HAIRSPRAY (@hairsprayontour), Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon, will be presented at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (@arshtcenter) from December 28, 2021 – January 2, 2022. The new touring production, helmed by Jack O’Brien and Jerry Mitchell, will star Andrew Levitt aka Nina West (from “RuPaul’s Drag Race”)as Edna Turnblad, Niki Metcalf as Tracy Turnblad and Toneisha Harris (from NBC’s “The Voice”) as Motormouth Maybelle with Billy Dawson as Corny Collins, Will Savarese as Link Larkin, Emery Henderson as Penny Pingleton, Brandon G. Stalling as Seaweed J. Stubbs, Kaelee Albritton as Amber Von Tussle and Addison Garner as Velma Von Tussle.
III Points, Club Space & The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County Present BJÖRK ORCHESTRAL Conducted by Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason. A rare and intimate performance featuring Björk and a 32-piece orchestra performing original acoustic arrangements of her work TWO NIGHTS ONLY! February 13 and 16, 2022 at 8 p.m.
As the holiday shopping season reaches its apex, Giving Tuesday marks a day to donate to organizations that support causes about which you’re passionate. From foundations that support writers creating new theatrical works to charities that assist everyone in entertainment and arts education programs to groupsendorsed by Broadway’s best, there are dozens of theatre-related charities worthy of your generosity.
As fall carries on, Playbill continues its celebration of the Halloween season with a look back at some of the theatre’s most terrifying musicals. Whether it’s the Demon Barber of Fleet Street or the Phantom of the Opera, check out these shows that bring the maleficent to the musical stage.
Hugh Jackman, who started off his career starring in a series of stage musicals in Australia and in London’s West End including Beauty and the Beast, Sunset Boulevard, and Oklahoma!, celebrated his birthday October 12. He made his Broadway debut and won a Tony Award playing Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz in 2003, earned an Academy Award nomination as Jean Valjean in the 2012 film version of Les Misérables, and has hosted the Tony Awards four times. He was last seen on Broadway in The River.
NBC has set the Broadway musical Annie as its next live TV musical, planning a holiday 2021 broadcast. The production will be the latest in NBC’s string of live TV musical broadcasts, which have included takes on The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, The Wiz, Hairspray, and Jesus Christ Superstar.
