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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford, who earned acclaim for her nightlife act Lost in the Stars, will ring in the New Year with a special Dec. 31 show at nightlife hotspot Feinsteins/54 Belo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PM[SHARE]Grand 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 01:52PM[SHARE]In 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 04:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
The hit multi-media Rockettes stage production New York City Spring Spectacular, which premiered in spring 2015 at Radio City Music Hall, will resurface next year in a different season a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:34PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies, will launch a North American tour in 2017, Playbill.com has learned. The tour will reflect the overhauled Australian p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 08:06AM[SHARE]The 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 08:06AM[SHARE]Actress 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Hollywood 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 19, 2015
Jim Cartwright's Olivier Award-winning play with music The Rise and Fall of Little Voice has been optioned for a Broadway revival during the 2016-17 season as a vehicle for singe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AM[SHARE]Kiki and Herb, the twisted song-and-booze cabaret act from Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman that earned the duo a Tony Award nomination in 2007, will return to the New York stage…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AM[SHARE]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 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
A festival on the edge, located in a town on the edge, is aiming to bring the new American play back to Provincetown. Running through Sept. 20, the annual Afterglow Festival –&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM[SHARE]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 02:37PM[SHARE]Daniel Craig, who recently said he wasn't keen on returning to Broadway due to aging audiences and rising ticket prices, may instead give Off-Broadway a go.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PM[SHARE]According to the Daily Mail, the critically acclaimed London premiere of Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, starring Oscar winner Nicole Kidman, has its sights set on the big screen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AM[SHARE]Tony 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 10:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2015
Sydney Lucas, the Tony-nominated young star of Fun Home, will depart the production Oct. 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PM[SHARE]Angela Lansbury's rumored London stage return in Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden may soon be a reality.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PM[SHARE]The Australian stage musical spectacle King Kong, which premiered in June 2013 at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne, is getting an overhaul for its Broadway arrival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Friedman's Lunch, the eclectic comfort food restaurant with four locations across Manhattan, has sealed the deal to branch into Times Square. Its fifth location will open in the space fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM[SHARE]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 01:22PM[SHARE]The 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 11:27AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Nathan Lane will be joined by Emmy winner Jean Smart and fellow Tony winner Harriet Harris for a one-night-only staged reading of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM[SHARE]In 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 12:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time star Alex Sharp has joined the cast of the new John Cameron Mitchell film "How to Talk to Girls at Parties,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PM[SHARE]In a new interview with Deadline.com, award-winning director Michael Grandage spoke about the differences between producing work in the West End and on Broadway. He also responds to ques…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PM[SHARE]The anticipated Broadway production of Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed will continue next summer without one of its major stars. Record…
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