Monday, May 25, 2015
The couple literally tied the knot at a traditional 'Baci' marriage blessing during a holiday in Laos, the Daily Mail has learned.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 05:58PMWith its cascading delays and cast injuries, the troubled birth of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” on Broadway has attracted a great deal of attention. Thus inspired, City Room p…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMSunday, May 24, 2015
1925 Godfrey Tearle is Hamlet in the Fellowship Players production at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The Fellowship offers Sunday performances so these employed professionals have the chance t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony nominated composer of "Fun Home" talks her five-year journey with the piece -- how she and book writer Lisa Kron worked tirelessly to turn Alison Bechdel's graphic novel into the gr…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMFriday, May 22, 2015
1907 Birthday of Laurence Olivier (1907-1989), preeminent British actor of his generation. His dozens of notable appearances included Romeo and Juliet, The Entertainer, Becket, Private L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57PMThursday, May 21, 2015
1929 Some of the highlights of A Night in Venice are Ted Healy wrestling bears and the choreography of Busby Berkeley. This revue will run at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway for 22 weeks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, May 20, 2015
1919 Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse call this Kissing Time at London's Winter Garden Theatre. Ivan Caryll provides the music for this tale of complications arising when French ladies carr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 19, 2015
PS Classics' two-CD cast recording of the Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed revival of On the Twentieth Century, starring Kristin Chenoweth, is released May 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 18, 2015
Stage Door Canteen, NY. Photograph by Florence Vandamm. Image ID: ps_the_4036
We have received many questions recently about this, the secondary key image for the exhibition. In t…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:53AM1923 Sweet Nell of Old Drury runs beyond the season at the 48th Street Theatre in New York. Alfred Lunt stars as Charles II and Laurette Taylor as his mistress Nell Gwynne. Lynn Fontanne and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, May 17, 2015
The Las Vegas stage production of The Duck Commander Musical, based on the popular, yet controversial family from the A&E series "Duck Dynasty," end its run May 17…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1907 The new Hippodrome Theatre opens in Portsmouth, England.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWe first discovered the incredible talent that is Lisa Howard back in 2006 when she starred as Rona Lisa Peretti in Bill Finn's '25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,' and became instant f…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMFriday, May 15, 2015
1922 Father and son playwriting team J. C. Nugent and Elliott Nugent come up with Kempy. They also star in this comedy of mixed-up lovers, staged by Augustin Duncan. Performances will ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 14, 2015
From Broadway’s best new musicals to global festivals, the city’s stages keep hot during the summer months
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:11PM1931 Playwright, producer David Belasco dies today in New York City. He began his theatrical life as a child actor in California and started writing plays in his twenties. He adapted the Joh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, May 13, 2015
1907 Writer-playwright Daphne du Maurier is born to actor Gerald and actress Muriel du Maurier. Daphne will later adapt her novel Rebecca into a play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
1905 Theatrical producer Sam S. Shubert dies today in a train accident. His brothers Lee and J.J. will honor him by naming many of the theaters they are to build after him, including their f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMElaine Paige's sell-out 50th anniversary farewell concert I'm Still Here, which was filmed in October 2014 at the Royal Albert Hall, makes its U.S. debut beginning May 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 11, 2015
What, if anything, do the Tony Awards tell us about the state of American theatre? Is Broadway still where the important plays and musicals are staged? On this week’s Out Loud podcast, we…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:18PM1903 In The Runaways with a book by Addison Brukhardt and a score by Raymond Hubbell, the hero is transported to a tropical island and will be made a king. The catch? He must marry the queen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe newly minted Tony nominee talks about his star making turn as Gayby in this years critically acclaimed and Tony nominated revival of 'On the Town.' He shares stories from making his Broa…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSunday, May 10, 2015
1838 John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), perhaps the most infamous actor in American history, is born today. The son of actor Junius Brutus Booth, and brother of actors Junius Brutus Booth Jr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, May 9, 2015
Consider, if you will, a 15-year-old boy growing up in Brooklyn, New York who longs to be a baseball star with the Yankees, but would give up that dream if he could see a naked woman for two…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:05PM1860 Birthday of James M. Barrie (1860-1937), British author and playwright whose creations will include What Every Woman Knows, The Little Minister, The Admirable Crichton and the work …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 8, 2015
With interactive shows continuing to draw in crowds, we rank the most popular Off Broadway events from best to worst
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:20PMJames Lecesne's solo play The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, which recently played a critically acclaimed limited engagement at Dixon Place, will have a commercial run O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMABC has ordered a second season of the musical series "Galavant," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM1892 Birthday of opera singer Ezio Pinza (1892-1957) who made two memorable Broadway appearances, in Fanny and South Pacific, the latter creating the role of Emile deBecque and singing &…
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