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The ever-busy Neil Patrick Harris, who won the 2014 Tony Award for his performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, will host the upcoming 2015 Oscars and has signed a deal with NBC to host…
Carly Hughes, who wraps up her run as the Leading Player of Pippin when the revival shutters on Jan. 4, will be bringing her talent to the Ambassador Theatre a few weeks later when she assum…
A record number of photos passed through the pages of Playbill.com this year thanks to photographers Joseph Marzullo, Monica Simoes and a multitude of guest contributors. Here are the 25 ga…
It was another busy year on The Great White Way. Forty different shows, a mix of plays, musicals and concert evenings, celebrated their opening nights on Broadway in the year 2014. Playbill…
Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, dazzling audiences as the Witch in the just-released film adaptation of Into the Woods, is certainly no stranger to the stage. We look back at some of…
The national tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, the family-friendly musical that continues at New York's Broadway Theatre, launched this October in Providence, R…
The Paper Mill Playhouse production of the holiday musical Elf, based on the 2003 film starring Will Ferrell, officially opened at the New Jersey venue Nov. 30 for a run through Jan. 4. Cas…
The final 13 episodes of the Fox musical series "Glee" will commence with a special two-hour premiere event Jan. 9, 2015, at 8 PM ET.
Tony Award winner Laura Benanti will soon return to the New York stage to headline the New York Spring Spectacular, the Rockettes stage production helmed by Tony Award winn…
The 7th Annual Joe Iconis Christmas Spectacular is held Dec. 19-20 at 54 Below. Annie Golden, James Monroe Iglehart, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Amy Spanger and Chip Zien were…
The final 13 episodes of the Fox musical series "Glee" will commence with a special two-hour premiere event Jan. 9, 2015, at 8 PM ET. The network has released this new set of…
Scott J. Campbell, who stars as Gerry Goffin in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
"Into the Woods" star Billy Magnussen took in a recent performance of 50 Shades! The Musical. He visited with the cast after the show.
The Broadway-bound revival of Lerner and Loewe's Gigi will arrive in New York following an out-of-town tryout at the Kennedy Center in 2015. The cast offered a sneak peek th…
The soundtrack for NBC's Peter Pan Live!, starring Allison Williams, Christopher Walken, Kelli O'Hara and Christian Borle, was released Dec. 16 from Broadway Records. The broadcast f…
London's first major revival of Cy Coleman, David Zippel and Larry Gelbart's 1990 Broadway musical City of Angels opened officially Dec. 16, following previews that began Dec. 6, for…
Cafe Edison, a midtown Manhattan staple for theatregoers and Broadway crowds, closed its doors Dec. 21.
Five-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara and Tony Award nominee Matthew Morrison reunited for Kelli and Matthew: Home for the Holidays, an evening of classic and contemporary holida…
Spend a two-show day at the Broadway revival of Side Show with cast member Kelvin Moon Loh, who is featured as the mysterious Half-Man/Half-Woman. He shares his pre-show rou…
John R. Waters, who stars in Lennon: Through a Glass Onion, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
"Annie" is coming soon! The upcoming film remake of the 1982 movie musical hits theatres Dec. 19. Playbill.com looks back at the original Broadway production, a few notable subseq…
Collin Kelly-Sordelet stars as Tom Dawson in the new musical The Last Ship, written by and featuring Grammy Award-winning musician Sting. He shares a recent two-show day at the …
The classic musical Fiddler on the Roof is presented in an in-the-round staging by Arena Stage. Maria Rizzo, who plays daughter Chava, shares a recent day in the life at the beloved…
Andrew Lippa and Brian Crawley's A Little Princess was presented in concert at 54 Below the evening of Dec. 8. The top-notch cast was led by Abigail Shapiro, Anthony Warlow, Emerso…
Grammy Award-winning musician Sting, who is making his Broadway songwriting debut with the new musical The Last Ship, stepped into one of the show's central roles Dec. 9 in an effort…