Wednesday, March 25, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30AM[SHARE]1871 Birthday of Lee Shubert, one of the three legendary Shubert brothers who will found the theatre-owning and producing empire, the Shubert Organization.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Steve Kazee, winner of the 2012 Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Guy in Once, stopped the show March 21 at a Los Angeles charity event for the Westhills Champions…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PM[SHARE]The new Peter Pan-themed musical Finding Neverland, flew into the Broadway's exclusive $1 million a week club in its first week of previews, grossing a reported $1,0004,171 for just…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00AM[SHARE]1909 Irish poet and playwright John Millington Synge dies today. He penned numerous plays including Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. For the latter he traveled to the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tony nominee Gene Nelson, best known to theatre fans for originating the role of Buddy in Follies, would have turned 95 today. Born March 24, 1920, in Seattle, he began working on the stage,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 23, 2015
Will it be the ultimate jukebox musical? Producers have announced plans to produce Trip of Love, a musical dance revue set to 25 hit songs of the 1960s, this fall Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PM[SHARE]1940 It's Separate Rooms for an actress who'd rather sleep with her pet Chihuahua than her playwright husband. Glenda Farrell and Lyle Talbot are the twosome. This comedy by Alan Din…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The songwriting team of Tim Rosser and Charlie Sohne, as well as composer-lyricists Sam Willmott and Max Vernon, will receive their 2014 Jonathan Larson Grants tonight in a ceremony host…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2015
Something Rotten!, the new Broadway musical that pokes fun at the world of Shakespeare, has announced its policies for distributing discounted rush tickets online, and a daily discount lotte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:36PM[SHARE]1. Turning 85 today, Stephen Sondheim is at work on a new musical, tentatively titled All Together Now.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2015
The complicated, who’s-on-whose side conflict over plans to pay actors minimum wage at Los Angeles’ 99-seat theatres will take another twist March 23 when a g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PM[SHARE]Cleveland Play House, which bills itself as the first professional regional theatre in the U.S., unveiled its 100th anniversary season March 21, including the world premiere of A Comedy of T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM[SHARE]1867 Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. is born today in Chicago, Illinois. He will go on to become one of the most powerful showmen ever. His Follies, filled with beautiful women and exciting variety ac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sweet Potato Queens, a new musical with a book by Tony-winning The Mystery of Edwin Drood writer Rupert Holmes and music by Grammy winning singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester, will get …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2015
Actual letters written by American troops and their loved ones form the basis of If All the Sky Were Paper, premiering May 21-22 at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater as part of it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thirteen great teachers from locations as diverse as Washington DC and Claire Shores, MI were named winners of the fifth annual Kennedy Center-Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda's new musical Hamilton has sold a hefty $6.5 million in tickets in the 11 days since the box office opened, according to a report in The New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11AM[SHARE]After a long hard winter that saw blizzards shut down communities (and their theatres) across the West, Midwest and Northeast, spring arrives officially with vernal equinox at 6:45 PM ET tod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
The Tony Awards administration committee met March 19 for the third time this season to determine the eligibility for two Broadway productions from the 2014-15 season, Constellations and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PM[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. Tickets go on sale April 16 vi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[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. Tickets go on sale April 16 vi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]1872 Birthday of singer/actress Anna Held, future wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, and the classic sexy French flirt of her era. She will play this role in a series of musical vehicles including La…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The Apply Family Plays, Richard Nelson's cycle of four dramas about the fictional Apple Family of upstate Rhinebeck, NY, is headed out on an unprecedented five-week tour of Europe, s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM[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 05:42PM[SHARE]"Larry Kramer In Love & Anger," a new documentary film about the gay rights and health activist who authored the Tony-winning Broadway play The Normal Heart, will debut thi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PM[SHARE]Just days after the closing of its sold-out Broadway hit Constellations, Manhattan Theatre Club announced it will present the American premiere of the same author’s Incognito O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Nick Jones, an Emmy-nominated writer and story editor of the popular TV series "Orange Is the New Black," returns to his Off-Broadway roots this fall with his new comedy, I…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Jason Biggs, currently starring on The Heidi Chronicles appeared on the TV talk show "The View" March 17 to discuss the play.
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