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The York Theatre Company honored veteran music director and conductor Paul Gemignani with the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre, which was presented Nov. 19…
Composer-lyricist Rob Rokicki celebrated the release of his debut album, "I’m Ready: The Songs of Rob Rokicki," Nov. 19 at 9:15 PM at Stage 72 (formerly The Triad).
Actor-musicians Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, who comprise the scantily-clad music duo The Skivvies, celebrated their new single "Hardbody Hoedown" with a release party and conce…
Actor-musicians Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, who comprise the scantily-clad music duo The Skivvies, celebrated their new single "Hardbody Hoedown" with a release party and conce…
The 1983 film A Christmas Story, based on Jean Shepherd's nostalgic and comedic holiday tale of American Christmases past, is re-wrapped as a new Broadway musical by songwriters Benj Pas…
Stage and screen star John C. McGinley, who returns to Broadway in the role of Dave Moss in the current revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random f…
The film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables will hit theatres in a wide release Dec. 25. In anticipation of the big premiere, Playbill.com looks back at the a…
The producers of the coming national tour of Flashdance — The Musical revealed complete casting on Nov. 19.
Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick hosted the Williamstown Theatre Festival's Nov. 18 benefit, honoring late writer-director Abe Burrows, at the Edison Ballroom. David Hyde Pierce, Stev…
The multiple Tony Award-winning musical The Lion King, which celebrated 15 years on Broadway Nov. 13, offered a special performance to benefit The Actors Fund Nov. 18 at 6:30 PM at the Minsk…
The Twenty-Seventh Man, the world-premiere stage production adapted from author Nathan Englander's short story of the same title, officially opened Off-Broadway Nov. 18 at the Public The…
Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster, Arielle Jacobs and Alexandra Silber inhabit Inner Voices, a collection of three solo musicals, which officially opened Off-Broadway Nov. 18 after previ…
Forever Dusty, a new musical by Kirsten Holly Smith and Jonathan Vankin about the life of late singer Dusty Springfield, officially opened at Off-Broadway's New World Stages Nov. 18 foll…
Edna Ferber's 1952 novel Giant, capturing a moment in American history as the landscape of Texas changed from open cattle country to a skyline studded with oil derricks, is transformed i…
The original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along officially opened on Nov. 16, 1981. Here, we take a look back at that Merrily, some subsequ…
Manhattan Theatre Club's Murder Ballad, a new rock musical that launches the company's new Studio at Stage II Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series, opened Nov. 15 following prev…
Young actresses Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro will share the title role in the Broadway production of Matilda The Musical, producers announced Nov. 15. The Oli…
Tony Award winner Tyne Daly, Jamie deRoy and Ted Snowdon were honored during Primary Stages' Nov. 14 gala at the Edison Ballroom.
Chaplin star Rob McClure was honored Nov. 14 with the unveiling of a caricature to adorn the walls of the famed eatery Sardi's.
Jordan Gelber and Leslie Kritzer co-star in the Broadway return of Elf, the holiday musical comedy based on the 2003 film of the same title about an orphaned human who thinks he's one of…
Tony Award recipient Ben Davis, Edward Hibbert, Anthony Fedorov and Elena Shaddow are among the cast of Paper Mill Playhouse's production of The Sound of Music, which will begin performa…
The Performers, the new comedy by David West Read, officially opened Nov. 14 following previews that began Oct. 23 at the Longacre Theatre.
Theresa Rebeck's black comedy Dead Accounts, starring Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz as a prodigal son who returns home to his Ohio family – and Katie Holmes as the skeptical s…
The world premiere of author Nathan Englander's The Twenty-Seventh Man, adapted from his short story of the same title, began Off-Broadway previews Nov. 8 at the Public Theater.
Signature Theatre Company's revival of David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, now extended to Dec. 16, opened Nov. 13, kicking off the Tony Award-winning playwrights 2012-13 residency wit…