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Funny Girl, featuring Barbra Streisand in a star-making turn, opened on March 26, 1964. The production played 1,348 performances and received eight Tony nominations. We take a look back at h…
Shalita Grant, making her Broadway debut in Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop…
Declan Bennett and Zrinka Cvitešić lead the cast as Guy and Girl, respectively, in the West End transfer of Broadway's Tony-winning musical Once, which began performances at …
Max Crumm, who starred in the most recent Broadway revival of Grease, heads the cast of the new Off-Broadway musical F#%king Up Everything — a winner at the 2009 New York Musical Theat…
The first national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical launched in January in Minneapolis, MN. Cast member Andrew Chappelle shares some exclusive photos from the road.
Edward Watts, whose Broadway credits include Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson and Finian's Rainbow, played Superman in the New York City Center Encores! pro…
La Mirada Theatre's production of the Tony-winning musical Spring Awakening began previews March 21 prior to an official opening the following evening at the La Mirada Theatre for the Pe…
Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) kicked off its annual Dining By Design event with a March 21 gala dinner.
The nine-time Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon opened officially March 21 at London's Prince of Wales Theatre, following previews that began Feb. 25.
The March 26 and April 2 episodes of the new NBC musical drama "Smash" will air at 10 PM ET. Here is a first look at the installments, titled "The Bells and Whistles" and "The Par…
Broadway's 2012 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Once celebrated its one year anniversary on Broadway the afternoon of March 20. The cast marked the occasion by performing a special enco…
Drury Lane Theatre offers a new Chicago-area production of Sunset Boulevard, starring Christine Sherrill as faded silent-film star Norma Desmond. Dara Cameron, who co-stars as Betty Schaeffe…
The Brooks Atkinson Theatre opened Feb. 23 as the Broadway garage of Hands On a Hardbody, the new musical about a gaggle of American dreamers engaged in an endurance contest to win a pickup …
The eighth annual Broadway Backwards concert — featuring male singers performing songs traditionally sung by women, and women singing tunes written for men — played the Palace Th…
Edward Watts, whose Broadway credits include Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson and Finian's Rainbow, is Superman in the New York City Center Encores! product…
The second season of the NBC musical drama "Smash" continues with a new episode March 19. Here is first look at the installment, titled "Musical Chairs."
Peter and the Starcatcher, the Tony Award-winning play with music that traces the origins of the Peter Pan story, returns to its own roots. The imaginative work, which originally dawned at t…
Second Stage Theatre's new production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years, with Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe as the couple who falls in and out of lo…
The Vineyard Theatre's annual gala — this year, celebrating the institution's 30th anniversary — was held March 18 at The Edison Ballroom. Original cast members from Aven…
The company of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella entered the recording studio March 18 to preserve the Original Broadway Cast Recording for Ghostlight Records. A spring release is e…
Jay Armstrong Johnson, who plays Greg Wilhote in the new musical Hands on a Hardbody, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster celebrates her birthday March 18. In honor of the stage and television actress, Playbill.com has compiled photos of some of her greatest musical thea…
Gingold Theatrical Group, which presents the monthly Project Shaw readings under the direction of artistic director David Staller, offered a Golden Shamrock Gala March 17 at the Players Club.
Lanford Wilson's The Mound Builders, a tale of archaeologists exploring the remains of an ancient culture, is being unearthed by Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company, opening Mar…
The world-premiere production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, adapted by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, conjures New York City in the 1940s starting March 4 at Broadway's Cort Theat…
