Wednesday, March 23, 2011
"Glee: The Music Presents The Warblers," the previously announced album of music featuring Darren Criss, Chris Colfer, and the fictional Dalton Academy a cappella group who appear …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMTony and Academy Award winner Denzel Washington will speak to graduating students at the 255th University of Pennsylvania commencement May 16, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMCatch Me If You Can cast member Alex Ellis is seen discussing and rehearsing for her Broadway debut in Catch Me If You Can in Episode 2 of the new web series “Diary of a Chorus Girl.&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AM“Bared,” a documentary chronicling the history of the annual burlesque show and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fundraiser “Broadway Bares,” is seeking funding for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AMTuesday, March 22, 2011
Pop star Ricky Martin, who will appear on Broadway in Evita in 2012, received the Vito Russo Award at the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards March 19.
The award was presented by producer Craig Z…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMSophisticated Ladies, the Tony Award-winning revue of Duke Ellington's music, will celebrate its 30th anniversary at Birdland April 25 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PMAcademy Award-winning composer Alan Menken, Olivier Award-nominated actress Patina Miller and the cast of Sister Act recently held an open rehearsal for the media where they performed songs …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMA trailer for the upcoming film of the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, filmed live on stage from the Shubert Theatre, has been released.
The Jan. 18-21 performances of the musical were f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PMEmmy Award winner and Tony nominee James Gandolfini will star in an upcoming film for HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMStage and screen actor Jonathan Cake will join the cast of "Desperate Housewives" for a four-episode appearance this season and as a regular next season, according to zap2it.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMStage and screen actor Steven Weber will guest star on the April 19 season finale of NBC's "Parenthood," according to digitalspy.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMThe Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, the no-budget Spider-Man musical created as an alternative to the $65 million Spider-Man musical currently playing on 42nd St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PMChoreographer-performer Siudy and the cast of the “flamenco fantasia” she co-created, Between Worlds, recently gave the Times Square crowds a taste of their new dance show, flash…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMTony and Emmy Award winner Cherry Jones and veteran stage and screen actors Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn have been cast in pilots for the upcoming TV season, according to deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMTo celebrate the joint birthdays of two major musical theatre composers, Stephen Sondheim (81) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (63), Playbill.com offers a sampling of some of their most memorable cr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 21, 2011
The proposed film remake of the classic musical Gypsy, which would star Barbra Streisand as stage mother Rose, is close to being given the green light despite earlier reports that it would n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18PMGrandma Addams, currently embodied by Jackie Hoffman in the Broadway musical The Addams Family, will turn 116 on March 30. To celebrate, the show’s producers are offering free tickets…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMVeteran stage couple and comedy legends Ben Stiller and Anne Meara will be seen in An Evening with Stiller and Meara April 4 at 8 PM at the George Street Playhouse in New Bru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMSamuel L. Jackson, who reportedly will play Martin Luther King, Jr. in The Mountaintop on Broadway this fall, has signed on to star in the "neo-noir thriller" "The Samaritan,&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMTony and Emmy Award winner John Lithgow will guest star on the March 21 and April 18 episodes of CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," according to ew.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMThe cast of the revival of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play That Championship Season recently spoke with “CBS Sunday Morning” about the play’s examination of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMSunday, March 20, 2011
“Rock The Audition: How to Prepare For and Get Cast in Rock Musicals,” a new book by Sheri Sanders, will be released May 24.
The how-to guide, to be published by Hal Leonard Book…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:08PMFootage of Tony Award winner Sara Ramirez performing “The Story,” one of the songs that will be featured in an upcoming musical episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” has…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMEmmy Award winner and Tony nominee Allison Janney and Grammy Award winner James Taylor performed “A Song for You” on the March 16 episode of the ABC sitcom “Mr. Sunshine.&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:27AMSaturday, March 19, 2011
The cast of the hit Fox series “Glee” visited PaleyFest 2011, hosted by the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, in Beverly Hills March 16 to talk about working on the show –…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PMMatt Doyle, who is currently appearing in War Horse at Lincoln Center Theater, has started a video blog chronicling the backstage adventures behind the fantastical British tale of a horse se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:54AMFriday, March 18, 2011
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of March 7-13, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,545,232
The Lion King (Minskoff Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:11PMThe Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Jersey Boys became the 27th longest-running Broadway show in history when it reached 2,213 performances March 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMThe Book of Mormon co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone recently discussed the new musical with Jake Tapper on “Good Morning America.”
The musical-loving (and crude-comedy-lov…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PMThe final New York concert presentation of You Made This Tour, featuring the work of the Kleban, Larson and Richard Rodgers Award-winning songwriting team of Kait Kerrigan and Brian Low…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMStage and screen stars Jimmy Smits and the father-and-son acting duo of Donald and Kiefer Sutherland have been cast in pilots for the upcoming TV season, according to deadline.com.
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