Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Betsy Wolfe (Broadway’s Bullets over Broadway, The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and Matt Bittner (Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing) will topline Up Here, the new musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PM1891 Birthday of composer Cole Porter (1891-1964), whose witty, urbane songs will grace five decades of musicals, including Anything Goes, Can-Can, Gay Divorce, Silk Stockings and hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning comic actor Jason Alexander, best known for playing George Costanza on the sitcom "Seinfeld," replaces author/star Larry David in the Broadway hit Fish in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 7, 2015
Alan Cumming and Kristen Chenoweth host the annual celebration of American theater. We’re live blogging the red carpet pre-show now, and the broadcast beginning at 8pm ETWhich shows are yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30PM1909 Birthday of Broadway star Jessica Tandy (1909-1994), who created many landmark roles including Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Agnes in A Delicate Balance and Fonsia in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, June 6, 2015
Tickets for Al Pacino's return to Broadway in China Doll, the new play that Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet wrote for him, go on sale to the general public June 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1954 Playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein is born today. Fierstein will win Tony Awards for writing and performing in his play Torch Song Trilogy, as well as for his book for the musical La…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 5, 2015
Tickets for Al Pacino's return to Broadway in China Doll, the new play that Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet wrote for him, will go on sale to the general public June 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMTony Award-winning comic actor Jason Alexander, best known for playing George Costanza on the sitcom "Seinfeld," made a surprise appearance in Broadway's Fish in the Dark J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AM1939 Actor James Barton, a star of the Broadway hit Tobacco Road, returns to the show today after having been fired the previous February after quarreling with his co-stars backstage. Bo…
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1968 Stage and screen actress Dorothy Gish dies today in Rapallo, Italy. Her first New York stage appearance was in 1903 in East Lynne. She began her film career in 1912, but resumed her sta…
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Nine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune was named recipient of a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Tony Honor. Playbill.com looks back at his career with clips of his Broadway outings, concert an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PM1866 Birthday of playwright and producer George Broadhurst (1866-1952), responsible for dozens of plays and musicals, including the first stage adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes. Also, na…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, June 2, 2015
An Equity showcase of a new musical, titled Hef, will be presented in Manhattan in August, according to an Equity casting notice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10PM1954 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's Carousel is revived for a ten-week run at the New York City Center. In the cast are Barbara Cook and Jo Sullivan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, June 1, 2015
1914 The Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 stars Ed Wynn. Leon Errol dances and co-directs with Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. There will be 112 performances at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AMSunday, May 31, 2015
1946 Orson Welles circumnavigated the stage in Around The World, a musical he adapted from the Jules Verne novel, “Around the World in Eighty Days,” Cole Porter provided …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, May 30, 2015
1868 Birthday of producer/director/manager Charles Dillingham (1868-1934), whose productions included As Good as New, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Sunny, Bulldog Drummond, The Red Mill and …
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1951 Performer Fanny Brice dies today in Hollywood at age 60. She started in showbiz by winning a series of amateur nights at vaudeville theatres in Brooklyn, then graduated to Burlesque as …
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Singer and actress Keke Palmer, who recently appeared on Broadway in the title role of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, has joined the cast of the FOX-TV broadcast of Grease: Live…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PM1940 Victor Moore, William Gaxton and Vera Zorina star in the Irving Berlin musical Louisiana Purchase, which runs 444 performances at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
1953 John Mills is The Uninvited Guest at London's St. James's Theatre. Written by his wife, Mary Hayley Bell, and co-starring Cathleen Nesbitt and Joan Greenwood, this story of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
In our Q&A show Like Mother, Like Daughter we wanted to give voice to people who wouldn’t consider themselves the subject of ‘great art’ Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:10AM1913 One hundred and twelve actors gather at the Pabst Grand Circle Hotel near Columbus Circle in New York City and vote to form Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, May 25, 2015
New York Times writers review five shows that made their debuts in the early days of this year’s New York International Fringe Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM1900 Birthday of legendary Broadway producer and director Jed Harris (1900-1979), who will present The Royal Family, Broadway, Our Town, The Heiress and The Crucible. Also said to be the mod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1908 Actor Rex Harrison is born today. He will make his London debut in Florence Kilpatrick's Getting George Married. He will star in the London production of Noel Coward's Design for Living…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1912 Birthday of composer Burton Lane (1912-1997), who will go on to write On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Hold on to Your Hats, Laffing Room Only and his great hit, Finian's Rainbow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM1812 Birthday of author Charles Dickens (1812-1870), whose "A Christmas Carol" has been adapted to the stage dozens of times and provides a durable annuity for theatre troupes everywhere. Am…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMHappy families, Tolstoy mused, are all alike — it's the messy, miserable ones we love to watch. So are great dramas born, from “King Lear” through “Long Day's Journey…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhy two deaths in less than a week -- Richard Holbrooke's and Mark Madoff's -- remind us of classical Greece.
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