Sunday, June 12, 2011
Robert Lopez, co-author and co-songwriter on the blockbuster musical Book of Mormon, said he is planning a new musical after he finishes a film musical for Disney this summer
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45PM[SHARE]Mark Rylance, who won a 2011 Tony Award for his performance in Jerusalem, says his next Broadway appearance will be in a Shakespeare play to be announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27PM[SHARE]The Tony-winning revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes will extend past its current, already-extended January 2012 end date and will launch a U.S. tour in fall 2012, producer Todd Haime…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14PM[SHARE]New blood ran through the veins of the 2011 Tony Awards. Many of the winners not only were first-time winners, but also were making their Broadway debuts this season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52PM[SHARE]Tony-winning War Horse author Nick Stafford said he is working on a new play, an original work titled Jacob's Death which is, coincidentally, set in rural 1914 England, where War Horse a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33PM[SHARE]Tony winner John Larroquette, winner of numerous awards for decades of TV work, said he has found that "I really like being on stage" and is now reading plays for consideration aft…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47PM[SHARE]Nikki M. James, a Tony winner for Book of Mormon, said she loves originating roles in musicals, but would also like to perform the classics in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20PM[SHARE]The Tony-winning directors of War Horse are both hard at work on exciting new projects.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16PM[SHARE]Moments after winning her third Tony Award for Best Choreography for Anything Goes, Kathleen Marshall said she is already at work with 2010 Tony-winning librettist Joe DiPietro on a new musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:18PM[SHARE]Vanessa Redgrave will re-create her Tony-nominated performance in the title role of Driving Miss Daisy in London this October, producers announced on the Tony Award red carpet June 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:23PM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2011
"How do you measure a year?" those kids from Rent once asked. How about in a timeline that charts the major milestones of the 2010-11 Broadway season?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1922 Birthday of Frances Ethel Gumm, better known as Judy Garland (1922-1969), star of numerous Hollywood film musicals including The Wizard of Oz. Her Broadway experience consisted of three…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2011
1891 Birthday of composer Cole Porter (1891-1964), whose witty, urbane songs will grace five decades of musicals, including Anything Goes, Can-Can, Gay Divorce, Silk Stockings and his greate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2011
1909 Birthday of Broadway star Jessica Tandy (1909-1994), who created many landmark roles including Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Agnes in A Delicate Balance and Fonsia in The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2011
1954 Playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein is born today. Fierstein will win Tony Awards for writing and performing in his play Torch Song Trilogy, as well as for his book for the musical La…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 4, 2011
1968 Stage and screen actress Dorothy Gish dies today in Rapallo, Italy. Her first New York stage appearance was in 1903 in East Lynne. She began her film career in 1912, but resumed her sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2011
1866 Birthday of playwright and producer George Broadhurst (1866-1952), responsible for dozens of plays and musicals, including the first stage adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes. Also, namesa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2011
1946 Orson Welles circumnavigated the stage in Around The World , a musical he adapted from the Jules Verne novel, “Around the World in Eighty Days,” Cole Porter provided the mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 30, 2011
1868 Birthday of producer/director/manager Charles Dillingham (1868-1934), whose productions included The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Sunny, The Little Minister, Bulldog Drummond, The Red Mill and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 28, 2011
1940 Victor Moore, William Gaxton and Vera Zorina star in the Irving Berlin musical Louisiana Purchase, which runs 444 performances at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 27, 2011
1953 John Mills is The Uninvited Guest at London's St. James's Theatre. Written by his wife, Mary Hayley Bell, and co-starring Cathleen Nesbitt and Joan Greenwood, this story of a ma…
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1913 One hundred and twelve actors gather at the Pabst Grand Circle Hotel near Columbus Circle in New York City and vote to form Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing Amer…
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1878 Birthday of legendary dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878-1949), whose Broadway appearances will include Memphis Bound!, The Hot Mikado and Blackbirds of 1928.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2011
1925 Godfrey Tearle is Hamlet in the Fellowship Players production at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The Fellowship offers Sunday performances so these employed professionals have the chance t…
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1907 Birthday of Laurence Olivier (1907-1989), preeminent British actor of his generation. His dozens of notable appearances included Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Entertainer, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2011
1929 Some of the highlights of A Night in Venice are Ted Healy wrestling bears and the choreography of Busby Berkeley. This revue will run at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway for 22 weeks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2011
1919 Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse call this Kissing Time at the Winter Garden on Broadway. Ivan Caryll provides the music for this tale of complications arising when French ladies carry on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2011
1923 Sweet Nell of Old Drury runs beyond the season at the 48th Street Theatre in New York. Alfred Lunt stars as Charles II and Laurette Taylor is his mistress Nell Gwynne. Lynn Fontanne and…
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1907 The new Hippodrome Theatre opens in Portsmouth, England.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2011
1903 In The Runaways with a book by Addison Brukhardt and a score by Raymond Hubbell, the hero is transported to a tropical island and will be made a king. The catch? He must marry the queen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2011
1838 John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), perhaps the most infamous actor in American history, is born today. The son of actor Junius Brutus Booth, and brother of actors Junius Brutus Booth Jr. an…
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