7,921 stories by "Michael Gioia"
Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena, who starred in the Off-Broadway musical Dogfight, reunite April 25 at Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington, NY, for a celebration of the music of Be…
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will be out of tonight's Friday evening performance of On the Twentieth Century due to illness, Playbill.com has learned. …
Airline Highway, the new play by Lisa D'Amour that depicts a slice of life from the outskirts of New Orleans, opened April 23. Playbill.com was there.
Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood is getting so excited to make her Broadway debut in the hit musical Chicago that she posted her R&B version of "Roxie" on her official Fa…
Bolin Schmolin, featuring the songs of comic musical theatre writer Eli Bolin will be held May 1 at 54 Below. In anticipation of the concert, members of the cast pick theatre songs that make…
The cast recording of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's musical James and the Giant Peach has been released as a permanently free download at JATGP.com. Check out the cast in the rec…
Collaborators, friends and Broadway belters Shoshana Bean (Wicked) and Todrick Hall (Memphis) take 90s Disney music to a new level with a contemporary mashup of the classics.
A representative for Madonna, who attended the April 18 evening performance of Lin-Manuel Miranda's acclaimed Off-Broadway musical Hamilton — and was …
The Dramatists Guild of America, the national association of playwrights, composers and lyricists, announced April 21 that Guild president Stephen Schwartz is stepping down after six years i…
The film adaptation of the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical Lucky Stiff, featuring Tony winners Jason Alexander, Nikki M. James and the late Dennis Farina, will be released in New Yo…
Alysha Umphress, acclaimed for her performance as Hildy in On the Town, and her co-star Jay Armstrong Johnson (as Chip) took to the "Today" show April 20 to perform "I Can…
Before Darren Criss rocks out in Hedwig's high heels, he channels his inner child in Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's "Middle of a Moment" from their musical James and the Gian…
Songwriter and performer Tim Realbuto (Ghostlight) will present his new play Yes, as part of the 12th Annual Emerging Artists Theatre New Work series, June 2 at 7 PM at the TADA! Theatre in …
Taylor Louderman (Bring It On, Peter Pan Live!) and Daniel Quadrino (Newsies, Wicked, Peter Pan Live!) will join two-time Tony Award nominee Robin De Jesus in #TheStruggleIsReal, his new…
Madonna, who attended the April 18 evening performance of Lin-Manuel Miranda's acclaimed Off-Broadway musical Hamilton, was not invited backstage following the performance due to…
Tony Award-nominated songwriters Justin Paul and Benj Pasek and playwright Timothy Allen McDonald will release the ultimate cast recording for Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach,…
The cult classic musical Reefer Madness will be presented in concert, starring a slew of original cast members from the stage production and the film, April 19 at 11:30 PM and April 20 at 7 …
First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama took a trip to The Public Theater this afternoon to see the April 18 matinee performance of Lin-Manuel Miranda's acclaimed musical Hami…
Second Stage Theatre, the not-for-profit Off-Broadway company founded in 1979 by director Carole Rothman and actress Robyn Goodman, has purchased Broadway's Helen Ha…
Green Day, the band whose music inspired the Broadway musical American Idiot, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony today.
Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller and Chicago's "Broadway Moms," Leslie Stifelman and Melissa Rae Mahon, are among the lineup for Take the Stage With Broadway Stars, scheduled f…
The Tony Award-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots, now in its third year on Broadway, has gotten even sexier — with a new advertisement campaign and television spot.
Russell Brand ("Rock of Ages") and Denis O'Hare (Into the Woods) are among the actors who will join Nicolas Cage in the comedy film "Army Of One," according to Deadli…
Tony Award-winning Beautiful star Jessie Mueller will star in American Repertory Theater's world-premiere production of Sara Bareilles' musical Waitress sta…
Darren Criss will step into the high heels of glam rocker Hedwig in the Tony-winning Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. We ask the show's next star eight burning question…