Saturday, January 24, 2015
The Last Ship, the new musical by and starring 16-time Grammy winner Sting — inspired by the songwriter's own childhood — ends its Broadway Jan. 24 after…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 22, 2015
Jared Grimes and Lenny Wolpe have been announced to co-star with Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti in the New York Spring Spectacular, the new Rockettes stage production that …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
The Broadway revival of The Elephant Man, starring four-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, will conclude its run Feb. 21, producers announced Jan. 21. Cooper's busy awards se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PMComplete casting has been revealed for the workshop presentations of the new Broadway-aimed musical Somewhere in Time, which stars Drama Desk Award nominee Ryan Silverman and To…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
Grammy Award winner Tori Amos shared photos from the recording session of The Light Princess, the new musical that opened at the National's Lyttelton Theatre last October.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PMTony Award winner Gabriel Ebert and Tony nominee Euan Morton lead the cast of The Heart of Robin Hood — the inventive and athletic stage adaptation of the classic tale she…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMTickets for the streamlined, one-act incarnation of the Kander and Ebb musical The Visit, which begins previews March 26 at the Lyceum Theatre, will go on sale to the general public Feb.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMMonday, January 19, 2015
Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe, who co-starred in the acclaimed Second Stage Theatre revival of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, will reunite for a three-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PMDisney's hit film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods, starring Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick and James Corden, has grossed $140 million worldwide in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMSunday, January 18, 2015
The comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment’s policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigratio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMMotown The Musical, the Broadway show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, ends its Broadway run Jan. 18 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Producers intend to bring the jukeb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 16, 2015
Motown The Musical, the Broadway show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, recouped its $18 million investment at the end of 2014, producers announced Jan. 16. The production…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 15, 2015
Tony 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 09:07AMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Disney's hit film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods, starring Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick and James Corden, will be released March 24 on Blu-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:12PMDerek Hough, the Emmy Award-winning choreographer from ABC's "Dancing With The Stars," will co-star with Tony Award winner Laura Benanti in the New York Spring Spectacu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AMFriday, 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 05:04PMYoung performers who sing and also play musical instruments are being sought in a nationwide casting call for the upcoming Broadway premiere of School of Rock. Andrew Lloyd Webber will bring…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMThe hit London revival of Miss Saigon, which opened May 21, 2014, at the West End's Prince Edward Theatre, has extended its booking through Sept. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMWednesday, January 7, 2015
The soundtrack to the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods has broken into the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMTuesday, January 6, 2015
Two-time Tony nominee Mary Testa and Tony-winning orchestrator and arranger Michael Starobin make a special Jan. 6 in-store appearance at the Upper East Side Barnes and Noble to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMMonday, January 5, 2015
Golden Globe nominee Emma Stone, who made her Broadway debut in the return of Cabaret last November, will extend her run as Sally Bowles an additional two weeks of performances, Roundabout T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, January 2, 2015
PS Classics' two-disc cast album of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of the musical comedy On the Town, featuring a score by Leonard Bernstein, will now arrive in e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PMDisney's hit animated musical film "Frozen" will be screened in special sing-a-long edition presentations at London's Dominion Theatre this February.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMTuesday, December 30, 2014
Disney's hit "Frozen," which has become the highest-grossing animated feature of all time, was one of the most pirated films of the year, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PMMonday, December 29, 2014
The world-premiere engagement of the new Sheryl Crow musical Diner, based on the 1989 Barry Levinson film, has sold out its entire run at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMFriday, December 26, 2014
Tony Award-winning Hedwig star Neil Patrick Harris has released a new promo video in anticipation of his upcoming gig as host of the 87th Academy Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMMonday, December 22, 2014
Ben Rimalower's new solo show, Bad With Money, which opened Sept. 4 at The Duplex, has been extended into February 2015.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMProducers of Peter Morgan's drama The Audience, which stars Academy Award winner Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, announced that the play will now begin Broadway previews Feb. 14, 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMArtistic directors from leading theatres in the U.S., including the Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, La Jolla Playhouse and the Guthrie Theater, issued a letter …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMSunday, December 21, 2014
Actor Steel Burkhardt, who appeared in the recent Broadway revival of Hair, steps into the role of sidekick Kassim in the Tony Award-nominated Broadway production of Aladdin beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PMThursday, December 18, 2014
Roundabout Theatre Company announced Dec. 18 that the Broadway remounting of Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall's Tony-winning revival of Cabaret will again tour North Ame…
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