Thursday, March 5, 2015
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]Ian McKellen, who has embodied Gandalf and Magneto on film, in addition to a lifetime of Shakspearean work on the stage, assumes another iconic role, Sherlock Holmes, in the forthcoming film…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PM[SHARE]Dan Stevens, the “Downton Abbey” star who played the handsome heel suitor in the 2012 Broadway revival of The Heiresss, is in negotiations to play the Beast in the upcomi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM[SHARE]1908 Actor Rex Harrison is born today. He will make his London debut in Florence Kilpatrick's Getting George Married. He will star in the London production of Noël Coward's Design…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Award-winning musicals and plays from New York and London including Matilda, Motown, Disgraced and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder are among highlights announced for the Dav…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:13PM[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 03:13PM[SHARE]Cirque du Soleil, the Canada-based circus-style entertainment company, is looking to take over Broadway's Lyric Theatre after the current tenant, On the Town, completes its run there…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:17AM[SHARE]Cirque du Soleil, the Canada-based circus-style entertainment company, is looking to take over Broadway's Lyric Theatre after the current tenant, On the Town, completes its run there…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:17AM[SHARE]The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University have named judges for the Theatre Education Award, which will recognize outstanding K-12 theatre teachers. The inaugural award will be give…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08AM[SHARE]1922 Eugene O'Neill's drama The First Man describes the strange tale of a scientist who curses the unborn child in his wife's womb. The wife dies in childbirth and the child thr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the Broadway in Chicago series announced that its 2015-16 season will include visits from the national tours of recent Broadway hits A Gentleman&rsq…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PM[SHARE]Media mogul Oprah Winfrey has canceled plans to star in a Broadway revival of ’night, Mother, saying Marsha Norman’s Tony- and Pulitzer-winning drama is &ldqu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PM[SHARE]Jess Goldstein, Tony Award-winning designer for Jersey Boys and On the Town, and Douglas W. Schmidt (42nd Street), will be honored at the 2015 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards, which will be pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]Honeymoon in Vegas stars Tony Danza, Rob McClure and Brynn O'Malley will join composer Jason Robert Brown and librettist Andrew Bergman to spend the evening of March 15 at the 92nd Stree…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AM[SHARE]1930 Bert Lahr is a Flying High mechanic who breaks an aeronautical record because he doesn't know how to land the plane. The writing team of Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2015
The composing team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Rocky) and librettist Terrence McNally are preparing a streamlined “concert version” of their 2002 musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 28, 2015
1894 Birthday of playwright Ben Hecht (1894-1964) , author or co-author of The Front Page, Twentieth Century, Jumbo, The Egoist and The Great Magoo.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2015
Nancy Anderson, who created the role of Mona in the Broadway musical A Class Act, will play “the well-known fiancé” Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, kickin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05PM[SHARE]Nick Offerman, best known as the super-macho Ron Swanson the NBC-TV sitcom “Parks and Recreation,” is taking a major stage role, starring in the Huntington Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PM[SHARE]Four stars of Broadway’s Jersey Boys, who have been touring as the group The Midtown Men, will walk, talk and sing like men in a June 20 reunion concert at the Beacon Theatre in Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AM[SHARE]Four stars of Broadway’s Jersey Boys, who have been touring as the group The Midtown Men, will walk, talk and sing like men in a June 20 homecoming concert at the Beacon Theatre in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AM[SHARE]Stark Sands, who earned Tony nominations in Kinky Boots and Journey’s End, has been cast in the dual role of clairvoyant “Precog” twins in the pilot TV adaptati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2015
Tiler Peck, principal dancer with New York City Ballet, will leap into the balletic role of “Miss Subways,” Ivy Smith, for six performances March 3-4 and 13-15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40PM[SHARE]The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC will commemorate the 400th anniversary of its namesake’s death by sending out rare original copies of the First Folio of his plays, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PM[SHARE]In recent years New York has seen a one-man Macbeth, several traditional Macbeths, a deconstructed Macbeth (Sleep No More) and even a drunken Macbeth. But Chicago Shakespeare Theater is …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PM[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 02:00PM[SHARE]Donna McKechnie, who earned a Tony Award and Broadway immortality as Cassie in the original 1975 cast of A Chorus Line, has been announced as standby for another legend, Chita Rivera, in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PM[SHARE]1911 Chicago's Columbia Theatre opens its doors today. Architect J.E.O. Pridmore designed this house which seats 1,550. In 1923 it will become the Adelphi. In 1974 its doors will close f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Perennial Nickelodeon cartoon favorite SpongeBob SquarePants has conquered TV and film, and may now be getting ready for his Broadway debut, according to Entertainment Weekly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:11PM[SHARE]TV Land'’s new series "Younger," starring two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, isn’t scheduled to premiere until March 31, but you can watch it onl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PM[SHARE]Piece of My Heart, the Off-Broadway musical about rock pioneer Bert Berns, will get Feb. 26 and 27 New York industry readings that are aimed at preparing the show for a Broadway transfer.
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