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The soundtrack to the Oscar-winning movie "Frozen," Disney's 3-D animated film that features the voices of Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, Tony nominee Jonathan Groff and stage…
Tony winner Alan Cumming and Broadway newcomer Michelle Williams chum it up backstage at Studio 54, where the Broadway return of Cabaret opens April 24.
Time Magazine's "Time 100: The World's Most Influential People" list, which includes 100 "people who most affect our world," features Oscar-winning songwriters Ro…
Alan Cumming, who won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the sexy and seductive Emcee in Cabaret, returns to the Kit Kat Klub in Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall's Tony-winning production of t…
The Dramatists Guild's Anti-Piracy Committee hosted its first anti-piracy awareness event April 21 from 5 PM–7 PM in New York City. Playbill.com was there.
Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, who made her Broadway debut in this season's Betrayal, and Tony Award nominee Toni Collette are attached to star in the comedy-drama "Miss You Already,&qu…
Teal Wicks, who has starred on Broadway in Wicked and Jekyll & Hyde, will make her solo cabaret debut May 8 at the Manhattan nightspot 54 Below.
The concert version of the award-winning musical Like You Like It, based on As You Like It and set at a mall in the 1980s, is held April 23 at 54 Below in celebration of William Shakespeare&…
The Broadway musical revue After Midnight, inspired from Duke Ellington's years at the Cotton Club, will celebrate Ellington's birthday (April 29) and Jazz Appreciation Month with a …
Pioneer Theatre Company has announced its 2014-15 season, which includes two musicals, a world-premiere play, the Utah premiere of One Man, Two Guvnors and a new concert series that will lau…
The Palace Theatre has been given a $200,000 renovation for Holler If Ya Hear Me, the new Broadway musical inspired by the lyrics of Tupac Shakur that will begin performances May 29 towards …
Invitation-only readings of Idaho!,
featuring a book and lyrics by Buddy Sheffield and music by Sheffield and Keith Thompson, will be offered April 25.
Amy Spanger, Jenna Leigh Green, Max Crumm and Rebecca Faulkenberry are among the artists who have joined the lineup for the concert version of the award-winning musical Like You Like It, bas…
The Goodman Theatre's new production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Brigadoon, helmed by Chicago director-choreographer Rachel Rockwell, will begin performances June 27, pr…
The Oscar-winning movie "Frozen," Disney's 3-D animated film that features the voices of Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, Tony nominee Jonathan Groff and stage and screen actres…
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage will launch a new multi-city North American tour Aug. 26-Sept. 14 at The National Theatre in Washington D.C. The staged musical of the hit fi…
Motion picture, television and theatre producing team Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will return to produce the Oscars for the third consecutive year — airing live on ABC Feb. 22, 2015 &md…
Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening — and long-awaited Broadway bow — of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's Violet. Sutton Foster, Joshua Henry and Colin Donnell …
The 12th edition of the Bistro Award-winning series If It Only Even Runs a Minute, celebrating rare songs, behind-the-scenes tales and inspiring photos from underappreciated musicals, is hel…
A free reading of David L. Kimple's new play Mare in the Men's Room, about a woman rediscovering life as a drag king, is presented April 21 at the East 13th Street Theatre.
The Dramatists Guild's Anti-Piracy Committee hosts its first anti-piracy awareness event April 21 from 5 PM–7 PM in New York City. Tony winners Stephen Sondheim and Lin-Manuel Mira…
The Flea Theater's world-premiere production of The Mysteries, a radical retelling of the Bible written by 48 playwrights, including David Henry Hwang and Billy Porter, officially opens …
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment present the Tony Award-winning musical Cats, featuring Broadway actor and YouTube sensation Todrick Hall as Rum Tum Tu…
Actor, composer and writer Brett Ryback premieres new songs at 54 Below in Songs I Wrote, featuring his work as a composer-lyricist, April 19. Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita and Melis…
The 2013 Lucille Lortel Award-winning musical Dogfight — featuring a pop-rock score by theatrical songwriters and Tony Award nominees Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and a book by Peter Duc…