Saturday, January 17, 2015
Playbill.com looks at some of the most independent and empowered female characters to come to the Great White Way.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 16, 2015
After a student production of John Cariani's Almost, Maine was canceled in Hickory, NC, by the school's principal, the students launched a successful Kickstarter campaign wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PM"Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories From the Underground Railroad," by Betty DeRamus, is being developed into an eight-hour miniseries for NBC as well as a stage musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMA starry lineup of Tony Award nominees and winners will present at the Casting Society of America's bi-coastal Artios Awards ceremony.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMDominic West is in talks to lead a production of Harley Granville-Barker's political play Waste at the National Theatre, the Daily Mail reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMJohn Cameron Mitchell, the writer and original star of the Off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, will reinstate material from the original downtown run of the musical whe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMThe ten-time Tony Award-winning musical Billy Elliot plays La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts beginning Jan. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles," begins performances Jan. 16 at Arena Stage i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 15, 2015
Lincoln Center's annual "Dance on Camera" festival will present a screening of two films from "Dancing Sondheim," a free app compiling seven short dance movies by Ric…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PMCat, a one-man show about a former member of the Cats cast who was fired opening night, will play the Courtyard Theatre in Northern Ireland following its sold-out run at the 2014 Edi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMTony Award winner John Lithgow, currently starring in A Delicate Balance on Broadway, will co-star with Academy Award winner Ben Affleck in the film "The Accountant," Deadline.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMAcademy Awards host and Tony-winning Hedwig star Neil Patrick Harris released a video following the Jan. 15 announcement of the nominations.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AMTony Award winner Eddie Redmayne, Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and Meryl Streep are among the nominees for the 87th Academy Awards, which were announced Jan. 15 at 8:30 AM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AMThree-time Academy Award winner (and 2015 Oscar nominee) Colleen Atwood traveled "Into the Woods" to reunite with director Rob Marshall and design the costumes for the fairy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:18AMTony Award nominee Patrick Stewart appeared on "Conan" Jan. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Pulitzer Prize nominee Lisa D'Amour discusses the inspiration for her latest play, the Broadway-bound Airline Highway, which follows a group of colorful characters and misfits down i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PMRiver Song: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a new musical adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel, will be presented at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center Jan. 23-24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PMAward-winning architect and set designer David Rockwell and Tony Award-winner Jack O'Brien are part of "Architecture and Theater – Redefining the Performance Exper…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PMA production of the emo-rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, scheduled to play Raleigh Little Theatre in May, has been canceled, Indy Week Reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMTony Award nominee and "Frozen" star Josh Gad appeared on "The View" Jan. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMThe Irish Repertory Theatre's production of Hugh Leonard's classic memory play about a father and son, Da, begins performances Jan. 14 prior to an official opening Jan. 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 13, 2015
A reading of the award-winning musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Audra McDonald, Alan Cumming and Steven Pasquale, was held last week, according to the New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMThe world-premiere production of Airline Highway, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D'Amour, has been extended at Steppenwolf Theatre Company through Feb. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMFollowing three hours of testimony, the proposed plans to renovate Oscar Hammerstein II's property into a museum and theatre were delayed as a Doylestown Township zoning board hearing Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMEric McCormack and Debra Messing, who co-starred as the titular best friends on the hit TV sitcom "Will & Grace," will reunite onscreen in an episode of Messing's n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMNick Payne's Constellations, a love story about a beekeeper and a physicist that features Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and two-time Olivier Award (and recent Golden Globe) w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 12, 2015
A donation of $200,000 has been made by the Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch to the Hetrick-Martin Institute and its mission to help LGBTQ youth in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PMTony Award winner BD Wong, who starred in La Jolla Playhouse's productions of The Orphan of Zhao and Herringbone, will serve as an artist-in-residence at the California theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMA proposal to demolish the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, once home to actors such as Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Walken, Jill Clayburgh and Christopher Walken, has inspired oppos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AMFriday, January 9, 2015
Classic Stage Company's A Month in the Country, starring "Game of Thrones" actor Peter Dinklage and "Orange is the New Black" star Taylor Schilling, begins performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMThe musical movie "Into the Woods" and the drama "Birdman," about an actor starring on Broadway, were recognized by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts nomina…
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