Thursday, June 4, 2015
Jeanna de Waal, who replaced Annaleigh Ashford as Lauren in the Broadway production of Kinky Boots, will join fellow Broadway stars Justin Guarini and Deborah Cox in hosting the seventh annu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PM[SHARE]After the success of "Maleficent" and "Cinderella," Disney is pouring resources into live-action remakes of its animated classics. The latest to be announced is an ad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]After the success of "Maleficent" and "Cinderella," Disney is pouring resources into live-action remakes of its animated classics. The latest to be announced is an ad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]Take heart, for Mrs. Pankhurst will be clapped in irons again! Meryl Streep and 2015 Tony nominee Carey Mulligan play early 20th century campaigners for women's right to vote in the new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM[SHARE]1968 Stage and screen actress Dorothy Gish dies today in Rapallo, Italy. Her first New York stage appearance was in 1903 in East Lynne. She began her film career in 1912, but resumed her sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2015
The Broadway musical Fun Home pushed its way to the top of Billboard magazine's Cast Album chart for the week just ended, landing the number one spot.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:14PM[SHARE]Nine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune was named recipient of a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Tony Honor. Playbill.com looks back at his career with clips of his Broadway outings, concert an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PM[SHARE]At this time of year Tony Award nominees can often be found at one or more"or all"of the tightly scheduled Broadway parties, secondary awards shows and other events that give them a chance t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PM[SHARE]Prolific composer Alan Menken is writing the score to a new animated TV adaptation of the Disney film "Tangled," based on the Grimm fairytale "Rapunzel," Time magazine re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PM[SHARE]In the end it wasn't fire that got him, but water.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM[SHARE]1866 Birthday of playwright and producer George Broadhurst (1866-1952), responsible for dozens of plays and musicals, including the first stage adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes. Also, na…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony nominee Bobby Steggert sings the title role in The Sorrows of Young Werther — James Melo's "theatrical concert" adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe&rsqu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2015
An Equity showcase of a new musical, titled Hef, will be presented in Manhattan in August, according to an Equity casting notice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10PM[SHARE]Jim Bailey, an impersonator of Broadway and Hollywood divas who was frustrated in his attempt to do a Judy Garland-themed show on Broadway, died May 30 in Sun Valley, CA, according to th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PM[SHARE]Tongue-in-cheek stage parodies of famous sitcoms have been rife in recent years. But now heavyweight CBS is stepping into the ring with its own adaptations of some of its classic sho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44PM[SHARE]Washington D.C.'s Landless Theatre Company, which loosened fillings with its progressive metal version of Sweeney Todd, is coming back to thrash another Broadway musical, The Mystery of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PM[SHARE]Washington D.C.'s Landless Theatre Company, which loosened fillings with its progressive metal version of Sweeney Todd, is coming back to thrash another Broadway musical, The Mystery of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PM[SHARE]Eddie Redmayne, a Tony Award winner for Red and a 2015 Oscar winner for "The Theory of Everything," will play the lead in the "Harry Potter" film spinoff "Fantastic …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AM[SHARE]Broadway's Tony Awards ceremony isn't scheduled to begin until June 7, but the first of the 2015 awards were handed out June 1 at the Paramount Hotel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]1954 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's Carousel is revived for a ten-week run at the New York City Center. In the cast are Barbara Cook and Jo Sullivan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2015
The Chicago-based American Theater Company has named Bonnie Metzgar as interim artistic director, effective immediately. She succeeds P.J. Paparelli, director of the innovative company, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PM[SHARE]Utah's Tuacahn Amphitheatre has assembled a new "musical spectacular of Disney music," When You Wish, previewing June 1 and opening June 5 for a run through Oct. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]Utah's Tuacahn Amphitheatre has assembled a new "musical spectacular of Disney music," When You Wish, previewing June 1 and opening June 5 for a run through Oct. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PM[SHARE]The Gallows, a new horror film set in a haunted theatre, is set to open in cinemas across the U.S. July 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]Betsy Palmer, the stage, TV and film actress whom Tennessee Williams chose to embody the frustrated Alma Winemiller in The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, his 1976 rewrite of Summer and Smo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05AM[SHARE]Betsy Palmer, the stage, TV and film actress whom Tennessee Williams chose to embody the frustrated Alma Winemiller in The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, his 1976 rewrite of Summer and Smo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2015
Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, paid another of their frequent visits to Broadway May 30 when they saw the Tony-nominated mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56AM[SHARE]There was a time when nearly all Broadway shows were produced specifically for Broadway and would open there — perhaps after a tryout tour, but one that was aimed expressly for Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1946 Orson Welles circumnavigated the stage in Around The World, a musical he adapted from the Jules Verne novel, “Around the World in Eighty Days,” Cole Porter provided …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 30, 2015
History is made every year on Tony Awards night when a new show is crowned Best Musical. Watch the moment the titles are announced on the official videos of acceptance speeches 1988 to 1992,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1868 Birthday of producer/director/manager Charles Dillingham (1868-1934), whose productions included As Good as New, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Sunny, Bulldog Drummond, The Red Mill and …
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