Wednesday, August 12, 2015
A song list has been posted for Act I of the Japanese world premiere of Prince of Broadway, a new musical celebrating the Tony-winning Broadway career of producer-director Harold Pri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PMTony Award winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson will co-star in a Broadway revival of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game, which will begin previews Sept…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PM1881 Birthday of Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959), who began his career as a Broadway actor in shows including Hearts Are Trumps and To Have and To Hold, and a Broadway playwright and produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes (Cinderella), Corey Cott (Gigi) and Tony-winner Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone) will star in Bandstand, a new musical directed and choreographed by Andy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PM1867 Actor-producer Joseph Weber, of the vaudeville comedy team Weber and Fields, is born today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 10, 2015
Montego Glover, who earned a Tony nomination as leading lady of the musical Memphis, will assume the role of Fantine in Broadway's Les Misérables beginning Sept. 1, the same d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMProducers Paul Blake and Sony/ATV Music Publishing have announced the supporting cast for the national tour of Beautiful — The Carole King Musical, which launches Sept. 15 at the P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AM1911 Birthday of playwright Jerome Chodorov, who wrote the play, My Sister Eileen, which he later adapted as the book for the musical Wonderful Town, which won him a Tony Award. Other plays …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32AMSunday, August 9, 2015
1967 Playwright Joe Orton is found dead today in his London flat. Also found dead is his companion, writer and actor Kenneth Halliwell. It appears that Halliwell murdered the Loot playwright…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMUp Here, the new musical by the songwriters of Disney's blockbuster "Frozen," officially opens its world-premiere engagement Aug. 9 at La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, CA, f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, August 8, 2015
1975 Liza Minnelli to the rescue! With only six days to learn the role of merry murderess Roxie Hart, the Academy Award-winning stage and film star agrees to fill in for an ailing Gwen V…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, August 7, 2015
Penn & Teller on Broadway, which brings the provocative New Vaudeville magician team back to the Great White Way for a six-week stand, has recouped its entire initial investment …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMRumer Willis, the eldest daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the current revival of Chicago a little bit later than originally planned. The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM1886 Future stage actress and second wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., Billie Burke is born today in Washington, D.C. Born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton, Burke spent her childhood in England,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, August 6, 2015
Casting has been announced for the planned 2016 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Salem-set witch hunt drama, The Crucible, with a score by Philip Glass.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58PMThe fifth annual Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival has announced production dates for its 2016 lineup, and included in the slate is the Broadway-aimed From Here to Eternity, penned b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PMThe fifth annual Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival has announced production dates for its 2016 lineup, and included in the slate is the Broadway-aimed From Here to Eternity, penned b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PMAugust 11 has been set as the date of a memorial service for Robin Phillips, who led Ontario's Stratford Festival in the mid-to-late-1970s, and died July 25 just out…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM1947 Today's Variety announces that John Garfield will star in the premiere production of a new Tennessee Williams play, titled A Streetcar Named Desire. As history will have it, however…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, August 5, 2015
The New Group launches its 2015-16 season Aug. 5 with the Off-Broadway premiere of Philip Ridley’s dystopian British drama, Mercury Fur.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMNewcomer Shanice Williams has been announced to step into Dorothy's silver slippers in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz. She joins original Broadway star Stephanie Mills, Queen Lat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:11AM1977 All Broadway marquee lights are dimmed tonight in honor of actor Alfred Lunt who died two days earlier. This is only the third time up to that point that such an action has been taken.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 4, 2015
Co-producer Neil Meron has tweeted that the name of the actress who has won the coveted role of Dorothy in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz will be announced the morning of Aug. 5 o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PMCo-producer Neil Meron has tweeted that the name of the actress who has won the coveted role of Dorothy in the upcoming NBC broadcast of The Wiz will be announced the morning of Aug. 5 o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PMA trailer has been released for "Stonewall" — producer-director Roland Emmerich's film about the 1969 riots outside a Greenwich Village gay bar that ignited the g…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM1981 Melvyn Douglas dies today at the age of 80. Born in Macon, Georgia as Melvyn Edouard Heselberg, Douglas went on to become one of the more accomplished stage actors of his generation. Am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, August 3, 2015
Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick stars with Alice Eve in the forthcoming film "Dirty Weekend," written and directed by playwright Neil LaBute. The film is scheduled to open in c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:59PM1921 Composer Richard Adler is born today. Along with Jerry Ross he will go on to write two of the most influential musicals of the 1950s: The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees. The successful pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, August 2, 2015
Previews start Aug. 2 for the world-premiere production of Sara Bareilles' new musical, Waitress, at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. The production will have its officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1900 Birthday of actress and singer Helen Morgan, who rose to fame as a nightclub performer. She had a show at Billy Rose's Backstage Club, where the crowded conditions made her perch on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, August 1, 2015
1921 Opening night of the popular farce Getting Gertie's Garter about a man who gives a young woman a jeweled garter, then schemes to get it back before his fiance finds out.
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