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Just in time for the planned Broadway production of Eubie Blake's Shuffle Along, the Kritzerland record label is releasiing the orignial cast album of the 1978 revue of Blake's songs…
Broadway's Aladdin welcomes two new principals to the cast. Brad Weinstock takes over the role of Omar; Major Attaway has been named Standby for the Genie, Babkak and the Sultan. Both ac…
The ex-boyfriend of The Color Purple actress Joaquina Kalukango was arrested outside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre February 20 after threatening her on social media, according to a repor…
As the show approaches its second anniversary, it welcomes a new Omar and Standby Genie.
A burst pipe that wiped out 30 percent of the inventory at New York's Drama Book Shop has turned into a windfall for the Tony-winning theatre landmark after Hamilton creator and star…
An appeal by Lin-Manuel Miranda has brought a flood of business.
The February 29 event will be live-streamed.
The second annual event is being held at Lincoln Center in April.
The landmark store is still open but has lost inventory.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton, which tells the story of immigrant Founding Father Alexander Hamilton through the prism of a multi-ethnic cast and contemporary hip-ho…
The Dramatists Guild of America bestows its annual awards Feb. 22 at The American Airlines Theatre Penthouse Lobby in New York.
A burst pipe in the ceiling damaged New York theatre landmark the Drama Book Shop, leading to the loss of a chunk of its inventory of play scripts and related theatre books. In his latest Ha…
Through a numerical quirk, three Broadway shows hit coincidental milestones during the week ending Feb. 20.
Actress Ann Sanders made a bit of history this week when she stepped into the role of Anna Leonowens in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I. She is the first Asian&…
Glenn Weiss, who has directed 15 Tony Awards broadcasts, winning three Emmy Awards in the process, has been chosen to direct the 2016 Academy Awards, set to air Feb. 28 on ABC-TV.
Janet Watson, the Broadway and Off-Broadway choreographer, died Feb. 8 at age 70, Playbill.com has learned.
A New York University film student has launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance a documentary film about a woman who says she has seen a play more or less every day for 25 years.
Graeme of Thrones, the low-budget parody of HBO's megahit sword-and-sorcery series "Game of Thrones," will make its U.S. premiere at the Broadway Playhouse in Chica…
Songwriter/performer Carole King, whose life forms the blueprint for Broadway's Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, is the subject of the Feb. 19 broadcast of the PBS series "Americ…
The Broadway revival of The Color Purple, featuring the Broadway debuts of Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo, releases its cast album Feb. 19 on the Broadway Records label.
Bartlett Sher will stage a new production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, and Julie Taymor will recreate her staging of The Magic Flute as part of the Metropolitan Opera&…
Following an acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere last fall, the Broadway transfer of Stephen Karam’s family ensemble drama The Humans officially opened Feb. 18 at the Hele…
The Diamond Horseshoe, the space several levels beneath Manhattan's Paramount Hotel that served as a Broadway theatre in the 1970s, reopens Feb. 18 as a "glittering and decadent nig…
Chicago's innovative American Theater Company has named Will Davis, a New York-based director and choreographer, as its permanent new artistic director, effective immediately. He suc…
Actress Ann Sanders made a bit of history this week when she stepped into the role of Anna Leonowens in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I, replacing Tony winner Kelli O…
