Tuesday, December 8, 2015
The Academy Award-winning 1956 film of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic "The King and I," starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr, will return to cinemas in 2016.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2015
Deadline.com reports that Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose has signed on to join the Starz drama series "Power."
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Chuck Cooper, LaChanze and Tony nominee Norm Lewis will star in the City Center Encores! staging of the 1940 Vernon Duke-John La Touche musical Cabin in the Sky. Creat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM[SHARE]BroadwayCon is continuing to attract major players from the New York theatre scene, who will participate panels and talkbacks about the inner workings of Broadway and what goes into the crea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Pure Motion, a collection of seven contemporary dance pieces created by award-winning Lion King cast member Ray Mercer, will be staged in February as a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PM[SHARE]Check out the theatrical new music video "The Watcher" from the Indie-pop band Sky-Pony, headed by Lauren Worsham of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM[SHARE]The national tour of the Broadway hit Wicked will welcome Emily Koch as Elphaba, Amanda Jane Cooper as Glinda, Megan Masako Haley as Nessarose and Sam Seferian as Boq, beginning Dec. 9 in St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM[SHARE]Jackie Burns, who stood by for Idina Menzel in the Broadway production of If/Then, will step into the show's leading role for the remainder of the tour, beginning this January in Dallas,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]A one-night-only staged reading of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner, starring Tony winner Nathan Lane, is presented Dec. 7 at Studio 54.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The 27th Annual Gypsy of the Year Competition, produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, takes place Dec. 7-8 at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre. The annual even…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Nick Jonas, Harry Connick, Jr. and Carrie Underwood are among the stars saluting Frank Sinatra in "Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert," which will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29PM[SHARE]Adam Jacobs, who stars as the titular street rat in Disney's Aladdin on Broadway, will release his solo debut album "Right Where I Belong" Dec. 13. Check out this exclusive fir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PM[SHARE]The new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical School of Rock, which opens on Broadway Dec. 6 at the Winter Garden Theatre, releases its original Broadway cast album Dec. 4. The musical is based on the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2015
David Korins, the Drama Desk Award-winning scenic designer who created the rustic set that houses the Broadway hit Hamilton, revealed that the show's original production at The Publi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]A slate of stars have been announced to participate in the 27th Annual Gypsy of the Year Competition, produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which takes place Dec. 7&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PM[SHARE]The creator and stars of the hit Broadway phenomenon Hamilton will be part of the Jan. 22 kick-off celebration of BroadwayCon, a star-packed, three-day celebration of all things …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
The Ensemblist, the podcast featuring Broadway backstage stories that explore the lives and careers of showbiz artists, will record a live podcast during the first-ever BroadwayCon in Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:13PM[SHARE]Kinky Boots Tony winner Billy Porter and recent Pippin star Kyle Dean Massey have joined the starry Dec. 3 gala celebration of iconic singer Frank Sinatra. The evening boasts an eclectic arr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:53PM[SHARE]Derek Klena and Matthew James Thomas, who starred in the Signature Theatre world premiere of the Sheryl Crow musical Diner, return for the latest incarnation of the show that begins performa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The new musical Bright Star, from Grammy and Emmy winner Steve Martin and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, begins a pre-Broadway engagement Dec. 2 at the Kennedy C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Tony Award winner Audra McDonald leads a star-studded ensemble cast currently in New York City shooting the film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa's 1994 musical Hello Again. Marth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]A national tour of The Wizard of Oz, featuring additional songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, launches Dec. 1 in Cleveland, OH.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Elizabeth Stanley and Andrew Samonsky co-star as Francesca Johnson and Robert Kincaid in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical The Bridges of Madison County, which offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2015
Musical theatre songwriters Stacey Luftig and Phillip Palmer are presented with the 2015 Fred Ebb Awards in a Nov. 30 reception in the Penthouse Lounge of The American Airlines Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 28, 2015
Elizabeth Stanley and Andrew Samonsky co-star as Francesca Johnson and Robert Kincaid in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical The Bridges of Madison County, which laun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 27, 2015
The Cherry Lane Theatre has announced that Rajiv Joseph, Katori Hall and Sheila Callaghan will guide early-career playwrights as part of the 2016 Mentor Project.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2015
Cast members from The Wiz Live!, as well as Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof, Finding Neverland, The King and I, On Your Feet! and Something Rotten!, perform in the 89th Annual Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AM[SHARE]Cast members from The Wiz Live!, as well as Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof, Finding Neverland, The King and I, On Your Feet! and Something Rotten!, perform in the 89th Annual Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Cast members from The Wiz Live!, as well as Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof, Finding Neverland, The King and I, On Your Feet! and Something Rotten!, perform in the 89th Annual Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2015
Motown The Musical, the hit show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, which ended a 738-performance Broadway run in January 2015, will keep its promise to return.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PM[SHARE]Casting is now complete for the forthcoming one-night-only staged reading of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner, starring Tony winner Nathan Lane, Dec. …
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