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The original Broadway cast album of the new musical If/Then, starring Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, was recorded by Masterworks Broadway April 7.
Jeanna de Waal, who plays the role of Lauren in the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer has called for passage of a new amendment that would establish equal tax treatment for live theatrical productions in New York City, similar to tax breaks cur…
Unsung Carolyn Leigh, featuring Erin Davie, Max von Essen, Teal Wicks, Jeremy Kushnier and Adam Kantor, was presented April 5 as part of the American Songbook Series.
Eric Coble's new family drama The Velocity of Autumn, starring Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons and two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella, began performances on Broad…
The arena tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, which played the U.K. and Australia last year, will launch a 50-city North American summer tour June 9 in New…
The Tony Award-winning hit musical Kinky Boots celebrated a year on Broadway the afternoon of April 6.
The Broadway premiere of playwright Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses, featuring Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts and Marisa Tomei, officially opened on Broadway April 6 at the…
Jennie Eisenhower, who plays love interest Elaine Harper in Walnut Street's production of Arsenic and Old Lace, shares a day at the theatre. The new mom documents the challenges and joys of…
Grammy Award-winning music icon Carole King surprised the cast of Broadway's Beautiful: The Carole King Musical during the April 3 curtain call at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
The Theatre Development Fund’s Stage Doors program and Motown welcomed 1,500 New York City public high school and middle school students from 20 schools (and one school from East Orang…
Walnut Street Theatre continues its 205th season with Joseph Kesselring's classic madcap comedy Arsenic and Old Lace.
Scott Z. Burns' new drama The Library, directed by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh, began performances March 25 Off-Broadway.
Alan Cumming, who won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the sexy and seductive Emcee in Cabaret, returned to the Kit Kat Klub March 21, when Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall's Tony-winning pr…
The Broadway revival of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, which marks the Main Stem debuts of co-stars James Franco and Chris O'Dowd, began previews March 19 at 8 PM at the Longacre …
Paper Mill Playhouse's upcoming production of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific will begin performances at the New Jersey venue April 9 prior to an official openi…
A host of Broadway stars were on hand March 31 for the premiere of Stage 17, a new digital platform "specializing in original and curated entertainment for the world's largest stage -- the I…
The life of Broadway playwright, director and lyricist Moss Hart has arrived on the stage in the form of the new Broadway play Act One, adapted and directed by James Lapine. In a tip of the …
The New York City Center Encores! production of Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella plays the famed Manhattan venue April 2-6.
The Michael Grandage production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, starring Daniel Radcliffe, will transfer to Broadway's Cort Theatre this month following a sold-out Lon…
Kyle Dean Massey and Ciara Renée assumed the roles of Pippin and Leading Player, respectively, in the Tony Award-winning revival of #Pippin beginning April 1 at the Music Box Theatre.
Multi-platinum recording artist and actress Vanessa Williams, who was Tony-nominated for her performance in Into the Woods, began performances April 1 as the new special guest star vocalist …
The starry Broadway premiere of playwright Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses, featuring Michael C. Hall, Toni Collette, Marisa Tomei and Tracy Letts, began performances March 13 at the Ly…
The life of Broadway playwright, director and lyricist Moss Hart came full circle as the new Broadway play Act One, adapted and directed by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner James Lapine, began…
Ivan Rutherford, Quentin Earl Darrington and Jennie Sophia star in the Drury Lane Theatre production of the Tony-winning musical Les Misérables, which began performances March 29 in Oakbroo…
