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A Broadway Concert Event and Live Nation present Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons On Broadway for a limited seven-performance engagement beginning Oct. 19 at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Bro…
Sex, drugs, religion, celebrity, music and romance are swirled together in the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, co-written by Kathie Lee Gifford, beginn…
Six-time Tony Award nominee (and two-time winner) John Lithgow celebrates his 67th birthday on Oct. 19. Playbill.com looks back at a stage career that spans over 45 years.
The Broadway production of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' international hit musical Mamma Mia!, which plays the Winter Garden Theatre, celebrated its 11th anniversary the evenin…
The Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon kicked off its first national tour in Aug. 14 in Denver. Currently in Los Angeles, the show stars Tony nominee Gavin Creel and Jare…
Celina Carvajal (Cats, Tarzan), who plays the role of determined fiancée Nicola in the pre-Broadway engagement of Kinky Boots, gives Playbill.com an inside look at her day off prior t…
Matthew Morrison, star of stage and TV's "Glee," took in the Oct. 17 performance of Broadway's Newsies at the Nederlander Theatre. After the show, he and girlfriend Renee P…
The Tony-winning new musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It celebrated 200 performances on Broadway the afternoon of Oct. 17. The cast marked the milestone with a post-show cake celebra…
Shakespeare & Company on Money and Power, an evening celebrating the "Politics" issue of Lapham's Quarterly, was offered Oct. 15 at Joe's Pub. Editor Lewis Lapham hosts…
New York-based actor Matthew Minor is currently in the Berkshires, starring as the ill-fated "Piggy" in Nigel Williams' stage adaptation of Lord of the Flies. He shares photos …
The national tour of Cole Porter's Anything Goes, launched Oct. 2 in Cleveland. Rachel York is joined by Fred Applegate as Moonface Martin, Erich Bergen as Billy Crocker, Alex Finke as H…
The original Off-Broadway cast recording of February House, Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley's new musical about Brooklyn bohemians in the 1940s, was released digitally Oct. 16. The cast …
Tony Award winner Alice Ripley and Bob Stillman will co-star as Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln, respectively, in the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel's A…
Anna Bergman returns to Feinstein's at Loews Regency Oct. 15-29 with her show You & the Night & the Music: An Evening of Musical Imports & Exports. Here is a look at he…
Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff revealed a new side of himself in the midwest on Oct. 13 when he sang two sold-out cabaret performances that featured pop music, show tunes and specialty nu…
Chaplin leading man Rob McClure laced up his skates for a solo ice performance at Rockefeller Center's Rink the morning of Oct. 16. He was then joined on the ice by Chef Yuhi Fujinaga of…
Musical theatre (and Playbill) favorite Lauren Kennedy is currently starring in the new Frank Wildhorn musical Zelda: An American Love Story, charting the lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald and wi…
Musical theatre (and Playbill) favorite Lauren Kennedy is currently starring in the new Frank Wildhorn musical Zelda: An American Love Story, charting the lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald and wi…
Kinky Boots, the new Cyndi Lauper-scored musical based on the 2005 film of the same title about two unlikely business partners, began a Chicago world-premiere engagement Oct. 2 at the Bank o…
Angela Lansbury, most recently on Broadway in Michael Wilson's revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, celebrates her 87th birthday Oct. 16. Playbill.com offers a look back at her most memora…
Second Stage Theatre held a party Oct. 15 to celebrate the world premiere of Jon Kern's dark comedy Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want To Kill Us and How We Learn To Love Them, which beg…
Producers Terry Schnuck, James and Catherine Berges, Crystal Beuerlein, and Michael and Noemi Neidorff present the Off-Broadway premiere of Falling, a new play by Deanna Jent that officially…
Stage and screen veteran Michael Cristofer, who stars in Stephen Belber's Don't Go Gentle at MCC Theater, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop…
Tony Award nominee Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Nick Adams, Max Von Essen, Kara Lindsay and Nikki Renée Daniels are among the performers who took part in the Oct. 14 "Broadway Gets Out th…
Performances from the upcoming musicals Giant, Here Lies Love, Fun Home and last season's The Total Bent puntcuated the Public Theater's Oct. 13 block party celebrating the reop…