Tony Contender Something Rotten! Surpasses $1 Million at Box Office by Adam Hetrick

Something Rotten!, the original Broadway musical comedy that is among the Tony Award contenders for Best Musical, surpassed the million dollar mark at the box office for the first time since…

SOURCE: Playbill at 9:53am on May 26, 2015☆⚑

LAByrinth Theater's Thinner Than Water Opens Off-Broadway Feb. 15 by Adam Hetrick

Melissa Ross' Thinner Than Water, about a dysfunctional family reunion, officially opens Off-Broadway Feb. 15 after performances that began Feb. 8.

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Broadway-Aimed Revival of You Can't Take It With You and John Doyle's Ten Cents a Dance To Play Williamstown by Adam Hetrick

The Broadway-bound revival of You Can't Take It With You and the American premiere of Tony Award-winning director John Doyle's Rodgers and Hart musical Ten Cents a Dance will bow as part of …

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Elevator Repair Service's The Select (The Sun Also Rises) Dawns in Boston March 15 by Adam Hetrick

Elevator Repair Service, which dazzled New York audiences with Gatz, its treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," is giving Ernest Hemingway a shot with The Select (The Sun Als…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Hey Mama! Tony Nominee Nancy Opel Joins Memphis On Broadway March 15 by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award nominee Nancy Opel is the new tough-skinned Mama of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Memphis, beginning March 15 at the Shubert Theatre.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Janet Dacal and Hugh Panaro Will Sing With Young People's Chorus of NY March 7 by Adam Hetrick

Janet Dacal and Hugh Panaro will join the Young People's Chorus of New York City for a special one-night-only concert March 7 at the Rose Theater within Frederick P. Rose Hall.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

War Horse, the London Hit About Man and Beast, Storms Broadway March 15 by Adam Hetrick

The National Theatre production of War Horse, a blend of naturalistic storytelling and breathtaking puppetry set during Britain's entry into the first World War, gallops onto the stage of Li…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Richard Thomas Will Be Part of Public Theater's "Too Rich to Fail" Discussion by Adam Hetrick

Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas, who will star in the Public Theater production of Timon of Athens, will take part in the Feb. 28 Public Forum "Too Rich to Fail" event.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Extra! Extra! Disney's Newsies Will Debut at Paper Mill Playhouse by Adam Hetrick

The stage adaptation of the 1992 Disney film musical "Newsies" will premiere at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse in September. The regional premiere will serve as the launch pad for the pro…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Andrew Long Will Be Educating Rita, Company's Jane Pfitsch, at the Huntington by Adam Hetrick

Andrew Long and Jane Pfitsch will co-star in Willy Russell's Olivier Award-winning play Educating Rita, a contemporary Pygmalion-tinged comedy about a hairdresser and her weary professor, wh…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Kathie Lee Gifford Musical Saving Aimee to Be Resurrected at 5th Avenue Theatre; Season Announced by Adam Hetrick

Kathie Lee Gifford, David Friedman and David Pomeranz will revive their musical Saving Aimee, about late Jazz-Age evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, at the 5th Avenue Theatre this fall in Se…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Von Trapp Family Visits The Sound of Music (Photos) by Adam Hetrick

The Engeman Theatre in Northport, Long Island is celebrating the holidays with the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Alison Walla, Rob Gallagher, Linda Balgord and …

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Creative Team and Opening Night Set for Suzanne Vega's Carson McCullers Talks About Love Off-Broadway by Adam Hetrick

The complete creative team has been announced for of Suzanne Vega's solo show Carson McCullers Talks About Love, which is set to debut April 20 Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Th…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Bartlett Sher to Direct Blood and Gifts for Lincoln Center Theater Off-Broadway by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award-winning South Pacific director Bartlett Sher will stage the American premiere of J.T. Rogers' Afghanistan-set political drama Blood and Gifts this fall for Lincoln Center Theater.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Ghostlight Records Nabs Catch Me If You Can Cast Album by Adam Hetrick

The cast of the new Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can will head to a recording studio April 18 to record the original cast album of the new Marc Shaiman-Scott Wittman-Terrence McNally sho…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Jenna Leigh Green, Kate Reinders and Arielle Jacobs Sing For the Record: Baz Lurhmann in L.A. by Adam Hetrick

Wicked veterans Jenna Leigh Green and Kate Reinders head the cast of For the Record: Baz Lurhmann, a concert of music from the stage and film director's Red Curtain Trilogy, which will offic…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Rosie O’Donnell Recalls Late Fiddler Creators by Adam Hetrick

Last week Playbill.com had the chance to speak with talk-show host and Broadway star Rosie O’Donnell during the opening-night party of The Pee-wee Herman Show.O’Donnell spoke of …

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Oscar Wilde's Lover Recounts a Scandalous Life at Irish Rep, Starting Feb. 2 by Adam Hetrick

The life of Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, is explored in Thomas Kilroy's My Scandalous Life at the Irish Repertory Theater, beginning Feb. 2 Off-Broadway.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

"Fly Into the Future": Reworked Musical Vanities Opens in Seattle Feb. 10 by Adam Hetrick

A revised version of the Off-Broadway musical Vanities, based on the popular Jack Heifner play about the lifelong friendship between three women, opens Feb. 10 at Seattle's A Contemporary Th…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Compulsion, With Mandy Patinkin, Adds Performances Off-Broadway by Adam Hetrick

The Public Theater production of Rinne Groff's Compulsion, starring Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin, has added two additional performances to its limited Off-Broadway run.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Wooster Group's Vieux Carré Begins Performances in New York Feb. 2 by Adam Hetrick

Tennessee Williams' dark memory play Vieux Carré takes on new life in a new production by New York's Wooster Group, beginning Feb. 2 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Celebrity Autobiography to Feature Luke Perry and Rosie Perez by Adam Hetrick

Luke Perry, Rosie Perez, Mario Cantone and Cady Huffman will appear in February presentations of Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Harry Connick, Jr. In Concert on Broadway Airs on PBS March 2 by Adam Hetrick

Harry Connick, Jr. In Concert on Broadway, which was filmed live at the Neil Simon Theatre last summer, airs March 2 on PBS' "Great Performances" in the New York metropolitan area.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Erin Davie, Ann Harada, Burke Moses, Wesley Taylor to Perform Broadway in Long Island by Adam Hetrick

Erin Davie, Ann Harada and Kendrick Jones will take part in the Engeman Theater's Broadway Tribute concert April 2 in Northport, Long Island.

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Will Rock of Ages Film Happen Without Constantine Maroulis? by Adam Hetrick

Could the film version of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages happen without its Tony Award-nominated star? The creative forces behind the film have announced a nationwide casting search for t…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑