Tuesday, April 14, 2015
"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" …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AM[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" …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AM[SHARE]The 150th anniversary of one of the darkest days in the history of theatre—President Abraham Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865—will be m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1865 Our American Cousin starring Laura Keene is in performance tonight when John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. Booth's broth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2015
1886 Birthday of Willie Howard (1886-1949), half of the comedy team of Willie and Eugene Howard, who will appear in vaudeville, in musicals Sally and Girl Crazy, and in various editions …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2015
1905 The colossal Hippodrome Theatre opens on Broadway today. The inaugural production is the colorful extravaganza A Yankee Circus on Mars. It will run 176 performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2015
The creators of the musical Mama, I Want To Sing! and its sequels are planning a return engagement of another of their musical shows, Alive!, which showcases the talents of performers 55 and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Playbill.com turns back time to one of the most famous historical events to happen in a theatre that w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
Judy McLane is about to lose what she described as the best job she ever had, and it's not her fault. She has been playing Donna Sheridan, the mamma in Broadway's Mamma Mia! since …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PM[SHARE]To celebrate the 40th anniversary of ultimate cult movie "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," the Fox network is planning a reimagined two-hour taped broadcast of the campy sci-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PM[SHARE]Every major Hollywood studio has bid on a new untitled movie musical project being pitched by a solid-platinum creative team of composer Alan Menken, lyricist Stephen Schwartz, writer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
Sadly, one of the most famous historical events to happen in a theatre was a tragedy of history-changing proportions: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:39PM[SHARE]Louise Pitre, who earned a Tony nomination for her performance as the original Donna in Mamma Mia!, stars in Luck Be a Lady: The Iconic Music of Frank Loesser, a new revue having its world p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PM[SHARE]Actor Richard A. Dysart, who earned a Drama Desk Award for his performance as the gruff, self-deluding coach in the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 drama That Championship Season, died A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PM[SHARE]The national touring cast of the musical Newsies visited Washington, DC, April 6 to entertain at the 137th Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PM[SHARE]Dancers from the musical Newsies visited Washington, DC, April 6 to entertain at the 137th Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PM[SHARE]The music of the Gershwin brothers apparently retains its magic. It was announced today, while the show is still in Broadway previews, that their score for An American in Paris will get a ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PM[SHARE]Andrew Rannells, the Tony-nominated star of The Book of Mormon who recently completed a stint in the title role of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, will co-write and co-star in a yet&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AM[SHARE]Summer is coming, but the tireless cast of the long-running Off-Broadway phenomenon Blue Man Group is not taking a vacation. The otherwise mute azure trio has put out a Youtube video…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Broadway lyricist Fred Ebb was born April 8, 1928, 87 years ago today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PM[SHARE]Comedian Louis C.K., star of his own Emmy-winning FX comedy series "Louie" and currently the hottest guy in the standup comedy business, told the Hollywood Reporter that one of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PM[SHARE]The New York premiere of Stupid Fu**ing Bird, Aaron Posners's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, which moves the action moved to the here and now, will be one of the highligh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PM[SHARE]Michael Bennett, master Broadway director-choreographer, was born on this date in 1943, and would have been 72 today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AM[SHARE]As a comedy skit for "The Late, Late Show," host (and Tony winner) James Corden staged a production of the musical Grease in a crosswalk at Beverly Boulevard and Genesee Avenue in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:44AM[SHARE]"Luigi is now teaching the angels to dance."
That's how Francis J. Roach‎ of Luigi's Jazz Centre announced the passing of Louis "Luigi" Facciuto, 90, a master dance teacher who co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AM[SHARE]"Luigi is now teaching the angels to dance."
That's how Francis J. Roach‎ of Luigi's Jazz Centre announced the passing of Louis "Luigi" Faccuito, 90, a master dance teacher who co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:26AM[SHARE]1904 New York City bids adieu to Longacre Square, which had no particular reputation, and says hello to Times Square, which soon develops quite a reputation indeed. Mayor George B. McClellan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Blues singer Billie Holiday (nee Eleanora Fagan Gough) was born April 7, 1915, 100 years ago today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PM[SHARE]South Pacific, the first musical to win both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, opened on Broadway April 7, 1949, 66 years ago today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PM[SHARE]The creators of the musical Mama, I Want To Sing! and its sequels are planning a return engagement of another of their musical shows, Alive!, which showcases the talents of performers 55 and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM[SHARE]The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced April 7 that the recipients of the 2015 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre are press agent Adrian Bryan-Brown, production manage…
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