7,921 stories by "Michael Gioia"
The fourth annual Night of a Thousand Judys will take place June 16 at Merkin Concert Hall. In anticipation of the concert, concert cast members Sierra Boggess, Jackie Hoffman and …
In anticipation of the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival — which has provided a platform for over 1,000 artists a year to create new musical theatre and will run this year July 7-…
The New York Musical Theatre Festival, Crystal Theatre and Benjamin Simpson will present Mother Jones and the Children's Crusade, a new musical inspired by the true story of the trailbla…
Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of artistic director Julianne Boyd and managing director Tristan Wilson, presents the company's 20th anniversary season opener, Kiss Me, Ka…
The 2014 Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, which took home three 2014 Tony Awards, including the Tony for Best Revival of a Play, has recouped its entire…
Following the June 8 CBS broadcast of the 68th Annual Tony Awards, Tony-winning productions and shows that offered performances at the 2014 ceremony enjoyed a boost in their day-after box-of…
Producers Tom Kirdahy, Roy Furman, Paula Wagner and Debbie Bisno, and Barbara Freitag and Loraine Alterman Boyle announced June 10 that Mothers and Sons, which received two 2014 Tony Award n…
"Where The Sky Ends: The Songs of Michael Mott" will be released on the Broadway Records label June 17. In anticipation of the new album, songwriter Michael Mott shares an exclusiv…
Three legendary, Grammy-winning divas — Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Natalie Cole — will revisit the Jazz Age when they enter After Midnight's sultry Cotton Club.
Grammy winner Patti LaBelle, who was last seen on Broadway in Fela!, begins performances June 10 in the Tony Award-nominated musical revue After Midnight.
Husband-and-wife actors Terrence Mann and Charlotte d'Amboise, who currently star in the Tony-winning revival of Pippin, host Broadway's Best in Drag June 9 at the Abrons Art Center.
Playbill staff writer Michael Gioia was on the red carpet at the 68th Annual Tony Awards. Here are tidbits from the carpet, with Tony winner Jason Robert Brown, Aladdin’s Courtney Reed…
Audra McDonald, who won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (her sixth), made Broadway history June 8. She has broken the record for winning the most acting performance Tony Award…
Audra McDonald, who won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (her sixth), made Broadway history June 8. She has broken the record for winning the most acting performance Tony Award…
Tony Award-nominated costume designer Isabel Toledo and her husband Ruben are hoping that Grammy Award winner Aretha Franklin will join the musical revue After Midnight.
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, who are Tony Award-nominated for the score of Broadway’s If/Then, are at work on musical adaptations of "Freaky Friday" and "Magic Mike,"…
Comedian, television personality and Broadway veteran Rosie O'Donnell talks Rosie's Theater Kids, the New York City program that changes lives of young theatregoers and earned her th…
Grammy winner Fantasia Barrino (The Color Purple, "American Idol"), who opened After Midnight Nov. 3, 2013, at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, plays her final performance in the …
Broadway/San Diego launches The Ben Vereen Awards, a new local high school competition in which two students from the Southwest region (including San Diego and Tucson high schools) will be c…
Broadway Sings for Pride will celebrate New York City LGBT Pride with their fourth annual benefit concert, representing over 15 Broadway shows, June 30 at Toshi's Living Room & Penth…
Justin Matthew Sargent and Rebecca Faulkenberry, who starred in the closing cast of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, will reunite for Sweet Dreams July 2 at 54 Below.
The NoH8 Campaign has rallied behind a Los Angeles-area production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which was canceled after a cast member confronted an intoxicated audience…
Minneapolis Musical Theatre's production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the Michael Friedman-Alex Timbers emo-rock musical about America's controversial seventh president, opens Ju…
The Broadway podcast The Ensemblist will head to Birdland Jazz Club June 16 to celebrate its first anniversary with a live show. Ensemblist creators Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone have i…
The score of the new musical If/Then, a story about chance and choice written by Pulitzer winners Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, is up for this year's Best Original Score Tony Award. Playbil…