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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Verdict: Are the Critics Taking a Chance on Encores! Cabin in the Sky? by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winners Chuck Cooper and LaChanze as well as Tony nominee Norm Lewis star in the City Center Encores! staging of the 1940 Vernon Duke-John Latouche musical Cabin in the Sky, w…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51PM

Disney’s Frozen Sets Denver 2017 Pre-Broadway Premiere by Adam Hetrick and Robert Viagas

The stage adaptation of Disney's hit animated film musical Frozen will premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in August 2017 prior to a spring 2018 Broadway arrival.

SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57PM

Exclusive: Finding Neverland Gets Romantic Valentine Music Video Make-Over by Adam Hetrick

Pianist Lang Lang has collaborated with Broadway's Finding Neverland to re-imagine the show's second act love duet "What You Mean To Me" in a haunting new music video f…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Broadway’s Amazing Grace Sets Date for Cast Album Release; Tour Planned by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

The Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which closed Oct. 25, 2015, at the Nederlander Theatre, has been recorded by DMI Soundtracks and will be released in digital and CD formats on Feb. 26.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM

Chuck Cooper, LaChanze, Norm Lewis Star in Encores! Cabin in the Sky, Starting Tonight by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winners Chuck Cooper and LaChanze as well as Tony nominee Norm Lewis star in the Feb. 10-14 City Center Encores! staging of the 1940 Vernon Duke-John Latouche musical Cabi…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

How Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez Revamped the Fairytale with “Frozen” by Adam Hetrick

Days before winning the Oscar for "Let It Go," "Frozen" collaborators Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez talked exclusively with Playbill about the creation of t…

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36PM

Wiz Live! Producers On Grease: Live, Bombshell, Hairspray and Remembering Whitney Houston by Adam Hetrick

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron were honored with an NAACP Image Award on Feb. 5 for their critically-acclaimed presentation of The Wiz Live! They spoke with Playbill.com about the h…

SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM
Monday, February 8, 2016

Casting Announced for First Mentor Project Play at Cherry Lane by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre has announced casting for the first in its series of Mentor Project plays, Christopher Gabriel Núñez's The Surgeon and He…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM

Lesli Margherita, Robin De Jesus, Jessica Vosk and More Will Have an Anti-Valentine’s Day Belt Fest by Adam Hetrick

If you have no one to celebrate Valentine's Day with this weekend, ring in the holiday with a group of Broadway's best belters at An Anti-Valentine's Day Extravaganza Feb. 13…

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PM

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats to Preen on Screen? by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Tom Hooper, who directed the hit 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables, is in talks to film the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, according to The Sun of London.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PM

Patti LuPone, Jeremy Jordan, Lea Salonga and Norm Lewis Honoring Les Miz Writers at Carnegie Hall by Adam Hetrick

A host of major Broadway stars have been announced to celebrate Les Misérables and Miss Saigon collaborators Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg in a May 2 gala…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PM

Tickets Go on Pre-Sale Today for Motown’s Broadway Return by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Tickets go on pre-sale Feb. 8 for the Broadway encore of Motown The Musical, the hit show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, which ended a 738-performance Broadway …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM

Sater-Bacharach’s Some Lovers Live-Streamed Tonight Will Swenson, Jenni Barber Star by Adam Hetrick

Will Swenson, Jenni Barber, Jessica Phillips and Andrew Mueller star in a free concert presentation of songs from Some Lovers, the new musical from Tony Award winner Steven Sater and Grammy …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14AM
Friday, February 5, 2016

Lisa Lampanelli Play Fat Girls, Interrupted Gets Westport Reading with Lisa Howard by Adam Hetrick

Fat Girls, Interrupted, a new play by comedian Lisa Lampanelli that addresses weight, body image and food issues among a group of four women, will be read at the Westport Country Playhouse i…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PM

Tony Yazbeck’s Solo Debut Album Hits Stores Today, Check Out Tracks Here! by Adam Hetrick

"The Floor Above Me," the new solo debut album from Tony Award nominee Tony Yazbeck, is released Feb. 5 digitally and in stores. Listen to "All I Need Is the Girl" and &q…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

A New Brain Two-Disc Cast Album, Starring Jonathan Groff, Released Today by Adam Hetrick

The well-reviewed City Center Encores! Off-Center staging of William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain, which starred Jonathan Groff, Ana Gasteyer and Aaron Lazar, is …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Drama Desk Awards Set June Ceremony Date by Adam Hetrick

The 61st Annual Drama Desk Awards, honoring the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off Off-Broadway, will be presented June 5 at The Town Hall.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PM
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Exclusive: Will Swenson, Jenni Barber Are Sater-Bacharach’s Some Lovers by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award nominee Will Swenson, Jenni Barber, Jessica Phillips and Andrew Mueller will take part in a concert presentation of songs from Some Lovers, the new musical from Tony Award winner …

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PM
Monday, February 1, 2016

Box Office for Shuffle Along, With Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell, Opens Today by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

The Music Box Theatre box office opens Feb. 1 at 10 AM for tickets to the anticipated new production Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Sunday, January 31, 2016

King Charles III, Full of Passion and Pageantry, Ends Reign on Broadway Tonight by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

King Charles III, the Olivier Award-winning Best Play that imagines a future in which Britain's current Queen Elizabeth II has passed away and her son, the current Prince Charles, ha…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

David Mamet’s China Doll, Starring Al Pacino, Ends Broadway Run as a Hit by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

David Mamet's latest play, China Doll, which opened on Broadway last fall starring Al Pacino, ends its run Jan. 31. Despite earning some of the more negative reviews of the season, the p…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Saturday, January 30, 2016

“Trumbo,” “Spotlight” Lead SAG Nominations; Carol Burnett Gets Lifetime Achievement Tonight by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are presented Jan. 30 on TNT and TBS Jan. 30 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, January 29, 2016

Tony-Winning Matilda Star Lands Pilot by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award-winning Matilda star Gabriel Ebert has been tapped for the new Amazon pilot "The Interestings," according to Deadline.com.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PM

Greece’s National Theatre Cancels Play Quoting Terrorist Book After Threats by Adam Hetrick

Greece's National Theatre canceled the final performance of its play Nash's Balance after complaints that the work incorporated material from a convicted far-left terrorist, acco…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PM

Victoria Clark, Matthew Morrison and Kelli O’Hara Reuniting for Light in the Piazza by Adam Hetrick

A benefit performance of Adam Guettel's Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza, which will reunite members of the original Broadway cast, will be presented April 4 at the…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AM
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Andy Karl Nabs Bill Murray Role in Broadway-Bound Groundhog Day Musical by Adam Hetrick

Two-time Tony Award nominee Andy Karl has been tapped to star in the London premiere of the Broadway-bound Tim Minchin musical Groundhog Day.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03PM

Telly Leung, Julie Halston, Josh Young Join All-Star Secret Garden Concert by Adam Hetrick

Additional cast members have been announced for Manhattan Concert Productions' presentation of the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden slated to take place Feb. 21-22 at…

SOURCE: Playbill at 05:11PM

Beloved Peter Pan Sandy Duncan Is Flying to Broadway’s Neverland by Adam Hetrick

Sandy Duncan, who was Tony-nominated for her performance in the 1979 revival of Peter Pan, will return to J.M. Barrie's fantasy when she joins the cast of Broadway's Finding Neve…

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM

Exclusive First Listen to Tracks from Tony Yazbeck’s Debut Album! by Adam Hetrick

PS Classics has given Playbill.com two exclusive tracks from the upcoming solo debut album from Broadway song-and-dance man Tony Yazbeck, "The Floor Above Me." Check out &q…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Buyer & Cellar Is Key West-Bound With Skivvies Star by Adam Hetrick

Actor-musician Nick Cearley, one half of the stripped-down musical duo The Skivvies, is bringing Jonathan Tolins' one-man comedy Buyer & Cellar to Key West.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PM

Daniel Radcliffe Visits Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sorts Hamilton by Adam Hetrick

"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe is among the latest stars to stop by Broadway's Hamilton. While he was backstage, he predicted which Hogwart's house he thinks Alexande…

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PM

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