In Playbill’s latest Playbillder Video Spotlight, we take you behind the curtain and inside the rehearsal room of Paloma Valley High School’s production of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, licensed by Conco…
Hello again! Nikki M. James and Rory O’Malley, original Broadway cast members of The Book of Mormon, will return to the Broadway production this fall. Beginning October 27, the pair will p…
Very sad news this morning. Tony winning composer Duncan Sheik has died at 56. His family says it’s from cardiac arrest. Two nights ago, the family posted on Instagram that Sheik was in th…
In adapting the old plot, the director-writer Simon Stone transports the story to a modern Korea from Russia in the early 1900s.
Duncan Sheik, the Tony Award-winning composer and singer-songwriter best known for Spring Awakening, has died at age 56. The news comes after a post was shared on social media on September 1…
Lea Michele has joined the upcoming fourth season of the CBS show Elsbeth. Deadline reports that Michele will join the cast along with Sam Richardson and Nat Faxon. They also join the recent…
The Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody original cast album is out now and available everywhere you stream and download music! The album features the original Off-Broadway cas…
I don’t know how she did it, but by the end of Julia Masli’s ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, performed at the Proscenium at the Drake as part of Philadelphia Fringe, I was cheering through my tear…
Some monologues are so personal you can’t imagine another actor doing them. Right? Wrong! I’ve always thought that Michaela Coel’s performance of her 2012 debut, Chewing Gum Dreams, wa…
The Tony winner was to have two back-to-back Off-Broadway musicals this fall: the new Memoirs of Amorous Gentleman and a revival of Spring Awakening.
Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”
Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter whose song “Barely Breathing” was a era-defining hit in the 1990s and who composed the Tony-winning Broadway hit Spring Awakening, died Thursday, Sept…
Stephanie Cole, the popular British actress who was one of the stars of Open All Hours, has died aged 84. She had been living with Alzheimer’s disease for a number of years. Cole’s agent…
Duncan Sheik, who had a pop smash with “Barely Breathing” in the mid-1990s but then found his biggest success — and multiple Tony wins — with the long-running stage musical “Spring…
Charming, serious, and modest to a fault, the rigor of Mr. Page's craft made the director a favorite of classically trained actors bridging into mainstream.
In the three-day fantasy festival at the Oregon Convention Center, fabulously dressed costumed characters took the tastiest slices of the cake.
David Gordon,Zachary Stewart| Sheik had been hospitalized since the late summer. ||New York|Duncan Sheik [...] Read More... from Spring Awakening Composer Duncan Sheik Dies at 56 The post Sp…
Direction: Making the Most of the Performance of Your Life will share 21 life lessons learned from the Tony-winning director.
The talented student cast of Paloma Valley High School used Playbillder to market their electrifying quest.
Tickets will go on sale this week for the Broadway premiere of Purple Rain, the new stage musical based on Prince's Grammy-winning album and Oscar-winning film. A ticket presale will begi…
The special performance of Martyna Majok’s play will take place at New York Theatre Workshop.
The Vanderpump Rules favorite returns to Broadway following successful stints in Chicago.
Auliʻi Cravalho performed the National Anthem ahead of the Buffalo Bills vs. Detroit Lions game on Thursday, September 17. This marked the first regular-season game at the new Highmark Stad…
The production celebrates its 40th year in London.
The special release includes a new oral history, rarely seen archival materials, and more.
Three touring plays: prostitution after trafficking, opioid addiction with athletes, the lure of stealing. The audience: students. Palm Beach Dramaworks’ One Humanity Tour is unapologetic…
Two of the original cast members of The Book of Mormon are returning to the show! Tony Award winner Nikki M. James and Tony Award nominee Rory O’Malley will return to the Broadway company …
The two are original cast members of the Tony-winning musical.
The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: “Becoming Hamlet” Searches for Hamlet Inside Shakespeare’s Words By Ross I wanted to believe that Becoming Hamlet could unlock something thrilling abo…
Furze has led AKA’s New York operation for 18 years.
Hayley Levitt| The Playwrights Realm presents Daria Miyeko Marinelli’s interactive walking tour of New York City activism. ||Off-Broadway|Daria Miyeko Marinelli,Dominique Rider,Playwrights…
Gwydion Theatre’s Chicago premiere of Lynn Nottage’s misguided 1995 play about a botched terrorist bombing ends up being a dramatic dud.
EXCLUSIVE: The Book of Mormon original cast members Nikki M. James and Rory O’Malley will return to the Broadway production at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre for a strictly limited 12-week e…
By Alix Cohen... Michael Ceveris folk singer bears no resemblance to the his persona as a musical theater performer
“Paranormal”’s design team shares some of the tips and tricks that make scares work in live theater.
David Gordon| The Tony Award-winner discusses his new film with Gillian Jacobs and Rob Lowe, channeling Dr. Anthony Fauci on stage, and why he has a knack for finding the humanity in deeply …
David Gordon| The release will come with a newly compiled oral history of the show, significant ephemera, and more. ||New York City|Jonathan Larson,Rent [...] Read More... from Rent Original…
Linda Buchwald| There will be replica annotated early edition scripts, sheet music from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s archive, and a fold-out replica poster of the original Broadway production wit…
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5 Times a Jukebox Musical NumberGot CreativeDepending on who you talk to, jukebox musicals are the scourge of Broadway. I, myself, have a love-hate thing for them. But if I am being complete…
On Friday 11 September 2026, theatre and film director Anthony Page died aged 90 at Denville Hall, a residential care home for all in the performing arts industry. A charming, serious and mo…
Interview: West End performer Cameron Bernard Jones and composer-pianist Guillermo Nazara return to The Crazy Coqs this autumn with Into the Light The post Interview: Guillermo Nazara & …
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is September 18, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Persona…
New production images have been released for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera as Cameron Mackintosh’s production prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary in the West End …
The full cast has been announced for the world premiere of Nero, the highly anticipated new musical from Tony Award-winning collaborators Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik The post Full Cast Ann…
Home, ManchesterRona Munro’s understated untangling of a fractured relationship is revived with Christine and Lois MackieYou can see why they cast real-life mother and daughter Christine a…
Lindsey Walko talks with Raina Soman and AJ Molder, two of the cofounders of Twenty Somethings, about "Dirty Bird," an adaptation of "The Seagull," written and directed by Whit Flint, playin…
Sol Cabrini reflects on club aesthetics and the sonification of race in the work of 2025 CPR AiR KYLE b.co.
How did I not know this? That question has been following me around this week, especially after seeing Crow’s Theatre’s world-premiere stage adaptation of Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Bala…
At a time when our nation is at war, our country is divided, and common decency is vanishing from our daily discourse, we need experiences which remind us of the potential for good that we…
Actress Elizabeth Marvel and director Lee Sunday Evans’ "The Ford/Hill Project," a docudrama first seen in New York in 2024 which uses the verbatim text of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas S…
