Sunday, August 30, 2015
After three sold-out June shows at 54 Below nightclub, actors from the original Broadway production of Spring Awakening and its national tour are coming together again Aug. 30 to present…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, August 27, 2015
Magicians from the Broadway-bound prestidigitation extravaganza, The Illusionists, plan to materialize on the Sept. 2 episode of "America's Got Talent" to add a touch of il…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PM1878 Birthday of Sam S. Shubert (1878-1905), co-founder of the theatre-owning and producing titan, the Shubert Organization. Broadway's Shubert Theatre is named for him.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Emmy and Tony Award winner Stockard Channing, "Into the Woods" star and Tony nominee Billy Magnussen and 11 others have joined the cast for the Oct. 26 reading of six new 10-mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PM1880 Broadway director-producer Philip Moeller is born today in New York. Among his greatest theatrical achievements are productions of Biography, Elizabeth the Queen, Mourning Becomes E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
The Dragon Productions Theatre continues to thrive since its move from Palo Alto to Redwood City in 2012.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:42PMWomen's Project Theater, founded in 1978 to develop, produce and promote the work of women theatre artists, has announced its upcoming season lineup at its new artistic home under a new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM1918 Birthday of composer Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), who will bridge the worlds of classical and Broadway, both as conductor for the New York Philharmonic and as composer of classic …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 24, 2015
Jennifer Hudson, who will play Shug Avery in the upcoming Broadway revival of The Color Purple recorded the title song with her co-star Cynthia Erivo for Entertainment Weekly and People …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:24PM1985 Morrie Ryskind dies in his home in Washington, DC. The playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman, Ira Gershwin, and George Gershwin on three musicals, Strike Up the Band, Let &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, August 22, 2015
1922 Theoni V. Aldredge, one of Broadway's foremost costume designers of the late 20th century, is born today in Greece. Included among her dozens of Broadway projects will be A Chorus L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12AMFriday, August 21, 2015
The Library for the Performing Arts is having a photogenic summer. Between Sinatra in the Oenslager Gallery and Geoffrey Holder in the Corridor Gallery, we have many examples of compelling i…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:16PMA reading of the new musical The Sting, based on the 1973 film of the same name, was held in Manhattan at the beginning of the month, according to the New York Post.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AMThursday, August 20, 2015
Cast members from the blockbuster new musical Hamilton, which recently opened to widespread critical acclaim at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, are recording the show's cast album this wee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMStage and screen star Taye Diggs, who was part of the original company of Broadway's Rent, is currently starring in the Main Stem debut of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the 2014 Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMChanges in the ticket lottery system have been announced for Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival that will play its final performance at the Belas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMIt was predicted that New Orleans would take a decade to recover from Hurricane Katrina. On the 10th anniversary of the costliest natural disaster in US history, four residents from very dif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM1884 Actress Julia Sanderson, one of musical theatre's leading ladies during the first decades of the 20th century, is born today as Julia Sackett. Shows in which she starred included Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur officially opens Off-Broadway Aug. 19, following previews that began Aug. 5. The Linney Courtyard at the Signature Theatre is completely tr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1873 Birthday of comedian Fred Stone (1873-1959) who, partnered with David Montgomery, became one of the most beloved Broadway performers of the early 20th century. Among their notable h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 18, 2015
The "Broadway 4D" project in the heart of Times Square — which plans to immerse theatregoers in a film experience that celebrates the history of Broadway musicals &md…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PMAlthough the show is long gone, the Backstage Bloggers have had one remaining post left from Theory of Relativity, which has been replaced at the Norma Terris Theater by the new musical My P…
SOURCE: backstagebloggers.wordpress.com at 04:14PMSheridan Smith will star in the first major London production of Funny Girl since its original 1966 West End run this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMA Desert Island Discs spoof, brooding circus performers who strip naked and a Yoko Ono-inspired love-fest … our critics choose their hot tickets at this year’s fringeO No!In less skilled…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49AM1873 Birthday of Otto Harbach (1873-1963) who will write lyrics and/or book for more than three dozen musicals including Roberta; No, No, Nanette; The Cat and the Fiddle; Rose-Marie …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 17, 2015
Cast members from the blockbuster new musical Hamilton, which recently opened to widespread critical acclaim at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, are recording the show's cast album this wee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AMThe box office at Broadway's Marquis Theatre opens Aug. 17 for On Your Feet!, the new musical based on the lives of seven-time Grammy winner Gloria Estefan and her husband, producer&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AM1871 Playwright Jesse Lynch Williams is born today. During the 1917-1918 theatre season, Williams' play, Why Marry, will win the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for drama.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, August 16, 2015
1913 Montague Glass' comedy Potash and Perlmutter begins a hit run at the Cohan Theatre, starring George Sidney and Alexander Carr as the hapless pair.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, August 15, 2015
1879 The legendary Barrymore theatre family gets one more to add to its roster today as Ethel Barrymore is born. Her father is actor Maurice Barrymore and her brothers are John and Lionel. B…
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