Tuesday, May 5, 2015
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2015
Imagine Tony-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years, Bridges of Madison County, Honeymoon in Vegas) writing a commercial.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30PM[SHARE]Usually, news is about something that happened. Sunday night, the news was about something that didn’t happen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AM[SHARE]The winners of the 2015 New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards are scheduled to be announced May 4 at 6 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2015
1887 Birthday of Vernon Castle who, with wife and dancing partner Irene Castle, would redefine not just what dancing represented on Broadway, but the kind of music used for that dancing. He …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2015
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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]The Times Square Arts Center, an Off-Off-Broadway performing space on the West Side of Eighth Avenue at 43rd Street, announced it is shutting the doors of its two small theatres as o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]The official trailer has dropped for director/writer Woody Allen's next film, "Irrational Man," starring Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix, which is scheduled to debut July 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM[SHARE]Tickets go on sale May 1 for the seventh annual National High School Musical Theater Awards (NHSMTA), which will be held June 29 at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1922 Comedy team Potash and Perlmutter are Partners Again. The show plays 31 weeks at the Selwyn Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2015
Christopher Gattelli, who earned a Tony Award for his athletic choreography for Newsies, and who earned another Tony nomination earlier this week for The King and I, is scheduled to direct a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PM[SHARE]1924 Birthday of Sheldon Harnick, who will go on to write lyrics to musicals including Fiorello!, She Loves Me, The Apple Tree and Fiddler on the Roof.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
1899 Happy birthday Edward Kennedy Ellington, who, taking the surname "Duke," became one of the 20th century's most important musician-composers. His Broadway shows, Beggar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, who missed performances of her Broadway musical On the Twentieth Century April 24-26 due to illness, was well enough to return to the show …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:25PM[SHARE]Broadway and film star Julie Andrews will appear in person June 6 at Goodspeed Musicals in East Haddam, CT, to present an award to her ex-husband, Oscar- Emmy- and Tony-winni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PM[SHARE]Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer who has been making forays onto Broadway with Finding Neverland, waxed philosophical when approached for comment by Deadline.com after his new musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PM[SHARE]Tickets are now on sale to the general public for the 69th Annual Tony Awards, which will be given June 7 at Radio City Music Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:40AM[SHARE]Tony winner Mary-Louise Parker and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Bruce Willis, who will make his Broadway debut this fall in Misery, announce the nominees for the 69th Annual Tony Awards …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony winner Mary-Louise Parker and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Bruce Willis, who will make his Broadway debut this fall in Misery, announce the nominees for the 69th Annual Tony Awards …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2015
Tony winner Mary-Louise Parker and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Bruce Willis, who will make his Broadway debut in the upcoming play Misery, will announce the nominees for the 69th Annual…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 26, 2015
The 29th Annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition raised a new all-time record $4,711,386 in six weeks of nightly curtain-call appeals. That total eclipsed …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2015
The Off-Broadway revival of The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical in world history and the longest-running play of any kind in American history, announced today that it wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2015
The new Broadway musical An American in Paris announced April 24 that it will launch a national touring company in the 2016-2017 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced April 24 that it will present the 2015 Regional Theatre Award to Cleveland Play House, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PM[SHARE]It's an age-old problem for Broadway marketers. How do you find a reviewer's quote to use in an ad when the review wasn't that good?
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]It's an age-old problem for Broadway marketers. How do you find a reviewer's quote to use in an ad when the review wasn't that good?
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards Administration Committee met April 23 for the fourth and final time this season to determine which shows and artists will be eligible in which categories for 18 Broadway prod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PM[SHARE]London Road, the new film musical based on the 2011 National Theatre production about a real-life serial killer, has set a June 12 opening in the U.K.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
How big of a hit is Lin-Manuel Miranda's new Broadway-bound show Hamilton? The rap musical about "the ten-dollar founding father without a father" has been so busy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PM[SHARE]Broadway and film star Liza Minnelli traded her microphone for a pen April 23, writing an op-ed for the newspaper USAToday to mark the end of a Broadway era.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[SHARE]Broadway history is usually made by stars and writers, but a record is being set by set designer Scott Pask April 23.
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