Playwright Yussef El Guindi has received the 2010 Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award. Guindi will receive the award at a ceremony at the Lark Play Development Center in June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMStage and screen actor Jesse L. Martin will star in "Hallelujah," a pilot from "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry, according to ew.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMJonathan Larson's Tony Award-winning musical Rent will be performed in repertory with La Bohème, the Giacomo Puccini opera that inspired it, Feb. 15-27 at The Baldwin-Wallace College …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDangerous Beauty, the new musical about a woman who is forced to become a courtesan to regain her lost family fortune, opened Feb. 13 at the Pasadena Playhouse. Clips from the show as well …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDouglas Hodge, who won a Tony Award for playing Albin/Zaza in the current revival of La Cage aux Folles, passes the torch to Harvey Fierstein, the four-time Tony Award winner who succeeds Ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award winner Idina Menzel performs Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” in this clip from her Feb. 5 concert with the New York Philharmonic.Menzel previously performed the hit pop…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe 2011-2012 Metropolitan Opera season will feature two operas helmed by Tony Award-winning Broadway directors, according to The New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMStage and screen star Daniel Radcliffe, who will appear on Broadway this spring in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, is set to star in the independent film comedy "The Amateu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee and “American Idol” veteran Constantine Maroulis sat down with Los Angeles news station KCAL9 to talk about the tour of the popular 80s rock musical Rock of Ag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMBarbra Streisand spoke to “Access Hollywood” Feb. 13, before being honored with MusiCares’ Person of the Year Award. The legendary singer, actress, director and producer t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMIf you missed “The Comeback,” the “Glee” episode that aired Feb. 15, or if you want to watch it again, here it is on Playbill.com for your enjoyment.The episode featu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award winner Laura Benanti will star in the NBC pilot "Playboy," according to deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Laura Bell Bundy has been cast in the TBS pilot "Hound Dogs," according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe cast of the Broadway revival of Jason Miller’s That Championship Season appear in a series of videos to discuss the play, which deals with a reunion of four basketball players and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMVeteran stage and screen actress Christine Lahti, who won Emmy and Golden Globe awards for playing a doctor in "Chicago Hope," will again take a medical role in "The Doctor," a new pilot for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award-nominated playwright-director Moises Kaufman, Tony Award-nominated actor Zach Grenier and musicologist Dr. William Kinderman talk about 33 Variations, the play that casts Academy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMarla Mindelle, who will be playing Sister Mary Robert in the Broadway production of Sister Act, performed with the musical’s cast on “The View” Feb. 9. A backstage video…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Feb. 7-13, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.MUSICALSWicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,436,121Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark (…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award-nominated playwright-director Moises Kaufman, Tony Award-nominated actor Zach Grenier and musicologist Dr. William Kinderman talk about 33 Variations, the play that casts Academy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis, Rebecca Faulkenberry and the national touring cast of Rock of Ages performed a medley of “Here I Go Again” and “Don’t Stop Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMHere are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Feb. 6-Feb. 12, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com.New York Times, Variety and More Review Spider-Man Turn Off The Da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis, Rebecca Faulkenberry and the national touring cast of Rock of Ages performed a medley of “Here I Go Again” and “Don’t Stop Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMSanjaya Malakar is the latest "American Idol" finalist to make the leap to the stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMColin Firth, the actor currently up for an Academy Award for his work in "The King's Speech," may star as Henry Higgins in a remake of the classic film musical My Fair Lady opposite Oscar no…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMMany of the stories collected through the It Gets Better Project, which was started by columnist Dan Savage in September 2010 in response to the many gay teen suicides brought on by excessiv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe Laurie Beechman Theatre has announced its performance lineup for March, which will feature many theatre and cabaret regulars.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMCasting has been announced for the Fulton Theatre's production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The production of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical will run March 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMTony Award nominee Will Swenson, Olivier Award nominee Tony Sheldon and Nick Adams, who will soon appear on Broadway in Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical, recently shot a public serv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMEmmy Award-winning and Tony-nominated comic actor John Leguizamo spoke with the local FOX-5 show "Good Day New York" recently about his latest one-man show, Ghetto Klown, which looks…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe creepy and kooky members of the hit Broadway musical The Addams Family will soon make it to doll form, when Madame Alexander releases dolls based on father Gomez, mother Morticia and chi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMThe hit Fox musical series "Glee" will feature two original songs in its March 15 episode, which will be titled "Original Song," according to ew.com. This marks the first time the series, kn…
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