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Michael Riedel's book "Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway" was officially released Oct. 6.
Toni Collette, Tracy Letts and Sam Trammell have joined the cast of "Imperium," a new film directed by Daniel Ragussis, according to Deadline Hollywood.
The world premiere of Barbecue, written by Obie Award winner Robert O'Hara (Bootycandy and In the Continuum), officially opened Oct. 8 at the Public Theater following previews that began…
La Jolla Playhouse's WithOutWalls Festival, a weekend series of immersive and site-specific productions at locations throughout the San Diego community, begins Oct. 9, running throug…
Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, officially opened Oct. 8 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway starring Tony Award winner Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell. Hear what the criti…
How many times have the students stormed the barricade? How many audience members have dreamed the dream?
Representatives for Roundabout Theatre Company announced late this afternoon that the Oct. 7 evening performance of Thérèse Raquin, starring Academy and Golden Globe no…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, helped the next generation of musical theatre writers wh…
On Oct. 7, 1938, Judy Garland stepped onto an MGM soundstage to record the Harold Arlen-Yip Harburg classic "Over the Rainbow" for the enduring film "The Wizard of Oz.&quo…
The recent London stage production of The Rocky Horror Show has set an American screening date for Oct. 18 at midnight on BBC America to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the show&#…
In an evening benefiting the Actors Fund, Tony-winning producer Jamie deRoy will celebrate the 25th anniversary of her variety show, Jamie deRoy & Friends (as well as her birthda…
Tickets are now on sale for the Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of Important Hats of the Twentieth Century, which will star Peter and the Starcatcher's Carson Elrod. The new back&#…
The controversy-generating, previously announced epic nine-hour production of The Wars of the Roses opened officially at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, Oct. 3, following previe…
Tony Award winner Lea Salonga returns to Broadway in Allegiance, which begins previews Oct. 6. To celebrate the occasion, Playbill.com shares some of favorite musical moments from the award&…
Reviews are now being published for the 46-track Broadway cast album of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway smash hit Hamilton.
Stage and screen icon Julie Andrews celebrates her 80th birthday Oct. 1. Andrews has starred on Broadway in The Boy Friend, My Fair Lady, Camelot and Victor/Victoria.
Stage and screen icon Julie Andrews celebrates her 80th birthday Oct. 1. Andrews has starred on Broadway in The Boy Friend, My Fair Lady, Camelot and Victor/Victoria.
The ensemble and music team of the Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz Disney stage musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame gathered this week to record a studio cast album of the production.
The second season of "Theater Close-Up," a collaboration between THIRTEEN and New York City area non-profit Off-Broadway theatres, begins Oct. 1 at 9 PM with The New Gr…
In honor of Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday, Legacy Recordings will release a box set featuring over 100 recordings of Sinatra performances (91 of which have previously been unreleased).
Celebrity Karaoke: An Epic Evening with the Stars — in which theatregoers are given a chance to sing alongside Broadway stars — will be held Oct. 5 at 7 PM at New York Ci…
Ten winners were announced for the New York Community Trust Helen Merrill Playwright Awards, which honor established and emerging writers for theatre. Winners are selected by a committee of …
Michael Burgess, who performed the role of Jean Valjean in more than 1,000 Toronto stage performances of Les Misérables, passed away Sept. 28 after a lengthy battle with cancer.
King Charles III, which will begin previews Oct. 10 at Broadway's Music Box Theatre prior to an official opening Nov. 1, has invited its fans to "become a royal" on Facebook an…
