In one of the stranger assignments in recent years, Broadway stars including Adam Pascal, Barry Bostwick, David Hasselhoff and Paul Sorvino play combatants in the forthcoming new movie music…
Tituss Burgess, the Broadway star who can currently be seen on the hit Netflix series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," is co-writing on a new musical based on a Whitney Houston fil…
Aaron Lazar, Ana Gasteyer and Tony winner Dan Fogler join Jonathan Groff in the New York City Center's Encores! Off-Center series revival of William Finn and James Lapine's&n…
Students at a New Mexico university have mounted an unorthodox production of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago, set entirely inside a modern-day women's prison, in which the inmates…
Tom Holland is living the dream of every kid who takes a local dance class. Holland, who was spotted at the showcase for his suburban London dance school and cast as a replacement in the tit…
Two-time Tony Award nominee Michele Lee, who co-starred as Rosemary in the movie version of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, is returning to Broadway July 5 as Madam…
The two performances of Broadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque, a show inspired by the Golden Age of Broadway, earned a record $1,598,501 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, more than $…
The Walk of Fame Selection Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has announced the new group of 29 entertainment professionals in motion pictures, television, live theatre, radio an…
Neil Patrick Harris' new hourlong TV variety show, "Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris," will premiere Sept. 15 on NBC, according to Deadline Hollywood, but will be shown …
Helen Mirren's Tony-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's Broadway and West End drama The Audience will be broadcast as a special event in selected movie th…
The full cast of Broadway's Beautiful: The Carole King Musical will perform the show's score, concert-style, for free, outdoors in Central Park this summer as part of the City Pa…
"Downton Abbey," the hit PBS television show chronicling the life of the wealthy British Crawley family through the social and economic upheaval before, during and following World …
"Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream," Taymor's imaginative rethinking of Shakespeare's classic that was filmed before a live audience during its 2014 run at T…
Actor and folksinger Theodore Bikel is getting a salute in New York City June 21 with the premiere of a documentary film intertwining his life with that of the Yiddish-language writer Sh…
The Tony Awards appear to be boosting sales of newly released cast albums of the winning shows. The original Broadway cast recording of the musical Fun Home reclaimed the top spot o…
An all-new version of Alan Menken and David Spencer's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: The Musical, featuring an all-Canadian cast, opened in Montreal June 7. Here i…
It Shoulda Been You, the new musical comedy about a wedding gone awry that stars Tyne Daly, Lisa Howard, Harriet Harris, David Burtka and Sierra Boggess, will get a cast album, according to …
It Shoulda Been You, the new musical comedy about a wedding gone awry that stars Tyne Daly, Lisa Howard, Harriet Harris, David Burtka and Sierra Boggess, will get a cast album, according to …
Ian McKellen, who has embodied Gandalf and Magneto on film, in addition to a lifetime of Shakespearean work on the stage, assumes another iconic role, Sherlock Holmes, in the new film &l…
Groucho Marx, part of the Marx Brothers comedy team that triumphed in vaudeville and Broadway musicals before becoming film icons, lived out his twilight years under the thumb of a personal …
The new Broadway musical Finding Neverland will release its original cast recording July 17, pushed back from the originally announced June 23.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, author and star of the Broadway-bound musical Hamilton, awoke Wednesday to the news that the U.S. government is planning to add the face of a woman TBA to the ima…
The company of An American in Paris was named winner of the ninth annual "ACCA" Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus. The award will be presented at 4 PM June 16 during …
Philip S. Birsh, Chief Executive Officer and President of the iconic Playbill theatre programs and the family of websites led by Playbill.com, will accept the annual Friend of Off-Broadw…
Just days after filing a lawsuit against the producer of "Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream," the plaintiffs announced that they have unilaterally withdrawn the suit…