Saturday, May 30, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2015
Kathleen Marshall, James Naughton and Billy Stritch are among the hosts who will organize and present concerts as part of the 92nd Street Y's 2016 Lyrics & Lyricists season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:28PM[SHARE]The Broadway musicals On the Twentieth Century and Fun Home found themselves on the top of Billboard magazine's Cast Album chart for the week just ended, landing the number one and two s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PM[SHARE]Can it really be 20 years since the animated Disney movie musical "Pocahontas" opened in cinemas and we first heard Judy Kuhn, as the singing voice of the title character, warble t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PM[SHARE]Tony-winning Aladdin star James Monroe Iglehart will join WABC-TV’s Michelle Charlesworth to host the local New York TV station's "Broadway Backstage: Spring Previ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PM[SHARE]The Broadway musicals On the Twentieth Century and Fun Home found themselves on the top of Billboard magazine's Cast Album chart for the week just ended, landing the number one and two s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PM[SHARE]The original cast album of the Tony-nominated musical An American Paris is scheduled for release June 2, but the record company, Broadway Masterworks, made a track available exclusively …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PM[SHARE]The cast of Broadway's Tony-nominated Something Rotten! went into the recording studio to perform a special version of their opening number, "Welcome to the Renaissance," w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AM[SHARE]The cast of Broadway's Tony-nominated Something Rotten! went into the recording studio to perform a special version of their opening number, "Welcome to the Renaissance," w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AM[SHARE]Tony nominee Michael Cerveris, currently starring in Fun Home on Broadway, appeared on the TV talk show "The View" May 28 to discuss the musical and introduce a performance of one …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AM[SHARE]Emily Padgett, who played Daisy Hilton in the Broadway revival of Side Show, leads the cast of of Waterfall, a new romantic musical set during the changing political landscape of Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2015
Annaleigh Ashford, who is up for a Tony Award June 7 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, Syl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PM[SHARE]Singer and actress Keke Palmer, who recently appeared on Broadway in the title role of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, has joined the cast of the FOX-TV broadcast of Grease: Live…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PM[SHARE]The Prince of Broadway, the stage project that takes audiences through the numerous award-winning productions created by director-producer Harold Prince (Cabaret, The Phantom of the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PM[SHARE]Kelli O'Hara received a 2015 Tony nomination for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PM[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 01:39PM[SHARE]Hundreds of public school performers from across the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan are scheduled to take part in "Broadway Junior," a concert of classic …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PM[SHARE]1940 Victor Moore, William Gaxton and Vera Zorina star in the Irving Berlin musical Louisiana Purchase, which runs 444 performances at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AM[SHARE]Penn & Teller will bring the provocative New Vaudeville magician team back to Broadway for a six-week stand at the Marquis Theatre, July 7-Aug. 16, with July 12 set as opening ni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54AM[SHARE]The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University have aligned to recognize outstanding educators with the "Excellence in Theatre Education Award."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08AM[SHARE]Glenne Headly, who earned an Emmy nominations in "Bastard Out of Carolina" and and played Tess Truehart in the movie "Dick Tracy," will take over the role of Brenda Drexe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Two Tony Award winners, Jessie Mueller and James Monroe Iglehart, will host the Creative Arts Awards portion of the 69th Annual Tony Awards June 7 at Radio City Music Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM[SHARE]The new film musical “Pitch Perfect 2” has grossed more than $190.4 million in its first two weeks of release worldwide, making it the fastest-breaking musical film i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AM[SHARE]1953 John Mills is The Uninvited Guest at London's St. James's Theatre. Written by his wife, Mary Hayley Bell, and co-starring Cathleen Nesbitt and Joan Greenwood, this story of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Broadway set all-time records for attendance and box-office income during the 2014-15 season, according to figures released by The Broadway League, the national trade association…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM[SHARE]"Anyone Can Whistle Follies," a mashup concert consisting of songs from Stephen Sondheim musicals Anyone Can Whistle and Follies, is planned for June 28 at the 54 Below cabaret in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44PM[SHARE]A track list has been announced for the upcoming An American in Paris cast album.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]Helen Mirren's Tony-nominated 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]Helen Mirren's Tony-nominated 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM[SHARE]1913 One hundred and twelve actors gather at the Pabst Grand Circle Hotel near Columbus Circle in New York City and vote to form Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
1900 Birthday of legendary Broadway producer and director Jed Harris (1900-1979), who will present The Royal Family, Broadway, Our Town, The Heiress and The Crucible. Also said to be the mod…
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