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Hand to God, starring Steven Boyer in his acclaimed performance as a boy and his foul-mouthed hand puppet, officially opened April 7 at the Booth Theatre, marking the Broadway d…
The Broadway production of Aladdin, which celebrated its one year anniversary March 20, is ringing in the spring season with some fun mock Playbill covers utilizing graphic elements and lyri…
Robin De Jesus, James Monroe Iglehart, Nellie McKay and Cady Huffman will offer concerts at the intimate 54 Below in the coming weeks. They offered a preview the afternoon of April 7.
The Off-Broadway revival of Andrew Lippa's musical John & Jen closed April 4 and two days later headed into the recording studio to make a new cast album of the 1995 musical.
The legendary jazz artist Billie Holiday would have celebrated her 100th birthday today. We look back at some of the great women to have portrayed "Lady Day" on stage and screen.
Jake Lucas (whose sister Sydney Lucas can be seen in Fun Home) is featured as Louis Leonowens in Lincoln Center Theater's new revival of The King and I. But this isn't the first, …
Corey Cott, who stars as handsome Gaston Lachaille in Broadway's Gigi, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
The Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, starring five-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara and Ken Watanabe, began performances March 12 on the vast sta…
The Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, starring five-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara and Ken Watanabe, began performances March 12 on the vast sta…
Canadian actress Chilina Kennedy, who made her Broadway debut as Mary Magdalene in the 2012 revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, recently stepped into the central role of Beautiful—T…
The Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots celebrated two years on Broadway the evening of April 4.
Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will star as a headstrong community theatre diva in the Off-Broadway world premiere of Tony-nominated playwright Douglas Carter Beane'…
Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will star as a headstrong community theatre diva in the Off-Broadway world premiere of Tony-nominated playwright Douglas Carter Beane'…
The critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir Fun Home, which parallels her own coming of age as a lesbian and the suicide of her closeted gay father, ar…
MCC Theater has announced the cast for the world premiere of Permission by Hand to God playwright Robert Askins. In the lead roles will be Justin Bartha (Lend Me a Tenor, "The Hangover&…
Tony-winning actress Lena Hall played her final performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch last night. There to say farewell to their Yitzhak were all four actors who have played …
Christina Bianco continues to dazzle audiences nightly in the one-woman Off-Broadway comedy Application Pending, in which she plays over 40 characters in 70 minutes! Bianco invited …
Spring is here, and over 20 new shows are taking their bow on the Great White Way prior to the Tony Awards. Here are all of the Playbill covers!
The Broadway production of David Hare's Skylight, starring Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy and Matthew Beard — who all re-create their acclaimed London performances&…
The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and The Women's Project Theater present the world premiere of The Undeniable Sound of Right Now, written by Laura Eason (Sex with Strangers, "Hou…
Broadway has been a long time coming for Gigi star Vanessa Hudgens, who began her career in local productions of such shows as Evita, Carousel and Damn Yankees.
Olivier and two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone, who will star as a headstrong community theatre diva in the June Off-Broadway world premiere of Douglas Carter Beane's semi-aut…
The New Group's world premiere of Jesse Eisenberg's The Spoils will begin previews May 7 prior to an official opening June 2 at The Pershing Square Signature Center.
Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola, who starred in the recent acclaimed revival of The Elephant Man, were honored April 1 with portraits to adorn the famed walls of Sardi's.
Emmy Award-nominated actor T.R. Knight, known for his television work on "Grey's Anatomy," joined the cast of Broadway's It's Only a Play in the role of Frank Finge…