Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Let's Make Noise: The Music & Lyrics of Janine McGuire, featuring the original music of composer-lyricist Janine McGuire, is presented May 21 in NYC. Janet Krupin and Jarrod Spector …
Linked From Playbill at 12:41AM1929 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.
Linked From Playbill at 12:41AMTony Award winner Lea Salonga, who will return to Broadway in spring 2014 in the new musical Allegiance, plays the Café Carlyle May 21-June 8.
Linked From Playbill at 12:41AMThe Tony-honored playwright development workshop New Dramatists honors entertainment lawyer and New Dramatists Chairman of the Board Seth Gelblum with the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at …
Linked From Playbill at 12:41AMJohn Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, which musicalizes a flashpoint in American Civil Rights history, begins its Los Angeles premiere engagement May 21 at the Center Theatre G…
Linked From Playbill at 12:41AMThe cast album of the Michael John LaChiusa-Sybille Pearson musical Giant, based on Edna Ferber's Texas-set novel, is released in a two-disc set May 21 by Ghostlight Records.
Linked From Playbill at 12:41AMBilly Magnussen, a 2013 Tony Award nominee for his performance in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-cu…
Linked From Playbill at 12:41AMMonday, May 20, 2013
The 58th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards, celebrating achievement in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theatre, were given out at a ceremony May 20 at Webster Hall hosted by The Assembled P…
Linked From Playbill at 10:39PMBroadway composer and cabaret songwriter John Bucchino (whose songs have been performed and recorded by Liza Minnelli, Patti LuPone, Kristin Chenoweth, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald,…
Linked From Playbill at 07:36PMABC stars and executives were on hand May 14 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall for the network's 2013-2014 Upfront Presentation, announcing the fall schedule.
Linked From Playbill at 06:35PMTony Award nominee Shalita Grant, who is currently making her Broadway debut in Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, as well as pianist Alessio Bax, are the&nbs…
Linked From Playbill at 06:35PMDrama Desk Award nominee Will Rogers will join Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdyshell for the Westport Country Playhouse production of George Kelly's The Show-Off, which will begin previews…
Linked From Playbill at 06:35PMA new adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1993 play Make Up Your Mind, by playwright Nicky Silver, will be performed at the SpeakEasy Stage Company Nov. 1-30.
Linked From Playbill at 05:33PMAmanda Green, who received her first Tony Award nomination this season for the Best Original Score of Hands on a Hardbody, fused the worlds of Hardbody and her Tony-nominated Best Musical Br…
Linked From Playbill at 05:33PMA new adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1993 play Make Up Your Mind, by playwright Nicky Silver, will be performed at the SpeakEasy Stage Company Nov. 1-30.
Linked From Playbill at 04:33PMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
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Linked From Playbill at 04:33PMAmbassador Theatre Group, the largest owner-operator of theatres in the U.K. (with 39 venues) has, through its subsidiary, Lyric Theatre LLC, acquired The Foxwoods Theatre — which curr…
Linked From Playbill at 04:33PMMusical theatre favorite Sierra Boggess celebrates her birthday May 20. Playbill.com takes a look at a few of her greatest stage roles so far. Happy birthday, Sierra!
Linked From Playbill at 03:32PMMichael Feingold, the long-serving lead drama critic of The Village Voice, and one of the most senior voices within the New York theatre critics corps, was let go from that post May 17.
Linked From Playbill at 03:32PMThe Rockettes will debut a new number in the 2013 production of the annual Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
Linked From Playbill at 02:32PMTony Award nominees Carolee Carmello and Justin Vivian Bond, along with Lea DeLaria and Telly Leung, are among the artists who have joined the lineup for Night of a Thousand Judys, which wil…
Linked From Playbill at 02:32PMStark Sands, a 2013 Tony nominee for his performance in the new musical Kinky Boots, will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox — hosted by Seth Rudetsky — …
Linked From Playbill at 02:32PMOn May 18 at Joe’s Pub, cast members offered a preview of the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park world-premiere musical Love's Labour's Lost.
Linked From Playbill at 01:38PMAmbassador Theatre Group, the largest owner-operator of theatres in the U.K. — with 39 venues — will purchase Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre, which currently houses Spider-Man: …
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMChristopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the British import Matilda The Musical and the revivals of Pippin and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? were among the winners…
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMA theatregoer at the May 19 matinee performance of The Nance had to be rescued by members of the New York City Fire Department after he fell onto the marquee of the Lyceum Theatre when a win…
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMZachary Levi, star of TV's "Chuck," Disney's "Tangled" and the upcoming "Thor: The Dark World," will make his Broadway debut opposite "Smash" …
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMThe Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, a one-person show written as a series of monologues, will have a special 20th anniversary performance May 20 at John Jay College’s Gerald W. Lynch Theater…
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMMel Brooks, whose Broadway credits include The Producers and Young Frankenstein, will be honored by the American Film Institute in June.
Linked From Playbill at 11:28AMTony Award nominee Judy Kuhn (Les Misérables, Chess, Passion) and Sierra Boggess (Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, The Little Mermaid) celebrate birthdays May 20.
Linked From Playbill at 11:28AMThe Tony Award-nominated Best Musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will make its Australian debut at Sydney's Theatre Royal in October for a limited engagement. Roger Hodgman (Australian prod…
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