Thursday, February 11, 2016
The day after "Frozen" makes its Disney Channel premiere Feb. 14, animated characters voiced by two Broadway favorites, Megan Mullally and Josh Gad, will make return appearances on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AMWednesday, February 10, 2016
The Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which closed Oct. 25, 2015, at the Nederlander Theatre, has been recorded by DMI Soundtracks and will be released in digital and CD formats on Feb. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMTony Award winners Chuck Cooper and LaChanze as well as Tony nominee Norm Lewis star in the Feb. 10-14 City Center Encores! staging of the 1940 Vernon Duke-John Latouche musical Cabi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick's new musical Disaster!, a parody of 1970's disaster movies, begins previews Feb. 9 prior to an official opening March 8 at Broadway's Nederlander…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 8, 2016
Off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre has announced casting for the first in its series of Mentor Project plays, Christopher Gabriel Núñez's The Surgeon and He…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMTom Hooper, who directed the hit 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables, is in talks to film the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, according to The Sun of London.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMTickets go on pre-sale Feb. 8 for the Broadway encore of Motown The Musical, the hit show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, which ended a 738-performance Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMFriday, February 5, 2016
Another Word for Beauty, a new music-and-movement-filled play by Oscar nominee José Rivera ("The Motorcycle Diaries"), had its world premie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AMThursday, February 4, 2016
The first amateur production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock — The Musical will open in March, performed by the students of the Oakland School for the Arts at the Curr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMComplete casting has been announced for the new musical American Psycho, which is based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Performances begin at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMMonday, February 1, 2016
The Public Theater's world premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's First Daughter Suite, a follow-up to the composer's 1993 musical First Lady Suite, has set release dates for it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMProducers of the forthcoming London blockbuster Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have released a video taking fans inside the West End's venerable Palace Theatre, whic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AMThe Music Box Theatre box office opens Feb. 1 at 10 AM for tickets to the anticipated new production Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 31, 2016
King Charles III, the Olivier Award-winning Best Play that imagines a future in which Britain's current Queen Elizabeth II has passed away and her son, the current Prince Charles, ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDavid Mamet's latest play, China Doll, which opened on Broadway last fall starring Al Pacino, ends its run Jan. 31. Despite earning some of the more negative reviews of the season, the p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, January 30, 2016
The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are presented Jan. 30 on TNT and TBS Jan. 30 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 29, 2016
Guest post by Emma Thursland
The Dance Broadside Collection was processed by Camille Dee and has recently been made available to the public. A new exhibit showcasing a few pieces from this…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 05:58PMThursday, January 28, 2016
Tony Award nominee Kathryn Erbe will join the previously announced three-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee Frank Langella in the American premiere of Florian Zeller's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:29PMGolden Globe and Emmy nominee Kerry Washington receives the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Woman of the Year Award Jan. 28 at Harvard University.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMWednesday, January 27, 2016
Friends are planning to celebrate the life actor David Margulies, who died Jan. 11 at age 78. The celebration of the actor, who successfully moved back and forth from stage to TV to film wit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMMonday, January 25, 2016
Tony winner Ben Vereen returns to Feinstein's/54 Below Jan. 25-30 with his acclaimed solo show Steppin' Out With Ben Vereen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PMThe Broadway-aimed The SpongeBob Musical has cast a virtual unknown, Ethan Slater, in the title role of the "absorbent and yellow and porous" character.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMThursday, January 21, 2016
Nominations for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards were announced Dec. 7, and the awards will be handed out starting at 8 PM ET Feb. 15 on CBS-TV.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:22PMThis is one of a series of blog posts related to the NYPL Public Domain Release: discover the collections and find inspiration for using them in your own research, teaching, and creative pr…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:55AMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer, who, on Jan. 19, returned to the role of Captain Hook — the part he originated when Finding Neverland arrived on Broadway in March 2015 &mdas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer, who originated the role of Captain Hook when Finding Neverland arrived on Broadway in March 2015, returns to the musical at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, January 16, 2016
1908 or 1909 or 1912 There's no birthday like Merm's birthday. Ethel Zimmermann is born in Astoria N.Y. today. In years to come she will be acting and belting all over town as Ethel …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 15, 2016
Lazarus, the Off-Broadway musical with a score by the late David Bowie and book by Enda Walsh, is being considered by producers for a Broadway transfer, according to The New York Post.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AMThursday, January 14, 2016
"American Idol" finalist and "Glee" actor Adam Lambert has joined the cast of Fox-TV's fall broadcast of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." He will play E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMDNCE, the four-member band fronted by Joe Jonas, has joined the cast of the upcoming broadcast of Grease: Live, scheduled for broadcast Jan. 31 on Fox-TV.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMPromising "the most progressive technology ever seen on Broadway," Nerds, the new musical about tech giants Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, has booked Broadway's Longacre Theatre fo…
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