Thursday, February 26, 2015
The Broadway engagement of Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the history novels by Hilary Mantel about Henry VIII, which will begin performances March 20 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PM1911 Chicago's Columbia Theatre opens its doors today. Architect J.E.O. Pridmore designed this house which seats 1,550. In 1923 it will become the Adelphi. In 1974 its doors will close f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Jennifer Haley's futuristic world now explored in downtown Manhattan
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:30AMThe world premiere of the musical Brooklynite, created by Peter Lerman and Tony Award winner Michael Mayer, officially opens Feb. 25 at the Vineyard Theatre Off-Broadway following previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Disney has announced details of the special features that will be included in the Blu-ray, DVD and digital releases of its hit film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:39PMSasa Yung, a very young writer, reviews "Dances by Very Young Choreographers" at New York Live Arts.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:18PMComedian Stephen Fry walks out of a lead role in West End play Cell Mates and heads for Europe after suffering stage frightStephen Fry returns to London stage 17 years after abandoning Cell …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30AMTony Award winner Paulo Szot, who made his Broadway debut as Emile de Becque in the 2008 revival of South Pacific, returns to the Manhattan nightspot 54 Below Feb. 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1876 Birthday of Broadway comedian Victor Moore (1876-1962), who starred or co-starred in the original casts of many musical comedies, notably Of Thee I Sing, Anything Goes, Louisian…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 23, 2015
Every year, Goodspeed is home to the Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Colony at Goodspeed, which brings together writing teams from across the country – often with collaborators l…
SOURCE: backstagebloggers.wordpress.com at 11:53AM1960 The Dublin Gate Theatre will hear Chimes at Midnight. Orson Welles directs his adaptation of Shakespeare and Holinshead.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 22, 2015
Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne, Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and Meryl Streep are among the nominees for the 87th Academy Awards, which are presented Feb. 22 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywoo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1930 Birthday of Marni Nixon, singer whose voice will be dubbed into the mouths of better-known performers, including Natalie Wood in the film of West Side Story. She will make her Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, February 21, 2015
1879 John Wellington Wells deals his magic and spells for the first time on Broadway with the American premiere of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's The Sorcerer at the old Broadway Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe hit Broadway revival of The Elephant Man, starring four-time Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, concludes its run Feb. 21 at the Booth Theatre. The production, which will transfer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 20, 2015
Do you love classic Broadway theatre? Do you love the work of legendary Broadway composers? Do you love clever satire, glittering costumes, and talented performers? If so, you will absolute…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58AM1893 Birthday of playwright and producer Russel Crouse (1893-1966), whose prodigious output of scripts, many in partnership with Howard Lindsay, includes State of the Union and The Great…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 19, 2015
1900 A week-long engagement at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre by the Irish Literary Theatre does not cause much of a stir. The company stages The Bending of the Bough by George Moore, Maeve…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Award-winning comedians and writers Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have been announced to lend their voices as the New York Public Library's famed lion statues in New York Spring Spectacul…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMAs his first solo album hits the stage, the You Am I singer asks playwright Aidan Fennessy the all important question: ‘what the hell were you thinking?’ Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51AMMonday, February 16, 2015
1898 Birthday of Broadway leading lady and producer Katharine Cornell (1898-1974), who starred in and/or produced A Bill of Divorcement, The Age of Innocence, The Barretts of Wimpole Str…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, February 14, 2015
The New York Times reports that the planned $25 million sale of Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre to the Off-Broadway non-profit Second Stage, may be in peril.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM1882 Birthday of John Barrymore (1882-1942), actor in the grand style, and scion of the Barrymore acting clan. Though he began as a light comedian, he became identified with the classics…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18AMFriday, February 13, 2015
Helen Hayes, the first lady of the American stage, has been accused of dirty dealing.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:10PM1904 Future set and costume designer Oliver Messel is born today in London.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 12, 2015
1903 Birthday of Broadway leading man Todd Duncan (1903-1998), who will create the role of Porgy in Porgy and Bess, and star in the original productions of Lost in the Stars and Cabin in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 11, 2015
John Cameron Mitchell, the co-creator and original star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, who is reprising his performance in the Broadway production, will take a week-long hiatus from t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:41PM1901 A man marries his fiancee On the Quiet because his parents want him to finish Yale. Playwright Augustus Thomas based this comedy on a real incident. It unfolds at the Madison Square The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Here it is… my last interview from the Festival! I met with the fantastic Jen Tepper, historian behind The Untold Stories of Broadway, Director of Programming at 54 Below, and Assist…
SOURCE: backstagebloggers.wordpress.com at 09:18PMMonday, February 9, 2015
James Barbour, a Drama Desk nominee for A Tale of Two Cities, assumes the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera beginning Feb. 9 at the Majestic Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1865 Birthday of actress Beatrice Stella Tanner, better known by her stage name, Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865-1940). She had a long correspondence with playwright George Bernard Shaw, and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
