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New York City Center celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Tony Award–winning Encores! series Nov. 12 with a Gala Benefit starring Raúl Esparza and Kelli O’Hara and featu…
Broadway kicks up a leg-lamp kickline as A Christmas Story, The Musical, the new stage production based on the beloved 1983 film and stories by Jean Shepherd, began previews Nov. 7 at the Lu…
Jonathan Groff, Cheyenne Jackson, Heidi Rodewald and members of the PigPen Theatre Company honor Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor as part of Sonnet Repertory Theatre's Nov. 12 be…
Christopher Durang's Chekhov-inspired comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which whips characters from the Russian playwright's catalogue into a frothy weekend of costumes, p…
Emotional Creature, the new play by Eve Ensler that had its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in June, opened Off-Broadway on Nov. 12 following previews from Oct. 26. Ensler, the …
The 12th annual The 24 Hour Plays On Broadway were presented by Montblanc Nov. 12 at 8 PM at the American Airlines Theatre.
Betsy Wolfe, who plays Rosa Bud in Roundabout's revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbit…
Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere's coming-of-age rock musical Bare returns to New York City this month in a fresh production at New World Stages. The cast offered a preview of the sho…
Laura Osnes, Len Cariou, Leslie Uggams and Bob Stillman and more will offer concerts at the intimate 54 Below in the coming months. They offered a preview the morning of Nov. 12.
Susan Blackwell, Tom Kitt, Kathleen Marshall and Matthew Broderick were part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival's Nov. 11 gala honoring four-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara at…
Gossip columnist Perez Hilton paid a visit to the Nov. 10 performance of Broadway's Elf, the holiday musical comedy based on the 2003 film of the same title. He met with cast members after …
Rupert Holmes' Tony Award-winning musical whodunit The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which allows audiences to determine the ending of Charles Dickens' final, unfinished novel, casts a sha…
The New York Landmarks Conservancy presented the 19th annual Living Landmarks Celebration Nov. 8 at the Plaza. Liza Minnelli, James M. Nederlander and James L. Nederlander are among the 2012…
The second annual Artists for World Peace on Broadway, an intimate evening of song and dance, was held Nov. 4 at St. Luke's Theater.
Carly Rose Sonenclar, the young singing actress who has been seen on Broadway in Wonderland and Les Miserables, is among the top 12 finalists for Fox TV's singing competition, "The …
Giant, the ambitious Michael John LaChiusa-Sybille Pearson musical based on Edna Ferber's sweeping Texas-set novel about love, greed and power that spans generations, received its New Yo…
Natalie Charlé Ellis, who plays and spoofs a variety of characters in Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking, shares a particularly busy two-show day with Playbill.com.
The Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sharks in a real-estate office, began previews Oct. 19 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, …
Two-time Tony Award winner Howard McGillin celebrates his birthday this week. Playbill.com takes a look back at some of his stage highlights.
Two-time Tony Award nominee Howard McGillin celebrates his birthday this week. Playbill.com takes a look back at some of his stage highlights.
The Apple family of Rhinebeck, NY, is reunited for Richard Nelson's Sorry, the latest work in his collection of political plays about an American family, which officially opens Off-…
The Broadway company of Chaplin, about the life of silent film star Charlie Chaplin, recorded the show's original cast album on Nov. 5. Masterworks Broadway will produce.
The New York City premiere of Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale, the harrowing character study of the roots of dysfunction in the life of a morbidly-obese 600-pound man, ope…
Country singer-actor Billy Ray Cyrus made his Broadway debut in the long-running, Tony-winning revival of Chicago Nov. 5 at the Ambassador Theatre.
The 13th annual Only Make Believe Gala, which benefits the organization of the same name that brings the magic of theatre to children in hospitals and care facilities, was presented Nov. 5 a…