Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Song and Dance opened on this date in 1985. It would earn Bernadette Peters her first Tony Award. We look back at that show and other Bernadette Greatest Hits!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMThe world-premiere staging of Secondhand Lions, the new musical by Michael Weiner, Alan Zachary and Tony Award winner Rupert Holmes, began previews Sept. 7 in Seattle. Gregg Edelman, Mark Ja…
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The American Repertory Theater production of All The Way, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan's new drama that stars Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43PMAnna Nicole, the Mark-Anthony Turnage-Richard Thomas opera about late tabloid and reality star Anna Nicole Smith, receives its U.S. debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music beginning Sept. 17 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PMMusical theatre favorite Heather Parcells (A Chorus Line, Wonderland) is back on Broadway in Soul Doctor, a new musical about the life of controversial Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. She shares a t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMReeve Carney, who originated the dual roles of Peter Parker and Spider-Man in Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, took his final flight with the musical Sept. 15. At curtain call, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMEthan Coen’s first full-length play, Women Or Nothing, officially opened Sept. 16 following previews that began Aug. 28 at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMAngela Lansbury, Glenn Close, Richard Kind, Sierra Boggess and more saluted Tony Award-winning Broadway director-producer Harold Prince during the American Theatre Wing's annual gala Sep…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMJeremy Hays, who recently took over the role of Raoul in Broadway's long-running Phantom of the Opera, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-cu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMonday, September 16, 2013
Tony winner Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of A Time to Kill, based on John Grisham’s best-selling novel, will begin previews Sept. 28 at the John Golden Theatre. The cast g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PMAdam Jacobs and Courtney Reed, who co-starred as Aladdin and Jasmine in the Seattle premiere of Disney's Aladdin, will reprise their performances on Broadway. Producers announced the com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMThe new Broadway musical Big Fish, a father-and-son tale based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the subsequent 2003 film by John August, swan onto Broadway Sept. 5, when it began prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PMThe musical phenomenon The Fantasticks celebrated its 20,000th Off-Broadway performance September 15. Writer Tom Jones and other special guests were on hand for the milestone.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMThe 2013 Fox Fall Eco-Casino Party was held Sept. 9 at The Bungalow in Santa Monica, CA. The event celebrated the launch of Fox's new fall season and raised money and awareness for a num…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PMAnne Washburn's new work Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play officially opened at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons Sept. 15 following previews that began Aug. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMPop star Nick Jonas, most recently on Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, celebrates his 21st birthday today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMSunday, September 15, 2013
NYU Steinhardt’s program in vocal performance presents the Tony-nominated musical Sweet Smell of Success beginning Sept. 12 at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMFriday, September 13, 2013
Producers of Motown the Musical launched a nationwide open casting call for African-American performers to join the Broadway and upcoming national tour of the musical, which traces the life …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PMCharlie Brady stars as Chris in a new mini-tour of the award-winning musical Miss Saigon, which kicked off this week at Kansas City's Starlight Theatre. He shares exclusive pics of from …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMHorton Foote's The Old Friends, starring Tony winner Betty Buckley, Tony nominee Hallie Foote and Tony nominee Lois Smith, officially opened Sept. 12 following previews th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PM"That Face," a gallery exhibit featuring the work of acclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin — whose drawings can be seen weekly in Playbill.com's Stage Portrait column — …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMThe New York Theatre Workshop production of Will Power's Fetch Clay, Make Man officially opened Sept. 12 at 7 PM following previews that began Aug. 23 at the Off-Broadway venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMThursday, September 12, 2013
Astaire Award-nominated dancer Ryan Steele, currently appearing in Matilda The Musical, invites readers to join him at a recent two-performance day. He shares his daily routines, offers a ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMPlaybill.com looks at the busy stage career of Will Chase. The leading man celebrates his birthday Sept. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMWalnut Street Theatre opens its 205th season with the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, which officially opens Sept. 11, following previews that began Sept. 3, on the WST Mainstage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
Cast members from Roundabout's fall lineup, The Winslow Boy (Broadway) and Bad Jews (Off-Broadway), greeted the press with a Sept. 10 photo and interview session.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMPayson Lewis (NBC's "The Sing Off", "Victorious"), Jonah Platt ("The Office") and Lindsay Pearce ("Glee,") star in the Los Angeles return of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMHarmony – A New Musical, a co-production between Atlanta's Tony-winning Alliance Theatre and Center Theatre Group that features music by Barry Manilow and book and lyrics by Bruce …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMMegan McGinnis was on hand Sept. 10 to help celebrate Sutton Foster's return to the Cafe Carlyle. Foster's new act opens the fall season at the legendary nightclub on Madison Avenue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AMThe cast of the Paper Mill Playhouse upcoming production of the world-premiere musical Honeymoon in Vegas, which is based on the Castle Rock Entertainment motion picture of the same title, o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Four-time Tony Award nominee Danny Burstein, Tony Award winner Victoria Clark, Evan Jonigkeit and Christopher Innvar will join Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker in the M…
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