Tuesday, April 7, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AM[SHARE]1913 On The Purple Road there's a disguised Napoleon waiting to woo an unsuspecting girl named Wanda. Valli Valli is the innocent soon to meet her Waterloo at the Liberty Theatre in New …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2015
Hollywood has decided to make a movie of Speed-the-Plow, David Mamet's scathing takedown of the Hollywood decision-making process, according to Deadline Hollywood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26PM[SHARE]SiriusXM Radio personality and Playbill columnist Seth Rudetsky is gathering top Broadway stars to join in his protest of cuts to New York City adoption programs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:18PM[SHARE]Nine-time Grammy winner John Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co. is co-producing a movie "musical romantic drama" set behind the scenes in the pop music business, accord…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PM[SHARE]Julie Wilson, cabaret singer and comic actress on Broadway, film and TV, died Easter night, according to her longtime friend, Ann Hampton Callaway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]1947 The first Tony Awards ceremony is held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Thirteen awards are presented to the likes of Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Fredric March, Jose Ferre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2015
Tony-winning actress Lena Hall played her final performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch last night. There to say farewell to their Yitzhak were all four actors who have played …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]Tony-winning actress Lena Hall played her final performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch last night. There to say farewell to their Yitzhak were all four actors who have played …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM[SHARE]The song "Easter Parade" was popularized in the 1948 movie of the same title, but it had a long and unusual history.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM[SHARE]1906 Britain's first actor-M.P., A.E.W. Mason, delivers his first speech. The theatre community sees this as a victory, hoping it will have an advocate in the House of Commons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 4, 2015
1921 Sarah Bernhardt, who recently had one leg amputated, comes to London to play the title role in Louis Verneuil's Daniel at the Prince's Theatre. When she found a wooden leg unwie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12AM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2015
The theatre community erupted on social media starting March 26 after Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act, effectively allowing state …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:07PM[SHARE]Tony-winner Laura Benanti, star of Radio City's New York Spring Spectacular tweeted that she is ill. She will miss tonight's performance, but hopes to return Saturday.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:07PM[SHARE]Charismatic leading man Marlon Brando spent most of his career in Hollywood, making films like "The Godfather, The Wild One and "On the Waterfront." But Brando, who was born A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:24PM[SHARE]Tony-winner Laura Benanti, currently starring in Radio City Music Hall's New York Spring Spectacular, continues her "Workin' It" video series with an episode titled &qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PM[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 04:55PM[SHARE]"The Eye That Saw Death," a short horror story written by Pulitzer-winning playwright Tennessee Williams apparently during his high school years, has gotten its first publicati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PM[SHARE]To celebrate its 25th anniversary--and as part of the salute to composer Stephen Sondheim's 85th birthday--Signature Theatre has assembled a new revue of his work, Simpl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AM[SHARE]Nick & Nora, the 1991 musical that managed a run of only nine performances despite a cast and creative team consisting of some of the top talents of its period on Broadway, will get what…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2015
Lyricist/librettist Michael Colby (Charlotte Sweet) had an advantage that few other theatre folk can boast. His grandparents owned New York's legendary Algonquin Hotel from 1946 to 1987 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PM[SHARE]The cast of the current Public Theater hit Hamilton will honor original cast members of A Chorus Line April 16, the 40th anniversary of the latter show's opening at the Public.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AM[SHARE]Nine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune will get to take home another on June 7. The dancer/director/choreographer was named recipient of a Lifetime Achievement honor.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2015
U.S. District Court has ruled in favor of playwright David Adjmi, who has been locked for three years in a legal battle with DLT Entertainment over his Off-Broadway play 3C. DLT claimed …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AM[SHARE]Debbie Reynolds, a staple of 1940s-60s film musicals who made a late-career Broadway debut, turns 83 today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46AM[SHARE]1918 Actor-manager Henry Miller opens his theatre in New York City. It's designed to seat 1,000 spectators and capable of handling the latest staging innovations. In 1998 the theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Original cast members from the 2005 New Group production of David Rabe's drama Hurlyburly will reunite for one performance, 6 PM April 26, as a benefit for the Off-Broadway company …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner and Theatre Hall of Famer Linda Lavin will return to Broadway this December in Our Mother's Brief Affair, a new play by Tony-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PM[SHARE]Shirley Jones, who interpreted several iconic Broadway leading lady roles on film, turns 81 today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PM[SHARE]As Disney's live-action adaptation of "Cinderella" continues to rack up huge grosses at the cinema boxoffice, recently surpassing the $325 million mark, the company, which…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36AM[SHARE]1922 Birthday of actor Richard Kiley (1922-1999), who will create memorable roles in mid-20th century musicals, including Kismet, Redhead, No Strings and his signature role, the titl…
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