Sunday, May 3, 2015
Hamilton, the new musical by Tony Award-winning In the Heights star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, which explores the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, ends its s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2015
The Las Vegas stage production of The Duck Commander Musical, based on the popular, yet controversial family from the A&E series "Duck Dynasty," will end its run a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2015
Playbill will celebrate its second annual Playbill Pride initiative with Family Day OUT, a June 13 event that invites LGBT families and allies to attend special performances of Disney's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PM[SHARE]Broadway producer Ken Davenport and Davenport Theatrical present the Second Annual Davenport Songwriting Contest, in which songwriters compete for the title of Best Song and a $500 grand pri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The creative team behind the new Tony Award-nominated Kander and Ebb musical The Visit are hopeful that two of their previous collaborations may be revived on stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PM[SHARE]"Skivvies" star Nick Cearley will appear as Puck in the Masterworks Theater Company production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Billy Porter, who earned the 2013 Tony Award for his portrayal of unstoppable drag performer Lola in the Tony-winning hit musical Kinky Boots, returns to the Broadway production April 28…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2015
A holiday tour of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, based on the classic film of the same name, is scheduled to launch Nov. 6 and continue through Dec. 27, according to an Actors' Eq…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]The 2015 theatre awards season is in full swing, and Playbill.com has compiled the latest information on award dates, presenters, nominations, winners and top honors. Read below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM[SHARE]Original Cabaret star Joel Grey and Finding Neverland producer Harvey Weinstein will be honored at the 2015 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, which will take place June 1 at the Skirball Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AM[SHARE]The actors and musicians of the new Broadway musical Something Rotten! is in the studio today to record its original cast album for Ghostlight Records. The musical comedy opened on Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AM[SHARE]Beautiful Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller is honored in her hometown of Chicago with the Sarah Siddons Society's Actress of the Year Award April 27. The evening promises several stand&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2015
Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman, who was seen on Broadway earlier this season in Jez Butterworth's The River, attended the April 25 matinee performance of the critically acclaimed new mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08PM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2015
The stage musical adaptation of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's animated feature "Anastasia" will have its world premiere at Hartford Stage next spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
Theatre legend Chita Rivera returns to Broadway as the revenge-seeking star of the new Kander and Ebb musical The Visit. The Tony-winning actress-singer-dancer, who has been …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PM[SHARE]Chita Rivera returns to Broadway in her first original role in more than two decades as the star of Kander and Ebb's The Visit, which officially opens on Broadway April 23 at the Lyceum…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A cast album of the Kander and Ebb musical The Visit starring two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera, will be released in late June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Christian Borle and Brian d'Arcy James co-star as theatrical adversaries in the new Broadway musical Something Rotten!, which officially opens April 22 at the St. James Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Ghostlight Records has announced plans to record the original Broadway cast album of Something Rotten! The musical comedy will open on Broadway April 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:09PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Chita Rivera is back with a vengeance in the new Kander and Ebb musical The Visit. A dazzling new TV spot has just been released for the dark, romantic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PM[SHARE]Drama Desk Award nominee Bryce Ryness (Hair) will star as Miss Trunchbill in the national tour of Matilda The Musical, which officially launches this May in Los Angeles. Young actresses Gabb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PM[SHARE]The Broadway premiere of the new musical Doctor Zhivago, starring Tam Mutu, Kelli Barrett, Tom Hewitt and Paul Nolan, officially opens April 21 at the Broadway Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
Celebrity stylist George Brescia – who co-hosted Dress Up! Live: The 2014 Tony Awards Red Carpet, presented by Playbill.com and Stage17 &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PM[SHARE]Broadway producer Ken Davenport and Davenport Theatrical will present the Second Annual Davenport Songwriting Contest, in which songwriters compete for the title of Best Song and a $500 gran…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2015
The critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir Fun Home, which parallels her own coming of age as a lesbian and the suicide of her closeted gay father, of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Application Pending, the new Off-Broadway comedy starring Christina Bianco, ends its run April 19 at the Westside Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 18, 2015
Because of Winn-Dixie, the new musical by Tony-winning Spring Awakening songwriter Duncan Sheik and Tony-nominated Legally Blonde lyricist Nell Benjamin, officially opens to the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2015
Ryan Murphy's film adaptation of the Larry Kramer AIDS drama The Normal Heart, which premiered last spring on HBO, is among the recipients of the eighth annual Television Academy Honors,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:18PM[SHARE]Because of Winn-Dixie, the new musical by Tony-winning Spring Awakening songwriter Duncan Sheik and Tony-nominated Legally Blonde lyricist Nell Benjamin, has extended its run at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PM[SHARE]Dreamgirls is London bound, according to a report in the Daily Mail. Slated to begin in early 2016, the Tony-winning musical will be directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PM[SHARE]"Last Five Years" and Newsies Tony nominee Jeremy Jordan is slated to play a series of concerts at San Francisco's Feinstein's at the Nikko in June.
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