Thursday, October 15, 2015
Tony Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth, recently on Broadway in On the Twentieth Century, reportedly has been asked to reprise her role as Maleficent in a planned sequel to the hit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Grammy-winning pop singer and composer Tori Amos says she'd like to see her stage musical The Light Princess open on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMThe national tour of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical If/Then, featuring original stars Idina Menzel, LaChanze, Anthony Rapp and James Snyder, launches Oct. 13 at Denver's Buell T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, October 12, 2015
Music from the new musical Amélie, which is currently playing a world-premiere engagement at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, is presented Oct. 12 as part of the Kaufman Center…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PMFriday, October 9, 2015
The cast album of the London production of The Light Princess, the new musical by Grammy Award winner Tori Amos, arrives Oct. 9 on the Mercury Classics/Universal Music label.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 8, 2015
Act One, the 2014 stage production based on the memoir of Broadway playwright, director and lyricist Moss Hart that starred Santino Fontana, Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin, will be broadcas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Complete casting has now been announced for the Broadway revival of The Color Purple starring Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo. Performances begin Nov. 10 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMThe acclaimed London revival of Gypsy, starring Imelda Staunton, is being filmed for broadcast on BBC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMThe Broadway revival of the musical The Color Purple, starring Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo, opens its box office at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre at 10 AM Oct. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 2, 2015
"Dancing With the Stars" winner Rumer Willis, who is currently starring as Roxie Hart in the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago, will play two concerts at Feinstein's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMThursday, October 1, 2015
Producer Ben Sprecher says he has found new investors for his storm-tossed musical based on the haunting Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca, and is continuing to move ahead toward a full Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52PMWednesday, September 30, 2015
The first national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder officially opens Sept. 30 at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, September 26, 2015
Would You Still Love Me If…, the new play about one member of a lesbian couple who decides to undergo gender reassignment surgery, premieres Off-Broadway Sept. 26. Kathleen Tu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 25, 2015
Full casting has now been announced for the the national tour of If/Then, which will reunite original stars Idina Menzel, LaChanze, Anthony Rapp and James Snyder. The tour launches Oct. 13 i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PM"Stonewall" — producer-director Roland Emmerich's controversial film about the 1969 riots outside a Greenwich Village gay bar that ignited the gay rights movement…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, September 24, 2015
Avery Fisher Hall at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was formally renamed David Geffen Hall Sept. 24, after the music and entertainment mogul made a $100 million gift …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44PMGrand Central Publishing's book about Lin-Manuel Miranda's new Broadway musical Hamilton, which itself was inspired by Ron Chernow's over-800 page "Alexander Hamilt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PMIn Your Arms, a new "dance-theatre musical" from the composer of Ragtime and Seussical, officially opens Sept. 24 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 23, 2015
The stage musical adaptation of Amélie, starring Samantha Barks in the title role, has extended its world-premiere run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre for a second time.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMMonday, September 21, 2015
The two-disc, physical Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, will be released digitally Sept. 25, but the entire al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:06AMThe two-disc, physical Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, will arrive in stores Oct. 16, but clips were made ava…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:06AMActress Rumer Willis, who was slated to make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running revival of Chicago Sept. 14, joins the Kander and Ebb hit Sept. 21 at the Ambassador The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHollywood Arms, the autobiographical 2002 play by actress Carol Burnett and her late daughter Carrie Hamilton, receives a special concert reading at Merkin Concert Hall Sept. 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, September 19, 2015
The Tony Award-winning musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder launches its first national tour in Schenectady, NY, Sept. 19-26 at Proctor's Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 18, 2015
Three-time Tony Award-nominated actor Terrence Mann has been announced to take over the role of Captain Hook in the Broadway production of Finding Neverland. He succeeds Australian m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PMTony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, whose Broadway hit Kinky Boots has just opened in the West End, has been tapped to revise the original book to Funny Girl in advance of the musical's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMThursday, September 17, 2015
Angela Lansbury's rumored London stage return in Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden may soon be a reality.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
The stage musical adaptation of the Oscar-nominated French film "Amélie," which is currently playing an extended world-premiere run at the Berkeley Repertory The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMThe two-disc, physical Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, will arrive in stores Oct. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMIn Your Arms, a new "dance-theatre musical" from the composer of Ragtime and Seussical, opens the 2015-16 season at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA, Sept. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
Actress Rumer Willis, who was slated to make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running revival of Chicago Sept. 14, will now begin performances in the production Sept. 21 at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM 
