Monday, 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[SHARE]Tony Award winner Laura Benanti will be seen on the April 27 episode of the hit CBS series "The Good Wife," entitled "Tying The Knot."
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Disney has released the album "Let It Go: The Complete Set," featuring multi-lingual recordings of the Academy Award-winning song from the hit animated movie "Frozen."&nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
The Broadway cast of the Jeanine Tesori-Brian Crawley musical Violet, including Sutton Foster, Colin Donnell and Joshua Henry, head to the recording studio April 7 to record a new two-disc P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2014
A starry concert presentation of Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls, starring Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, Patrick Wilson, Sierra Boggess and Megan Mullally, is held April 3 at Carnegie Ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
The first day of single ticket sales for the 2014 Lincoln Center Festival broke records March 31, taking in $704,000 at the box office.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2014
PS Classics will record a two-disc cast album of the Broadway premiere of Violet, the Jeanine Tesori-Brian Crawley musical that stars two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
Murder at the Gates, a new musical by Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening writer Steven Sater and singer/songwriter James Bourne, is being quietly workshopped in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
Singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen, who shot to fame with the #1 hit single "Call Me Maybe," and TV and film star Fran Drescher have extended their runs in Rodgers and Hammers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
The 29th annual Bistro Awards, honoring excellence in New York cabaret, jazz and comedy and featuring Oscar, Tony, Grammy and Golden Globe-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Pippin,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 22, 2014
"It's all the right things in all the wrong places," Gerrard Lobo said of the play Liliom, a tragic love story of a carousel barker and a small-town girl who are doomed to not reach a happy …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
The 29th annual Bistro Awards, honoring excellence in New York cabaret, jazz and comedy, will feature Oscar, Tony, Grammy and Golden Globe-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Pippin,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2014
The first annual Davenport Songwriting Contest, presented by Broadway producer Ken Davenport, was held Jan. 30 at the Davenport Theatre. Here are highlights from the evening.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2014
"Sean Saves The World," the NBC series starring Sean Hayes (Promises, Promises) and "Smash" actress Megan Hilty, has stopped production, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The dark, grim and gritty production of Machinal, Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play about the confines of society, is currently shining a much-needed light on our culture. Treadwell's work, inspi…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 06:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2014
iLuminate, a stage show from light-suit dance group iLuminate ("America's Got Talent") that was formerly titled Artist of Light, has extended its run at New World Sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Lena Hall, who stars as Nicola in Broadway's Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots, has been cast in the Broadway bow of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Neil Patrick Harris, producer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2014
The Manhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere engagement of The Commons of Pensacola, written by stage and screen star Amanda Peet, has been given a two-week extension through Fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 5, 2014
Stars Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale and director Bartlett Sher discuss and perform selections from The Bridges of Madison County Jan. 5 at the 92nd Street Y.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown joins actors Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale and director Bartlett Sher to discuss and perform selections from The Bridges of Mad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 1, 2014
I've written about the TV show "Pretty Little Liars" before on this blog. Many of my friends have expressed surprise that I watch the ABC Family drama about teenage girls being harassed by a…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 06:05PM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2013
Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown will join actors Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale, as well as director Bartlett Sher to discuss and perform selections from The Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2013
Tony Award winner LaChanze, Drama Desk nominee Eric Anderson and Tony Yazbeck are among the stars to join the sixth annual Living for Today benefit concert, which will take place Jan. 19, 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 7, 2013
We've all read at least one of the Buzzfeed blog posts about how old we're getting – "30 Signs You're Almost 30," "Your Early Twenties vs. Your Late Twenties," or "A Twentysomething Pa…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 28, 2013
The blessing and burden that is motherhood is on display at City Center, where Taking Care of Baby, the intriguingly uncomfortable play by Dennis Kelly, is making its American debut. Present…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 23, 2013
I used to love watching the film Love Actually. I saw it for the first time in the winter of 2003 and watching the movie quickly became a ritual for me during the holiday season. An admitted…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2013
Taking a cue from the Bard's text, the Nov. 14 performance of the Shakespeare's Globe production of Twelfth Night will "play on," despite an issue with the lighting board at the Belasco…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:59PM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2013
"Sean Saves The World," the new series starring Sean Hayes (Promises, Promises) and "Smash" actress Megan Hilty, has been given an additional five episodes, bringing the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2013
Joe's Pub presented The Next Generation of Musical Theater, a concert featuring the music of Grace McLean, Zoe Sarnak and Kacie Sheik, Nov. 4 at 7 PM. Here are highlights from the e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2013
Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, Tony nominee Patrick Wilson, Sierra Boggess and Megan Mullally will star in the one-night-only concert performance of Guys and Dolls April 3, 2014, at Carnegie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PM[SHARE]Friday, November 1, 2013
The creative team has been announced for the Broadway premiere of John Cameron Mitchell and Steven Trask's landmark rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Emmy Award winner Nei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PM[SHARE] 
