Wednesday, August 5, 2015
1977 All Broadway marquee lights are dimmed tonight in honor of actor Alfred Lunt who died two days earlier. This is only the third time up to that point that such an action has been taken.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 4, 2015
Co-producer Neil Meron has tweeted that the name of the actress who has won the coveted role of Dorothy in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz will be announced the morning of Aug. 5 o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PMCo-producer Neil Meron has tweeted that the name of the actress who has won the coveted role of Dorothy in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz will be announced the morning of Aug. 5 o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PMA trailer has been released for "Stonewall" — producer-director Roland Emmerich's film about the 1969 riots outside a Greenwich Village gay bar that ignited the g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM1981 Melvyn Douglas dies today at the age of 80. Born in Macon, Georgia as Melvyn Edouard Heselberg, Douglas went on to become one of the more accomplished stage actors of his generation. Am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 3, 2015
Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick stars with Alice Eve in the forthcoming film "Dirty Weekend," written and directed by playwright Neil LaBute. The film is scheduled to open in c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:59PM1921 Composer Richard Adler is born today. Along with Jerry Ross he will go on to write two of the most influential musicals of the 1950s: The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees. The successful pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGet ready to smile and laugh till it hurts. Tony nominee Montego Glover is about to deliver 43 minutes of pure fun times. She shares stories of making her Broadway debut in 'The Color Purple…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSunday, August 2, 2015
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Artists Respond
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:23PM1900 Birthday of actress and singer Helen Morgan, who rose to fame as a nightclub performer. She had a show at Billy Rose's Backstage Club, where the crowded conditions made her perch on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, August 1, 2015
The Sick of the Fringe initiative highlights the mental health toll of Edinburgh’s endurance testIn Edinburgh from Friday, audiences of festival fringe-goers will sit in the dark in venues…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMImage: OwlPacino at Creative Commons With just one week to go until we take CELL to the biggest arts festival in the world (no pressure!), here’s what we’re doing to prepare. So, by th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:44AM1921 Opening night of the popular farce Getting Gertie's Garter about a man who gives a young woman a jeweled garter, then schemes to get it back before his fiance finds out.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 31, 2015
Emmy winner Valerie Harper, who had been playing the role of Millicent in The Ogunquit Playhouse's production of Nice Work If You Can Get It before falling ill July 29, is resting with h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PMAn injury suffered by co-author Melissa Manchester has forced a postponement of a planned Aug. 7 reading of the new musical Sweet Potato Queens, which she co-authored with Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PMCan't wait until you're seated in the Richard Rodgers Theatre to read the entire Playbill for the acclaimed new Lin-Manuel Miranda musical Hamilton?
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMGrand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, has acquired the rights to Lin-Manuel Miranda's new Broadway musical Hamilton, which itself was inspired by Ron Chernow&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM1967 Judy Garland is At Home at the Palace for a four week engagement at the famed theatre. Following a first act of vaudeville comic Jackie Vernon, soft-shoe and tap dancer John Bubbles…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 30, 2015
Ken Davenport, Cody Lassen, Hunter Arnold and Deaf West Theatre announced July 30 that the actors who played the rebellious students in the acclaimed Deaf West production of Steven Sater and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PMEmmy winner Valerie Harper, who has been playing the role of Millicent in The Ogunquit Playhouse's production of Nice Work If You Can Get It, which began performances July 22 and continu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMEmmy winner Valerie Harper, who has been playing the role of Millicent in The Ogunquit Playhouse's production of Nice Work If You Can Get It, which began performances July 22 and continu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM1983 Broadway lyricist Howard Dietz dies today at age 87. With composer Arthur Schwartz, Dietz wrote the score for The Band Wagon. Other songs by the duo include "Dancing in the Dark,&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, July 29, 2015
Hot on the heels of news that Grammy Award-winning singers Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah have joined the cast of the upcoming live broadcast of the Tony Award-winning musical The W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PMAs the Aug. 6 opening night of Hamilton draws closer, the list of songs titles in the printed Playbill is becoming finalized. That's usual. What's unusual is the fact that the show h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMThe American Repertory Theater's upcoming production of the world premiere of Waitress, the new Sara Bareilles musical, will play the Cambridge, MA venue Aug. 2-Sept. 27 with an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMImage from published sheet music of Little Nemo. Image ID: g99c836_001
A guest post By Brian D. Valencia
In one of two overblown patriotic spectacles, the Act 2 finale of Little Nemo in S…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:21AM1981 An ad in Variety today accuses theatre critic John Simon of being "racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, vicious, and derisive." Included in the ad/protest are excerpts from S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 28, 2015
Grammy Award-winning singers Mary J. Blige and Queen Latifah are the latest stars to board NBC's live broadcast of the Tony Award-winning musical The Wiz, according to EW.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:29PMClassical music lovers in attendance at the LA Philharmonic's July 30 concert at the Hollywood Bowl will briefly see an "understudy" for famed conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMJames Lecesne's solo play The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, which recently played a limited engagement at Dixon Place in New York, officially opened its 12-week commercial r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AM1920 Two of Broadway's greatest songwriting talents make their mainstem debuts today: lyricst Lorenz Hart, age 25, and composer Richard Rodgers, age 18, open their first musical, Poor Li…
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