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Paul Taylor-Mills Ltd. presents the European premiere of bare, the pop opera by Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere — which was recently re-envisioned as a book musical and seen Off-Br…
Broadway stars of today celebrated three Broadway icons of yesteryear — namely, songwriters Frank Loesser and Jule Styne and actor Danny Kaye — at the April 29 gala performance c…
Tony Award winners Katie Finneran and Kathleen Marshall were honored June 29 at Creative Alternatives of New York's "Pearl Gala."
Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster and stage and screen actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson announced the nominees for the 2013 Tony Awards April 30 at The New York Public Library for the Performing …
The longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, welcomed West End star and platinum-selling Swedish recording artist Peter Jöback begin…
Bryan Terrell Clark, who plays Marvin Gaye in Motown: The Musical, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
The May 4 and May 11 episodes of the NBC musical drama "Smash" will air at 9 PM ET in the show's new Saturday time slot. Here is a first look at the installments, titled "…
The company of the second North American tour of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Wicked welcomed Jennifer DiNoia as Elphaba, Hayley Podschun as Glinda and David Nathan Perlow as Fi…
Spend a recent two-show day at Broadway's Jekyll & Hyde with Jason Wooten (Hair), who plays Simon Stride in the new revival. Check out his pre-show rituals and meet the hardworking men a…
The iconic Jonathan Larson rock musical Rent opened on Broadway on April 29, 1996. Playbill.com takes a look back at the original Broadway production and the many performers who passed throu…
As the final offering of the current theater season, Season of Cambodia presented the definitive masters of the dazzling ancient art form of Cambodian shadow puppetry with fo…
The Fulton Theatre continues its 160th Anniversary Season with the show business musical Dreamgirls, representing the first time the show has been presented in the Lancaster region.
The 11th edition of the Bistro Award-winning series If It Only Even Runs a Minute was held April 22 at (le) Poisson Rouge. This edition featured a cast reunion of the entire original ca…
Tony Award nominees Carolee Carmello, Rebecca Luker and Emily Skinner saluted Broadway director-producer Harold Prince during the Signature Theatre's fourth annual Stephen Sondheim Award…
John Logan's I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, the one-woman play starring award-winning singer and actress Bette Midler, officially opened at Broadway's Booth Theatre …
John Logan's I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, the one-woman play starring award-winning singer and actress Bette Midler, officially opened at Broadway's Booth Theatre …
The 27th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition raised an all-time record of $4,250,542 in six weeks of nightly curtain-call appeals. The number was revealed at t…
Spend a two-show day at Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike with Genevieve Angelson, making her Broadway debut in the role of Nina.
Christina DeCicco, last seen on Broadway as the alternate Eva Peron in the recent revival of Evita, joined the cast of the high-flying musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark April 23.
Steve Kazee, Barbara Cook, Rebecca Faulkenberry and Jonathan Tunick and more will offer concerts at the intimate 54 Below in the coming months. They offered a preview the morning of April 2…
The political ascent of Filipino leaders Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos swirls to life in Here Lies Love, the flashy pop musical by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim that officially opened April 23 a…
The new Broadway production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, featuring Emmy-winning stage and screen star Cicely Tyson, officially opened April 23 at 6:30 PM following previews t…
Stuck Elevator, a new musical featuring a hybrid of musical theater, opera, and solo performance, receives its world premiere at San Francisco's A.C.T for a run through April 28. Raymond…
Our Time's 11th annual benefit gala, Worth the Wait — celebrating the bravery and achievements of young people who stutter as well as those who inspire their success &mda…
The Film Society of Lincoln Center honored Academy Award winner and Tony Award recipient Barbra Streisand — the first American woman artist to receive credit as writer, director, produ…