Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Co-host Kristin Chenoweth as well as Chita Rivera, Christian Borle, Brian d'Arcy James, Kelli O'Hara, Tyne Daly and Ken Watanabe will be among performers on the 2015 Tony Award b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM[SHARE]The upcoming Warner Bros. film "Pan," which stars Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman as the pirate Blackbeard in a new prequel to the "Peter Pan" story, has posted a new trai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]The upcoming Warner Bros. film "Pan," which stars Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman as the pirate Blackbeard in a new prequel to the "Peter Pan" story, has posted a new trai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Charlotte St. Martin, who was named executive director of The Broadway League in 2006, has been promoted to president of the organization, it was announced May 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AM[SHARE]Alfonso Ribeiro, who starred in Broadway's The Tap Dance Kid in 1983 at age 12, has been named the new host of the long-running TV series "American's Funniest Home Videos,&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM[SHARE]Superstar Barbra Streisand is planning to publish a new memoir in 2017, according to a report in The New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AM[SHARE]Tony nominee Bobby Steggert will sing the title role in The Sorrows of Young Werther — James Melo's "theatrical concert" adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34AM[SHARE]1919 Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse call this Kissing Time at London's Winter Garden Theatre. Ivan Caryll provides the music for this tale of complications arising when French ladies carr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
1923 Sweet Nell of Old Drury runs beyond the season at the 48th Street Theatre in New York. Alfred Lunt stars as Charles II and Laurette Taylor as his mistress Nell Gwynne. Lynn Fontanne and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 17, 2015
1907 The new Hippodrome Theatre opens in Portsmouth, England.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2015
The winners of the 81st Annual Drama League Awards were announced May 15. An American in Paris is the recipient of the Distinguished Production of a Musical honor, while The Curious Incident…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PM[SHARE]Steven Boyer, star of the Tony-nominated Broadway play Had to God, co-hosts the 81st Annual Drama League Awards May 15 with his alter-ego in the show, the Satanic hand puppet Tyr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2015
1903 In The Runaways with a book by Addison Brukhardt and a score by Raymond Hubbell, the hero is transported to a tropical island and will be made a king. The catch? He must marry the queen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2015
1838 John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), perhaps the most infamous actor in American history, is born today. The son of actor Junius Brutus Booth, and brother of actors Junius Brutus Booth Jr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 9, 2015
1860 Birthday of James M. Barrie (1860-1937), British author and playwright whose creations will include What Every Woman Knows, The Little Minister, The Admirable Crichton and the work …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2015
1892 Birthday of opera singer Ezio Pinza (1892-1957) who made two memorable Broadway appearances, in Fanny and South Pacific, the latter creating the role of Emile deBecque and singing &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2015
The big mechanized face blowing cigarette smoke over the crowd and the huge steaming cup of coffee are long gone, but Times Square is still home to a barrage of brightly-lit billboards t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]The worlds of theatre and science fiction don’t often intersect, but beginning May 7 and continuing through May 31, Acme Theatre in Hollywood will Make it So.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AM[SHARE]The worlds of theatre and science fiction don’t often intersect, but beginning May 7 and continuing through May 31, Acme Theatre in Hollywood will Make it So.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AM[SHARE]Christopher Gattelli, who earned a Tony Award for his athletic choreography for Newsies, and who earned another Tony nomination last week for The King and I, is scheduled to direct and chore…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
The big mechanized face blowing cigarette smoke over the crowd and the huge steaming cup of coffee are long gone, but Times Square is still home to a barrage of brightly-lit billboards t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:54PM[SHARE]Stars in the Alley, a free outdoor concert presented by The Broadway League, will be offered May 27 from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM in Shubert Alley, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue and 44th an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM[SHARE]Broadway stars Justin Guarini and Deborah Cox will host the seventh annual simulcast of the Tony Awards, June 7, in Times Square, presented by Clear Channel Spectacolor in partnership with t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Days after being named winner of the 2015 Isabelle Stevenson Award from the Tony Awards, composer Stephen Schwartz headed off to London to work on his new stage musical, Emanuel and Eleonore.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Brother and sister Megan Fairchild (On the Town) and Robert Fairchild (An American in Paris) were named among winners of the 71st Annual Theatre World Awards. The awards themselves will be h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PM[SHARE]Ian McKellen, who has embodied Gandalf and Magneto on film, in addition to a lifetime of Shakspearean work on the stage, assumes another iconic role, Sherlock Holmes, in the forthcoming film…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM[SHARE]Comedy Central's series "Inside Amy Schumer" is devoting its entire 30-minute May 5 episode to a parody of the classic courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PM[SHARE]Attention theatre fans who know how to program: You can help build Broadway’s future on the web at the two-day "Broadway Hackathon" May 11-12, sponsored by The Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PM[SHARE]The film version of Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years comes out on DVD and Blu-ray May 5 from Anchor Bay Entertanment and RADiUS, with a selection of choice extr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1955 Baseball, ballet and Gwen Verdon provide the slugging power in Damn Yankees. Adapted from Douglass Wallop's book, "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant," by Wallop and Ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 71st Annual Theatre World Awards will be announced May 5, and the awards themselves will be handed out in a June 1 ceremony at Broadway's Lyric Theatre.
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