Thursday, April 23, 2015
A dialogue on dance, theater, and intuitive responses centered around David Neumann / Advanced Beginner Group's 'I Understand Everything Better' at Abrons Art Center through April 25.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:01PMElaine Paige's sell-out 50th anniversary farewell concert I'm Still Here, which was filmed in October 2014 at the Royal Albert Hall, begins worldwide screenings April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1564 Okay, no one's actually certain that April 23, 1564 was William Shakespeare's birthday, but that's the accepted date. Over the next 52 years, the Bard would pen such works a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 22, 2015
To make tickets more affordable to students and other theatregoers on a budget, many Off-Broadway shows have implemented rush, lottery and inexpensive ticket policies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMThere's more to Broadway than what you see in production photos and opening night coverage! Former Broadway press representative David LeShay, currently the director of marketing and pub…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMThere's more to Broadway than what you see in production photos and opening night coverage! Former Broadway press representative David LeShay, currently the director of marketing and pub…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMStage and screen star Stanley Tucci is the latest actor to join the cast of Disney's live-action movie musical Beauty and the Beast, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AM1895 Broadway debut of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Henry Miller as Jack Worthing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
After the wildly successful 2013 edition of Across A Crowded Room, we are about to launch a second edition that is more exciting than ever before.
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SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:26PM1925 Tallulah Bankhead and Edna Best are Fallen Angels at London's Globe Theatre. Noël Coward's comedy describes two wives who get drunk while trying to get even with their husbands…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 20, 2015
1908 The four Cohans (George, Helen, Jerry and Josephine) are the stars of The Yankee Prince. George M. Cohan wrote, directed and co-produced this musical at Broadway's Knickerbocker…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 19, 2015
1946 Actor Tim Curry is born in Cheshire, England. He will create memorable Broadway roles including Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Mozart in Amadeus, Dada artist Tristan Tzara in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, April 18, 2015
The co-writers of a play about the attempted assassination of Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet reveal their prep and process, and offer tips for other writers Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30AM1936 In Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead the task becomes impossible as the six dead soldiers refuse the grave. This one-act protest against the war will run three months at the Ethel Barr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 17, 2015
Irving Berlin. Photograph by Vandamm Studio.
Frank Sinatra was, as the Library for the Performing Arts exhibition attests, an American icon. The project, a collaboration of LPA and the …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:55PM1917 John Barrymore stars in Gerald DuMaurier's Peter Ibbetson at Broadway's Republic Theatre. Lionel Barrymore, Constance Collier, Madge Evans, and Laura Hope Crews are also in the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 16, 2015
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division is proud to announce that the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Inc, records, Additions is now open. This collection is 141.44 linear feet comprising 315 bo…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:53PM1906 John Philip Sousa supplies the music for The Free Lance. Herbert Gresham stage this 35 performance run at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
There's a new breed of performer at comedy festivals alongside the usual array of standup and cabaret. They come direct from YouTube and in some cases massive internet celebrity. We spoke to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57PMMusic Theatre International (MTI), already the largest company in the field of licensing performance rights to musicals in its extensive catalogue in America, has announced a big internation…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:43AM1929 In The Camel Through the Needle's Eye, Miriam Hopkins plays a poor woman who discovers the hard way that money can't buy happiness. This drama will run six months.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
1865 Our American Cousin starring Laura Keene is in performance tonight when John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. Booth's broth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 13, 2015
At the 2015 Melbourne International Comedy festival, we hear from five comedians about the times they would probably rather forget. Josie Long, Sara Pascoe, Tessa Waters, Zoe Coombs Marr and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:09PMLouis Moreau Gottschalk cover caricature in Vanity Fair (October 11, 1862)
This week marks the 150th anniversary of the final battles of the Civil War, followed all too closely by the anniv…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:47PMThe Tony Award-winning musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder will launch its first national tour in September, producer Joey Parnes announced April 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PM1886 Birthday of Willie Howard (1886-1949), half of the comedy team of Willie and Eugene Howard, who will appear in vaudeville, in musicals Sally and Girl Crazy, and in various editions …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 12, 2015
1905 The colossal Hippodrome Theatre opens on Broadway today. The inaugural production is the colorful extravaganza A Yankee Circus on Mars. It will run 176 performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16AMAt long last, our interview with Rocky himself! Andy sits down with us to discuss his earlier work in 'Legally Blonde, and 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' before telling all about starring as t…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSaturday, April 11, 2015
1914 Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Herbert Beerbohm Tree are the very first Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins. George Bernard Shaw's tale of class and character, Pygmalion, wins 118 perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, April 10, 2015
1868 Birthday of master actor George Arliss, who starred in a series of historical vehicles, including Hamilton and Disraeli.
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