Thursday, October 22, 2015
Grammy Award-winning music powerhouses Beyoncé Knowles and Jay Z are the latest stars to see the hit Broadway sensation Hamilton. The couple were in the audience for the Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PMUtah's Pioneer Theatre will stage the U.S. premiere of Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy's The Count of Monte Cristo in May 2016. Tony Award nominee Marcia Milgrom Dodge will direct.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMGrammy nominee Sara Bareilles, whose musical theatre debut Waitress will arrive on Broadway later this season, will perform a one-night-only concert of songs from t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMWednesday, October 21, 2015
Laverne Cox, the ground-breaking transgender actress who earned an Emmy Award nomination for her performance on "Orange Is the New Black," has been announced to star as Dr. Fra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22PMMisty Copeland, the groundbreaking American Ballet Theatre principal dancer who made her Broadway debut last summer in the revival of On the Town, has been tapped by Fox to create a TV dance…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:07PMThe hit multi-media Rockettes stage production New York City Spring Spectacular, which premiered in spring 2015 at Radio City Music Hall, has been renamed Rockettes New York Spectacular,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMActress/singer Nicole Scherzinger, who plays Neil Patrick Harris' intrepid sidekick on his variety show, "Best Time Ever," confirmed that she's in talks to recreate her Oli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
Casting has been announced for the new musical Bright Star, from Grammy and Emmy winner Steve Martin and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, which will arrive on Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30PMCasting has been announced for the upcoming holiday tour of Elf, which will return to the Theater at Madison Square Garden in December. Eric Petersen will star as Buddy, with Tony Award nomi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMMonday, October 19, 2015
Utah's Tuacahn Amphitheatre is planning to stage the Disney musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame as part of its upcoming season. The Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz-scored musical wa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39PM"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" will re-air the episode featuring the award-winning new musical An American in Paris Oct. 23 at 11:35 PM ET on CBS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PMThe well-reviewed City Center Encores! Off-Center staging of William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain, which starred Jonathan Groff, Ana Gasteyer, Dan Fogler and Aaro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PMSunday, October 18, 2015
The world-premiere stage musical Amélie, based on the Academy Award-winning 2001 French film, ends its extended run Oct. 18 at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 16, 2015
Tony Award-winning Hamilton star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda celebrated a social media milestone this week, reaching 96,000 followers on Twitter. The number references the life…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMTony Award-winning Hamilton star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda celebrated a social media milestone this week, reaching 96,000 followers on Twitter. The number references the life…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMFormer 98 Degrees band member and "Dancing With the Stars" champion Drew Lachey will join the stripped-down musical duo The Skivvies for their upcoming concerts at the Ensemble…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMThe national tour of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical If/Then, featuring original stars Idina Menzel, LaChanze, Anthony Rapp and James Snyder, officially opens Oct. 16 at Denver's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 15, 2015
The Days of Wine and Roses, the new musical from Light in the Piazza collaborators Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas, as well as Kirsten Childs' Buffalo Bella: An American Tall Tale, have bee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PMCasting has been announced for the upcoming national tour of The Wizard of Oz, featuring additional songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The latest incarnation of the tour launches Dec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMTony 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 11:44AMWednesday, October 14, 2015
"A Celebration of American Creativity: In Performance at the White House," featuring Tony Award winners Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell, is filmed Oct. 14 for an early 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, 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 Award-winning musical Fun Home will play Chicago's Bank of America Theatre in November 2016. The engagement was announced as part of the Broadway in Chi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMTony Award nominee Rebecca Luker, who starred in the original Broadway production of The Secret Garden, will return to the role of Lily for a one-night-only benefit performance of th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMThe 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
Tony Award-winning actress Betty Buckley has signed on for a lead role in the next thriller from "The Sixth Sense" and "The Visit" filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, accor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:38PMMusic 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 01:47PMLes Misérables composer Claude-Michel Schonberg says that a revised version of Martin Guerre, his 1996 musical with lyricist Alain Boublil, is ready for production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PM"A Celebration of American Creativity: In Performance at the White House," featuring Tony Award winners Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell, will be filmed Oct. 14 for an earl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMFirst Lady Michelle Obama has released her first-ever Spotify playlist in celebration of International Day of the Girl. Several Broadway musicals are included in the playlist "that …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMSunday, October 11, 2015
In honor of National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11, Playbill.com is looking back at our "Stories of Pride" feature, in which LGBT members of the theatre community share their personal …
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