When the Tony Awards telecast begins on Sunday, June 9, 40 nervous and excited actors will take their seats at Radio City Music Hall, hoping to win Broadway's biggest prize. Throughout the s…
When the Tony Awards telecast begins on Sunday, June 9, 40 nervous and excited actors will take their seats at Radio City Music Hall, hoping to win Broadway's biggest prize. Throughout the s…
The Who's Tommy opened at the St. James Theatre April 22, 1993.
When an actor with two decades of Broadway credits calls his current production "the best play I have ever seen or been in," savvy theatergoers should take note " and head to the Bernard B. …
A miraculous world awaits inside the ultimate pleasure palace at Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Swathed in crimson velvet and twinkling lights, with a twirling windmill on one wall and a giant e…
There's a man and a woman. Not young, not old. No great beauties, either one. They meet where they work: a restaurant and it's not the Ritz. In four simple phrases, Terrence McNally describe…
Kiss Me, Kate offers a rare mix of passionate romance, theatrical hijinks, and knockabout comedy, set to a Cole Porter score that's as captivating today as in 1948, when the show won the fir…
Tootsie came to life on screen in 1982 as a smash hit comedy about the ultimate transformation. A self-centered stage actor named Michael Dorsey finds the success he craves by posing as a fe…
How far would you go to make your professional dreams come true? For Michael Dorsey, a New York actor whose egotism wrecked his career, a fresh start as "Dorothy Michaels" " an actress " lan…
The world of J.K. Rowling's stupendously popular Harry Potter books expanded in thrilling fashion last spring when the two-part theatrical event Harry Potter and the Cursed Child arrived on …
Playbill looks back to when Jones, currently on Broadway in The Lifespan of a Fact, first broke out in her Tony-winning turn in The Heiress.
In a film and television career that spans 20 of his 30 years, Michael Cera has shared the screen with charismatic leading ladies Emma Stone (Superbad), Jessica Walter (Arrested Development)…
Long before she was tapped to play pregnant pie chef Jenna Hunterson in Waitress, Nicolette Robinson had memorized every song from the hit musical's cast recording. Within months of seeing t…
One of the most romantic love stories ever filmed is now on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre, with a real-life couple in the cast. But there's a twist: That real-life couple isn't the …
In honor of the Tony-winning star, we look back at her November 1989 interview about working with Nine director Tommy Tune again on the then-upcoming Grand Hotel.
More than half a century after an adventurous teenager recorded "I Got You Babe" with her boyfriend Sonny Bono, the life and career of Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere Bono Allman is being transf…
You may cherish Cher as the sassy star of 1970s TV variety shows, as a deep-voiced disco-era diva, as an Oscar-winning actress, as a Las Vegas headliner, or as the wittiest person on Twitter…
At age 83, Laurence Luckinbill lives in Palm Springs with his wife of almost 38 years, Lucie Arnaz, and is working on a memoir wittily titled Famous Enough. A sure-to-be-fascinating chapter …
The mythic creature most associated with New York City is headed to Broadway this fall in the spectacular new musical King Kong " and when it comes to the title character, spectacular is mos…
Ten minutes before curtain time at Broadway's Music Box Theatre, there's the usual rush to snap and post stageside selfies. What's surprising is that many of the cellphone paparazzi at Dear …
More than 60 years after its Broadway debut, My Fair Lady remains the jewel in the crown of American musical theater. Every element is perfect, from Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's gor…
Every Broadway season generates at least one “star is born” moment from a charismatic newcomer. The fact that this year’s breakout performer, Lauren Ridloff, had never acte…
The final volume of J.K. Rowling's seven-book saga of young wizard Harry Potter ends with an intriguing epilogue. Jumping ahead 19 years, Harry and his wife, Ginny, are sending their son Alb…
In the heyday of Studio 54, Donna Summer's megahit "Last Dance" signaled an end to the evening's revelry, recalls Ron Melrose, a keyboard player at the time in Liza Minnelli's Broadway music…
During the disco era, Donna Summer reigned as queen of the dance floor, infusing pop music with sexiness and glamour. But there was a lot more to Summer " born LaDonna Adrian Gaines " than a…