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Douglas Carter Beane's 2013 drama The Nance, which was produced by Lincoln Center Theater and starred two-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, will be seen in more than 300 movie theatres…
Five-time Emmy Award-winning comedian Wanda Sykes hosted the 2014 TrevorLIVE June 16 in New York at the Marriott Marquis. "Rock of Ages" director Adam Shankman helmed the evening.
Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater co-star as would-be lovers Beatrice and Benedick, respectively, in the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing, which…
Playbill.com launched its 30 Days of Pride initiative June 1, profiling the dynamic voices of the LGBT community and pioneers of the stage. As part of the celebration, the company has switc…
Broadway favorite Telly Leung, currently playing Teen Angel in Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Grease, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia a…
LGBT activist and The Normal Heart scribe Larry Kramer attended the Tony-nominated Broadway production of Mothers and Sons June 13.
Actress Jessie Fisher, who has stood-by for the role of "Girl" in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Once, will assume the leading role in the musical June 17 at the Ber…
Paper Mill Playhouse concludes its 75th anniversary season with the beloved musical Grease. Tommy Bracco, who plays Sonny, shares a recent "kissy-face-themed" day at the famed New Jersey ve…
Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of artistic director Julianne Boyd and managing director Tristan Wilson, presents the company's 20th anniversary season opener, Kiss Me, Ka…
The U.S. premiere of Nancy Harris' play Our New Girl officially opened Off-Broadway June 10 at Atlantic Stage 2 following previews that began May 28.
Joanna Christie, who stars as Girl in the Tony Award-winning musical Once, plays her final performance June 15. This winter the British actress documented a two-show day, showing her mornin…
Lauren Worsham, a 2014 Tony nominee for her performance in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, performed on her first Tony Awards this past Sunday. She shares some candid pics from …
Andrew Rannells will star in Hedwig and the Angry Inch after Tony winner Neil Patrick Harris exits the show Aug. 17. This isn't the Tony-nominated Book of Mormon star's first time in the wi…
If/Then stars Idina Menzel, LaChanze, Anthony Rapp, James Snyder and composer Tom Kitt appeared at the Manhattan Sony Store June 12 to sign copies of the original Broadway cast album of the …
Kenneth Lonergan's 1996 drama This Is Our Youth, starring Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson, began its pre-Broadway Chicago engagement June 10 at the Steppenwolf Theatre Comp…
The La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment production of Les Miserables began previews May 30 with an official opening the following day at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing …
Hal Luftig - the Tony Award-winning producer of such shows as Kinky Boots, Evita and Legally Blonde - was honored June 11 with a portrait to join the famed walls of Sardi's.
The new musical Fly By Night, a dark comedy rock fable, officially opens Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons June 11 following previews that began May 16. The cast and friends ce…
The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre celebrates its 10th anniversary this month with a June 15 reading reuniting the cast of its inaugural production of Intimate Apparel. We l…
Grammy winner Patti LaBelle, who was last seen on Broadway in Fela!, began performances June 10 in the Tony Award-nominated musical revue After Midnight.
The MCC Theater production of Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike, starring Golden Globe Award-nominated actress Greta Gerwig in her stage debut, officially opened Off-Broadway June 10 a…
Clint Eastwood’s big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys premieres June 20 in theatres nationwide.
Miss Saigon, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1989 — where it ran for a record-breaking run of over ten years — returns to the West End's Prince Edward The…
Bullets Over Broadway had a busy Tony Sunday indeed. After their usual matinee, the show's tapping gangsters rushed over to Radio City to perform "Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do."
Stars of stage and screen gathered June 9 at The Town Hall for Raising the Roof, a celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Broadway classic Fiddler on the Roof.