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Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz celebrates his birthday Jan. 30, and Playbill.com has put together a handful of the Tony Award winner's stand-out performances from his career and…
The Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera celebrated its 25th anniversary Jan. 26. In honor of the long-running musical, Playbill.com has surfed the web f…
The original production of Evita opened its 1,567-performance run Sept. 25, 1979, starring Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, who both received Tonys for their work. With the revival of the Ti…
The 2012 Tony-nominated revival of Evita plays its final performance Jan. 26 at the Marquis Theatre. In celebration of the production, Playbill.com has surfed the web for various performance…
The 1994 Broadway revival of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's Grease ended its run Jan. 25, 1998. In celebration of the production, Playbill.com looks back at the Broadway productions of Gr…
The Tony Award-winning musical Sunset Boulevard, which features a Tony-winning score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton and Don Black, begins a Chicago-area run at the Drury Lane Th…
Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera, who currently stars in Roundabout Theatre Company's acclaimed revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, celebrates her birthday Jan. 23. In honor of…
The critically acclaimed 2011 revival of Follies, which features a Tony Award-winning score by Stephen Sondheim, played its final performance on Broadway Jan. 22, 2012. In celebration of the…
Schools, colleges, amateur and community productions can now make their own Playbills online and distribute them in theatres via PlaybillVIP.com.
Sierra Boggess, who originated the role of Christine in London's Love Never Dies, the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, joins the Broadway company of Pha…
In Performance at the Kennedy Center, an event honoring the presidential inauguration and Latino arts and culture, was held Jan. 20. Tony Award winners Rita Moreno and Chita Rivera were amon…
Michael Crawford, who won a 1988 Tony Award for his performance in the title role of the long-running musical The Phantom of the Opera, celebrates his birthday Jan. 19. Here, Playbill.com ta…
The Tony Award-nominated Best Musical Ragtime opened on Broadway Jan. 18, 1988. In celebration of the Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty-Terrence McNally musical, Playbill.com looks back at Ragtim…
January 17, 2013, marks what would have been Tony Award-nominated singer-actress Eartha Kitt's 86th birthday. In celebration of the late Broadway and film actress, Playbill.com looks bac…
The 2013 theatre season continues with a fresh crop of productions popping up in New York, London and across the country. As we head into the busy theatrical awards season, Playbill.com staf…
Ethel Merman – who possessed the voice that defined the Broadway belt – would have turned 105 Jan. 16. Rose, Reno Sweeney and Annie Oakley were all strong, no-nonsense women and …
Tony Award winner Andrea Martin, who was last seen on Broadway in Exit the King, celebrates her birthday Jan. 15. Here, Playbill.com looks back at Martin's career with clips from her Bro…
Julia Murney, who was recently seen in the Off-Broadway drama Falling, celebrates her birthday Jan. 14. Here, Playbill.com takes a look back at Murney's career with clips from her Broadw…
The 2008 revival of Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jule Styne's iconic musical Gypsy took its final bow on Broadway Jan. 11, 2009. Here, we take a look at various divas who took o…
Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced Jan. 10. Tony-winning songwriters Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil were nominated for the new song written for "Les Mis&e…
The 2009 revival of A Little Night Music, which features a Tony Award-winning score by Stephen Sondheim, closed on Broadway Jan. 9, 2011. In celebration of the musical, Playbill.com takes a …
Billy Elliot: The Musical, featuring a score by Elton John and Lee Hall, closed on Broadway Jan. 8, 2012. In celebration of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Playbill.com looks back at Bi…
Matilda The Musical, which won seven Olivier Awards, more than any other production in London history, is heading to Broadway.
The original Broadway production of Jekyll & Hyde, the Frank Wildhorn musical that will be revived this spring, played its final performance Jan. 7, 2001. In celebration of the musical, …
Belter Leslie Kritzer is back on Broadway this holiday season in the return of Elf the musical, which ends another successful Christmas run Jan. 6 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
