Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Emmy winner and Tony nominee Alec Baldwin is set to be the star of June revival of Arthur Miller's classic drama about responsibility, All My Sons this summer, according to a report in The N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15AM[SHARE]A British entrepreneur is planning to elbow his way into one of the most exclusive clubs in New York"ownership of a Broadway theatre. The New York Post reports that Howard Panter of the Lond…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54AM[SHARE]1930 Edward Franklin Albee, vaudeville producer and theatre owner, dies today in Palm Beach, Florida. He joined B.F. Keith in the presentation of variety shows and by 1920 had a vaudeville c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2015
To celebrate its 25th anniversary--and just in time for composer Stephen Sondheim's 85th birthday--Signature Theatre has assembled a new revue of his work, Simply Sondhe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52PM[SHARE]Woody Allen’s yet-untitled forthcoming late 2015 film will star Jesse Eisenberg, Bruce Willis and Kristen Stewart, According to a report on Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:41PM[SHARE]Woody Allen’s yet-untitled forthcoming late 2015 film will star Jesse Eisenberg, Bruce Willis and Kristen Stewart, According to a report on Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:41PM[SHARE]Mary Zimmerman, the bold Chicago-based director who once filled a Broadway stage with a giant pool for an adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (and won a Tony Award for it), is g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PM[SHARE]Tony-winner Julie White (Little Dog Laughed) has joined the cast of the Chicago hit Airline Highway for its Broadway transfer this spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]The songwriting team of Tim Rosser and Charlie Sohne, as well as composer-lyricists Sam Willmott and Max Vernon, were named recipients of the 2014 Jonathan Larson Grants, the American Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PM[SHARE]ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer and Oscar-winning actress Julie Andrews will collaborate on "The Untold Story of 'The Sound of Music,'" a one-hour special on their jou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer and Oscar-winning actress Julie Andrews will collaborate on "The Untold Story of 'The Sound of Music,'" a one-hour special on their jou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]An all-new version of Alan Menken and David Spencer's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravits: The Musical will feature an all-Canadian cast led by Ken James Stewart when it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]An all-new version of Alan Menken and David Spencer's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravits: The Musical will feature an all-Canadian cast led by Ken James Stewart when it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]An all-new version of Alan Menken and David Spencer's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravits: The Musical will feature an all-Canadian cast led by Ken James Stewart when it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]1925 Ernest Truex is The Fall Guy for a group of dope dealers. This James Gleason-George Abbott comedy will run at the Eltinge Theatre for almost three months.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
Comedienne, actress and nightclub icon Julie Halston will take over the four roles played by Jackie Hoffman in the Broadway revival of On the Town starting March 10 while Hoffman recovers fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:25PM[SHARE]A revival of the 1997 Tony-winning musical Titanic will embark on a national tour from the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in 2016.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PM[SHARE]Stephen Schwartz, composer of Wicked, the musical prequel to "The Wizard of Oz," reveals that he hid bits of the classic Harold Arlen/E.Y. "Yip" Harburg score in his orig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PM[SHARE]George Brescia, who writes the popular “Best Dressed” column for Playbill.com, won the Best Reality Series Award at the 2015 Vancouver Web Fest in Vancouver, Canada.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]To celebrate the 40th anniversary of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," Fox Pictures has scheduled a Halloween re-release for the ultimate cult movie—along with a compa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PM[SHARE]FAFSA, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, was designed to make life easier for students and parents applying for all governmental college tuition aid. In practice, it may seem lik…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PM[SHARE]FAFSA, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, was designed to make life easier for students and parents applying for all governmental college tuition aid. In practice, it may seem lik…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PM[SHARE]Bryan Cranston, who won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for All the Way, will recreate his performance in an HBO broadcast of the drama, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2015
Michael Feingold, longtime theatre critic for the Village Voice and currently a columnist for the website TheaterMania, has been named winner of the 2013-2014 George Jean Nathan Award fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM[SHARE]Hilary Mantel, award-winning British author of the Broadway-bound Wolf Hall: Parts 1 & 2, appears in person March 8 at New York's 92nd Street YM-YWHA to discuss her book …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 7, 2015
1907 The Herald Square Theatre in New York hosts the American premiere of Widower's Houses. George Bernard Shaw's comedy is offered by the Shuberts in 16 special matinee performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2015
Albert Maysles, the co-director of the documentary film "Grey Gardens," which was adapted as the award-winning 2006 Broadway musical of the same title, died March 5 at age …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:29PM[SHARE]The two-disc cast album of the new On the Town Broadway revival was released this week by PS Classics. Here is the complete track of "Ya Got Me!" from the classic score by Leon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2015
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 04:43PM[SHARE]Despite a late-winter snow that has dropped more than three inches of snow on the metropolitan New York area by mid afternoon, producers have decided that all shows will go on tonight.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PM[SHARE]Despite a late-winter snow that has dropped more than three inches of snow on the metropolitan New York area by mid afternoon, producers have decided that all shows will go on tonight.
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