Saturday, February 5, 2011
Grammy and Academy Award winner Melissa Etheridge, who is playing St. Jimmy in American Idiot through Feb. 6, posted this vlog from her dressing room at the St. James Theatre.
Etheridge earn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PM“Glee” star Darren Criss visited “Ellen” recently to chat about his work on the hit Fox series, and even surprised her with an original song pleading for a sequel to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:57AMFriday, February 4, 2011
Legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi visited David Letterman Feb. 3 to give him some much-needed (if somewhat confusingly offered) motivation.
Lombardi appeared as channeled thro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Jan. 24-30, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,308,560
Spider-Man Turn Off the Da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:27PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Donna Murphy discusses her next musical, the generation-spanning, World War II-haunted musical The People in the Picture, in this video feature from the Roundabout…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PM“Glee” cast member Darren Criss is featured in two clips from upcoming episodes of the hit Fox series. In the series’ post-Super Bowl spring season kick-off episode, airin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMFootage from a recent press event for Little Miss Sunshine, the La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere musical based on the Academy Award-winning 2006 film, has been released through the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMThursday, February 3, 2011
Pop star Ricky Martin opened up to “Access Hollywood” recently about his upcoming return to Broadway in Evita in 2012.
Martin, who previously appeared on Broadway in Les Miserabl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMClips from the Feb. 6 post-Super Bowl episode of "Glee" have been released. The episode marks the kick-off to the spring half of the hit Fox series’ second season.
Broadway v…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMBrief Encounter director Emma Rice and her Kneehigh theatre company are preparing a theatrical adaptation of the classic film musical “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” in England. Ri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMWednesday, February 2, 2011
Wonderland star Janet Dacal recently sat down with the Associated Press to discuss working on the new Frank Wildhorn-Jack Murphy musical, a contemporary retelling of the classic “Alice…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PMLombardi, Eric Simonson’s new play about legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, recently celebrated 100 performances on Broadway. Footage from the celebration, the production and in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PMA trailer for Jane Austen’s Emma, the new musical currently playing The Old Globe in San Diego and based on the classic Austen novel, has been released.
The show features book, music a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company’s upcoming premieres of the play The Dream of the Burning Boy and the musical Death Takes a Holiday are discussed in the videos below.
Actor Reed Birney,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMTuesday, February 1, 2011
Broadway and video-blogging vet Andrew Keenan-Bolger gives us a peek at rehearsals for the upcoming New York Theatre Workshop production of Peter and the Starcatcher, a new play that examine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PMFull music tracks from “The Sue Sylvester Bowl Shuffle,” the Feb. 6 episode of “Glee” that will kick off the hit series’ spring season following the Super Bowl, hav…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PMMonday, January 31, 2011
Drama Desk Award-nominated actor Chris Chalk, Tony Award-nominated director Thomas Kail and playwright Nathan Louis Jackson discuss their collaboration on LCT3’s When I Come to Die in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:31PMThe latest discount ticket prices for Broadway and Off-Broadway shows are now viewable at your finger tips. The At the Booth theatre app, now available on Blackberry Smartphones, lists all …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMA new TV commercial for La Cage aux Folles features Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer, who currently stars in the revival of the Jerry Herman musical with Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge. To…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PMMulti-award-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Webber visited BBC’s “The One Show” recently to discuss his upcoming production of The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium.
The s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PMTony Award winners Sutton Foster and Joel Grey are heard singing several of the classic Cole Porter tunes from Anything Goes in a new radio commercial for the Roundabout Theatre Company̵…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMFootage of Matthew Morrison’s solo concert debut, which took place Jan. 29 at the Grove in Los Angeles and was streamed live on Facebook, is available here.
Morrison performs songs fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMSunday, January 30, 2011
Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Jan. 16-22, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway Will Play Villains in “The Dark Kni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMThe Public Theater’s artistic director, Oskar Eustis, playwright Rinne Groff and actors Hannah Cabell and Matte Osian appear in two short videos to discuss the Public’s upcoming …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:13AMSaturday, January 29, 2011
Molly Smith, the artistic director of Arena Stage in Washington D.C., is featured in the current edition of the American Theatre Wing’s interview series, “Downstage Center.”…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:16PMHere are the best-selling theatre CDS, as reported by billboard.biz, issue date Jan. 29, 2011.
Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording
Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording
The Lion…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMThe Public Theater’s upcoming productions of William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens and Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:10AMFriday, January 28, 2011
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Jan. 17-23, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,401,082
Spider-Man Turn Off the Da…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMKathie Lee Gifford took the stage of Million Dollar Quartet Jan. 26 to perform the Patsy Cline hit “Stop, Look and Listen” in a special post-show encore with the cast. Footage of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMTony Award nominees Chad Kimball and Montego Glover and the cast of Memphis performed the Tony Award-winning musical’s finale, “Steal Your Rock ‘n’ Roll,” on &#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PMThursday, January 27, 2011
Tony Award nominee and “Raising Hope” star Martha Plimpton visited “Jimmy Kimmel Live” recently and shared a particularly fun story about a mishap that occurred when …
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