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The Broadway cast of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, the new musical comedy that boasts Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays playing eight different roles, assembled Jan. 13 to …
Going Hollywood: MGM Musicals, the first presentation of the 2014 Lyrics & Lyricists series, was offered Jan. 11-13 at the 92Y.
Julia Udine stars as Christine Daae in the newly re-imagined U.S. tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. She fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, …
The Disney animated film "Frozen," actors Cate Blanchett, Bryan Cranston, Amy Adams and Jennifer Garner were among the winners of the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards, which were pr…
Idina Menzel, who returns to Broadway this spring in If/Then, paid a visit to the Jan. 12 performance of Disney's Tony-winning musical The Lion King.
Colm Wilkinson, the Tony Award-nominated original star of Les Misérables, joined Ramin Karimloo and the Toronto company of that musical for a special charity performance Jan. 11 at&nb…
Neil Patrick Harris will return to the Broadway stage for the first time in a decade this fall in a new production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Harris — who rose to fame as the young …
Kelli O'Hara returns to Broadway this month in the new Jason Robert Brown musical The Bridges of Madison County, which is scheduled to start previews Jan. 17, 2014.
Spring will be here soon and, along with it, a whole new slate of shows. Here is an exclusive first look at the Playbill covers for some of the new or upcoming productions.
Stage and screen star Jesse Eisenberg as well as Tony winners Jane Krakowski and John Benjamin Hickey will guest star on the Jan. 15 broadcast of "Modern Family."
The 2009 revival of A Little Night Music, which features a Tony Award-winning score by Stephen Sondheim, closed on Broadway Jan. 9, 2011. Hunter Ryan Herdlicka offered Playbill.com readers a…
The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival launched Jan. 8 with performances at venues across New York City, including the Public Theater, La MaMa, Japan Society, St. Ann's Wareho…
The Irish Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of the new musical Transport, featuring a book by Australian author Thomas Keneally ("Schindler's List") and music a…
The 2014 Broadway return of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables begins rehearsals next week. Get to know the company of fami…
Basketball. Cheerleaders. Sex. Show tunes. The stately Walter Kerr Theatre was the home court for all of that in the musical comedy Lysistrata Jones, which closed on this date 2 years ago af…
Matilda - the Musical continues to play to sold-out houses in London's West End. Here's a look at the current cast.
The Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables returns to Broadway this March in an all-new production. Playbill.com looks back at the at the original Broadway and London companies and…
The national tour of Flashdance — The Musical, the stage adaptation of the 1983 film, continues to tour the country. Here's a look at the show's current stars.
Paulo Szot, Danny Burstein and Betsy Wolfe appear in a new production of Die Fledermaus, which opened Dec. 31 at the Metropolitan Opera.
The newly re-imagined U.S. tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, starring Mark Campbell and Julia Udine, launched Nov. 27 in Providence, RI.
The original production of Jekyll & Hyde closed on Broadway Jan. 7, 2001. Playbill.com takes a look back at the show and the composer's other Broadway work.
Tony-nominated dancer Desmond Richardson is back on Broadway in the Jazz-Age musical After Midnight at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. He fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random fa…
The first Broadway revival of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David musical Promises, Promises starring Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes, closed on Jan. 2, 2011. We look back at opening night.
The Village Theatre staging of Les Misérables stars Greg Stone, Eric Polani Jensen, Beth DeVries and Kirsten DeLohr Hellend. Performances began at the Seattle-area theatre company Nov…
The original production of Annie closed on Jan. 2, 1983, after 2,377 performances. Playbill.com looks back at the original Broadway production, a few notable subsequent stagings and the inf…