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Following the recent success of Disney's "Maleficent," the company will develop a live-action adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast," according to Variety.
Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad and Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan have been cast in the film "Outliving Emily," according to Variety.
Two-time Tony Award nominee and Oscar winner Jane Fonda receives the American Film Institute's 42nd AFI Life Achievement Award at a gala tribute June 5 in Los Angeles.
The National Asian Artists Project presents the classic Lionel Bart musical Oliver! as part of the company's Re-Discover Series June 5-7 at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre R…
Producers Tom Kirdahy, Roy Furman and Ken Davenport announced June 4 that Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick, Tony Award winner Stockard Channing, To…
Broadway may be in the cards for Up Here, a new musical comedy featuring book, music and lyrics by the Oscar-winning, husband-and-wife composing team of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderso…
A Los Angeles-area production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was canceled after an actor in the show became involved in an altercation with an intoxicated audience member w…
Montréal’s Monlove Enterprises announced June 3 that N—The Queen of Paris, a new musical inspired by the champagne atmosphere and rags-to-riches romance of Emile Zola'…
The New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced the full lineup of productions, concerts, readings and special events for its 11th annual festival, which will run July 7-July 27 in New Y…
Lilla Crawford, who will star as Little Red Riding Hood in the upcoming film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods, will offer four audition workshops this sum…
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts has announced its 2014-15 season, which will range from Shakespeare's Globe to circus and a rock 'n' roll light show.
Jared Zirilli, who can currently be seen in the North American tour of the Queen musical We Will Rock You, sat down with Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan on the latest episode of "Broad…
As part of Playbill.com's 30 Days of Pride, we interview three sets of same-sex parents within the Broadway community. The three couples talk child-rearing, long-distance parenting, Rick…
The Tupac Shakur-scored musical Holler If Ya Hear Me, a non-biographical new work directed by 2014 Tony Award nominee Kenny Leon, begins performances June 2 at Broadway's Palace Theatre.…
Lesli Margherita, an Olivier Award winner for her performance in Zorro and current star of Broadway's Matilda, will bring her solo show All Hail the Queen to 54 Below June 13-14. In…
Paper Mill Playhouse concludes its 75th anniversary season with Grease, which opens June 1 in Millburn, NJ. Bring It On's Taylor Louderman, "Glee" actor Telly Leung and two-tim…
Town Hall's Broadway by the Year Series will continue June 23 with The Broadway Musicals of 1990-2014.
Broadway Trivia Night will return to 54 Below with a Tony Awards-themed edition June 2 at 11:30 PM. Cinderella actor Todd Buonopane will host.
Surflight Theatre has announced initial casting for its 65th anniversary season, which will feature Jekyll & Hyde, Fiddler on the Roof and Monty Python's Spamalot.
Three tracks from the new Tupac Shakur-scored musical Holler If Ya Hear Me, which will begin previews June 2 at Broadway's Palace Theatre, have been released.
The upcoming film remake of the 1982 movie musical "Annie" will star 2013 Academy Award nominee Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"). Here is a look at the f…
Spring Awakening and "Glee" actress Lea Michele's "Brunette Ambition" memoir is part autobiography, part style guide, part cookbook and all Streisand-inspired. Playbi…
Lesli Margherita, an Olivier Award winner for her performance in Matilda, will bring her solo show All Hail the Queen to 54 Below June 13-14.
Transport Group Theatre Company will present The Music Man in concert June 23 at the The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre in The Pershing Square Signature Center.
Sophie Okonedo, a 2014 Tony Award nominee for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun, will star in the BBC TV film series "The Hollow Crown" opposite Benedict Cumberbatch as Richar…
