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Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler, currently starring as Brenda Strong in Catch Me If You Can, sat down with Seth Rudetsky for the latest episode of Playbill Video’s “Obsessed!R…
Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Mary Poppins) took his camera to Cal Anderson Park, the Marination Station, Molly Moons and Union Lake Park in a video blog documenting a day off on the 4th of July wit…
Tessa Netting, who was last seen on Broadway in Billy Elliot, has brought together the most-talked-about musical and movie of the season"The Book of Mormon and “Harry Potter”"in …
Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of June 26"July 2, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
Brooke Shields Is an Addams, Starting June 28 on Broadway.
ASK PL…
Broadway in Bryant Park, the annual free concert series now in its 11th year, features performances from the stars of Broadway and Off-Broadway Thursdays throughout the summer from 12:30 PM-…
Aspiring actors from all over the country made their way to The Actors Chapel in midtown Manhattan when Telsey + Company, the casting office for the first Broadway revival of Godspell, held …
Off-Broadway’s new musical Death Takes a Holiday, based on the Alberto Casella play of the same name, will officially open July 21, following previews that began June 10, at Roundabout…
The cast of Broadway’s Rock of Ages is getting ready to enjoy summertime in New York City and will celebrate with “Summer Fun Fridays,” additional 3 PM Friday matinee perfo…
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of June 27-July 3, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,835,710
The Lion King (Minskof…
The Book of Mormon, the musical with the most Tony Award wins this season, officially opened on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre March 24 and stars Andrew Rannells (Jersey Boys) and Jo…
Broadway in Bryant Park, the annual free concert series featuring the stars of Broadway and Off-Broadway, kicked off July 7 with performances from the new Broadway musicals Sister Act and Ba…
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’s Rose Hemingway offers up her “YouTube Celebrity Playlist,” which has all of her favorite videos from the internet.
At the…
Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana, which recently opened at Radio City Music Hall June 29, is offering a “blogger” performance on July 20.
The creative team is looking for “…
Academy Award nominees Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett will be coming to Broadway this fall when The Mountaintop begins previews Sept. 22 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, with an offic…
Silence! The Musical, Off-Broadway’s newest musical described as the “unauthorized parody of ‘The Silence of the Lambs’,” recently began performances June 24 at…
The Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, is celebrating its second year in Australia, where it plays Sydney’…
Tony Award winner Tyne Daly makes her return to Broadway as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s biographical drama, Master Class, opening at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Fr…
Sunset Boulevard, the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Don Black-Christopher Hampton musical, begins performances July 6 at the Music Theatre of Wichita. Directed by Mark Madama, the musical runs through…
"American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks, who was seen on Broadway in In the Heights and recently performed at the Capitol for the 4th of July, is set to sing "The Star-Spangled Bann…
The Royal Shakespeare Company has teamed up with the Lincoln Center Festival and Ohio State University to make its way across the world and give New York City’s Park Avenue Armory a ma…
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber recently sat down with Piers Morgan on CNN July 1. In a sneak peek of the interview, Webber talked about The Phantom of the Opera, which will soon celebrate its …
The sun shines in July 5 as the national tour of the Tony Award-winning 2009 revival of Hair returns to Broadway for a limited engagement at the St. James Theatre.
The Broadway engagement is…
Tony Award winner Andrea Martin (My Favorite Year, Exit the King, Fiddler on the Roof) sat down with Seth Rudetsky for the latest episode of Playbill Video’s “Obsessed!”
He…
Jimmy Smits hosted the 30th anniversary presentation of “A Capitol Fourth,” which aired live on PBS from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol July 4.
The program featured performanc…
Cast members from Priscilla Queen of the Desert continued to celebrate their pride all week and performed a number from the new Broadway musical in between their matinee and evening performa…