The fall Off-Broadway season is filled with award-winning actors who have gone behind the limelights to direct innovative new works that explore gender, race and politics.
The fall 2015 Broadway season offers a wealth of re-envisioned productions of plays and musicals as well as new stage adaptations of famous films.
Movie stars were causing all sorts of fuss in the theatre world this week, in all sorts of ways, some of them quite unexpected.
Playbill.com digs into its archives to explore past articles. In the next installment, Tony Kushner, Jeanine Tesori and Tonya Pinkins discuss the creation and inspiration for the acclaimed m…
A field trip to the theatre is as old a school tradition as back-to-school (#BwayBacktoSchool) shopping and the Homecoming dance. Teachers pile the kids into a school bus and head to…
Broadway’s show count is down to 24, from 25 last week, and the money count is down accordingly. Last week, cumulative box office was $25,006,928. Today it’s $22,457,929.…
The Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson new musical Waitress — which announced last week that it would come to Broadway — officially opened Aug. 20 at the American Repertory…
Penn & Teller on Broadway ended its limited run on Broadway this summer by playing before 72% capacity houses and selling 90% of its potential box office. The run was successful, and…
The Waitress musical that people have been saying for weeks will move to Broadway is indeed moving to Broadway.
Samuel Liff, known to the entertainment industry for a half century by the more phonetically catchy handle "Biff" Liff, died Aug. 10 in Westchester County at age 96, Deadline.com r…
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Ken Davenport, David Cote and more theatrical insiders share their thoughts on frequent revivals of popular plays and musicals that keep finding their way to Broadway.
So, the most popular kid in class was voted Prom King. Surprise.
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
The longstanding Off-Broadway theatre company Primary Stages has a new home, and its one of the most storied addresses in New York theatre history.
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
Robin Phillips, who led Ontario's Stratford Festival in the mid-to-late-1970s, died July 25 just outside of Stratford after a prolonged illness. He was 73.
Who is going to have reputation as a psycho around Broadway this season? Benjamin Walker is.
Lani Ball, a theatrical stage manager who worked on Broadway, for touring companies and regional theatres, died from complications of a heart attack in Davis, CA,
 on June 27. She was …
E.L. Doctorow, the prolific novelist whose book "Ragtime" inspired the musical of the same name, died July 21 of lung cancer. He was 84.
Theodore Bikel, a stage and film actor who played Captain Von Trapp in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, died July 21 in Los Angeles. He was 91.
Playbill's new weekly feature examines the box-office trends of the past week.
George Coe, an actor with numerous stage and television credits, but who was perhaps best known to theatergoers as a member of the cast of the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondhei…
It’s summer on Broadway, but you can still see some action on The Street.
Phil Black, a legendary New York jazz and tap dance teacher, died June 5 at the Actors Fund Nursing Home in Englewood, NJ. He had been fighting Parkinson's disease for more than 20 years.