Monday, October 12, 2015
First 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 11:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2015
Actors from If/Then, Doctor Zhivago, Wicked and Side Show will take part in the 8th annual Living for Today concert, which will celebrate the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein Oct. 25 at Joe&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie, who recently went public with her cancer battle, is showing no signs of stopping. The Broadway actress is planning to ring in the New Year with a special 7 P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PM[SHARE]Broadway producers John Johnson, Hal Luftig, Arielle Tepper Madover and Daryl Roth are among the industry leaders who will speak about the ins and outs of showbiz as part of the three-da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PM[SHARE]Tony Award winners Sutton Foster and Bernadette Peters will be part of a star-studded gala celebration of iconic singer Frank Sinatra on Dec. 3 at David Geffen Hall. The evening will mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AM[SHARE]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 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 04:50PM[SHARE][title of show] collaborators Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen, as well as director Lonny Price and actress Melissa Errico are the latest talents to join the first-ever BroadwayCon, a three…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PM[SHARE]Acclaimed Fun Home Tony Award nominee Sydney Lucas will star as Mary Lennox in a concert presentation of the Lucy Simon-Marsha Norman musical The Secret Garden in February 2016 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Before they launch the national tour of Tony Award-winning musical The Bridges of Madison County, the shows stars will perform a concert of songs from the Jason Robert Brown score at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PM[SHARE]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 01:50PM[SHARE]Joanna Ampil, who played Kim in the Australian premiere of Miss Saigon, will co-star with MiG Ayesa in the international premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical The Bridges of Mad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PM[SHARE]The acclaimed London revival of Gypsy, starring Imelda Staunton, is being filmed for broadcast on BBC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PM[SHARE]An international tour of a newly revised bilingual adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein II and Georges Bizet's Carmen Jones, which has been workshopped in Havana and New York, will launch in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM[SHARE]The 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 03:54PM[SHARE]Actor-musician Nick Cearley, one half of the stripped-down musical duo The Skivvies, will reprise his performance in Jonathan Tolins' one-man comedy Buyer & Cellar, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PM[SHARE]In his latest work "The Marvels," Caldecott Award-winning best-selling author-illustrator Brian Selznick draws back the curtain on a mysterious, generation-spanning…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 05:52PM[SHARE]Theatre World Award winner Hoon Lee was crowned the new King of Siam in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of The King and I Sept. 29 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]Kansas City Choir Boy, the musical collaboration between Todd Almond (Iowa) and rock icon Courtney Love, which premiered at New York City's HERE earlier this year, begins a limited fall …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford, who will ring in the New Year with a special Dec. 31 show at nightlife hotspot Feinstein's/54 Below, will release a live album of her acclaimed solo …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PM[SHARE]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 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Bat Out of Hell, the new musical from Meatloaf hit-maker Jim Steinman, will receive a New York City lab presentation this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:49PM[SHARE]Theatre World Award winner Hoon Lee is crowned the new King of Siam in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of The King and I, beginning Sept. 29 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, 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[SHARE]"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 12:00AM[SHARE]The 46-track Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, is released digitally Sept. 25. Download #Hamiltunes today!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 …
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