Sunday, June 21, 2015
WE LOVE KERRY BUTLER! The 'Xanadu' star (and Tony nominee!!) Kerry Butler shares memories from her amazing career on and off-Broadway. From 'Bat Boy' to 'Hairspray' to 'Little Shop of Horror…
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The long-running Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks narrowly averted closing May 3 when a pair of deep-pocketed fans stepped in to help producers with a sum that they sai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1905 Birthday of playwright Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), who will go on to write The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, Watch on the Rhine and the book to…
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1939 Lee and J. J. Shubert collaborate with Hellzapoppin creators Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson to present The Streets of Paris on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. The revue's stars inc…
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July 9 at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End BAFTA Award-winning writer and actor Stephen Merchant makes his West End debut in Richard Bean’s comic two-hander The Mentalists, runni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:34AM1956 The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario kicks off its season with productions of Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia. Also include…
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Prior to its world premiere at Hartford Stage next spring, the stage adaptation of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's animated feature "Anastasia" was presented June 12 in a st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM1943 George Marion, Jr. and Thomas "Fats" Waller's Early to Bed — the first musical comedy of the 1943-1944 season — opens on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. Descr…
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1888 Birthday of Broadway comedian Bobby Clark (1888-1960), best known for his drawn-on eyeglasses and slapstick comedy style, often in tandem with sidekick Paul McCullough. Clark…
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1894 Birthday of Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), orchestrator of Broadway classics including the original Sunny; Show Boat; Anything Goes; Oklahoma!; Annie Get Your Gun; Kiss Me, Kat…
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1929 Birthday of Broadway composer Cy Coleman, (1929-2004) whose multidextrous scores for shows like Sweet Charity, I Love My Wife, On the Twentieth Century, The Will Rogers Follies, The…
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Hearken back to New Jersey in the 1980s when self-absorbed Yuppies worshipped Wall Street, hair gel, and blow dryers, and you have the setting for the 2006 Tony-nominated Broadway musical, T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:10PM1963 Stage actor Howard Da Silva finds himself at the other end of the spectrum: as director of a Lewis John Carlino double bill. Shelley Winters and Jack Warden star in the two one acts, Sn…
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1961 American ideals and and practices are put on trial as The Red Eye of Love opens at New York's Living Theatre. The satire by Arnold Weinstein will last 169 performances.
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In an audio play specially commissioned for the Guardian, a fisherman confronts the tide of refugees sweeping across the MediterraneanWARNING: contains strong languageIn this special edition…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMFollowing the sold-out June 8 New York concert of Bombshell, the fictional show from "Smash" that musicalizes the life story of Marilyn Monroe, many are wondering what the next…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AM1955 The American actor-manager Walter Hampden dies in Hollywood at age 75. In 1925 he leased the Colonial Theatre and played in revivals of Ibsen and Shakespeare. Cyrano de Bergerac was…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19AMWednesday, June 10, 2015
TV star Raven-Symoné, who made her Broadway debut in 2012 as the wimple-wearing disco diva of Broadway's Sister Act at the Broadway Theatre, has been tapped as new co&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMTony Award winners Gabriel Ebert and Judith Light, along with Matt Ryan, star of the NBC series "Constantine," will join Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley in Helen Edmundson…
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Gigi, the new Broadway adaptation of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s Oscar- and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, will play its final performance on Sunday, June 21 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:40PMDisenchanted!, the Off-Broadway musical that pokes fun at the world of fairy-tale princesses, will close Sunday, June 14 after 30 previews and 139 regular performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15PMAre you a titan of the theatre or have the fates abandoned you? As the Almeida puts on a festival inspired by Dionysus, test your knowledge of Greek drama Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMTony Award-winning comic actor Jason Alexander, best known for playing George Costanza on the sitcom "Seinfeld," replaces author/star Larry David in the Broadway hit Fish in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, June 8, 2015
Broadway public relations firm O&M, headed by president Rick Miramontez, hosted its annual Tony Award post-show celebration at the Carlyle late Sunday night. O&M is represented o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PM“Fun Home,” winner of the best musical, and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” best play, each collected five awards.
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1909 Birthday of Broadway star Jessica Tandy (1909-1994), who created many landmark roles including Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Agnes in A Delicate Balance and Fonsia in …
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This week sees the film premiere of London Road, a musical based on one of Britain’s most infamous serial killings. Local people say the area has finally moved on from a tragic timeWhen re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08PM1954 Playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein is born today. Fierstein will win Tony Awards for writing and performing in his play Torch Song Trilogy, as well as for his book for the musical La…
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Kelli O'Hara took time out of her busy awards season schedule to don Randi Rahm couture gowns at The Empire Hotel for a photo shoot with Broadway Style Guide.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMTony Award-winning comic actor Jason Alexander, best known for playing George Costanza on the sitcom "Seinfeld," made a surprise appearance in Broadway's Fish in the Dark J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AM1939 Actor James Barton, a star of the Broadway hit Tobacco Road, returns to the show today after having been fired the previous February after quarreling with his co-stars backstage. Bo…
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