There is a bittersweet edge to The Library Theatre's 2013/14 season. It is the final season at their temporary home at The Lowry and the last to be overseen by Director Chris Honer. Educati…
Playbill.com's Robert Simonson talks sports and theatre with his brother, Eric Simonson.
Joe Manganiello, who plays Alcide Herveaux on HBO's "True Blood," makes his return to the stage as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which begins previews Sep…
What's A Boy and His Soul about? It's the examination of a "boy" in quotations because it's really about a man in his 30s who's feeling like a boy; he's looking back on his comin…
Playbill.com chats with Christopher Abbott, who made his Broadway debut in the 2011 revival of The House of Blue Leaves and quickly rose to fame soon thereafter in the popular HBO series &qu…
The Octagon Theatre Bolton will open its new 2013"2014 Season with An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley, directed by David Thacker. We caught up with him to find out about the play, the ven…
When did you first start work on the X Factor musical? I got approached by Harry Hill and his writing partner Steve Brown about 18 months ago and they pitched to me the idea in my office an…
Meet musical theatre historian, writer and producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper, who will take over as the new director of programming at the hot Manhattan nightspot and music venue 54 Below this…
When the dying Sigmund Freud moved into 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead in 1938, after escaping Nazi-occupied Vienna, London's notables were keen to pay their respects. Salvador Dali droppe…
How does it feel to bring West Side Story back to London? Fantastic! London audiences are so supportive of our West Side, so it's a pleasure to bring this classic hit back to the Sadler's W…
What attracted you to West Side Story? The Challenge. West Side Story has with out doubt been one of the biggest influences on me as a creative artist. The themes explored through movement …
Are you excited to be revisiting A Doll's House for the third time? I am! It's very odd, you never really expect when you say yes to a job that you will still be doing it in a year's
The title - tell us more Nick Payne: It's a song title - I didn't come up with it, so I can't claim ownership. The Same Deep Water As Me is a song by a band called I Am Kloot. There are refe…
Tell us about [title of show] It's about four friends writing a musical and having a 'ball' doing it. Is the show being adapted at all for a UK audience? Not quite- we are keeping it tru…
Tell us about [title of show] It's about four friends writing a musical and having a 'ball' doing it. Is the show being adapted at all for a UK audience? Not quite- we are keeping it tru…
Kinky Boots star Billy Porter speaks with Playbill.com about his first connection with Broadway, the cast albums that shaped his life and words of inspiration for his younger self.
Playbill.com sits down with Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Auburn at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's annual National Playwrights Conference.
You're an American who trained at RADA - how did that come about? Through a lifelong love of classical theatre. There aren't many drama schools in the States where you can get that sort of t…
How did you find the rehearsal process? Really good. It's been brilliant to take The Sound of Music and to strip it back and kind of start again with it. We have a lot of creative input - e…
Who or what was the biggest musical influence in your life? I'd say that there have been two major influences. The first was the time I spent at the Drakensberg Boys Choir School in South A…
Playbill.com sits down with Preston Whiteway, the executive director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
Black Angels Over Tuskegee's Layon Gray reveals what roused him to turn the exhilirating story of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II into an enthralling piece of theater, and what h…
Tell us a bit about Momentous Musicals Basically it's one of your musical theatre compilation shows, if you will, and all of the songs are from "Momentous Musicals". It's going to …
Kneehigh Theatre's Broadway and West End hit, Brief Encounter, is coming down under and promises to take audiences back to a bygone era of romance and the silver screen with its classic …