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Ken Davenport, Broadway producer and blogger, is going out on a limb, producing a commercial limited engagement of a full-scale Broadway musical, Spring Awakening, this fall.
The New York premiere of Whipping Man playwright Matthew Lopez's The Legend of Georgia McBride, about an Elvis impersonator turned drag queen, has chosen Dave Thomas Brown, recently of H…
The joys and tribulations of middle age are examined in Happy 50ish!, a "mid-life crisis musical comedy" set to bow Off-Broadway starting July 15 at The Beckett Theatre.
The New Victory Theatre's 2015-16 season of family programming in New York will include the Off-Broadway premiere of Fly, about the Tuskeegee Airmen, and Caps for Sale The Musica…
Everyone asks us: What's going to be the next Next to Normal? The next [title of show] or the next the next Altar Boyz?
Penn & Teller on Broadway brings the provocative New Vaudeville magician team back to the Great White Way for a six-week stand at the Marquis Theatre, July 7-Aug. 16, with Ju…
Beaches, the new Broadway-bound musical based on the 1988 film of the same title, officially opened its tryout July 2 at the Drury Lane Theatre in Chicago. The production has been announ…
Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik, who already has new projects in the pipeline for Broadway and Off-Broadway, will roll out yet another new project, Noir, as part of the upcoming N…
It's nice that people feel at home at Broadway theatres — but perhaps they shouldn't feel this at home.
Director John Tiffany and librettist Enda Walsh, the Tony-winning team behind Once, are working on a stage musical adaptation of the animated Disney film classic "Pinocchio," a…
Everyone asks us: What's going to be the next Next to Normal? The next [title of show] or the next the next Altar Boyz?
Theatre fans spending their vacation in New York have endless opportunities for fun, many of them completely free. Here are our top ten suggestions for a theatrical summer in the city.
Ellen Greene recreates the role of Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors opposite Jake Gyllenhaal at the New York City Center through July 2 as part of its annual Encores! Off-Center series. …
The Tony-winning 2005 Broadway musical Jersey Boys plays its 4,000th performance July 2, joining other long-running Broadway shows that have recently passed major milestones.
Hollywood Arms, the autobiographical 2002 play by actress Carol Burnett and her late daughter Carrie Hamilton, will get a special concert reading at Merkin Concert Hall Sept. 21. Burnett her…
Patti LuPone stars as the grande dame of a community theatre company in Douglas Carter Beane's semi-autobiographical non-musical play Shows for Days, running through Aug. 23 at t…
The Tony-winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening is headed for a Broadway revival, according to a report on Deadline Hollywood.
For the first time since Playbill.com began tracking the booking status of Broadway theatres, every single Broadway house is either currently occupied or firmly booked for the summer or fall.
Anthony Mackie has found his "dream" role: he will play Dr. Martin Luther King in HBO's TV adaptation of the 2014 Tony-winning Best Play All the Way, according to Deadline…
Garth Drabinsky, the Canadian film and theatrical producer and entrepreneur who was released from prison on parole last year, is seeking to revive his Broadway career with a stage musical ba…
Garth Drabinsky, the Canadian film and theatrical producer and entrepreneur who was released from prison on parole last year, is seeking to revive his Broadway career with a stage musical ba…
A musical based on Ian Fleming's suave super spy James Bond is being prepared for Broadway.
Playbill editor-in-chief Blake Ross will join NY1's Frank DiLella July 6 in hosting a special "15 Under 30" night celebrating Gay Pride at Off-Broadway's Rattle…
The new Broadway musical Finding Neverland will release its original cast recording July 17, pushed back from the originally announced June 23.
Matthew Morrison appears in a video clip from the forthcoming original Broadway cast recording of Finding Neverland.
