Tuesday, July 14, 2015
A February 2016 start of previews has been scheduled for American Psycho, the stage musical adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, with music by Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening).
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PM"She's Funny That Way," Peter Bogdanovich's upcoming screwball comedy about a married Broadway director who falls in love with a former prostitute while working on a new sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AM1918 Birthday of playwright Arthur Laurents, who will write numerous plays including The Time of the Cuckoo and Invitation to a March, but who is best known as librettist for musical classic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 13, 2015
1940 Actor Patrick Stewart is born today. A Shakespearean-trained actor, Stewart's Broadway appearances will include a solo production of A Christmas Carol, William Shakespeare&a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22AMSunday, July 12, 2015
Versatile British actor known for his stage roles in Shakespeare and the RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby who found fame in the US in Cheers and The West WingRoger Rees, who has died aged 71 after …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:29AM1895 Birthday of Oscar Hammerstein II, scion of a notable theatrical family who went on to become its most famous and honored member as a lyricist and librettist. Hammerstein enjoyed a major…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Transport Group production of Three Days to See, a play based on the words of American author Helen Keller, begins previews July 12 at Theatre 79.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, July 11, 2015
“Just lots of goodwill and maybe one small thrill, but there’s nothin’ dirty goin’ on!” This concluding line from the honky-tonk song, “Lil Ol’ Pissant Country Place” perfect…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:48PMFans and friends pay tribute to Tony award-winning actor known for roles in The West Wing, Cheers and What You WillRoger Rees, the actor best known for his roles in Cheers and The West Wing,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMJames Lecesne's solo play The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, which recently played a critically acclaimed limited engagement at Dixon Place in New York, begins a 12-week comm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1915 A King is born today... in the form of Yul Brynner. Brynner will, of course, go on to star as one half of the title of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The King And I, opposite Gert…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSag Harbor's Bay Street Theater presents a July 11 concert reading of the first act of The Prince of Egypt, a new stage adaptation of the animated 1998 film by Wicked composer and lyric…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 10, 2015
The Ogunquit Playhouse's production of Nice Work If You Can Get It will tap its way into the Maine venue July 22-Aug. 15, following the current production, Victor/Victoria, which wra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMBarbara Hershey, who created the role of Bertie White in the hit film "Beaches," recently gave her thoughts about the musical version of the property, which is currently playing a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AM1931 "It's Today" — that Jerry Herman is born. Herman will become one of Broadway's great musical theatre composers. Among his esteemed credits are the hits Hello, Dolly!…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 9, 2015
The New York Musical Theater Festival will present Women of Note, a one-night-only concert celebrating women writers in musical theatre. The event will feature songs by the Tony-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMCassie Beck, Reed Birney, Jayne Houdyshell, Greg Keller, Sarah Steele and Joyce Van Patten will star in Pulitzer Prize finalist Stephen Karam's newest play, The Humans, which wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM1930 In today's Variety, a review of a new vaudeville show at the Eighty Sixth Street Theatre singles out a newcomer from the world of cabaret. Reads the review: "She is a good look…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, July 8, 2015
Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown conducted selections from his 2014 musical The Bridges of Madison County as part of a special July 2 concert with the Des Moin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PMEdwin Booth. Stereograph by J. Gurney & Son. Image ID: 89096
When we started to think about an exhibition on Head Shots based on the Library for the Performing Arts’ collections, we…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:52PM1913 Birthday of theatre critic Walter Kerr (1913-1996), namesake of Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre. In addition to his career as a reviewer, which took him from the New York Herald&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 7, 2015
Ryan Andes has replaced John Ellison Conlee in the July 15-18 Encores! Off-Center staging of Andrew Lippa's Wild Party, which will feature Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as Quee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39PM1976 After two years of playing downtown at the Village Gate Theatre, Earl Wilson, Jr.'s play Let My People Come makes the move uptown to Broadway's Morosco Theatre. The show, which …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 6, 2015
1939 A young Hollywood hopeful is forced to watch her own career fizzle as her boyfriend's blossoms in Lew Brown's new musical, Yokel Boy. Lois January and Buddy Ebsen star in the ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 5, 2015
1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the American National Theatre and Academy bill today, calling for a self-supporting national theatre. ANTA will get off to a slow start but wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwo time Tony winner Michael Cerveris invited us to his dressing room at the Circle in the Square Theater to talk 'Fun Home,' 'Tommy,' Assassins,' and more! One of the Broadway's great leadi…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSaturday, July 4, 2015
1898 Birthday of actress Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952), longtime acting partner of Noël Coward (Private Lives, Tonight at 8:30) and star of musicals by the Gershwin brothers (Oh, Kay!, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 3, 2015
1878 The original Yankee Doodle Dandy, George M. Cohan (1878-1942) is born on the 3rd of July, (not the 4th as was family legend) says. A member of the vaudeville team The Four Cohans wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 2, 2015
From TV-loving agoraphobes to those looking for brazen shirtless male strippers, this holiday weekend offers plenty for the culturally curious to exploreYoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:34PMOlive Thomas, the ghost of a Ziegfeld Follies girl believed to haunt a Broadway theatre to this day, will get to cavort on stage for a few more months. Speakeasy Dollhouse: Ziegfeld's Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMFrozen Light theatre company shares what goes into making its multi-sensory work for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilitiesAt Frozen Light we create theatre for audiences…
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