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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Oscar Nominee Bradley Cooper’s London-Bound Elephant Man Ends Broadway Run by Carey Purcell and Adam Hetrick

The hit Broadway revival of The Elephant Man, starring four-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, concludes its run Feb. 21 at the Booth Theatre. The production, which will transfer…

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Arthur Miller Drama The Price, Starring Kate Burton and Alan Mandell, Opens in L.A. by Adam Hetrick

The Center Theatre Group revival of Arthur Miller's The Price, starring Tony nominee Kate Burton (Hedda Gabler) and Alan Mandell ("A Serious Man"), officially opens Fe…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, February 20, 2015

Lily Tomlin Is Latest to Join Broadway Backwards LGBT Musical Night by Adam Hetrick

Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning actress, comedian and writer Lily Tomlin will make a special guest appearance as part of the tenth anniversary edition of Broadway Backwards, a one…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PM

Laura Benanti Lands TV Role as Mom to DC Comics’ “Supergirl” by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winner Laura Benanti, who will be seen in the upcoming Rockettes show New York Spring Spectacular, is heading back to the screen, Deadline.com reports. She's been cast in a re…

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PM

James Corden and Nicole Scherzinger Give Hollywood a Glimpse of Around The World In Eighty Days Musi by Adam Hetrick

Finding Neverland collaborators Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy are at work on their next musical venture for Harvey Weinstein, a stage musical adaptation of "Around the World in Eighty D…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AM

Skivvies Strip Down Stars from Wicked, Pippin and Matilda Tonight in NYC by Adam Hetrick

Erik Altemus (Pippin), Randy Harrison (Wicked) and Lesli Margherita (Matilda) join the stripped-down musical duo The Skivvies for their Feb. 20 late-night gig at 54 Below.

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Streets Hit the Stage in Home Street Home, New Musical by Avenue Q Tony Winner Jeff Marx, Premiering by Adam Hetrick

Home Street Home, a new musical written by Tony Award-winning Avenue Q co-writer Jeff Marx, punk rock musician Fat Mike (NOFX) and writer Goddess Soma, premieres Feb. 20 at Z Space i…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

The Golden Apple Like You’ve Never Heard It Before! Sung-Through Broadway Rarity to Get Live, Full-L by Adam Hetrick

The Golden Apple, the rarely-seen 1954 musical by John Latouche and Jerome Moross that produced the single "Lazy Afternoon," will receive its first-ever, full-length ca…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

David Cromer’s Angels in America, Starring Claybourne Elder, Takes Flight by Adam Hetrick

Claybourne Elder, seen Off-Broadway in Road Show, Allegro and Broadway's Bonnie & Clyde, stars in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre production of Tony Kushner's Angels in…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, February 19, 2015

“Mr. Lin-Manuel Makes This Really Cool!”: Watch Six-Year-Old Critic Iain Armitage’s Video Review of by Adam Hetrick

Pint-sized theatre critic Iain Armitage set the Internet ablaze when he began posting YouTube reviews of his favorite DC and Broadway shows. He's back this week with his new review o…

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PM

The Met’s 2015-16 Season Includes Bartlett Sher-Directed Otello by Adam Hetrick

The Metropolitan Opera announced details of its 2015-16 season, which will include Verdi's Otello, helmed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, as well as Puccini's Manon Lescaut, …

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AM
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Sign On to Roar in Rockettes’ Spring Spectacular by Adam Hetrick and Michael Gioia

Award-winning comedians and writers Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have been announced to lend their voices as the New York Public Library's famed lion statues in New York Spring Spectacul…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PM
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Oklahoma! Will Get Intimate In-the-Round Staging at Bard by Adam Hetrick

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! will be presented in an in-the-round chamber presentation as part of Bard SummerScape's 2015 season. Offerings also include the return of …

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PM

Broadway Elphaba Will Rock Murder Ballad in D.C. by Adam Hetrick

Christine Dwyer, recently seen as Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked, will star in Washington, D.C.'s Studio Theatre production of the rock musical Murder Ballad, which will be…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PM

“Glee” Star Darren Criss Is Broadway’s Next Hedwig by Adam Hetrick

Darren Criss, the young actor who rose to stardom on the Fox musical series "Glee," will be the next actor to step into the role of East German transgender rocker Hedwig in the Bro…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM

Hear An All-New Side Show! Download the Revival Cast Album Today by Adam Hetrick

The Broadway revival cast album of Side Show, the emotionally charged musical about the life of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, is released Feb. 17 from Broadway Records. 

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM

The Secret Garden Will Get Lavish Avery Fisher Hall Concert Staging by Adam Hetrick

The Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden, featuring book and lyrics by Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon, will be the next large-scale Broadway musical to be staged in co…

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PM
Monday, February 16, 2015

History Meets Hip-Hop in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, Opening Tonight Off-Broadway by Adam Hetrick

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, officially…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PM

Tony-Winning Musical Parade, With Laura Benanti and Jeremy Jordan, Rises Again by Adam Hetrick

The one-night-only concert presentation of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning musical Parade, which co-stars Laura Benanti and Jeremy Jordan, is held…

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Helen Hayes Theatre Owners Reveal Change of Heart, Will Second Stage Sale Go Through for Broadway Th by Adam Hetrick and Michael Gioia

The New York Times reports that the planned $25 million sale of Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre to the Off-Broadway non-profit Second Stage, may be in peril.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM
Friday, February 13, 2015

“House of Cards” and Steady Rain Writer to Premiere New Political Drama by Adam Hetrick

Keith Huff, the Emmy Award-nominated writer of "House of Cards," whose two-man play A Steady Rain was seen on Broadway, will premiere a new political drama as part of Carth…

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM

Rob McClure Will Return to His High School to Celebrate the Magic at Disney Benefit Concert by Adam Hetrick

Rob McClure, who stars in Broadway's Honeymoon in Vegas, will return to New Milford High School for a benefit concert Feb. 23 in New Jersey.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PM

Oscar Winner in Talks to Star as Mrs. Potts in Disney’s Live-Action “Beauty and the Beast” by Adam Hetrick

Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson, who recently starred in the New York Philharmonic concert presentations of Sweeney Todd, is in negotiations to star as Mrs. Potts in Disney&#…

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM

Will Disney’s Frozen, Directed by Alex Timbers, Ice Broadway in 2017? by Adam Hetrick

The Daily Mail reports that Tony Award-nominated Peter and the Starcatcher director Alex Timbers is working with Oscar-winning songwriters Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez to br…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Stars of “Glee,” Hedwig, Phantom and Wicked Join Broadway Backwards by Adam Hetrick

Lena Hall, Robin de Jesús, Norm Lewis, Telly Leung and Lillias White are among the stars who will be part of the tenth anniversary edition of Broadway Backwards, a one-night&#…

SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PM

Mysterious TV Spot for The Visit, Showing Revenge-Hungry Chita Rivera, Revealed by Adam Hetrick

Deadline.com is premiering a look at the haunting new TV spot for the Kander and Ebb musical The Visit, starring two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera, which begins previews March 26 t…

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PM

“We Are Going to Be Taking Cats to Broadway,” Andrew Lloyd Webber Says: Hear Nicole Scherzinger’s Br by Adam Hetrick

Andrew Lloyd Webber appeared on BBC's "The Chris Evans Breakfast Show" to share a first-listen of Nicole Scherzinger's single for "Memory," which the Cats com…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PM

Les Miz Director to Stage New Play About Dazzling and Tragic Life of Fashion Designer Alexander McQu by Adam Hetrick

McQueen, a new work from playwright James Phillips that takes inspiration from the dark and elaborate world of late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, will premiere this spring in London.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AM

Stepsiblings Fall in Love in Neil LaBute’s “Billy & Billie”: Go Behind the Scenes in Our Exclusive F by Adam Hetrick

"Billy & Billie," the new unlikely romantic television series from Tony-nominated playwright Neil LaBute (Reasons to Be Pretty) that explores the complicated relationsh…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM

Post-Broadway, First Date Musical Opens in Chicago Tonight by Adam Hetrick

The Alan Zachary-Michael Weiner musical comedy First Date, which played a five-month Broadway run in 2013, officially opens in Chicago Feb. 12 after previews that began Feb. 5 at the…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

O’Neill Epic The Iceman Cometh, With Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy, Opens at BAM by Adam Hetrick

The Goodman Theatre production of Eugene O'Neill's four-act epic The Iceman Cometh, starring Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy, officially opens Feb. 12 a…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PM

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