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Friday, February 19, 2016

Broadway-Bound SpongeBob Musical Picks Its Squidward and Patrick by Robert Viagas and Michael Gioia

The Broadway-aimed The SpongeBob Musical has announced additional casting of principal roles.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PM
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Is Bull Durham Musical Headed to Broadway? by Andrew Gans and Adam Hetrick

Bull Durham, the baseball musical that ended its world-premiere run in October 2014 at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, is aiming for Broadway, according to a report in wralsportsfan.com.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PM

Sandy Duncan Exits Broadway’s Finding Neverland Abruptly by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Sandy Duncan has left the cast of Broadway's Finding Neverland just days after coming aboard the musical.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AM
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Bill Gates-Steve Jobs Musical Nerds Sets New Broadway Start Date by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick and Michael Gioia

Nerds, the new musical about tech giants Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, will begin Broadway previews April 1, one day later than originally announced. The production will bow at the Longacre The…

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PM

Tickets Go on Sale Today for Motown’s Broadway Return by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Tickets go on sale to the general public Feb. 16 for the midsummer Broadway encore of Motown The Musical, the hit show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, which ended a 738&…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Review: ‘A Grand Night for Singing’ at Montgomery Playhouse and Arts on the Green by Paul M. Bessel and Barbara Braswell

Question: Where can you hear more than 30 wonderful songs from the legendary team of Rodgers and Hammerstein performed by talented local artists? Answer: The current production of A Grand N…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:07PM

Laurie Metcalf Inflicts Misery on Bruce Willis for the Final Time on Broadway Today by Andrew Gans and Olivia Clement

Misery, the new Broadway suspense thriller based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, plays its final performance at the Broadhurst Theatre Feb. 14 at 3 P…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Verdict: Are the Critics Taking a Chance on Encores! Cabin in the Sky? by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winners Chuck Cooper and LaChanze as well as Tony nominee Norm Lewis star in the City Center Encores! staging of the 1940 Vernon Duke-John Latouche musical Cabin in the Sky, w…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51PM

TheatreWorks: A packed 2016-17 season is announced by John Orrdaily News Arts and Entertainment Editor

Hershey Felder is continuing to break his own TheatreWorks box-office record for his "Iriving Berlin" show, which is at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts through Sunday, and i…

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:09PM

Disney’s Frozen Sets Denver 2017 Pre-Broadway Premiere by Adam Hetrick and Robert Viagas

The stage adaptation of Disney's hit animated film musical Frozen will premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in August 2017 prior to a spring 2018 Broadway arrival.

SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57PM

Exclusive! Hear Megan Mullally and “Frozen” Star Josh Gad in “Sofia the First” (Video) by Robert Viagas and Olivia Clement

The day after "Frozen" makes its Disney Channel premiere Feb. 14, animated characters voiced by two Broadway favorites, Megan Mullally and Josh Gad, will make return appearances on…

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Broadway’s Amazing Grace Sets Date for Cast Album Release; Tour Planned by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

The Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which closed Oct. 25, 2015, at the Nederlander Theatre, has been recorded by DMI Soundtracks and will be released in digital and CD formats on Feb. 26.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AM

Chuck Cooper, LaChanze, Norm Lewis Star in Encores! Cabin in the Sky, Starting Tonight by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winners Chuck Cooper and LaChanze as well as Tony nominee Norm Lewis star in the Feb. 10-14 City Center Encores! staging of the 1940 Vernon Duke-John Latouche musical Cabi…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

TheatreWorks sets new box-office record with 'Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin' by John Orrdaily News Arts and Entertainment Editor

Just weeks after setting its box-office record with "Jane Austen's 'Emma,'" TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has broken the record again, with "Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin" -- which still has…

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:02AM
Monday, February 8, 2016

Casting Announced for First Mentor Project Play at Cherry Lane by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre has announced casting for the first in its series of Mentor Project plays, Christopher Gabriel Núñez's The Surgeon and He…

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats to Preen on Screen? by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Tom Hooper, who directed the hit 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables, is in talks to film the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, according to The Sun of London.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PM

Tickets Go on Pre-Sale Today for Motown’s Broadway Return by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

Tickets go on pre-sale Feb. 8 for the Broadway encore of Motown The Musical, the hit show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, which ended a 738-performance Broadway …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM

Megan Hilty (Episode 59) by Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

YOU GUYS!!!! We don't even know what to say!!! Megan Hilty is a dream and a delight and a perfect guest! She is just as warm, charming, and fabulous as you're imagining. AND she makes a kill…

SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AM
Saturday, February 6, 2016

Review: ‘1776’ at McLean Community Players by Paul M. Bessel and Barbara Braswell

Who would have thought you could make a musical about something as serious as starting a revolution? Well, with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone, the 1969 Tony Aw…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PM
Friday, February 5, 2016

Super Bowl Prep! Football Terms Explained for Theatre People by Michael Gioia and Robbie Rozelle

Another Super Bowl is heading our way this Sunday. You've been invited to a party, but you're facing a dilemma: You're only educated in theatre! In our below list, Playbill.com e…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM

Review: Alliance’s “Disgraced” tells a provocative tale of race and religion, and tells it really well by Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer

Both a Pulitzer Prize winner and a 2015 Tony Award nominee for Best Play, Disgraced is one of the most talked about, provocative plays around,

SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AM

The Verdict: Did Critics Applaud Another Word for Beauty, About Prison Beauty Contest? by Robert Viagas and Olivia Clement

Another Word for Beauty, a new music-and-movement-filled play by Oscar nominee José Rivera ("The Motorcycle Diaries"), had its world premie…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AM
Monday, February 1, 2016

Producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Take You Inside the Palace (Video) by Robert Viagas and Mark Shenton

Producers of the forthcoming London blockbuster Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have released a video taking fans inside the West End's venerable Palace Theatre, whic…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AM

Joanna Vanderham as Juliet: ‘The mask of night is on my face’ – video by Dan Susman, Jess Gormley, Pascal Wyse, Chris Wiegand, Emma John and Liese Spencer

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Vanderham speaks Juliet’s monologue from the balcony sc…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AM

Eileen Atkins as Emilia in Othello: ‘If wives do fall’ – video by Dan Susman, Jess Gormley, Pascal Wyse, Chris Wiegand, Emma John and Liese Spencer

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia’s lines from Othello, act IV scene…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AM

David Morrissey as Richard III: ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ – video by Dan Susman, Jess Gormley, Pascal Wyse, Chris Wiegand, Emma John and Liese Spencer

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Morrissey speaks the opening lines from Richard III in whi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AM

Roger Allam as King Lear: ‘Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks’ – video by Dan Susman, Jess Gormley, Pascal Wyse, Emma John, Liese Spencer and Chris Wiegand

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AM

Katie Mitchell, British theatre’s queen in exile by Written By Charlotte Higgins, Read By Ruth Barnes and Produced By Simon Barnard

Her champions regard Katie Mitchell as Britain’s greatest living stage director – but her critics see a vandal smashing up the classics. After staging her most ambitious work in Europe, …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM

Alex Brightman (Episode 58) by Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

There is no other way to say it, Theater People, with Alex Brightman’s turn as Dewey in the brand new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical School of Rock, a star is born. His energy, his passion, a…

SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AM

Box Office for Shuffle Along, With Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell, Opens Today by Robert Viagas and Adam Hetrick

The Music Box Theatre box office opens Feb. 1 at 10 AM for tickets to the anticipated new production Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Grease: Live – watch it with us - live! by Alex Needham and Brian Moylan

We’ve got chills, and they’re multiplyin’ ... probably because the TV musical Grease: Live is on and we’re live-blogging it. Please join us on the couch for some hand-jiving, bomber …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55PM

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