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Academy Award winners Diane Keaton and Dianne Wiest, Tony and Academy Award winner Kevin Kline and Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard, along with their fellow stage and screen stars Richard J…
Here are the best-selling theatre CDS, as reported by billboard.biz, issue date Nov. 27, 2010.Wicked, Original Broadway Cast RecordingJersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast RecordingThe Lion Ki…
Chandra Lee Schwartz and Carla Stickler, who star as Galinda and Elphaba, respectively, in the Chicago edition of the hit musical Wicked, will compete in a special Culinary Collision at Chic…
In an exclusive clip from the Special Features section of the DVD of Tyler Perry’s film “For Colored Girls,” Playbill brings you several members of the cast and creative te…
What if Liza Minnelli had kept Sondheim on Sondheim open by replacing Barbara Cook? After all, Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch did it with A Little Night Music, right? Special, never-b…
The recent Paper Mill Playhouse production of Les Miserables inspired a unique marriage proposal from one audience member whose fiancée had a longstanding connection to the show, having pla…
Tony Award winner Beth Leavel recently discussed playing Florence Greenberg, the New Jersey housewife who discovered the singing group The Shirelles, in the upcoming musical Baby, It’s…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright-director David Mamet and stage and screen actor Danny DeVito recently collaborated on “Inside The Actor’s Workshop,” a short film for funn…
“Good Morning America” anchor George Stephanopoulos celebrated his 50th birthday on the show Feb. 10, and received a surprise visit from actors in some of his family’s favo…
Everything is not coming up roses after all for the planned film remake of the classic musical Gypsy, which was to star Barbra Streisand as the ruthless stage mother, Mama Rose.
The cast of Sister Act, which begins previews at the Broadway Theatre March 24, gave a special preview performance on “The View” Feb. 9.Olivier Award nominee Patina Miller (as De…
Standing on Ceremony: The Gay-Marriage Plays, an evening of one-acts written in response to America's ongoing marriage-equality debate, will have an encore run on Monday nights at Largo at t…
Sheldon Harnick, the Tony Award-winning lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me and many other classic musicals, has completed a new musical based on the Moliere comedy The Doctor in S…
Grammy and Emmy Award winner and Tony nominee Harry Connick, Jr. performed in concert for Broadway audiences in July 2010. Viewers across the country will be able to enjoy Connick’s s…
New Jersey's ReVision Theatre has announced its 2011 season of musicals, which will include the East Coast premiere of The Break-Up Notebook, a comic look at an emotional act, plus the New J…
The hit 80s rock musical Rock of Ages will be featured, in artwork form, on a new scratch game in the Iowa Lottery, the first-ever such merge between a Broadway show and the lottery. Ticket…
The Frankenstein Place will take over the Los Angeles music spot BARRE vt March 12 at midnight, when A Very Shamrocky - Rocky Horror in Concert hits the stage.
Footage of Tony Award winner Alice Ripley performing Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” and Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey’s “Take It Easy,” which are feat…
Court Theatre in Chicago announced its 2011-2012 season March 8.
The 92nd Street Y's popular Lyrics and Lyricists series will celebrate the 75th anniversary of America's entry into World War II with Stage Door Canteen: Broadway Responds to WWII.
A Little Night Music star Hunter Ryan Herdlicka is returning to Feinstein’s at Loews Regency with a new cabaret act, I (Still) Happen to Like New York, and he wants your help with his …
Tony Award winners Katie Finneran, Dan Fogler and Julie White may all be seen on the small screen this fall. All three actors have been cast in comedy pilots, according to deadline.com.
Tony Award winner Brian O'Byrne has joined the cast of "Prime Suspect," an NBC pilot remake of the popular BBC/PBS crime drama, according to deadline.com.
Sierra Boggess, a 2011 Olivier Award nominee for her performance as Christine in Love Never Dies, spoke on the red carpet about working with the show’s composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, a…
Veteran stage and screen actress Christine Lahti, who won Emmy and Golden Globe awards for playing a doctor in "Chicago Hope," will again take a medical role in "The Doctor," a new pilot for…