Sunday, November 15, 2015
Stung by criticism of its failure to nominate any black actors or directors last season, the Academy used its annual Governors Awards to face the issue head on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMFriday, November 13, 2015
Alfie Boe, who currently plays Jean Valjean in the Broadway production of Les Misérables, will play his final performance Feb. 28, 2016, according to a production spokesperson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMThursday, November 5, 2015
On Your Feet!, the new musical based on the lives of seven-time Grammy winner Gloria Estefan and her husband, producer-musician-entrepreneur Emilio Estefan, officially opens on B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
Walt Disney Animation Studios' short film "Frozen Fever," which welcomes the characters of Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and Olaf back to the screen, will make its Disney Channel debut …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PMThursday, October 29, 2015
Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Thérèse Raquin, featuring a new adaptation by Helen Edmundson, based upon the novel by Émile Zola, offic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, October 26, 2015
Nathan Lane, Debra Messing, Stockard Channing and Billy Magnussen perform in Bridging the Gap and other short plays by Wesley Taylor, the sold-out Oct. 26 reading of six new 10-minut…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 16, 2015
The national tour of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical If/Then, featuring original stars Idina Menzel, LaChanze, Anthony Rapp and James Snyder, officially opens Oct. 16 at Denver's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
The national tour of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical If/Then, featuring original stars Idina Menzel, LaChanze, Anthony Rapp and James Snyder, launches Oct. 13 at Denver's Buell T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 8, 2015
Act One, the 2014 stage production based on the memoir of Broadway playwright, director and lyricist Moss Hart that starred Santino Fontana, Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin, will be broadcas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMThursday, October 1, 2015
Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Thérèse Raquin, featuring a new adaptation by Helen Edmundson, based upon the novel by Émile Zola, begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, September 28, 2015
Stars came out to honor Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Debbie Allen (West Side Story, Sweet Charity) at NYC Dance Alliance Foundation at its Bright Lights Shining Stars Gala…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMFriday, September 25, 2015
Dates have been set for the acclaimed new musical Dear Evan Hansen by Tony Award-nominated songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. According to an Actors Equity auditio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PMFull casting has now been announced for the the national tour of If/Then, which will reunite original stars Idina Menzel, LaChanze, Anthony Rapp and James Snyder. The tour launches Oct. 13 i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMThursday, September 17, 2015
Olivier and two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone, who is currently filming the new season of the Showtime series "Penny Dreadful," has issued a statement to Playbill.com reg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
The two-disc, physical Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, will arrive in stores Oct. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMTuesday, September 8, 2015
Shakespeare in Love, a stage version of the Oscar-winning film of the same name that opened last summer at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre, will make its North American debut in 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PMFriday, September 4, 2015
Lauren Klein and Arian Moayed have joined the cast of Pulitzer Prize finalist Stephen Karam's newest play, The Humans, which will make its New York debut Off-Broadway this f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMMonday, August 31, 2015
Miley Cyrus, the twerking, tongue-wagging pop star who has earned more than $100 million in a career that has included five No. 1 albums, was considering making her Broadway debut in Hed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Emmy and Tony Award winner Stockard Channing, "Into the Woods" star and Tony nominee Billy Magnussen and 11 others have joined the cast for the Oct. 26 reading of six new 10-mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Women's Project Theater, founded in 1978 to develop, produce and promote the work of women theatre artists, has announced its upcoming season lineup at its new artistic home under a new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMFriday, August 21, 2015
A reading of the new musical The Sting, based on the 1973 film of the same name, was held in Manhattan at the beginning of the month, according to the New York Post.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AMThursday, August 20, 2015
Stage and screen star Taye Diggs, who was part of the original company of Broadway's Rent, is currently starring in the Main Stem debut of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the 2014 Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMChanges in the ticket lottery system have been announced for Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Revival that will play its final performance at the Belas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMIt was predicted that New Orleans would take a decade to recover from Hurricane Katrina. On the 10th anniversary of the costliest natural disaster in US history, four residents from very dif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMTuesday, August 18, 2015
The "Broadway 4D" project in the heart of Times Square — which plans to immerse theatregoers in a film experience that celebrates the history of Broadway musicals &md…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PMMonday, August 17, 2015
The box office at Broadway's Marquis Theatre opens Aug. 17 for On Your Feet!, the new musical based on the lives of seven-time Grammy winner Gloria Estefan and her husband, producer&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMFriday, August 14, 2015
Select cities this fall will have the rare chance of witnessing an original Broadway cast reunion when If/Then, the original musical from Next to Normal creators Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AMFriday, August 7, 2015
The 46-track, original Broadway cast album of the new musical Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theatre, is now available for pre-order from Atlantic Recor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMHamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's acclaimed new musical that fuses the contemporary and classic worlds to tell the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMWicked star Shoshana Bean, who can currently be seen in the pre-Broadway engagement of Beaches, the new musical based on the 1985 novel by Iris Rainer Dart, can be heard singing the musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AMFriday, July 31, 2015
Emmy winner Valerie Harper, who had been playing the role of Millicent in The Ogunquit Playhouse's production of Nice Work If You Can Get It before falling ill July 29, is resting with h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PM 
