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The 31st Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards were held June 3 at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. The cirque-inspired revival of Pippin and the high-grossing musical Motown to…
The 69th Annual Theatre World Awards ceremony — honoring debut performances on and Off-Broadway — were held June 3 beginning at 6:45 PM at the Music Box Theatre, home of the curr…
Performances for the West End world premiere of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory begin May 22 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, prior to an official opening June 25.
Keala Settle, a 2013 Tony Award nominee for her performance in Hands on a Hardbody, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
The 23rd annual edition of Broadway Bares, entitled Broadway Bares 23: United Strips of America, will be presented at Roseland Ballroom June 23 at 9:30 PM and midnight. Here is a sneak peek.
Seth Rudetsky and Mary J. Davis present James Wesley's Unbroken Circle beginning May 29 at Off-Broadway's St. Luke’s Theatre.
Tony-nominated Kinky Boots stars Billy Porter, Stark Sands and Annaleigh Ashford were on hand at the Upper East Side Barnes and Noble May 31 to perform from the show and sign copies of the n…
Audra McDonald and daughter Zoe took in the May 31 performance of Cinderella at the Broadway Theatre. They visited with the show's stars following the show.
Shadows close in on a Connecticut family in the Playwrights Horizons world-premiere musical Far From Heaven. Kelli O'Hara, Steven Pasquale and Isaiah Johnson star in the musical adaptati…
The Broadway Show League continued its 59th annual softball season May 30 and is now in the midst of its regular season games as teams battle their way toward the championship. Key matchups…
Around the World in 80 Days, a comedic play by Mark Brown based on the Jules Verne novel, officially opens at The New Theater at 45th Street May 30 at 6:30 PM following previews that began M…
Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, based on the classic animated film of the same title, began performances at the New Jersey venue May 29.
Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project celebrated 18 years with a Spring Picnic held May 30. The Project, founded in 1995, is devoted to restoring, revitalizing, and developing unde…
Rags, the Charles Strouse-Stephen Schwartz-Joseph Stein about immigrants arriving in a promising and dangerous America, returned to New York May 28 in a revised production by Beautiful Soup …
The Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation kicks off its inaugural International Arts Festival in New York City May 30 with the U.S. premiere of The Giacomo Variations, starring Academy Award no…
McCarter Theatre Center presents Fiasco Theater’s reimaging of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods May 3-June 9. Ensemble members Andy Grotelueschen (Milky White, …
The Portland Center Stage world premiere of the new musical Somewhere in Time, based on Richard Matheson's romantic novel and film of the same title, began performances May 28 in Portlan…
The high-flying musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark played its 1,000th performance at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre the evening of May 30. Composers Bono and The Edge of U2 made a surprise …
Broadway's Cinderella, starring 2013 Tony nominees Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, celebrated its 100th performance at the Broadway Theatre the evening of May 29. The cast enjoyed a ca…
The Tony Award-winning musical Once celebrated 500 performances on Broadway May 29 and officially welcomed new cast members including New "Guy" and "Girl" Arthur Darvill and Joanna Christie.
The original Broadway cast album of the Tony Award-nominated Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein musical Kinky Boots was released in stores and digitally May 28 on the Masterworks Broadway la…
Goodspeed's new adaptation of the Jazz Age musical Good News!, about college romance, football and a certain dance called "The Varsity Drag," plays the historic Opera House in …
USA Network has given a 12-episode series order to the law-enforcement drama "Graceland," which features Catch Me If You Can and Next to Normal star Aaron Tveit. The show will pre…
Emmy Award-nominated "The Office" star Jenna Fischer, Josh Hamilton, Leslie Bibb and Fred Weller star in the MCC Theater world premiere of Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy, wh…
Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch, known for playing a bullying cheer coach on TV's "Glee," began performances as orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in Broadway's Annie on …