decades of musicals, including Anything Goes, Can-Can, Gay Divorce, Silk Stockings and hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning comic actor Jason Alexander, best known for playing George Costanza on the sitcom "Seinfeld," replaces author/star Larry David in the Broadway hit Fish in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2015
Emmy winner and Tony nominee Alec Baldwin stars in a June 9-28 revival of Arthur Miller’s classic drama about responsibility, All My Sons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PM[SHARE]A new version of Alan Menken and David Spencer's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: The Musical, featuring an all-Canadian cast led by Ken James Stewart, is currently in p…
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