Thursday, October 8, 2015
Today, Jennifer Ashley Tepper is the Director of Programming at 54 Below and author of "The Untold Stories of Broadway" book series. But only yesterday (it seems), she was a 12-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:27PMTony Award nominee Laura Osnes (Cinderella), Corey Cott (Gigi) and Tony winner Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone) star in The Bandstand, a new musical directed and choreographed by Andy Blan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, October 7, 2015
The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's Old Times officially opened Oct. 6 at 7 PM following previews that began Sept. 17 at the American Airlines Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMThis week we're bringing you a special mini episode with a focus on the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway play "Hamlet in Bed," now playing at the Rattlestick Playwrights's Theater. The play…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's Old Times officially opened Oct. 6 at 7 PM following previews that began Sept. 17 at the American Airlines Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06PMComplete casting has now been announced for the Broadway revival of The Color Purple starring Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo. Performances begin Nov. 10 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMThe acclaimed London revival of Gypsy, starring Imelda Staunton, is being filmed for broadcast on BBC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMThe Broadway revival of the musical The Color Purple, starring Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo, opens its box office at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre at 10 AM Oct. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
Vicky Featherstone, director of London’s Royal Court theatre, has said audiences are less at ease with female leads than with male ones. Is she right?Mark Shenton, joint lead critic and as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AMFriday, October 2, 2015
"Dancing With the Stars" winner Rumer Willis, who is currently starring as Roxie Hart in the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago, will play two concerts at Feinstein's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMThursday, October 1, 2015
Producer Ben Sprecher says he has found new investors for his storm-tossed musical based on the haunting Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca, and is continuing to move ahead toward a full Br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52PMRehearsals for the world premiere of Prince of Broadway have begun! The show, a new musical celebrating the Broadway career of Tony Award-winning director-producer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMRoundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Thérèse Raquin, featuring a new adaptation by Helen Edmundson, based upon the novel by Émile Zola, begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
Ben Brantley and Anthony Tommasini weigh in on the debate set off by the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to forgo darkening makeup in its latest production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMThe first national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder officially opens Sept. 30 at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, September 28, 2015
The Public Theater is offering a number of free tickets to the first preview of Tony nominee Michael John LaChiusa's First Daughter Suite, a follow-up to the composer's 1993 musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30PMStars came out to honor Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Debbie Allen (West Side Story, Sweet Charity) at NYC Dance Alliance Foundation at its Bright Lights Shining Stars Gala…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMToo funny, brilliant, and downright entertaining for 1 episode, Tony winner Laura Benanti is back for part 2. In this episode we discuss "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," her work…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSaturday, September 26, 2015
Would You Still Love Me If…, the new play about one member of a lesbian couple who decides to undergo gender reassignment surgery, premieres Off-Broadway Sept. 26. Kathleen Tu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 25, 2015
Dates have been set for the acclaimed new musical Dear Evan Hansen by Tony Award-nominated songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. According to an Actors Equity auditio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PMFull casting has now been announced for the the national tour of If/Then, which will reunite original stars Idina Menzel, LaChanze, Anthony Rapp and James Snyder. The tour launches Oct. 13 i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PM"Stonewall" — producer-director Roland Emmerich's controversial film about the 1969 riots outside a Greenwich Village gay bar that ignited the gay rights movement…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, September 24, 2015
Avery Fisher Hall at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was formally renamed David Geffen Hall Sept. 24, after the music and entertainment mogul made a $100 million gift …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44PM"Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris" premiered Sept. 15 on NBC and is doing so much better than expected in the ratings that network executives have postponed a time-slot …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMGrand Central Publishing's book about Lin-Manuel Miranda's new Broadway musical Hamilton, which itself was inspired by Ron Chernow's over-800 page "Alexander Hamilt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PMIn Your Arms, a new "dance-theatre musical" from the composer of Ragtime and Seussical, officially opens Sept. 24 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 23, 2015
The stage musical adaptation of Amélie, starring Samantha Barks in the title role, has extended its world-premiere run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre for a second time.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMMonday, September 21, 2015
The two-disc, physical Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, will be released digitally Sept. 25, but the entire al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:06AMThe two-disc, physical Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, will arrive in stores Oct. 16, but clips were made ava…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:06AMActress Rumer Willis, who was slated to make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running revival of Chicago Sept. 14, joins the Kander and Ebb hit Sept. 21 at the Ambassador The…
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