Monday, June 23, 2014
Christy Altomare (Spring Awakening), who starred as good girl Sue Snell in the 2012 Off-Broadway production of Carrie, celebrates a birthday today. She offered Playbill.com readers an exclus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMFriday, June 20, 2014
The cult musical Carrie, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, officially opened in Chicago June 1 following previews that began May 29. Sawyer Smith, who plays bully Billy No…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PMFollowing its big win at the 2014 Tony Awards, Best Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder offered fans the opportunity to pose with the coveted statue at the Walter Kerr Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMDrama Desk nominee Leslie Kritzer, Teal Wicks and Tony Award nominee de'Adre Aziza are among the cast of Piece of My Heart, a new musical based on the life and songs of legendary so…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMThe Tupac Shakur-scored musical Holler If Ya Hear Me, a non-biographical new work directed by 2014 Tony Award winner Kenny Leon about hope, friendship and life on the city streets, officiall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMThe Tupac Shakur-scored musical Holler If Ya Hear Me, a non-biographical new work directed by 2014 Tony Award winner Kenny Leon about hope, friendship and life on the city streets, officiall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMThursday, June 19, 2014
The 24th annual edition of Broadway Bares, entitled Broadway Bares: Rock Hard!, will be presented June 22 at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom, located in the Manhattan Center. As we …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMIn an effort to encourage more productions of works by female playwrights, a list of 46 plays written by women and recommended for production has been released by an advocacy group called Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PMThe Broadway podcast The Ensemblist headed to Birdland Jazz Club June 16 to celebrate its first anniversary with a live show. Ensemblist creators Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone invited …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMGrammy winner Patti LaBelle, who was last seen on Broadway in Fela!, began performances June 10 in the Tony Award-nominated musical revue After Midnight. Renee Elise Goldsberry was at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMEmmy Award-winning "Glee" star Jane Lynch made her solo concert debut beginning June 18 at 54 Below. She and special guests offered a sneak peek earlier that day.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMKenneth Lonergan's 1996 drama This Is Our Youth, starring Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson, began its pre-Broadway Chicago engagement June 10 at the Steppenwolf Theatre Comp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' production of Side Show, which began previews June 14, officially opens June 19 in the Eisenhower Theater. Performances continue throu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
Leslie Odom Jr. and Tony winners Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo will star in the New York City Center Encores! Off-Center production of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick… BOOM!.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:39PMTala Ashe, Greg Keller, Nadine Malouf and Bernard White star in the LCT3 New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar's The Who & The What, which officially opened Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PMJoel Marsh Garland, known for his work as Officer O'Neill on "Orange Is the New Black," is pulling double-duty and appearing 8 shows a week in Broadway's Of Mice and Men. He documented a bu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:49PMBill Irwin, Harriet Harris, Kirsten Wyatt and John Bolton headline San Francisco Opera's large-scale summer production of Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's Show Boat, helmed by Fra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMThe world premiere of When We Were Young And Unafraid, Sarah Treem's new play about an underground women's shelter in the early 1970s, officially opened June 17 following previews th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMTuesday, June 17, 2014
Five-time Emmy Award-winning comedian Wanda Sykes hosted the 2014 TrevorLIVE June 16 in New York at the Marriott Marquis. "Rock of Ages" director Adam Shankman helmed the evening.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMDouglas Carter Beane's 2013 drama The Nance, which was produced by Lincoln Center Theater and starred two-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, will be seen in more than 300 movie theatres…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMFive-time Emmy Award-winning comedian Wanda Sykes hosted the 2014 TrevorLIVE June 16 in New York at the Marriott Marquis. "Rock of Ages" director Adam Shankman helmed the evening.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMLily Rabe and Hamish Linklater co-star as would-be lovers Beatrice and Benedick, respectively, in the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing, which…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMPlaybill.com launched its 30 Days of Pride initiative June 1, profiling the dynamic voices of the LGBT community and pioneers of the stage. As part of the celebration, the company has switc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway favorite Telly Leung, currently playing Teen Angel in Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Grease, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, June 16, 2014
LGBT activist and The Normal Heart scribe Larry Kramer attended the Tony-nominated Broadway production of Mothers and Sons June 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:22PMActress Jessie Fisher, who has stood-by for the role of "Girl" in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Once, will assume the leading role in the musical June 17 at the Ber…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMPaper Mill Playhouse concludes its 75th anniversary season with the beloved musical Grease. Tommy Bracco, who plays Sonny, shares a recent "kissy-face-themed" day at the famed New Jersey ve…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMBarrington Stage Company, under the leadership of artistic director Julianne Boyd and managing director Tristan Wilson, presents the company's 20th anniversary season opener, Kiss Me, Ka…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMSunday, June 15, 2014
Neil Patrick Harris, who won the 2014 Tony Award for his performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, celebrates a birthday June 15. Harris who rose to fame as the young star of "Doogie How…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 13, 2014
The U.S. premiere of Nancy Harris' play Our New Girl officially opened Off-Broadway June 10 at Atlantic Stage 2 following previews that began May 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PMJoanna Christie, who stars as Girl in the Tony Award-winning musical Once, plays her final performance June 15. This winter the British actress documented a two-show day, showing her mornin…
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