Billy Crystal News

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts announces acclaimed singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow as part of the Morgan Stanley Moments at Dr. Phillips Center series.

Tony and Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, producer, writer and director Billy Crystal announced this week that he is adding Special Guest Bonnie Hunt to his upcoming 30+ city US tour Spend the Night with Billy Crystal.

Tony® and Emmy Award®-winning comedian, actor, producer, writer and director Billy Crystal today announced that he will be making an exclusive Bay Area stop at San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts (255 S. Almaden Blvd., San Jose) on Thursday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. as part of his upcoming 30+ city US tour Spend the Night with Billy Crystal, set to kick off on Saturday, January 21 in Miami, FL.  Coming off the heels of his recent critically-acclaimed Australian tour, Crystal promises a hilarious and intimate evening.

The President of the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) J.L. "Lynn" Singleton announced today that Tony® and Emmy Award®-winning comedian, actor, producer, writer, and director BILLY CRYSTAL will perform his show "Spend the Night with Billy Crystal" as part of the 2017 PPAC Gala on Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 7:30P.

The critically acclaimed off-Broadway hit The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, written by and starring James Lecesne, the writer of the Academy Award-winning film Trevor comes to the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts for a limited performance engagement Friday, December 2 through Sunday, December 4. 

Recent VIP audience members at NOT THAT JEWISH, the new hit comedy written by and starring Monica Piper at New World Stages, have included Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell, comedienne Carol Leifer, TV journalist Geraldo Rivera and lawyer Alan Dershowitz with their families. Scroll down for photos of them backstage!

HB Studio, one of New York's most venerable institutions for theater training and practice, is shaking things up this year for their annual benefit. This year HB Studio is bringing attention back to its roots, and back to the process of making great theater. Instead of one big benefit bash honoring esteemed alumni and colleagues (such as Fritz Weaver, Austin Pendleton, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Eric Bentley and David Hyde Pierce, Amanda Peet and Lee Grant, Tony Walton and Katie Finneran, Alfred Molina), HB will be hosting a series of intimate benefit performances featuring notable HB alumni and friends, exclusively produced in the HB Playwrights Theater. First up for the exciting 2016-17 season is:

La Jolla Playhouse, nationally-renowned for the development of new work, announces four world-premiere productions for the 2017/2018 season, including the previously-announced Escape to Margaritaville (May/June), featuring the songs of legendary singer-songwriter-author Jimmy Buffett and an original story by co-book writers Greg Garcia ('My Name Is Earl') and Mike O'Malley ('Survivor's Remorse,' 'Shameless'), directed by La Jolla Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley (Come From Away, Memphis).

On last night's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, guest Billy Crystal recalled golfing with President Elect Donald Trump, President Bill Clinton and Rudy Giuliani and has trouble saying the words 'President Trump'

Tony and Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, producer, writer and director Billy Crystal announced this week the first set of shows on his upcoming 30+ city US tour Spend the Night with Billy Crystal.

Brad Zimmerman will return to South Florida this season in his highly praised autobiographical comedy, My Son the Waiter:  A Jewish Tragedy.  The show will run from December 15th through January 29th at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center in Boca Raton.

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and Morgan Stanley announce their continued partnership for the 2016 - 2017 season with the development of a new series.

Spencer Strasmore (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) and his boys are back to 'ball out' in Season 2 of the hit HBO comedy Ballers from the team behind the HBO classic Entourage®. Johnson showcases his “movie-star charisma” (The Hollywood Reporter) in the series that looks at the whirlwind lifestyles and real-life problems of former and current football players in sun-soaked Miami. Ballers: The Complete Second Season will be available on Blu-rayTM and DVD on January 31, 2017 and includes “Inside the Episode” bonus segments that give the play-by-play on all 10 episodes, featuring interviews with executive producer Evan Reilly, star Dwayne Johnson and more. DVD and Blu-ray versions also include a Digital Download.

Before the highly-anticipated final season kicks off this winter, check out the “spectacular” (Vulture) fifth season of the Emmy®- and Golden Globe-winning HBO comedy GIRLS.

Tony and Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, producer, writer and director Billy Crystal today announced the first set of shows on his upcoming 30+ city US tour Spend the Night with Billy Crystal, stopping at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 8PM. Coming off the heels of his recent critically-acclaimed Australian tour, Crystal promises a hilarious and intimate evening.

NOT THAT JEWISH, the new hit off-Broadway comedy written and performed by Monica Piper, isn't saying goodbye so quickly and has just announced a new block of tickets on sale through April 30, 2017. BroadwayWorld has a first look at Piper onstage in the now-extended show below!

Crystal promises a hilarious and intimate evening for the Orlando engagement, which will play Dr. Phillip Center's Walt Disney Theater on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.

La Jolla Playhouse announces a special engagement of the critically-acclaimed one-woman show, The Wholehearted, written and co-directed by UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance professor Deborah Stein (The Bitter Game), performed and co-directed by Suli Holum. Presented in association with Center Theatre Group, the show runs in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre December 14 - 18. Tickets and information are available at LaJollaPlayhouse.org or858-550-1010.

Well, it's finally over! After what feels like an unprecedentedly long election cycle, Donald Trump has been elected President of The United States of America! The Broadway community has been incredibly vocal in its support of Hillary Clinton as a result of some of the dangerous and discriminatory rhetoric preached by the opposing candidate.

Lena Dunham just unveiled a new Funny or Die video in support of Hillary Clinton featuring a familiar Broadway face. Click below to watch Dunham rap a 'Sensual Pantsuit Anthem' for her candidate of choice, with appearances by THE COLOR PURPLE's Cynthia Erivo and more!