Thursday, April 23, 2015
Broadway history is usually made by stars and writers, but a record is being set by set designer Scott Pask April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tyne Daly, Chip Zien, Josh Grisetti and other cast members from the new Broadway musical It Shoulda Been You appeared on NBC's "Today" show April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM[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 08:51AM[SHARE]Broadway actresses and Tony winners Judith Light and Jessie Mueller will announce the nominations for the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards 2 PM today, April 23, at 54 Below cabaret in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 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]Tuesday, April 21, 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 04:40PM[SHARE]The Broadway Bowling League completed its 2014-15 season with The Fantastick Crime Strikers (a team that combined company members from the long-running Off-Broadway hits The Fant…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
Broadway actresses and Tony winners Judith Light and Jessie Mueller will announce the nominations for the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards 2 PM April 23 at 54 Below cabaret in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM[SHARE]Cabaret performer and stage actress Klea Blackhurst will repeat her role as wisecracking housemaid Hazel in a second New York City reading of a musical based on Ted Key's cartoon charact…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]1908 The four Cohans (George, Helen, Jerry and Josephine) are the stars of The Yankee Prince. George M. Cohan wrote, directed and co-produced this musical at Broadway's Knickerbocker…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Broadway actresses and Tony winners Judith Light and Jessie Mueller will announce the nominations for the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards 2 PM April 23 at 54 Below cabaret in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2015
1946 Actor Tim Curry is born in Cheshire, England. He will create memorable Broadway roles including Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Mozart in Amadeus, Dada artist Tristan Tzara in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]"The Sound of Music," the classic movie musical based on Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic Broadway musical, will return to selected cinemas nationally on April 19 and 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 18, 2015
Off-Broadway's Hamilton paid emotional tribute to the surviving members fo the original cast of A Chorus Line Thursday evening on the 40th anniversary of the latter show's opening night …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Hamilton paid emotional tribute to the surviving members fo the original cast of A Chorus Line Thursday evening on the 40th anniversary of the latter show's opening night …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Hamilton paid emotional tribute to the surviving members fo the original cast of A Chorus Line Thursday evening on the 40th anniversary of the latter show's opening night …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2015
"Glee" heartthrob Darren Criss, who is the next actor announced to wig out in the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, glitters and pouts in a new video clip.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:21PM[SHARE]"Glee" heartthrob Darren Criss, who is the next actor announced to wig out in the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, gets a new close-up in this just-released v…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:21PM[SHARE]It looks like Universal Studios, home of "Furious 7," "E.T." and "Jurassic Park," has won the bidding war to produce the new untitled movie musical project bein…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PM[SHARE]Off-Broadway's Hamilton paid emotional tribute to the surviving members fo the original cast of A Chorus Line Thursday evening on the 40th anniversary of the latter show's opening night …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
Les 7 Doights de la Main (The Seven Fingers), the Montreal-based circus company whose work was showcased in the 2013 Broadway revival of Pippin, returns to New York tonight with its own …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PM[SHARE]Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has come up with a lot of innovative and unusual ways to raise money in the last half century, from "Broadway Bears" (an auction of teddy bears dr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PM[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.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The cast of the current Public Theater hit Hamilton honor original cast members of A Chorus Line April 16, to mark the 40th anniversary of the latter show's opening at the Public.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
In anticipation of the 40th anniversary of the opening of A Chorus Line Off-Broadway at the Public Theater April 16, Playbill.com reached out to the cast of the original Broadway product…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PM[SHARE]Take heart, for Mrs. Pankhurst will be clapped in irons again! Meryl Streep will play the early 20th century firebrand British campaigner for women's right to vote in the new film "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM[SHARE]No One's Sonata by Tony winner Steven Sater (Spring Awakening), and Slow Food by The House of Yes author Wendy MacLeod are among eight new plays that will be developed this summer at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM[SHARE]ZM, the latest musical by the team that wrote Urinetown, will be one of three new musicals that will be developed this summer at 38th annual National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Bye Bye Birdie, the Tony-winning musical that poked fun at the Elvis Presley craze, opened at the Martin Beck Theatre (now the Al Hirschfeld) 55 years ago today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PM[SHARE]The Broadway-bound, sold-out Off-Broadway musical Hamilton will release its cast album this September, according to an April 14 tweet by composer/star Lin-Manuel Miranda.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AM[SHARE]"Dreamgirls" film star Jennifer Hudson and "Late Late Show" host (and Tony winner) James Corden sang a karaoke duet to "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" …
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