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The 2015 PEN American Center Literary Gala, celebrating freedom of expression, will honor Tony-winning playwright Tom Stoppard with the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award "…
Charles Busch, Mark Nadler, Hedda Lettuce, The Skivvies, KT Sullivan and Jeff Harnar are among nightclub acts nominated for the 29th Annual MAC Awards, being given March 26 to recognize outs…
Today in 1596, Queen Elizabeth I attended a performance of It's Only A Plague at Theatre Royal Nathan Lane. Featuring a cast of Renaissance celebrities (including legends Thomas No More …
The Tony Awards announced today that it has joined with Playbill for a three-year partnership to produce the official Tony Awards souvenir program book, which is distributed in Radio Cit…
The new Broadway play Hand To God has announced an unusual ticket promotion.
In celebration of legendary composer Stephen Sondheim's 85th birthday, Playbill.com reached out to performers in the Broadway community to tell us what their favorite Sondheim song is an…
Last night's episode of "American Idol" was dedicated to songs from the silver screen, and most contestants performed tunes from movie musicals, including "Dreamgirls,&quo…
Tony winner Idina Menzel, who concludes her run in the new musical If/Then this weekend, announced her new look via Twitter.
The first Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, following the life of feminist art historian Heidi Holland, opened …
A new "Into the Woods" bonus featurette has been released by Disney exploring how director Rob Marshall worked to bring Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Broadway musical to …
Despite its immense popularity with the Renaissance tourist market, Rats, The Musical was shut down by London officials 416 years ago today.
Actors Annette Bening, Cicely Tyson and Michael Urie are among the winners of the 46th annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, which were presented March 16 in Glendale, CA.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the new musical based on the Victor Hugo novel and animated Disney film, opened at the Paper Mill Playhouse March 15.
John Cameron Mitchell, the co-creator and original star of the Off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, returned to his glammed-up creation Jan. 21. Members of the p…
Acclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth embodies Lily Garland, a role created by her idol Madeline Kahn, in Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of On the…
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth embodies Lily Garland, a role created by her idol Madeline Kahn, in Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of On the…
Acclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
Although the Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century officially opens March 15, celebrations began last night... and the show's tap dancers took over Playbill's Instagr…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the new musical based on the Victor Hugo novel and animated Disney film, is currently playing the Paper Mill Playhouse. New footage has just been released for th…
Although the Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century officially opens March 15, celebrations begin tonight... and the show's tap dancers have taken over Playbill's Inst…
Who could ever think of the songs "New York, New York," "Cabaret" or "Ring Them Bells" without hearing the voice of Liza Minnelli giving them the full-throt…
419 years ago today the infamous musical A Corset Line opened at London's Thames Square Theatre in a performance famously called a "torturous, altogether intolerable descent into th…
419 years ago today the infamous musical A Corset Line opened at London's Thames Square Theatre in a performance famously called a "torturous, altogether intolerable descent into th…
Julie Andrews, star of the 1965 blockbuster classic "The Sound of Music," sat down with TIME magazine to reminisce about her time working on the film, which premiered a half centur…
