Playbill News

Grammy and Emmy Award winner, Tony Award nominee and multi-platinum recording artist Harry Connick, Jr. stars as Dr. Mark Bruckner in the newly imagined production of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER which opened December 11, 2011 on Broadway at The St. James Theatre. Let's see what the critics had to say...

Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), NYC's foremost progressive dance education and performance center, announces the opening of ‘Displaced,' a photography exhibition of 34 new works by photographer Matthew Murphy with an opening reception tonight at 7:00 p.m. at DNA's Gallery at 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor.

The cast of the off-Broadway hit Rent will perform the 2011 Rent Holiday Christmas Pageant Extravaganza Spectacular on Monday, December 5, at 11pm at New World Stages, 340 West 50 Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

While enthusiastic audiences are enjoying the final productions of the 2011 Season, Drayton Entertainment has unveiled its 2012 playbill - the most ambitious in the company's 22 year history.

Ghostlight Records is releasing the debut album from Tony and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Linda Lavin, entitled 'Possibilities.'

Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio joins conductor Scott Dunn and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for orchestrations of classic Phish tunes and solo Anastasio compositions at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 10, 2012 at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

SOUL DOCTOR, the exhilarating, riveting and hilarious new Broadway-bound musical, tells the true story of the beloved and controversial father of popular Jewish music, Shlomo Carlebach. Deemed a "CERTIFIABLE HIT" by Larry King and examiner.com, the pre-Broadway premier debuts in South Florida on December 24, with shows first in Miami Beach, then Fort Lauderdale.

The cast of the off-Broadway hit Rent will perform the 2011 Rent Holiday Christmas Pageant Extravaganza Spectacular on Monday, December 5, at 11pm at New World Stages, 340 West 50 Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

TotalTheater Productions, in association with the University of Northern Colorado's College of Visual & Performing Arts, will present a developmental staging of the new comedy with music, 'SHALOM DAMMIT! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon.'

TotalTheater Productions, in association with the University of Northern Colorado's College of Visual & Performing Arts, will present a developmental staging of the new comedy with music, 'SHALOM DAMMIT! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon.'

SH-K-BOOM RECORDS will release the new CD from GEORGIA STITT, the award winning and critically acclaimed composer and lyricist. My Lifelong Love features thirteen of Stitt's original songs performed by some of the entertainment industry's most exciting singers, including Jesse Tyler Ferguson (TV's 'Modern Family,' The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Anika Noni Rose (The Princess and the Frog, Dreamgirls, TV's 'The Good Wife'), Brian d'Arcy James (TV's 'Smash,' Shrek, Titanic), Susan Egan (Beauty And The Beast, Thoroughly Modern Millie), Shoshana Bean (Wicked, Hairspray), Heidi Blickenstaff ([title of show], The Addams Family), Laura Osnes (Anything Goes, Bonnie and Clyde), Christopher Jackson (In The Heights, TV's 'The Electric Company'), Michael Arden (Bare, Source Code), jazz duo Jessica Molaskey and John Pizzarelli, Kate Baldwin (Finian's Rainbow) and Michael McElroy (Rent, Broadway Inspirational Voices). The recording will be available on November 29, 2011. You can pre-order the album at http://sh-k-boom.com/georgiastitt.shtml.

Ghostlight Records is releasing the debut album from Tony and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Linda Lavin, entitled 'Possibilities.'

It was an event too good to be true: Chocolate and Broadway coming together as one! The 14th Annual Chocolate Show, which opened Wednesday November 8th and ran through Sunday November 13th, featured a runway show with Broadway themed costumes made out of chocolate! Chocolatiers and pastry chefs, from some of New York's best restaurants, teamed up with award winning costume designers to create the delicious dresses that walked the runway Wednesday night. The dresses were then featured throughout the showroom for the rest of the chocolate show. Some of the participating costume designers were William Ivey Long, Anita Yavic (Chinglish), and Gregg Barnes.

TotalTheater Productions, in association with the University of Northern Colorado's College of Visual & Performing Arts, will present a developmental staging of the new comedy with music, 'SHALOM DAMMIT! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon.'

Just like Pope Paul VI figured when The Vatican told followers to go ahead and celebrate mass in the vernacular, John-Michael Tebelak figured that if the musical he penned with Stephen Schwartz, based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew, was going to connect with young people, it had to be done in their language.  So when Godspell premiered Off-Broadway forty years ago, the son of God and his disciples were depicted as soft pop and folk singing flower children who were too busy learning how to spread love to be bothered with sex, drugs and burning their draft cards.  Arriving on Broadway after Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, it was the first major rock musical that didn't scare the hell out of parents.

Last year, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater website on the Internet, launched a comprehensive Student Database listing college and university performing arts programs across the country. This free service makes it easier for prospective students by showcasing programs searchable by schools, location, degrees and concentrations.

Have I been a bad BroadwayGirl? Before November 5, the last show I saw was Sister Act in September, which at the time was the last production I needed to see before I could celebrate the fact that I'd been to every single show on Broadway.

A Special Jeff Award will be presented to Sun-Times theatre critic Hedy Weiss at the Jeff Awards Ceremony, November 7, in recognition of her contributions to Chicagoland theatre.

Broadway In Chicago and Emerald City Theatre are excited to be partnering with Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation for a 'Day of Pink' on Sunday, Nov.6, 2011, for 4 year-old Carli Highberger, who is currently battling pediatric Lymphoma,.

Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), NYC's foremost progressive dance education and performance center, announces the opening of ‘Displaced,' a photography exhibition of 34 new works by photographer Matthew Murphy with an opening reception tonight at 7:00 p.m. at DNA's Gallery at 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor.