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New York-based actress Libby Servais (Wicked, Lysistrata Jones) stars as Jovie in the Pioneer Theatre Company's December staging of the holiday favorite Elf, based on the Hollywood hit.
The film adaptation of Tracy Letts' Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama August: Osage County will be released in New York and Los Angeles Dec. 27, with a wide-release date set for Jan.…
Triple-threat musical theatre performer Darien Crago stars as Judy Haynes in the holiday classic Irving Berlin's White Christmas at the Engeman Theater. She shares a recent day of travel…
The Signature Theatre's production of the classic Arthur Laurents-Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim musical Gypsy plays the Virginia venue beginning Dec. 17.
The Girls Camaraderie Project (GCP) presents a Christmas Camaraderie Concert Dec. 16 at Rockwood Music Hall. Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris is among the lineup of performers.
Lauren Worsham, who lends her rich operatic soprano to the role of Pheobe D'Yquith in the new Broadway musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, documents a recent two-show day spe…
Bronx Bombers, the new Eric Simonson drama about the New York Yankees that premiered earlier this season at Primary Stages, will transfer to Broadway in early 2014 at the Circle in the Squar…
The McCarter Theatre Center's annual production of A Christmas Carol plays through Dec. 29 in the Matthews Theatre.
Maltby & Shire: What Could Be Better?, a concert celebrating the work of Tony-nominated Big and Baby songwriters Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire, was held Dec. 17 at 54 Below.
ASTEP/Artists Striving To End Poverty presented the fifth annual New York City Christmas Concert Dec. 16 at 9:30 PM at Joe's Pub.
Musical comedy dynamo Jenny Lee Stern, most recently seen in Forbidden Broadway, is back on the New York stage this winter in the holiday return of A Christmas Story, The Musical. She docume…
Members of the first North American touring company of Wicked hosted A Wicked Night Before Christmas, a staged holiday performance at The Laugh Factory — with net proceeds benefit…
Songs by Ridiculously Talented Composers and Lyricists You Probably Don't Know but Should, hosted by Tony-winning composer-lyricist William Finn, was presented Dec. 16 at 9:30 PM at 54 B…
Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer Cyndi Lauper was joined by cast members from her Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots for a Dec. 16 benefit concert for the True Colors Fund at Birdland.
Broadway actor Peter Bradbury stars as Scrooge in the new Off-Broadway production of A Christmas Carol, adapted by Patrick Barlow. He fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random fac…
The White Plains Performing Arts Center's production of Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer's Les Miserables is presented Dec. 13-31.
Handle With Care, a new play by Emmy Award nominee Jason Odell Williams that stars Tony Award nominee Carol Lawrence, officially opened at the Westside Theatre Downstairs Dec. 15 following p…
The new Jason Robert Brown musical The Bridges of Madison County is scheduled to begin previews Jan. 17, 2014, at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The cast offered a sneak peek to …
The world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical Stephen Ward began performances Dec. 3 prior to an official opening Dec. 19 at the West End's Aldwych Theatre.
Canadian actor Paul Nolan, who made his Main Stem debut in the 2012 revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, joins the Broadway cast of the Tony Award-winning musical Once.
Cast members from A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder enjoyed afternoon tea and biscuits outside the “Downton Abbey” Food Truck in Midtown Manhattan earlier this week.
The Donmar Warehouse production of The Night Alive makes its American premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company, officially opening Dec. 12 at the Linda Gross Theater, following previews…
"Throwback Thursday" has recently taken social media by storm, compelling people to share old photos of themselves via social media every Thursday. Playbill.com asked readers this …
Company XIV and The Saint At Large present the New York Premiere of Nutcracker Rouge, conceived, directed and choreographed by Austin McCormick. Featured dancer Davon Rainey and sultry chant…
Bless This House: A Holiday-ish Benefit Celebration, which raises funds for repairs for the historic Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, was presented Dec. 9 at 7 PM at the Upper West Side ch…