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The Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet, which invests Shakespeare's drama with a new dynamic, began performances Aug. 24 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The production features Orlando…
Stage and screen actors Payson Lewis (NBC's "The Sing Off", "Victorious"), Jonah Platt ("The Office") and Lindsay Pearce ("Glee,") star in th…
Stage and screen actors Payson Lewis (NBC's "The Sing Off", "Victorious"), Jonah Platt ("The Office") and Lindsay Pearce ("Glee,") star in th…
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Song and Dance opened on this date in 1985. It would earn Bernadette Peters her first Tony Award. We look back at that show and other Bernadette Greatest Hits!
The world-premiere staging of Secondhand Lions, the new musical by Michael Weiner, Alan Zachary and Tony Award winner Rupert Holmes, began previews Sept. 7 in Seattle. Gregg Edelman, Mark Ja…
The American Repertory Theater production of All The Way, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan's new drama that stars Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. J…
Anna Nicole, the Mark-Anthony Turnage-Richard Thomas opera about late tabloid and reality star Anna Nicole Smith, receives its U.S. debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music beginning Sept. 17 …
Musical theatre favorite Heather Parcells (A Chorus Line, Wonderland) is back on Broadway in Soul Doctor, a new musical about the life of controversial Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. She shares a t…
Reeve Carney, who originated the dual roles of Peter Parker and Spider-Man in Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, took his final flight with the musical Sept. 15. At curtain call, …
Ethan Coen’s first full-length play, Women Or Nothing, officially opened Sept. 16 following previews that began Aug. 28 at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gro…
Angela Lansbury, Glenn Close, Richard Kind, Sierra Boggess and more saluted Tony Award-winning Broadway director-producer Harold Prince during the American Theatre Wing's annual gala Sep…
Jeremy Hays, who recently took over the role of Raoul in Broadway's long-running Phantom of the Opera, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-cu…
Tony winner Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of A Time to Kill, based on John Grisham’s best-selling novel, will begin previews Sept. 28 at the John Golden Theatre. The cast g…
Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed, who co-starred as Aladdin and Jasmine in the Seattle premiere of Disney's Aladdin, will reprise their performances on Broadway. Producers announced the com…
The new Broadway musical Big Fish, a father-and-son tale based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the subsequent 2003 film by John August, swan onto Broadway Sept. 5, when it began prev…
The musical phenomenon The Fantasticks celebrated its 20,000th Off-Broadway performance September 15. Writer Tom Jones and other special guests were on hand for the milestone.
The 2013 Fox Fall Eco-Casino Party was held Sept. 9 at The Bungalow in Santa Monica, CA. The event celebrated the launch of Fox's new fall season and raised money and awareness for a num…
Anne Washburn's new work Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play officially opened at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons Sept. 15 following previews that began Aug. 23.
Pop star Nick Jonas, most recently on Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, celebrates his 21st birthday today.
NYU Steinhardt’s program in vocal performance presents the Tony-nominated musical Sweet Smell of Success beginning Sept. 12 at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
Producers of Motown the Musical launched a nationwide open casting call for African-American performers to join the Broadway and upcoming national tour of the musical, which traces the life …
Charlie Brady stars as Chris in a new mini-tour of the award-winning musical Miss Saigon, which kicked off this week at Kansas City's Starlight Theatre. He shares exclusive pics of from …
Horton Foote's The Old Friends, starring Tony winner Betty Buckley, Tony nominee Hallie Foote and Tony nominee Lois Smith, officially opened Sept. 12 following previews th…
"That Face," a gallery exhibit featuring the work of acclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin — whose drawings can be seen weekly in Playbill.com's Stage Portrait column — …
The New York Theatre Workshop production of Will Power's Fetch Clay, Make Man officially opened Sept. 12 at 7 PM following previews that began Aug. 23 at the Off-Broadway venue.