Monday, January 19, 2015
Brooks Ashmanskas, Peter Dinklage and Holland Taylor are among the actors appearing in a benefit staging of The 24 Hour Plays, which is presented Jan. 19 at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 18, 2015
Over six years after audiences first heard him tear into Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" Off-Broadway at New World Stages, Constantine Maroulis – the Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]Members of the general public can now purchase tickets to the new Broadway musical comedy Something Rotten!, starring Tony Award winner Christian Borle and Tony Award nominee Brian d'Arc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Motown The Musical, the Broadway show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, ends its Broadway run Jan. 18 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Producers intend to bring the jukeb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
Producer David Stone announced Jan. 16 that his new musical If/Then will go dark for eight performances later this month in order to accommodate the travel schedule for the show's leadin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt revealed that the network is considering two Tony-winning musicals for live broadcast next holiday season: The Broadway classic The Music Man…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PM[SHARE]NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt revealed that the network is considering two Tony-winning musicals for live broadcast the next two holiday seasons: The Broadway classic The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PM[SHARE]Meryl Streep may be returning to the world of Sondheim on screen. The Daily Mail reports that a film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical Follies, which centers aroun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Christine Baranski ("Into the Woods," The Real Thing) and Olivier Award-winning West End actress Ruthie Henshall (Chicago, Les Misérables) have bee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM[SHARE]Motown The Musical, the Broadway show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, recouped its $18 million investment at the end of 2014, producers announced Jan. 16. The production…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The world premiere of playwright Sherry Kramer's How Water Behaves, starring Leslie Kritzer and Kenita R. Miller, begins performances Jan. 16 at Capital Repertory Theatre under the direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
The Tony Awards administration committee met Jan. 15 for the second time this season to determine the eligibility for eight Broadway productions from the 2014-15 season. The committee al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:32PM[SHARE]The nominations for the 67th annual Directors Guild Awards have been announced. Among the nominees are The 68th Annual Tony Awards, The Kennedy Center Honors, "The Normal Heart," &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PM[SHARE]Disney has released a 19-track instrumental recording featuring Jonathan Tunick's lavish symphonic orchestrations from the film adaptation of "Into the Woods."
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]The Phantom of the Opera took to social media Jan. 14 to address fan outcry following the announcement that actor James Barbour, who served prison time in 2008 after pleading guilty to endan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]The Phantom of the Opera took to social media Jan. 14 to address fan outcry following the announcement that actor James Barbour, who served prison time in 2008 after pleading guilty to endan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane, who returns to the New York stage in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh this winter, will be honored with the O'Neill Theater Center'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne, Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and Meryl Streep are among the nominees for the 87th Academy Awards, which were announced Jan. 15 at 8:30 AM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2015
It is expected that original "Smash" stars Megan Hilty, Anjelica Huston, Katharine McPhee and Debra Messing will reunite for the June 8 one-night-only concert presentation …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PM[SHARE]Strong ticket sales have prompted the Public Theater to extend its run of Hamilton, the new musical by Tony Award-winning In the Heights star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, an addit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PM[SHARE]Final casting has been announced for the Broadway production of Doctor Zhivago, which will arrive on Broadway March 27 at the Broadway Theatre. Actress Sophia Gennusa, a Tony Honoree for her…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:12PM[SHARE]Complete casting has been announced for the new Broadway musical Something Rotten!, which arrives on Broadway March 23 at the St. James Theatre. A host of Broadway comedy heavy-hitters w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots is eyeing a late August premiere at a London theatre to be announced, according to a U.K. casting notice for the hit show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AM[SHARE]The Tony Award-winning musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder will launch a U.S. national tour at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre next fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]Academy Award-winning filmmaker Woody Allen has signed on to write and direct a new half-hour television series for Amazon, which is expected to arrive next year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Applications are now being accepted for the fifth annual Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, which provides a secluded summer getaway for writers of new musicals in the Hudson Valley.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:31PM[SHARE]Disney's hit film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods, starring Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick and James Corden, will be released March 24 on Blu-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:12PM[SHARE]The tenth anniversary presentation of Broadway Backwards will take place March 9 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Tickets to the musical event, which features male singers performing songs trad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:22PM[SHARE]Julia Murney (Wicked), Ashley Brown (Mary Poppins), Michael James Scott (Aladdin) and Tony nominee Josh Young (Jesus Christ Superstar) will appear in a one-night-only staging of Jaso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PM[SHARE]Derek Hough, the Emmy Award-winning choreographer from ABC's "Dancing With The Stars," will co-star with Tony Award winner Laura Benanti in the New York Spring Spectacu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM[SHARE]The one-night-only benefit presentation of Bombshell, the fictional Broadway musical from the short-lived NBC musical series "Smash," will now take place June 8, a week…
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