Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
Forty years ago this past January, The Wiz opened on Broadway as the sleeper hit of the season, and went on to win the Tony Award as Best Musical and run for four years. The show ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday March 31 is the deadline to nominate an outstanding K-12 teacher for a special award that will be inaugurated at this year's Tony Awards ceremony.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PM[SHARE]Forty-five years ago today Applause, the musical adaptation of the backstage film classic All About Eve, opened on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PM[SHARE]Last Thursday's explosion and fire that destroyed two apartment buildings in the East Village section of Manhattan caused a weekend-long cancellation of performances at the Orpheum …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AM[SHARE]1858 Birthday of DeWolf Hopper (1858-1935), vaudeville comedian and musical comedy star, who was featured in Wang, Hoity-Toity and many early Gilbert & Sullivan productions. His …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 29, 2015
Six-time Tony Award nominee Gene Saks, a comic actor who made a memorable splash in the role of the desperately unfunny children's TV host Leo "Chuckles The Chipmunk" Herm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37PM[SHARE]1950 Joshua Logan transports the action of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard to 19th century Louisiana for his adaptation, The Wisteria Trees. It will run 165 performances at the Martin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24PM[SHARE]Gene Saks, a comic actor who made a memorable splash in the role of the desperately unfunny children's TV host Leo "Chuckles The Chipmunk" Herman in the 1961 Broadway comedy A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2015
B.J. Crosby, the actress/singer who first came to prominence and earned a Tony nomination as part of the original ensemble of the long-running Broadway revue Smokey Joe's Cafe, repo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49PM[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 03:56PM[SHARE]Billie Joe Armstrong of the rock group Green Day got a taste of Broadway with his 2010 musical American Idiot. Armstrong is scheduled to return to the world of theatre this fall with his lat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PM[SHARE]Billie Joe Armstrong of the rock group Green Day got a taste of Broadway with his 2010 musical American Idiot. Armstrong is scheduled to return to the world of theatre this fall with his lat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway revival of Andrew Lippa's musical John & Jen closes April 4, but two days later will head into the recording studio to make a new cast album of the 1995 musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PM[SHARE]All shows at the Public Theater in New York's Greenwich Village, including the acclaimed new musical Hamilton, resume performances March 27 in the aftermath of a nearby explosion and fir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]All shows at the Public Theater in New York's Greenwich Village, including the acclaimed new musical Hamilton, resume performances March 27 in the aftermath of a nearby explosion and fir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]All shows at the Public Theater in New York's Greenwich Village, including the acclaimed new musical Hamilton, resume performances March 27 in the aftermath of a nearby explosion and fir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]The theatre community erupted on social media March 26-27 after Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act, effectively allowing state bu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]The theatre community erupted on social media March 26 after Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act, effectively allowing state business …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]Sony Picture Home Entertainment has announced details of the special features that will be included in the April 2 Blu-ray release of its hit 1972 film adaptation of the Tony-winning…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AM[SHARE]1924 Long before Madonna sang about Vogueing, there were the Vogues of 1924. This revue at the Shubert Theatre stars Fred Allen and Jimmy Savo. It will run for almost three months.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2015
Tony Award-winning comic actor Jason Alexander, best known for playing George Costanza on the sitcom "Seinfeld," will replace Larry David in the Broadway hit Fish in the Dark w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:33PM[SHARE]An explosion and fire that heavily damaged a building at 125 Second Ave. between 7th Street and St. Marks Place in New York's Greenwich Village has prompted the cancellation of tonight&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PM[SHARE]An explosion and fire that heavily damaged buildings at 121 and 123 Second Ave. between 7th Street and St. Marks Place in New York's Greenwich Village has prompted the cancellation of to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PM[SHARE]Two-time Tony nominee Glenn Slater, lyricist with composer Alan Menken on such hits as Sister Act and “Tangled,” will workshop a new musical, Beatsville, set in the w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1905 Actor Maurice Barrymore dies today. He was father to Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore. He was 57 years old.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Just days after her long-running TV hit "Glee" played its final episode, Tony-winner Lea Michele has jumped onto a new project, a "road trip sex comedy" titled &q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:14PM[SHARE]Maria Radner, described as "a rising Wagnerian star" who had performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, was among 150 passengers on the Germanwings plane that crashed March 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AM[SHARE]Josh Ellis, a Broadway press agent active mainly from 1973 to 1992, will make his Off-Broadway debut as an actor and playwright with a staged reading of his solo show Call My Publicist!…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AM[SHARE]On January 14, 2002, The Fantasticks will be playing in at least three theatres author Tom Jones knows of. The one place it won't be playing is the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New Y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway revival of The Fantasticks, still the longest-running musical in world history and the longest-running play of any kind in American history, has announced that i…
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