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Caroline Bowman, who led the Broadway revival tour of Evita, and Newsies star Kara Lindsay will be the newest witches of Oz in the hit Broadway musical Wicked, producers announced Nov. 20.
The Sound Of Music Nuns' Christmas Party, featuring the nuns of last year's NBC live musical event, will be held Dec. 12 at 54 Below.
James Graham, who wrote the book for the Broadway-bound musical Finding Neverland, will pen the screenplay for a new film adaptation of the George Orwell novel "1984," accordin…
Playbill.com premieres an exclusive video clip of Meryl Streep's performance of "Stay With Me" from the eagerly anticipated film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine…
The newly released Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recording, "Carnival of the Animals," features "Waiting for Wings," a musical adaptation of Lois Ehlert's popular childre…
A sneak peek of Redrum: The Unauthorized Musical Parody of "The Shining," featuring Tony Award winner Alice Ripley and Tony nominee Douglas Sills, was held Nov. 19 at Pearl Studios…
The Worst People You Know will invade 54 Below Nov. 22. In anticipation of the concert, featuring the music of composer Natalie Tenenbaum and lyricist Kevin Wanzor, members of the cast and c…
On a Stool at the End of the Bar, written by Robert Callely and directed by Michael Parva, officially opens Nov. 20, following previews that began Nov. 14, at 59E59 Theaters.
The Nov. 19 matinee performance of Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart, starring Emmy Award-winning "Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera, was canceled after…
Tony Award nominee Nancy Opel, who currently appears in Broadway's Honeymoon in Vegas, is among the cast of the new web series "Rare Birds of Fashion," about a plus-size fa…
Nevermore – The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, a theatrical experience combining haunting music, poetic storytelling and stagecraft to tell the life story …
59E59 Theaters and Strangemen & Co., in association with Robb Nanus and Rachel Sussman, will present the return engagement of The Woodsman to 59E59 Theaters, Theater B. Performances …
Goodspeed Musicals' board of trustees announced Nov. 18 that they have selected Michael Gennaro as the new executive director of the two-time Tony Award-winning theatre.
A special advance screening of the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods will be held Dec. 24 at 7 PM at Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre for El Capitan…
Two-time Tony Award winner Donna Murphy has been cast as Norma Desmond in a reading, produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard.
The Prospect Theater Company production of The Underclassman, an original musical that explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's coming of age as a writer on the eve of World War I &md…
Andy Mientus, who was on a filming hiatus from the Broadway revival of Les Misérables, returns to the production in the role of Marius Nov. 19.
New York Theatre Workshop presents the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar's The Invisible Hand, directed by two-time Obie winner Ken Russ Schmoll, beginning Nov. 19.
The Broadway productions of Burn the Floor and Priscilla Queen of the Desert will take to the high seas in 2015 on the Norwegian Epic, the ship that will be based year-round in Barcelona…
Celebrity stylist George Brescia – who co-hosted Dress Up! Live: The 2014 Tony Awards Red Carpet, presented by Playbill.com and Stage17 &…
Second Stage Theatre presents a reading of Cinderella: The Real True Story, featuring a book, music and lyrics by Holly Gewandter — and a handful of gender-swapped roles &m…
Amanda Green, the daughter of one of Peter Pan's original lyricists, Adolph Green, and a Tony nominee for the score of Hands on a Hardbody, has been enlisted by the creative team of NBC&…
U2 frontman Bono, who wrote the music and lyrics for Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, was injured from a cycling spill, causing U2 to cancel their week-long residency on …
The Shubert Organization, which owns 17 of the 40 Broadway theatres, has completed an agreement to acquire New World Stages, the complex of five Off-Broadway playhouses located at 340 We…
A music video of the show-stopping power ballad from If/Then, entitled "Always Starting Over," has been released and features Tony Award winner Idina Menzel — both on…