VIDEO: Watch a THE GOODBYE GIRL Reunion on STARS IN THE HOUSE- Live Now!
Stars in the House continues tonight 8pm withthe cast of The Goodbye GirlRichard Dreyfuss, Marsha MasonandQuinn Cummings.
Watch Cast of Broadway’s The Full Monty, Including Patrick Wilson, André De Shields, Jason Danieley, More, Reunite on Stars in the House
Stars in the House, the daily live streamed concert series created by Playbill correspondent and SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky and producer James Wesley, reunites members of the cast of the 2000 Tony-nominated musical The Full Monty —including Tony nominee John Ellison Conlee (The Constant Wife), Jason Danieley (Curtains), Tony winner André De Shields (Hadestown), Romain Fruge (Titanic), Marcus Neville (Kinky Boots), and Tony nominee Patrick Wilson (Oklahoma!), as well as Tony-winning composer-lyricist David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit)—May 3 at 8 PM. Watch the stream above.
The Stars in the House series launched March 16 with Tony winner Kelli O’Hara and promotes support for The Actors Fund and its services in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Wesley and Rudetsky are recipients of honorary Drama Desk Awards this year, recognizing their efforts to aid the theatre community.
New shows air daily at 2 PM and 8 PM ET, featuring performances by stars of stage and screen, in conversation and song with Rudetsky and Wesley. Streaming direction is by Peter Flynn. Click here to watch previous episodes.
READ: How to Help Unemployed Theatre Industry Professionals During the Coronavirus Shutdown
As the situation surrounding the coronavirus outbreak continues to evolve, The Actors Fund will provide services online and via phone. These services include Artists Health Insurance Resource Center, The Career Center, Housing Resources, Addiction & Recovery, HIV/AIDS and Senior Services, Counseling and Emergency Financial Assistance, as well as The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
To make a tax-deductible donation to The Actors Fund visit ActorsFund.org/Donate. Since its launch, Stars in the House has raised over $200,000 to benefit The Actors Fund.
Musical Theatre Factory’s TUNE IN TUESDAYS Continues With Douglas Lyons and Ethan Pakchar’s BEAU
Musical Theatre FactoryTune In Tuesdays continues on May 5 with Douglas Lyons and Ethan Pakchar’s BEAU.BEAU had a rousing launch production at the 25th season of the Adirondack Theatre Festival last year after development with MTF, The Directors Company, Lincoln Center, Roundabout Theatre Company and Bucks County Playhouse.
KPOP on Broadway, Oklahoma! National Tour, More Host Video Auditions
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With theatres dark for the time being, casting directors are getting creative and encouraging performers to participate in video auditions. Here’s a selection of upcoming Equity auditions around America, in chronological order according to submission deadlines.
CURIOUS THEATRE 2020-2021 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE: 05/01/2020)
OKLAHOMA! (SETA TOUR)
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE: 05/06/2020)
PARAMOUNT THEATRE 2020-21 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSION (DEADLINE 05.06.20)
VICTORY GARDENS 2020-21 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSION (DEADLINE 05.06.20)
REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST. LOUIS 2020-21 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSION (DEADLINE 05.11.20)
BORDERS I & II
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE: 05/12/2020)
MARYS SEACOLE
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE: 05/12/2020)
THE NICETIES
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE: 05/12/2020)
MAN CAVE
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE 05.13.20)
MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE 20-21 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE 05.14.20)
ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE 2020-21 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSION (DEADLINE: 05/15/2020)
CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER 2020-2021 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO AUDITIONS (DEADLINE 05.15.20)
AS YOU LIKE IT
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE 05.18.20)
BLOOD BROTHERS
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE 05.18.20)
KPOP (BROADWAY)
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE 05.22.20)
NATIVE GARDENS
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (05.23.20)
ARC STAGES 20-21 SEASON
NYC EPA (06.15.20)
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
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VIDEO: Watch the Full 2020 TUTS Tommy Tune Awards!
Theatre Under The Starsannounced the winners of the2020 Tommy Tune Awardsduring an online event this evening that streamed on bothFacebookandYouTube.
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theatre History: April 29
1899 Happy birthday Edward Kennedy Ellington, who, taking the surname “Duke,” becomes one of the 20th century’s most important musician-composers. He writes the scores for the Broadway musicals Beggar’s Holiday and Pousse-Cafe, and his songs are later used in the hit revue Sophisticated Ladies, and the Twelfth Night-inspired musical Play On!
1919 Celeste Holm is born in New York City. She never says no as Ado Annie in the original 1943 production of Oklahoma! and acts in films as everybody’s witty and wise best friend.
1940 Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne head the cast in Robert E. Sherwood‘s There Shall Be No Night. The drama describes the courage of the Finns recently overrun by Russian invaders. It plays 181 performances at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway, and wins the Pulitzer Prize.
1966 Paula Strasberg, an early member of the Actors Studio (with husband Lee) and a drama coach, dies at age 55.
1968 This is the dawning of the “Age of Aquarius” when Hair opens on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre. James Rado and Gerome Ragni wrote the book and lyrics for the Galt MacDermot musical. The production runs four years, for a total of 1,750 performances.
1992 William Finn and James Lapine combine March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland into one musical, which they call Falsettos. Opening on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, it stars Stephen Bogardus as Whizzer, Michael Rupert as Marvin, and Chip Zien as Mendel. Finn wins the Tony Award for Best Score, and Finn and Lapine win for Best Book. It runs 486 performances.
1996 It’s “No Day But Today” for the cast of the Broadway sensation Rent, opening at the Nederlander Theatre. Michael Greif directs the musical that makes names for such actors as Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Taye Diggs, and Idina Menzel. Written by Jonathan Larson, the show plays 5,123 performances on Broadway, and wins many awards including the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Larson sadly never saw any of the success that his musical brought, having died in January 1996 of an aortic aneurysm.
1997 Leonard Bernstein‘s musical Candide is revived on Broadway by director Harold Prince. The show, based on the 1759 novel Candide by Voltaire, features Jim Dale, Andrea Martin, and Harolyn Blackwell. Unlike Prince’s long-running 1974 Broadway revival, this production runs only 104 performances.
2001 Two-time Pulitzer winner August Wilson continues his epic chronicle of 20th century African-American life when King Hedley II opens on Broadway. Two Tony-winning musical comedy stars take on dramatic roles in the play: Brian Stokes Mitchell and Leslie Uggams.
2002 Broadway and TV comedian Carol Burnett makes her debut as a playwright when Hollywood Arms, co-written with her daughter Carrie Hamilton, opens at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. It transfers to Broadway in October 2002.
2006 Rent celebrates its 10th anniversary on Broadway with a reunion event at the Nederlander Theatre.
2009 The first Broadway revival of Samson Raphaelson‘s 1934 romantic comedy Accent on Youth opens at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. David Hyde Pierce portrays a playwright who finds fresh inspiration in a pretty young secretary in the Manhattan Theatre Club production, directed by Daniel Sullivan.
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