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A daughter returns home with an earth-shaking Christmas gift for her parents to unwrap in Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities — starring Stockard Channing, Stacy Keach and Judith…
The Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives, starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, greeted the press with a Nov. 3 photo op.
The hit Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical Wicked celebrated its 8th Anniversary on Broadway Oct. 30. Playbill.com offers a look back at the various witches, munchkins and Ozians who ha…
Andrew Hinderaker's dark comedy Suicide, Incorporated, featuring Mike DiSalvo, Gabriel Ebert, Corey Hawkins, James McMenamin, Toby Leonard Moore and Jake O'Connor, opened Nov. 2 foll…
Ever wonder about the routine of a professional actor on one of those grueling two-performance days? Ephraim Sykes, currently appearing as Benny in the new Off-Broadway revival of Rent, off…
Joan Rivers hosted a star-studded book party Oct. 27 in honor of Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine's new book, "A Double Life: A Love Story from Broadway to Hollywood."
The Manila production of Disney's The Little Mermaid, which will flip its fins this fall, will take a new approach to the musical, incorporating Eastern and Western styles of design and …
The national tour of Memphis, the Tony Award-winning rock musical by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, officially opened in its namesake city Oct. 16.
Rockers on Broadway – Halloween Spooktacular, the latest edition of the Broadway rock-and-roll concert series, was held Oct. 31 at the Midtown Theatre at the HA! Comedy Club.
"The Office" Stars Leslie David Baker (Stanley) and Phyllis Smith (Phyllis) recently paid a visit to Bring It On: The Musical, the high-energy stage production about the world of competitive…
The Blue Flower, the new musical about artists and thinkers in the first part of the 20th century, began previews Oct. 14 at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. The cast includes Sebast…
The national tour of Come Fly Away, Twyla Tharp's dance musical that moves to the music of Frank Sinatra, is currently playing Los Angeles' Pantages Theatre.
Gavin Lee, currently starring on Broadway as Bert in Mary Poppins, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
Love conquers all for Hoon Lee, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Michelle Beck and Keith Eric Chappelle in the Public Lab production of Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost, which officially…
Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, the adrenaline-fueled spectacle that first made a splash Off-Broadway in 2007, recently celebrated its fourth anniversary at the Daryl Roth Theatre. To mark the occas…
Things don't go as planned when Mother takes the stage in the world premiere of David Bar Katz's The Atmosphere of Memory, starring Tony and Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn, which…
Joan and Melissa Rivers visited Broadway's Priscilla Queen of the Desert on Oct. 29.
Academy Award, Golden Globe and Tony Award-winning actor Denzel Washington took in the Oct. 29 performance of The Mountaintop on Broadway.
The Public Theater production of King Lear, starring Academy Award nominee Sam Waterston as Shakespeare's titular monarch, struggling to maintain his sanity after dividing his kingdom, b…
Off-Broadway's haunting, interactive work Sleep No More is hosting a series of masquerade events as part of a week-long Halloween celebration at the McKittrick Hotel.
Off-Broadway's haunting, interactive work Sleep No More is hosting a series of masquerade events as part of a week-long Halloween celebration at the McKittrick Hotel.
Musical theatre and Playbill.com favorite Lauren Kennedy is currently back in her hometown of Raleigh taking on the title role in Evita for North Carolina Theatre through Oct. 30.
The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production Asuncion, the world-premiere political comedy by Academy Award-nominated playwright-actor Jesse Eisenberg, officially opened Off-Broadway Oct. …
Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy about an Ohio businessman selling his goods in China — where there is mutual misunderstanding of language and busines…
Lauren Kennedy shows off her star quality as controversial political figure Eva Peron in the North Carolina Theatre's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita Oct. 22-3…