Monday, June 6, 2016
Movie versions of Mr. Shaffer’s ambitious plays helped elevate his status at home in Britain and in the United States.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:31PMWednesday, May 4, 2016
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has launched a new Fellows of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division program. This class of six fellows was chosen by the Committee for the Jer…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:49PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
The Music Division is celebrating the completion of its Clipping File inventory (done entirely by volunteers) with a blog series. Melissa is one of the volunteers who contributed so much to …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:37PMMonday, April 4, 2016
Last week I introduced Melissa, a volunteer with the Music Division, who began a series of three blog posts on the newly available inventory of the Music Division's Clipping file. Here is…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 03:57PMThursday, March 31, 2016
I'm happy to announce that the "Names" portion of the Music Division's Clipping File has been inventoried. This inventory contains over 46,000 names and is a list of folders in our Clipping …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:53PMTo whom it may concern: Today I spoke with a reference librarian about donating my copy of Marc Blitzstein’s original working score of Regina. I worked with Marc for two years singing his …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 02:53PMSaturday, March 5, 2016
Missouri History Museum will display more than 60 dresses for the exhibition"Little Black Dress: From Mourning to Night."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:20PMMonday, February 22, 2016
Tony nominee Rory O'Malley (The Book of Mormon) and Bryan Fenkart (Memphis) have been tapped to play tech giants Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, respectively, in the forthcoming Broadway musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMTony nominee Rory O'Malley (The Book of Mormon) and Bryan Fenkart (Memphis) have been tapped to play tech giants Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, respectively, in the forthcoming Broadway mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMFriday, February 19, 2016
The Broadway-aimed The SpongeBob Musical has announced additional casting of principal roles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMThursday, February 18, 2016
J.L. Williams, a cast member of the upcoming Broadway musical Shuffle Along who went missing for four days before winding up in a New York hospital, has thanked his well-wishers and prom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
The first international high school production of the new musical Amazing Grace, which played its final performance on Broadway Oct. 25, 2015, will be presented in Nairobi.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMMeryl Streep, as previously reported, will star in "Florence," a film about the late, vocally challenged opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins. A trailer of the Oscar-winning ac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMSandy Duncan has left the cast of Broadway's Finding Neverland just days after coming aboard the musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Nerds, the new musical about tech giants Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, will begin Broadway previews April 1, one day later than originally announced. The production will bow at the Longacre The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMTickets go on sale to the general public Feb. 16 for the midsummer Broadway encore of Motown The Musical, the hit show featuring music from the legendary Motown catalogue, which ended a 738&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 14, 2016
Misery, the new Broadway suspense thriller based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, plays its final performance at the Broadhurst Theatre Feb. 14 at 3 P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 11, 2016
Tony Award winners Chuck Cooper and LaChanze as well as Tony nominee Norm Lewis star in the City Center Encores! staging of the 1940 Vernon Duke-John Latouche musical Cabin in the Sky, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51PMThe stage adaptation of Disney's hit animated film musical Frozen will premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in August 2017 prior to a spring 2018 Broadway arrival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:57PMThe York Theatre Company's production of Cagney, the musical biography of legendary movie tough guy and dance man James Cagney, is transferring to a full-scale commercial Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMThe 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 03:38PM 
