The Broadway Cast - led by Hannah Yelland and Tristan Sturrock - will appear in the internationally celebrated Kneehigh production of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, which will have a 43-perf…
Sheffield Theatres' Brian Friel season continues with a staging of his 1980 play Translations at the Crucible Theatre. We spoke with Niall Buggy who plays Hugh in this new adaptation. Ni
The most successful short actor in the UK - star of Extras, Life's Too Short and An Idiot Abroad 3 launches the Reduced Height Theatre Company with a tour of Philip King's farce See …
Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, who last adapted Alice Walker's The Color Purple for the Broadway stage, returns this season with the new musical incarnat…
Away From Home wowed Manchester audiences last Summer as part of the city's 24:7 Theatre Festival. This one man play features co-writer Rob Ward as a gay footballer. We caught up with Ro…
Playbill.com chats with award-winning star of the stage and screen, David Hyde Pierce, who is directing the west coast premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spik…
Playbill.com chats with Eddie Shapiro about his new book "Nothing Like A Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater" and talking with Broaday's leading ladies.
The writer discusses Hannah, his new version of Dr Faustus at the Unicorn Theatre, and writing for younger audiences
Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown has returned to Broadway with the new musical The Bridges of Madison County, based on the best-selling 1992 Robert James Waller novel.…
Five-time Tony Award nominee Michael John LaChiusa is at work on his next stage project, First Daughter Suite, a continuation of his 1993 musical First Lady Suite that interweaves the dreams…
The Broadway Cast - led by Hannah Yelland and Tristan Sturrock - will appear in the internationally celebrated Kneehigh production of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, which will have a 43-perf…
"Knots Landing" star and Broadway veteran Michele Lee chats with Playbill.com about her time onstage and onscreen, as well as her upcoming solo show at 54 Below.
Pilot Theatre's associate director, Katie Posner, talks about directing her new play Ghost Town, working with new writers and Mothercare's opening hours.
Musical theatre star Frances Ruffelle originated the role of Eponine in Les Miserables, and her other stage credits include Starlight Express, Chicago and Piaf. She is performing her sold-ou…
Ben Elton's Tonight the Night is back, touring the UK from the next week, starting in Manchester. Here, the writer talks about why he wanted to revisit the Rod Stewart musical.
Tony-winning director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall chats with Playbill.com about helming the 92nd Street Y's Going Hollywood: MGM Musicals at the 92nd Street Y. *
Playbill.com chats with Eric Petersen, star of the new TV Land comedy "Kirstie."
Michael McKell returns to the role of Stoner in the Rod Stewart jukebox musical, written by Ben Elton. The show begins a new tour in January at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.
We caught up with Ermonela Jaho before she sings the title role in Massenet's Manon for the first time at Covent Garden
Who or what was the biggest musical influence in your life?There have been many musical influences in my life. As far as composers go I would say Puccini and Verdi, on the singer side I woul…
Alexander Hanson, who has previously appeared in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard and more recently Jesus Christ Superstar, has reunited with the composer to play the title role in…
August: Osage County, which was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play, will hit the big screen Christmas Day. Playbill.com catches up with its writer, Tracy …
Olivier Award nominee Anne-Marie Duff is making her Broadway debut in Lincoln Center Theater's Macbeth, directed by Jack O'Brien and starring Ethan Hawke in the title role. Duff, who…
Playbill.com chats with two-time Tony nominee Laurie Metcalf, who is currently starring in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Bruce Norris' Domesticated.
Scarlett Strallen is currently starring as Cunegonde in the Menier Chocolate Factory's Candide, which opened last week. She was recently nominated for the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Act…