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Lea Michele, star of the Fox hit series “Glee,” spent time at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, now home of the Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon, portraying Wendla Bergma…
Catch Me If You Can is the new Broadway musical based on the life of charming conman Frank Abagnale Jr., played on stage by Aaron Tveit (Next to Normal). By visiting Catch Me’s Faceboo…
To celebrate the 4th of July, Playbill.com has surfed the web for some of our favorite patriotic show tunes. Watch as actors and musical theatre enthusiasts celebrate their independence. Hap…
Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of June 19"25, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
June 22 Performance of How to Succeed Canceled Following Death of a S…
Tony Award winner Sutton Foster and the company of Anything Goes, the Tony-winning Broadway revival, made their way to the studio to record the cast recording for the critically acclaimed re…
BlackPlanet.com and Baby It’s You! have teamed up to present two special winners with free tickets to the new Broadway musical that officially opened April 27 at the Broadhurst Theatre…
The 25th anniversary of the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will be marked with a fully staged production that will play three performances at London's Royal…
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of June 20-26, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,830,739
The Lion King (Minskoff Th…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will soon celebrate its 25th London anniversary with a fully-staged production that will play three performances at London's Royal Albert Hall …
The 2011 Canada Shaw Festival’s first musical production of George Bernard Shaw’s work, My Fair Lady, based on Shaw’s classic Pygmalion, officially opened in Niagara-on-…
Don’t Quit Your Night Job, the critically acclaimed comedy variety show “where Broadway and improv meet… and make out,” returned to New York City June 30 at (le) pois…
The 2010 Tony Award-winning musical Memphis has partnered with The Great Atlantic Pacific & Tea Company (A&P) to raise money for New York-area Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
T…
Measure for Measure officially opened June 30 at the Delacorte Theater as part of the Public Theater’s 2011 Shakespeare in the Park outdoor season in New York City’s Central Park…
The new musical Baby It’s You! officially opened at The Broadhurst Theatre April 27. Here, the cast of the Broadway musical warms up to “Firework,” by Katy Perry, backstage…
Cast members from Priscilla Queen of the Desert put on their best drag queen attire and boarded the bus to head down to the Village June 26 for New York City’s annual Gay Pride Parade.…
Katharine McPhee, an “American Idol” finalist, recently visited “The Voice” to talk about the new NBC musical drama “Smash” and preview the latest trailer…
The Tony Award-winning play War Horse was adapted by Nick Stafford for the stage from Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 coming-of-age children’s novel. Now, the story of a young boy and hi…
When the work of William Shakespeare hits New York City’s Central Park for the Public Theater’s 2011 Shakespeare in the Park outdoor season at the Delacorte Theater, there is one…
The Circle in the Square Theatre, under the direction of Theodore Mann and Paul Libin, paid tribute to playwright Eugene O'Neill this past weekend with a special plaque placed on the former …
Tony Award nominee Josh Gad, currently starring in The Book of Mormon on Broadway, returned as a correspondent to “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” to report on New York CityR…
"I had no idea there was a category for us," confesses Allen Hubby, who, with Rozanne Seelen, runs the Drama Book Shop at 250 West 40th Street.
Truth to tell, there isn't"but the Ton…
It’s that time of the year"the work of William Shakespeare hits New York City’s Central Park for the Public Theater’s 2011 Shakespeare in the Park outdoor season at the Del…
Rock of Ages, Broadway's hit musical that brings audiences back to the 1980s, has teamed up with award-winning marketing experts psGive to create a unique backstage experience.
As part o…
The Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon is now recruiting missionaries all over the world via its Facebook fan page. Sign up to become the next Elder Price and you can win official…
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark officially opened on Broadway June 14 at the Foxwoods Theatre after going on a three-week hiatus during which the creative team made changes to the musical, incl…