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The 5th Annual National High School Musical Theater Awards (NHSMTA), also known as the Jimmy Awards, took place July 1 at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre. Tony Award nominees and Cinderella …
Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan joins Tony nominee Anna Kendrick in the Richard LaGravenese film adaptation of the Jason Robert Brown musical The Last Five Years, which is currently fi…
Daniel Clarkson, one of the stars of Potted Potter at Off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidb…
Tony Award winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal) as well as former Hair tribe members Kacie Sheik and Andrew Kober were among the cast of A Lasting Impression, a contemporary new musical…
Stage and screen star Cheyenne Jackson plays the role of Tony in West Side Story in Concert beginning June 27 with the San Francisco Symphony.
Charl Brown, a 2013 Tony Award nominee for his performance as Smokey Robinson, shares a recent two-show day at Motown: The Musical. He offers readers an up-close look at his transformation i…
Members of Broadway Impact waved a banner in celebration of the 2013 NYC Gay Pride March on June 30. Playbill.com photographer Monica Simoes joined them along the parade route.
The most recent revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar closed on this date one year ago. Playbill looks back at the show in various stage and screen incarna…
Cast members from Motown: The Musical appeared at a special live performance at The Apple Store in SoHo on June 27 to celebrate the show's new Original Broadway Cast Recording, released June…
Soul Doctor, the musical about the real-life unconventional Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, will begin previews July 17 at Circle in the Square. The cast offered a sneak peek performance the mornin…
Broadway's Dan Domenech (Rock of Ages) has taken a journey across the globe to star in the Manila production of Disney's Tarzan. As the show comes to a close, he shares some photos from back…
Olivier Award-winning British leading man Michael Ball celebrates his birthday June 27. Playbill.com takes a look at his stage career spanning nearly 30 years.
TKTS celebrated 40 years in Times Square with Broadway-themed festivities June 26.
In celebration of the Supreme Court's historic ruling striking down the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional, the cast and crew of Broadway's Tony Award-winning musical Kinky …
The St. Louis Muny's production of Shrek The Musical began performances at the famed outdoor venue June 24.
The 2013 Recording Academy Honors, featuring stage and screen stars Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks and Stephanie J. Block, were held June 25.
Jacob Pinion, serving up "Pepper" nightly in the Broadway production of Mamma Mia!, shares a recent two-show day with Playbill.com readers. He documents the early part of his day, offers a …
The Transport Group's one-night-only concert presentation of the Tony Award-nominated musical Once Upon a Mattress was held June 17 at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
Broadway's sexiest night of the year has arrived: The 23rd annual edition of Broadway Bares, entitled Broadway Bares 23: United Strips of America, was presented at Roseland Ballroom June…
#UntitledPopMusical, the new musical conceived and written by Michael Kimmel (The Last Goodbye) with music and lyrics by Drew Gasparini ("Smash"), had its debut concert June 24 at …
Lyricist Daniel Maté and librettist Alan Gordon, the recipients of the 23rd annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre, were presented with the honor June 24 in a private New York C…
Michael Urie stars as a struggling Los Angeles actor who finds himself working in Barbra Streisand's basement in Jonathan Tolins' one-man comedy Buyer & Cellar, which officially …
Alton Fitzgerald White, back on Broadway as King Mufasa in The Lion King, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
Caramoor kicked off its 68th Summer Festival in Katonah, NY, with a semi-staged production of the classic, award-winning musical She Loves Me June 22 at 8:30 PM and June 23 at 4 PM.
Priscilla Queen of the Desert closed on Broadway one year ago today following 526 performances. We take a look back at a two-show day with cast member Ellyn Marie Marsh.