Thursday, January 15, 2015
Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne, Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and Meryl Streep are among the nominees for the 87th Academy Awards, which were announced Jan. 15 at 8:30 AM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AM1622 Birthday of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by the nom de plume Moliere (1622-1673), one of France's greatest playwrights, who will go on to write Tartuffe, School for Wives, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Teddy Nicholas and Maura Donohue discuss Faye Driscoll's THANK YOU FOR COMING: ATTENDANCE.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:55PM1903 Opening night of The Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett play about a child, much in the same vein as her The Secret Garden. Little Princess will run just 34 performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Disney's hit film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods, starring Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick and James Corden, will be released March 24 on Blu-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:12PMDerek Hough, the Emmy Award-winning choreographer from ABC's "Dancing With The Stars," will co-star with Tony Award winner Laura Benanti in the New York Spring Spectacu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AM1925 Birthday of one of Broadway's all-time greatest leading ladies, Gwen Verdon (1925-2000). She was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actress or Featured Actress in a Musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 12, 2015
Cartoons depicting Muhammad are unthinkable in Muslim countries. But there are plenty of homegrown satirists poking fun at reactionaries, autocrats and jihadis. Our writers in Egypt, Turkey,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:37PM1878 Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952) is born today in Budapest. He will write The Good Fairy, The Play's the Thing, The Guardsman, The Swan and Liliom, the latter of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHere's our chance to share one of our favorite theater podcasts! Broadway actors Mo Brady ('The Adams Family') and Nikka Graff Lanzarone ('Women on the Verge...' and 'Chicago') talk with us …
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSunday, January 11, 2015
1899 "I would rather play Ibsen than eat — and that's often what it amounts to," said Eva Le Gallienne, born in London today. Her determination and drive will lead her to a s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, January 10, 2015
1820 Birthday of Louisa Lane Drew, matriarch of the Drew and Barrymore acting dynasty that would eventually include John Drew, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and today'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27AMFriday, January 9, 2015
Classic Stage Company's A Month in the Country, starring "Game of Thrones" actor Peter Dinklage and "Orange is the New Black" star Taylor Schilling, begins performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMYoung performers who sing and also play musical instruments are being sought in a nationwide casting call for the upcoming Broadway premiere of School of Rock. Andrew Lloyd Webber will bring…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMThe hit London revival of Miss Saigon, which opened May 21, 2014, at the West End's Prince Edward Theatre, has extended its booking through Sept. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMThursday, January 8, 2015
1900 Blanche Bates, who will go on to play Cho-Cho San in Madame Butterfly, now stars in David Belasco's Naughty Anthony. Oliver Redpath co-stars in this comedy at the Herald Squ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, January 7, 2015
The soundtrack to the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods has broken into the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMTuesday, January 6, 2015
Two-time Tony nominee Mary Testa and Tony-winning orchestrator and arranger Michael Starobin make a special Jan. 6 in-store appearance at the Upper East Side Barnes and Noble to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AM1768 Birthday of John Durang (1768-1816), identified by scholars as one of the first American-born professional dancers and actors. Known for his "Dwarf Dance," "Sailo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, January 5, 2015
Golden Globe nominee Emma Stone, who made her Broadway debut in the return of Cabaret last November, will extend her run as Sally Bowles an additional two weeks of performances, Roundabout T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, January 4, 2015
1905 Quivery-voiced actor Sterling Holloway (1905-1992) is born today in Cedartown, GA. He will become a fixture of Broadway's The Garrick Gaieties revues of the 1920s and '3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, January 3, 2015
1909 Birthday of Victor Borge (1909-2000), pianist and comedian whose 1953 Comedy in Music ran 888 performances, the longest run ever for a solo musical on Broadway. He followed it with …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 2, 2015
PS Classics' two-disc cast album of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of the musical comedy On the Town, featuring a score by Leonard Bernstein, will now arrive in e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PMDisney's hit animated musical film "Frozen" will be screened in special sing-a-long edition presentations at London's Dominion Theatre this February.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AM1910 American actress Agnes Booth dies today at age of 63. She was the wife of Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. and the sister-in-law of Edwin Booth.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 1, 2015
Never mind getting fit or giving up smoking – will this be the year you finally read In Search of Lost Time? Our critics share their arts goals for 2015 Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMWednesday, December 31, 2014
1879 World premiere of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York, with Alice Barnett as Ruth.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, December 30, 2014
Disney's hit "Frozen," which has become the highest-grossing animated feature of all time, was one of the most pirated films of the year, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PMMonday, December 29, 2014
The world-premiere engagement of the new Sheryl Crow musical Diner, based on the 1989 Barry Levinson film, has sold out its entire run at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMSunday, December 28, 2014
The beloved Broadway beltress shares stories of moving to NYC fresh out of high school and booking her fist Broadway gig. She also tells all about her incredible career, including being hand…
SOURCE: Buzzsprout at 12:00AMSaturday, December 27, 2014
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, smartwatches, the return of the Large Hadron Collider, the rugby World Cup in Britain, a flood of classic drama on TV and a critical climate summit – some …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PM 
