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Stage legend George Spelvin — the fictitious actor used in a Playbill program when a name was needed for a dead body, an animal, an actor doing double-duty or just for fun — resu…
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment will present the Tony Award-winning musical Cats, featuring Broadway actor and YouTube sensation Todrick Hall as Rum T…
Playbill.com's new feature series Booking It asks leading industry members to share professional insights, need-to-know tips and essential tricks of the trade for up-and-coming and estab…
The world premiere of Spill, a multimedia play inspired by the 2010 British Petroleum (BP) oil spill that is written and directed by Leigh Fondakowski (head writer of The Laramie Project)&nb…
Tony Award winner Cynthia Nixon will join Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, which w…
Piece of My Heart, a new musical based on the life and songs of legendary songwriter Bert Berns, will open Off-Broadway July 21, lead producers Merged Work Productions and executive producer…
Last Call Theatricals will present 75-minute, industry-only presentations of the new musical Boys Vs. Girls, written by Drew Overcash and helmed by Josh Rhodes (Cinderella), March 25 at Pear…
Stage and screen actors Sebastian Arcelus and Gerald McRaney have been cast in the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' "The Best Of Me," according to Deadline.com.
Songwriter Zoe Sarnak premieres songs from The Years Between, a musical described as "an exploration of New York's millennials as the latest lost generation, set to a score of rock,…
Nightlife performer Tori Scott will offer a special late-night concert March 28 at 54 Below. The performer, last seen at 54 Below in August 2013, promises an irreverent evening of pop-rock t…
Original Murder for Two cast member Jeff Blumenkrantz will return to the Off-Broadway musical March 17. Blumenkrantz, recently seen in Sweeney Todd at the New York Philharmonic, takes over f…
Singer, songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright is raising funds via PledgeMusic to record his Bastille Day-set opera Prima Donna, with hopes of a touring concert version to follow.
"La Bare," the film that takes an insider's look at the history, lives and culture of the popular male strip club La Bare Dallas — and is directed by Joe Manganiello &mda…
Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster's Jasper in Deadland — a new musical that follows 16-year-old Jasper as he journeys into the afterlife to save his best friend — will…
Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's Harmony — starring Leigh Ann Larkin and Shayne Kennon, who also starred in the 2013 Atlanta production of that musical — officially ope…
Swine Palace presents the world premiere of Spill, a multimedia play inspired by the 2010 British Petroleum (BP) oil spill that is written and directed by Leigh Fondakowski (head writer of T…
Real-life mother and son, Tony and Emmy Award nominee Kate Burton and Morgan Ritchie, play mother and son on stage for the first time in the Huntington Theatre Company's new production o…
Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of artistic director Julianne Boyd and managing director Tristan Wilson, will open its 20th anniversary season with Kiss Me, Kate, running June…
Singers, recording artists and brothers Will Nunziata and Anthony Nunziata, who offered two sold-out concerts of Broadway, Our Way at 54 Below in January and February, will return to th…
Jefferson Mays, Bryce Pinkham, Lily Tomlin and cast members from Witness Uganda will perform at the NCTF 2014 Chairman’s Awards Gala, which will be held March 31 at New York …
"Better Living Through Chemistry," a new film from co-writers and co-directors Geoff Moore and David Posamentier, will be released in theatres and On Demand March 14.
The U.S. premiere of French playwright Mohamed Kacimi's play Holy Land will be presented April 18-May 10 at HERE in Manhattan.
The Tony Award-winning musical Once, which has been seen in London, New York and Dublin, will make its Australian premiere Sept. 30 at Melbourne's Princess Theatre.
YouTube sensation Team StarKid will present Twisted in Concert, an abridged version of Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier — an original musical comedy parody from the creative…
Disney's Aladdin, starring Adam Jacobs as charming street rat Aladdin and Courtney Reed as misunderstood princess Jasmine, will officially open at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theat…