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Chris Critelli, who stars as handsome Sonny in the Drury Lane Theatre's current production of Xanadu, offers an exclusive backstage look at the disco-era musical playing the Illinois ven…
The cast of Playwrights Horizons' world premiere of Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan greeted the press with an Oct. 23 photo op.
The high-energy Off-Broadway spectacle Fuerza Bruta offered 100 fans the chance to see the production for free on Oct. 24 at the Daryl Roth Theatre in honor of the production's fifth ann…
The world-premiere stage adaptation of "Freedom" author Jonathan Franzen's autobiographical essay "House for Sale" officially opened Off-Broadway Oct. 24 after previe…
Lynne Meadow, artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club, was honored Oct. 25 with a caricature to adorn the famed walls of Sardi's.
The new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress began previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre Oct. 6. Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain ("The Help") …
Celia Keenan-Bolger, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for her performance in Peter and the Starcatcher, was among the artists performing at Colt Coeur's third annual Karaoke Classic Benefit Oct…
The world premiere of Wild With Happy, a new play about family, death and healing written by and starring Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo, officially opened Off-Broadway Oct. 23 at th…
Liza Minnelli, Joan Rivers and Michael Feinstein were in attendance for the Oct. 23 first preview of Broadway's The Performers. The new comedy by David West Read will officially open Nov. 1…
Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster, Arielle Jacobs and Alexandra Silber will take part in Inner Voices, a collection of three solo musicals that will be presented beginning Nov. 10 at the 30th…
Tony Award winner Michael Rupert celebrates his 61st birthday this week. We look back on a Broadway career spanning 40 years, beginning with his debut at age 16 in The Happy Time.
Brian Hissong, who plays the Doctor roles in the Arden Theatre Company's video-enhanced production of Next to Normal, takes Playbill.com readers through tech rehearsal and into opening n…
Aasif Mandvi and Heidi Armbruster co-star in the LCT3 production of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, about a Pakistani-American lawyer on the rise, which officially opened Off-Broadway Oct. 22 a…
On Oct. 22 Our Time – a non-profit organization that has been helping children who stutter for over a decade – held its 1st Annual Bowling Benefit at Lucky Strike on West 42nd St…
My Name is Asher Lev, Aaron Posner's new play based on Chaim Potok's best-selling novel, will begin previews Nov. 8 prior to an official opening Nov. 28 at Off-Broadway's Westsid…
Following a preview engagement at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, Nederlander Presentations' Broadway-aimed production of Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde officially…
A Christmas Story, The Musical, based on the 1983 movie perennial, will play a Nov. 5-Dec. 30 holiday engagement at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The cast offered a special preview o…
Andrew Samonsky, who doubles in the roles of Harold McPherson and Kenneth Ormiston in Broadway's Scandalous, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia …
Ella Minnow Pea, a musical fantasy about disintegrating language on an island, by Larson Award-winning writers Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel, will get private performances in Manhattan Oct. …
David Wilson Barnes and Jennifer Mudge, appearing as grown siblings in MCC Theater's world premiere of Stephen Belber's Don't Go Gentle, each documented a day leading up to last …
Tony Award-nominated Scottsboro Boys actor Colman Domingo stars in the world premiere of his new play Wild With Happy, about family, death and healing, which began Off-Broadway per…
Aasif Mandvi and Heidi Armbruster co-star in the LCT3 production of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, about a Pakistani-American lawyer on the rise, which officially opens Off-Broadway Oct. 22 at…
Five-time Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald was honored with a Pipe Night at The Players landmark Booth mansion Oct. 21 in New York. Angela Lansbury, also a five-time Tony recipient,…
The Broadway Cabaret Festival continued Oct. 21 at The Town Hall with an afternoon entitled Broadway Originals!.
Amas Musical Theatre in association with Scandobean Productions, LLC present the new musical The Other Josh Cohen, which officially opened Oct. 21 following previews that began Oct. 10 at th…