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Kinky Boots, the new musical about a floundering British shoemaker who has his business saved thanks to some flamboyant clientele, will begin Broadway previews March 5, 2013, at the Al …
Ashley Spencer, currently starring as Sherrie in Rock of Ages at the Helen Hayes Theatre, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
After 136 performances, Ghost The Musical closed on Broadway Aug. 18. Tyler McGee, who played the rapping "Subway Ghost," documented one of the final performance days for Playbill.…
"Bunheads," the whimsical hour-long ABC Family dramedy-with-dance series starring Broadway's Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop, will get additional episodes. Its first-season fina…
The Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, will run through Sept. 1 at the Ithaca venue. Andrea Burns (In the Heights, Songs for a New World) …
The producers of Spiegelworld held an invite-only casting call Aug. 16 in search of the next wave of high-skill circus and variety acts to amp up their current roster of daredevil performers…
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods returned to New York this summer, opening Aug. 9 at Shakespeare in the Park's Delacorte Theater. Playbill.com looks back at the two…
Craig Wright's Grace begins performances at Broadway's Cort Theatre Sept. 13.
Mexican stage and screen star Bianca Marroquin celebrated her ten-year anniversary in the acclaimed role of Chicago's merry murderess Roxie Hart. She returned to the Broadway production …
Broadway stars and gypsies alike have started a new tradition of "tweeting" pictures of their intermission experiences.
Erich Bergen, who starred in the Marriott Theatre's world-premiere staging of the new musical Hero, offers snapshots of a recent day in and around the Chicago-area venue.
Laura Osnes, Stark Sands, Constantine Maroulis and Melissa van der Schyff joined Frank Wildhorn at Birdland for the Aug. 13 installment of "Frank & Friends."
Andrew Rannells, a Tony nominee for his performance in the Tony-winning Book of Mormon, plays a stripper in the upcoming film "Bachelorette," an adaptation of Leslye Headland's…
British stage and screen actor Oliver Chris, who plays the priggish Stanley Stubbers in Broadway's acclaimed One Man, Two Guvnors, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random fa…
Jonathan Groff and Alfred Molina create the canvas that is John Logan's Red, a play about art and artists, fathers and sons, teachers and pupils — and the march of time — ope…
Here is an early look, with potential visual spoilers, at the Aug. 13 installment of the ABC Family series "Bunheads," starring Sutton Foster. The episode is titled "No One Ta…
Following a free, city-wide tour, the Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare Unit production of Richard III began a three-week run Aug. 6 at the Off-Broadway company's downtown Lafayett…
Nathan Lane, Kristin Chenoweth and Maura Tierney are among the stage veterans who will appear on the fourth season of the CBS drama series "The Good Wife." Here is a first look.
The national tour of Disney's Mary Poppins opened at Los Angeles Ahmanson Theatre on August 10 for a 4-week run. Rachel Wallace, who has been featured in Time Out New York's "Pu…
The fifth concert of this season's Broadway in Bryant Park series was presented Aug. 9 with performances by Evita, Newsies, Rent, Rebecca and Chicago.
The cast of the Goodspeed Opera House's production of Carousel celebrated their run, and recently announced extension through Sept. 29, with a clambake at the Tony Award winning regional the…
The Muny's seventh and final show of its 94th season, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's The King and I, plays the famed outdoor venue Aug. 6-12.
Spend a two-show day with David Ryan Smith, a member of the high-octane comedic ensemble at Broadway's acclaimed One Man, Two Guvnors.
The new Broadway musical Chaplin, depicting the life of screen legend Charlie Chaplin, will begin previews at Broadway's Barrymore Theatre Aug. 21, prior to an official opening Sept. 10.…
The cast of the Tony Award-winning musical Once appear in an Aug. 6 benefit concert at Ars Nova to celebrate the organization's 54/10 Music Marathon.