Friday, March 20, 2015
With an initial draft of the Mean Girls script and score nearing completion, Tony Award nominee Nell Benjamin – who is collaborating with Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond on the project …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning entertainer Ben Vereen is developing a new one-man show for Broadway, which he hopes to bring to the stage in early 2016.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PM[SHARE]The London productions of Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the history novels by Hilary Mantel about Henry VIII, arrive on Broadway March 20 at the Winter Garden Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
Anne Rice's 1982 novel "Cry to Heaven," set within the operatic world of the male castrati in 18th century Italy, is in development as a new stage musical by Academy Award-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:32PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning Caroline, or Change co-stars Tonya Pinkins and Anika Noni Rose will reunite for a one-night-only benefit presentation of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05PM[SHARE]The Tony Award medallion that Mary Martin earned for her portrayal of Maria von Trapp in the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music was sold at auction March 19 for $35,000,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PM[SHARE]The Tony Award medallion that Mary Martin earned for her portrayal of Maria von Trapp in the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music was sold at auction March 19 for $35,000,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning producer and Def Jam Records co-founder Russell Simmons is developing a new stage musical that will feature hip-hop hits spanning the mid-1980s to the turn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PM[SHARE]In celebration of the March 24 in-home release of Disney's "Into the Woods," director Rob Marshall reveals how he conceived and shot "Agony" with princes Chris Pi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Maryland's Olney Theatre Center is making plans for an intimate, "chamber-sized" staging of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice hit Evita, as well as a new version of Carm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PM[SHARE]Christina DeCicco (Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, Evita), Adam Kantor (The Last Five Years, Rent, Avenue Q) and Christiane Noll (Ragtime, Jekyll & Hyde) will celebrate the work of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PM[SHARE]A mini-cast album of the Broadway-aimed musical Allegiance, starring Tony Award winner Lea Salonga, George Takei and Telly Leung, is available for digital download.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AM[SHARE]Tony Award nominee Keith Carradine and Alexandra Socha co-star in the New York City Center Encores! staging of the 1951 Lerner and Loewe musical Paint Your Wagon, which is presented Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2015
"Into the Woods" director Rob Marshall speaks with Playbill.com about another Sondheim musical he would consider bringing to the screen, his leading lady Meryl Streep and the possi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PM[SHARE]It Shoulda Been You, the new Broadway musical comedy starring Tyne Daly, Harriet Harris, David Burtka and Sierra Boggess, begins previews March 17 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Australian leading man Anthony Warlow, who made his Broadway debut in the recent revival of Annie, steps into another classic musical as Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha. Performances begin M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2015
Disney announced March 16 that its forthcoming live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, which will be released in 3D, will hit theatres March 17, 2017. Kevin Kline and Emma Thomps…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PM[SHARE]Disney announced March 16 that its forthcoming live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, which will be released in 3D, will hit theatres March 17, 2017. Kevin Kline and Emma Thomps…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PM[SHARE]A newly revised bilingual adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein II and Georges Bizet's Carmen Jones, which was first workshopped in Havana, Cuba last summer, will receive a New York reading la…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PM[SHARE]Recent Pippin star Matthew James Thomas and Eddie Izzard are among the actors who have signed on for the new period TV drama series "The Devil You Know," which centers on the Salem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2015
With 10 Glindas, 14 Elphabas and an impressive $790 million in grosses to its credit, the first national tour of Wicked – known as the Emerald City Tour that launched March 8, 2005…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:38PM[SHARE]The initial batch of tickets for the first-ever BroadwayCon, an event that will bring together theatre fans and Broadway stars, go on sale March 15. Here's what you need to know.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2015
Tony Award-nominated Book of Mormon star Josh Gad is in final talks to join the cast of Disney's upcoming live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, according to the Hollywo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PM[SHARE]British pop singer Rita Ora is among the guest artists who will perform on the upcoming Finding Neverland concept album. The show's leading man, "Glee" star Matthew Morrison, t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda is having some fun with the casting breakdowns for his hot new musical Hamilton, which arrives on Broadway in July after a critically-acclaimed run at the Public T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PM[SHARE]Tony Yazbeck, the leading man who dances and croons his way through the Broadway revival of On the Town, will record "The Floor Above Me," a new solo album based on his new nightcl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2015
The initial batch of tickets for the first-ever BroadwayCon, an event that will bring together theatre fans and Broadway stars, will go on sale March 15. Here's what you need to know.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:36PM[SHARE]The revised production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to his hit musical The Phantom of the Opera, is set to return to Europe this fall with performances to take pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PM[SHARE]A new teaser has been released for the Broadway premiere of Fun Home, the acclaimed Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron musical based on Allison Bechdel's graphic memoir, which arrives March 27…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]New York Spring Spectacular, the new multi-media Rockettes stage production that features Tony Award winner Laura Benanti and a host of celebrities who lend their voices and likeness to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, starring five-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara and Ken Watanabe, begins performances March 12 on the vast st…
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