Tuesday, January 20, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMMonday, January 19, 2015
Disney's hit film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods, starring Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick and James Corden, has grossed $140 million worldwide in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMThursday, January 15, 2015
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 09:07AMFriday, January 9, 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, begins performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMFriday, December 26, 2014
Tony Award-winning Hedwig star Neil Patrick Harris has released a new promo video in anticipation of his upcoming gig as host of the 87th Academy Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMMonday, December 22, 2014
Producers of Peter Morgan's drama The Audience, which stars Academy Award winner Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, announced that the play will now begin Broadway previews Feb. 14, 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMArtistic directors from leading theatres in the U.S., including the Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, La Jolla Playhouse and the Guthrie Theater, issued a letter …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMThursday, December 4, 2014
Anthony Edwards ("ER"), Annabella Sciorra ("The Sopranos") and Tony Award winner Elizabeth Franz (Death of A Salesman) have joined the Off-Broadway cast of Classic St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
Tony Award-winning Hedwig star Neil Patrick Harris will host the 87th Academy Awards, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
The Goodman Theatre's revised staging of the Broadway classic Brigadoon received the Production-Musical large tier honor at the Chicago-area Jeff Awards, which were presented Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMMonday, October 13, 2014
The Goodman Theatre's revised staging of the Broadway classic Brigadoon and the Drury Lane staging of Les Misérables lead the nominations for the 2013-14 Equity Jeff Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 5, 2014
The box office for the Booth Theatre, home to the revival of The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper, opens for business Sept. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMSaturday, August 23, 2014
The world premiere of Tony nominee Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play Between Riverside And Crazy, which officially opened July 31 at the Atlantic Theater Company, ends its extended run Aug.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, August 21, 2014
The Goodman Theatre's revised staging of the Broadway classic Brigadoon and the Drury Lane staging of Les Misérables led the nominations for the 2013-2014 Equity Jeff Awards, hono…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:41PMThursday, August 14, 2014
Tony nominee Andrew Rannells, who will begin performances in the Tony-winning production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch Aug. 20, appeared on "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon" Aug.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMMonday, August 4, 2014
Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris is in the final leg of his acclaimed run of the Broadway premiere of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Prior to his Aug. 17 departure, the stage and screen sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PMFriday, August 1, 2014
The world premiere of Tony nominee Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play Between Riverside And Crazy, which officially opened July 31 at the Atlantic Theater Company, has extended its Off-Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
The Signature Theatre's upcoming production of The Wayside Motor Inn, the drama by prolific playwright A.R. Gurney that will begin performances Off-Broadway Aug. 12 prior to an official …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMSaturday, July 5, 2014
Following the publication of the article “Being a Bridesmaid is Driving Me Into Bankruptcy,” I was invited to discuss the article on Good Morning America. Watch the video below. …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:07PMMonday, June 30, 2014
It’s not for a lack of trying. Bullets Over Broadway, the latest screen to stage musicalization to hit the Great White Way, certainly tries. It’s bright, sparkling and loud. The …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:32PMSaturday, June 28, 2014
Originally published on Alternet.org View this story online My phone rings at 8 AM on a Saturday morning. I groggily look at the caller ID and see that it’s one of my good friends from hig…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:44AMMonday, June 23, 2014
This American Life, a musical event that was held June 7 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and featured a mini-musical by Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, is available for download on Amazon a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:40PM"Jersey Boys," the movie musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, took in a disappointing $13.5 million its opening weekend, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMTuesday, June 3, 2014
PS Classics' two-disc Broadway cast recording of the Jeanine Tesori-Brian Crawley musical Violet, including Sutton Foster, Colin Donnell and Joshua Henry, is released in stores June 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 26, 2014
Politics are most definitely personal in The City of Conversation, the new play by Anthony Giardina in performances at Lincoln Center. Directed by Doug Hughes and starring an elegant and imp…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:07AMSunday, May 25, 2014
As an avowed fan of “Downton Abbey,” I was very intrigued by the idea of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, a musical that had been described as “Downton Abbey”…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:22AMThursday, May 8, 2014
In Violet, a musical about changing how a person sees herself, Sutton Foster allows the audience a completely new way to see her. Foster, a two-time Tony Award winner for Thoroughly Modern M…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:29PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Tony Award winner and Oscar nominee Laura Linney and U.K. stage actress Hattie Morahan will join Ian McKellen in the new Sherlock Holmes film "A Slight Trick of the Mind," which wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMSunday, April 27, 2014
Willkommen back, Cabaret. We’re happy to see you, indeed. In a season awash with revivals, the return of Sam Mendes’ and Rob Marshall’s Tony Award-winning production to its…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:23AMFriday, April 25, 2014
The national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots, featuring a book by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein and a score by Tony and Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper, will open Sept. 4 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:30PMMonday, April 21, 2014
I found myself pleasantly surprised by Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Admittedly, not often a fan of jukebox musicals, which I have found to be formulaic and predictable, I was b…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:46PM 
