Thursday, 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PMMaggie Gyllenhaal stopped by “The View” Jan. 26 to discuss performing in Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters.
Gyllenhaal talked about performing opposite her husband, Peter Sarsg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMSinging actress Stephanie J. Block and composer-lyricist Scott Alan visited Sirius XM’s “Live on Broadway” Jan. 26 to tape an interview. Video of Block’s performance…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMWednesday, January 26, 2011
In this video, Emmy Award-winning actor Andre Braugher and Tony Award-winning director Doug Hughes discuss their current project, the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Matthew Lopez’…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:41PMA promo ad for the first new episode of the spring season of “Glee,” featuring a taste of the kids dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” (and a Sue Sylvester …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMSarah Stiles (Avenue Q), director Phillip George (Forbidden Broadway) and the cast of The Road to Qatar! continue their video blog about the show’s rehearsals. The latest entry chroni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMTony Award winners Sutton Foster and Kathleen Marshall discuss their collaboration on the Roundabout Theatre Company’s upcoming revival of the classic Cole Porter musical Anything Goes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMTuesday, January 25, 2011
Broadway actress Stephanie J. Block and composer-lyricist Scott Alan will appear on the Sirius XM radio show “Live on Broadway” Jan. 26 to perform a song from Alan’s new al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PMHere is a clip of "I See the Light," the song from the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature “Tangled,” which was nominated for an Academy Award Jan. 25.
The love ballad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PMTony Award winner Alice Ripley sat down with Eden Lane of “In Focus” to discuss her work in the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal.
Ripley discussed the emot…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMNathan Lane visited “The Late Show with David Letterman” Jan. 21 and shared an anecdote from his current Broadway run in The Addams Family involving a bull-whip gone haywire. Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMMonday, January 24, 2011
A selection of song clips from the upcoming spring season premiere of "Glee" — which will air following the Super Bowl Feb. 6 — has been released.
Lea Michele and Mark S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:09PMOver the weekend, Broadway got an extra dose of Green Day rock when the punk band's bassist, Mike Dirnt, joined its frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, and the cast of American Idiot to perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:06PMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet voiced an animated and fictionalized version of himself in a brief cameo on the Jan. 23 episode of "The Simpsons."
Mamet (Glengarry Glen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMSunday, January 23, 2011
Here are the best-selling theatre CDS, as reported by billboard.biz, issue date Jan. 22, 2011.
Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording
Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording
The Lion…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PM“Wiener and Wiener,” a new web series written and directed by Dante Russo, continues into its second season with a regular and guest cast of Broadway favorites tackling life in N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:47AMSaturday, January 22, 2011
Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Jan. 9-15, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com
Troubled Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark Delays Broadway Opening Again.
Ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMThe Road to Qatar! cast members Sarah Stiles and Bruce Warren have started a video blog following the show’s rehearsal period at the York Theatre Company.
Stiles (Avenue Q) and Warren …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:45AMFriday, January 21, 2011
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Jan. 10-16, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,540,868
The Lion King (Minskoff Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMFootage from The Legacy Project, in which contemporary playwrights, lyricists and composers interview veteran practictioners of their various crafts, has been released.
The project, produced…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMTony Award-winning director Julie Taymor spoke with NY1’s “On Stage” Jan. 20 about the setbacks facing her current Broadway production, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark.
In he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMThursday, January 20, 2011
Broadway actress and former Miss America Kate Shindle is tackling an unexpected character in her latest project – the Mad Hatter, in Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy’s Wonderland, the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:53PM“American Idol” auditioner Ashley Sullivan may have wanted to go to Hollywood, but she had to get there by impressing judges Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson with a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMWednesday, January 19, 2011
The New York Botanical Garden will get a taste of Broadway March 5-April 25, when The Orchid Show: On Broadway exhibit takes the garden’s stage.
Created by Tony Award-winning set desig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMThe trailer for “The Green,” an upcoming independent film drama starring Jason Butler Harner and Cheyenne Jackson as a gay teacher and his partner forced to deal with an accusati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMTony Award-winning director Julie Taymor sat down with Oprah Winfrey in November for an interview about working on the new Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. The interview is av…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMTony Award-nominated actress and comedienne Joan Rivers and her daughter, Melissa, will share a house and plenty of fireworks in the new reality series, “Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMTuesday, January 18, 2011
The crazy life of a struggling actor in New York City continues to be depicted with humor and music in the third episode of the new web series “Submissions Only.”
Actress Penny (…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMVeteran CNN anchor Anderson Cooper will be heard as the voice of the narrator in this spring’s revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Footage of Cooper recording…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMSunday, January 16, 2011
Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Jan. 2-Jan. 8 from information compiled by Playbill.com.
Complete Cast Announced for Broadway Revival of How to Succeed… Wit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMBroadway’s Katie Rose Clarke (currently appearing as Glinda in Wicked) and Orfeh (Legally Blonde, Saturday Night Fever) got to sing two songs from Vote!, a new musical by Ryann Ferguso…
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