Sunday, August 9, 2015
Up Here, the new musical by the songwriters of Disney's blockbuster "Frozen," officially opens its world-premiere engagement Aug. 9 at La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, CA, f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Up Here, the new musical by the songwriters of Disney's blockbuster "Frozen," begins its world-premiere engagement July 28 at La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2015
It looks like The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the new musical based on the Victor Hugo novel and the animated Disney film, will not transfer to Broadway following its recent run at the Paper Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2015
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the new musical based on the Victor Hugo novel and the animated Disney film, which had a run at the Paper Mill Playhouse this past spring, has been recorded by S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the new musical based on the Victor Hugo novel and the animated Disney film, which had a run at the Paper Mill Playhouse this past spring, has been recorded by S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Disenchanted!, the Off-Broadway musical that pokes fun at the world of fairy-tale princesses, will close Sunday, June 14 after 30 previews and 139 regular performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15PM[SHARE]Betsy Wolfe (Broadway’s Bullets over Broadway, The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and Matt Bittner (Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing) will topline Up Here, the new musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2015
Few things are more charming than Kristin Chenoweth in a great role. The multi-talented actress is back on Broadway, starring in a revival of On the Twentieth Century, the Comden-Green-Colem…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2015
It isn't the supernatural that is haunting the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where a shocking and shattering production of Ghosts is presented at the Harvey Theater. Directed by Richard Eyre, H…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
The first Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, which officially opened at the Music Box Theatre March 19 following…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
It is both enlightening and depressing how relevant The Heidi Chronicles still is, more than a decade after its premiere on Broadway. Wendy Wasserstein's look at the life of feminist art his…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2015
When writing about Helen Mirren's performance as Queen Elizabeth in The Audience, a new play by Peter Morgan, opportunities for puns abound, but I will do my best to resist. Mirren is no str…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:22AM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
Originally published on Alternet.org View this story online "It just got scarier and scarier," Anna Haas said, describing a recent visit to the doctor. But instead of a medical procedure, Ha…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:47AM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2015
Performers have been announced for Signature Theatre's upcoming Stephen Sondheim Award presentation, honoring librettist and director James Lapine.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
The music-themed feature film "Sugar," featuring Tony Award winner Alice Ripley, is nearly complete.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Playbill.com has learned that the retooled production of the musical spectacle King Kong, which is looking towards a New York run, will be directed by Eric Schaeffer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2015
I was invited to participate in the Row J Roundtable with Meredith Ganzman and Jesse Oxfeld, where we discussed the spring Broadway season.
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2015
Taking note of the heavy snow falling over the New York area, the Broadway production of the hit Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus musical Mamma Mia! is offering discounted tickets …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 1, 2015
President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton attended the 8 PM performance of Hamilton, the critically acclaimed new musical written by and starring …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53PM[SHARE]President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton attended the 8 PM performance of Hamilton, the critically acclaimed new musical written by and starring …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2015
The Broadway engagement of Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the history novels by Hilary Mantel about Henry VIII, which will begin performances March 20 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2015
Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne, Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and Meryl Streep are among the nominees for the 87th Academy Awards, which are presented Feb. 22 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywoo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 21, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
John Cameron Mitchell, the co-creator and original star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, who is reprising his performance in the Broadway production, will take a week-long hiatus from t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:41PM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2015
Producers announced new cast members that will be joining the 2014 Broadway revival of Les Misérables March 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]The London production of the Kander and Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys recorded the show's score in December at Abbey Road’s Studio Two. Jay Records has released an audio trac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2015
Classic Stage Company's A Month in the Country, starring "Game of Thrones" actor Peter Dinklage and "Orange is the New Black" star Taylor Schilling, officially opens …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2015
The Broadway revival of The Elephant Man, starring four-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, will conclude its run Feb. 21, producers announced Jan. 21. Cooper's busy awards se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PM[SHARE]Oprah Winfrey, the media mogul and talk show host, hopes to appear on Broadway in a new adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit, the New York Post reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Grammy Award winner Tori Amos shared photos from the recording session of The Light Princess, the new musical that opened at the National's Lyttelton Theatre last October.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Gabriel Ebert and Tony nominee Euan Morton lead the cast of The Heart of Robin Hood — the inventive and athletic stage adaptation of the classic tale she…
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