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Murder Ballad, a dark and intimate tale that explores the complications of love and the compromises we make, will be given its New Jersey premiere at an Irish Pub in Hoboken.
Musical theatre dancers, including Iain Young of Broadway's Newsies, prove that Midwestern boys are simply irresistible in songwriter Joey Contreras' new music video about guys from …
Veterans of the 2009 Tony Award-winning revival of Hair reunite with their friends and fellow rockers for Broadway Meets Classic Rock April 6 at 54 Below. In anticipation of the evening,…
"Looking," the HBO series about a group of gay friends living in San Francisco that stars Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff, will not be renewed for a third season. Instead, a HBO …
Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, featuring a score by Tony-nominated songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and a book by Timothy Allen McDonald, has been acquired for licensi…
"High School Musical" sensation Vanessa Hudgens is at the core of the freshly adapted production of Gigi, which just hit Broadway last week. Could she score big with the critics wh…
The youth production of Children of Eden, Stephen Schwartz's epic musical based on the Book of Genesis, has announced its cast. Performances will begin July 17 in New Jersey.
What are some of the worst pickup lines you've received on dating apps such as Tinder, Match.com and OkCupid? Lilli Cooper, from Broadway's Wicked, and her friends share real message…
Ramin Karimloo, who received a Tony Award nomination for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the re-imagined Broadway revival of Les Misérables, announced that he will play his f…
Broadway Sings Bruno Mars, the eighth installment of the Broadway Sings… concert series, will feature new arrangements of music by Bruno Mars and will be held May 17 at 42West.
The Los Angeles premiere of the rock musical American Idiot, inspired by Green Day's seventh studio album, will come to life in a warehouse venue in downtown L.A.'s Arts District. Pe…
Josh Grisetti's Broadway debut has been five-and-a-half years in the making. He shares his story with Playbill.com — about how an actor's nightmare (of closing …
The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, CT, announced March 24 that 17-year-old playwright-in-residence Noah Altshuler will adapt Mark Twain's "The Advent…
Broadway may have seen the last of the original musical If/Then, about chance and choice, but its writers — Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winners Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey &mda…
The digital ticket lottery policy has been announced for the Broadway revival of Gigi, starring Vanessa Hudgens, which is now in Broadway previews at the Neil Simon Theatre. It is scheduled …
Roundabout Theatre Company will launch a national tour of Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall's Tony Award-winning production of Cabaret, which will premiere in Providence, RI, at the Provid…
We all know that Kristin Chenoweth has idolized Madeline Kahn — the actress who created Lily Garland, a role that Chenoweth now delivers to perfection on Broadway — but w…
Brian d'Arcy James and his wife, actress Jennifer Prescott, recently recorded a bonus version of the song "There's Always Me and You" for the iTunes release of Hansel &…
Matters continue to escalate in the month leading up to the April 21 meeting of Actors' Equity Association's National Council, in which a decision will be made regarding Los Angeles&…
"Smash" star and Broadway actress Krysta Rodriguez, who recently talked openly about her battle with breast cancer, is not letting her diagnosis hold her back. The actress will joi…
Roundabout Theatre Company announced that PS Classics will record the cast album of the Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century, starring Kristin Chenoweth, March 23. It will be release…
Matthew Morrison took "Good Morning America" behind the scenes at Finding Neverland this weekend. Watch him give a tour of the Broadway set and demonstrate his break-dancing sk…
Award-winning composer Ryan Scott Oliver, whose Jasper in Deadland heads to Seattle's 5th Avenue this spring, makes his London debut March 23 at the St. James Studio.
Zak Resnick, who starred as Bert Berns in the Off-Broadway musical Piece of My Heart, joins singer-songwriter Joey Contreras for a free Rockwood Music Hall concert March 22.
Shanktunes, a night of original songs by Drama Desk-nominated arranger/orchestrator Lynne Shankel, returns to 54 Below March 22 at 9:30 PM.