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"That Face," a gallery exhibit featuring the work of acclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin — whose drawings can be seen weekly in Playbill.com's Stage Portrait column — …
Walnut Street Theatre opens its 205th season with the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, which officially opens Sept. 11, following previews that began Sept. 3, on the WST Mainstage.
The 2013 Lucille Lortel Award-winning musical Dogfight — an unlikely love story between a clumsy waitress and a Vietnam-bound soldier that features a pop-rock score by rising theatrica…
Tovah Feldshuh, known for her Tony-nominated work in Golda's Balcony, Saravà, Lend Me a Tenor and Yentl, will assume the role of Berthe — the role she played while Tony…
Capathia Jenkins (Newsies, Martin Short: Fame Become Me), N'Kenge (Motown, Sondheim on Sondheim) and Leslie McDonel (American Idiot, Hairspray) are among the performers who will interpre…
Tony and Academy Award-winning musician Elton John will perform a tribute to Liberace, the subject of Steven Soderbergh's Emmy Award-nominated film "Behind The Candelabra," at …
USA Network has given a 13-episode, second-season renewal to the law-enforcement drama "Graceland," which features Catch Me If You Can and Next to Normal star Aaron Tveit, accordin…
Drama Desk Award-nominated actress and singer Lindsay Mendez, who stars as Elphaba in Broadway's Wicked, and Broadway pianist Marco Paguia made their 54 Below jazz concert debut Sept. 9.…
Adam Chanler-Berat, Kerry Butler and Alexander Gemignani are among the cast of the industry-only staged readings of The Dogs of Pripyat, which is offered Sept. 10-11 in Manhattan.
Pittsburgh Musical Theater has launched its first capital campaign — which will fund the purchase and transformation of the James Centre, the company's home in Pittsburgh's Wes…
Friends Always Creating Theatre will kick off its fifth season with a staged reading of The Lost Boy by late playwright and actor Ron Paolillo, starring First Date's Blake Hammond and Gu…
…They Say I'm Different, a concert featuring Motown and Bring It On actress Ariana DeBose, was held Aug. 12 at Joe's Pub. Here are highlights from the evening.
Tony Award nominee Patrick Stewart was married Sept. 8 with the assistance of his No Man's Land/Waiting for Godot and "X-Men" co-star Ian McKellen, who officiated the ceremony.
Spring Awakening actress Lea Michele, who stars as Rachel Berry on the Fox hit musical series "Glee," was seen on the corner of 44th Street in Times Square, where a fake marquee fo…
Kristin Scott Thomas, who was seen on Broadway in The Seagull, will join Tony winners Maggie Smith (Lettice and Lovage) and Kevin Kline (The Pirates of Penzance) in a film adaptation of the …
Tony Award and Oscar winner Christopher Plummer will join John Travolta (Grease) and Tye Sheridan in the upcoming Code Entertainment film "The Forger," according to Deadline.com.
Grammy Award winner Lady Gaga celebrated her new single "Applause" Sept. 9 on "Good Morning America," where she performed the number in a Wizard of Oz-themed performance.
Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe, who co-starred in the acclaimed Second Stage Theatre revival of The Last Five Years, will revisit Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's score in a…
Standing Room Only: Variety Hour, the monthly L.A. cabaret created and hosted by Kate Pazakis (South Pacific) and Michael-Leon Wooley (Little Shop of Horrors), presents a special Disney-them…
Jahn Sood and All the Broken Parts is held Sept. 9 at the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan. Rebecca Naomi Jones, who was recently seen in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Lo…
Playbill.com chats with Christopher Abbott, who made his Broadway debut in the 2011 revival of The House of Blue Leaves and quickly rose to fame soon thereafter in the popular HBO series &qu…
"Smash" star Megan Hilty, Julia Murney and Joe Iconis were among the artists who took part in Rob Rokicki and Friends, which featured the work of songwriter and performer Rob Rokic…
Harmony – A New Musical, a co-production between Atlanta's Tony-winning Alliance Theatre and Center Theatre Group that features music by Barry Manilow and book and lyrics by Bruce …
Composer Alexander Sage Oyen's song cycle Moment by Moment, featuring songs about love, cults and McDonald's, was held Aug. 31 at Manhattan nightspot 54 Below. Here are highligh…
The new Broadway musical Big Fish, a father-and-son tale based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the subsequent 2003 film by John August, swims onto Broadway Sept. 5, when it begins pr…
