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The Garden of Dreams Talent Show Auditions were held at at The Theater at Madison Square Garden Feb 27. Broadway's Tony Vincent, Rebecca Faulkenberry and Chester Gregory were among the cele…
A British shoemaker turns his business around thanks to a drag performer and a new set of discerningly fabulous clientele in Kinky Boots, the new Cyndi Lauper-scored musical based on the 200…
Marin Ireland, Chip Zien, Adam Rapp, Richard Kind, Brenda Wehle, Reg Rogers and more will join the previously announced Bobby Cannavale in Clifford Odets' drama of Hollywood secrets, The…
A longtime wish came true Jan. 25 as Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's Cinderella, starring Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, made its Broadway premiere, in preview, at the Broad…
The Bodyguard, a new musical based on the 1992 Warner Bros. film of the same name that was scripted by Lawrence Kasdan and starred the late Whitney Houston, plays the West End's Adelphi …
Passion, the Italian-set musical rumination on the light and dark nature of love — and the idea of unconditional love — opened Feb. 28 in its first New York City revival.
Academy and Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg co-star in the Rattlestick Plawrights Theater world premiere of The Revisionist, Eisenberg…
The new Cyndi Lauper-scored musical Kinky Boots, featuring a book by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, with direction and choreography by Tony winner Jerry Mitchell, begins previews March …
Rick Holmes, Jason Ralph and Nicole Lowrance will star in the Off-Broadway transfer of the Tony Award-winning play Peter and the Starcatcher, an imaginative riff on the origins of Peter Pan,…
Declan Bennett and Zrinka Cvitešić will lead the cast as Guy and Girl, respectively, in the West End transfer of Broadway's Tony-winning musical Once, which begins performanc…
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Justin Mikita, Montego Glover, Joan Rivers, Max von Essen and more were on hand at Avenue Feb. 27 to celebrate the Tie the Knot Spring Collection.
Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara and opera star Nathan Gunn take a spin on Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel beginning Feb. 27 at Avery Fisher Hall. The lush classic gets a starry fi…
Spend a day at the new musical Viva Forever!, featuring the songs made famous by the Spice Girls and a book by Jennifer Saunders. Cast member Simon Adkins, who plays the role of Leon, shares…
Two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters celebrates a birthday on Feb. 28. Playbill.com takes a look back at her stage career thus far.
Ann, actress-writer Holland Taylor's biographical play about late Texas Governor Ann Richards, began Broadway previews Feb. 18 prior to opening March 7 at Lincoln Center Theater's Vi…
Stephen Karam, Alan Menken and Michael John LaChiusa were among the recipients of 2012 Dramatists Guild of America awards, which werre presented Feb. 26 at the Lambs Club in New York.
The new world-premiere production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, adapted by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, begins preview performances at the Cort Theatre on March 4 and officially ope…
Charles Busch, Marilyn Maye, Debbie Gravitte and more will offer concerts at the intimate 54 Below in the coming months. They offered a preview the morning of Feb. 26.
Edie Falco plays a mother and teacher who sheds her life and moves to a rundown apartment building in the world premiere of The Madrid, Liz Flahive's comedy that opened Feb. 26 following…
Tanya Barfield's foreign-adoption drama The Call, a world-premiere co-production by Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages, will feature Kelly AuCoin, Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler, O…
Elizabeth Taylor, Academy Award-winning movie star and glamour icon, was born on this day in 1932. She died March 23, 2011, at the age of 79. Playbill.com takes a look back at Taylor's two…
Aleque Reid and Evan Jonigkeit, appearing together in MCC Theater's New York premiere of Really Really, each documented a recent day at the theatre.
The Broadway world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, the family drama starring the previously reported Judith Light and Jessica Hecht, began rehearsals Feb. 11.
Arielle Jacobs stars as Nina in Westchester Broadway Theatre's production of the Tony-winning musical In the Heights, reprising the role she played in the final Broadway company. She doc…
David Henry Hwang's The Dance and the Railroad, his 1981 play about Chinese workers forging the American Transcontinental Railroad, opened Feb. 25 in an Off-Broadway revival by Sign…