'Great Kills' by Tom Diriwachter is a darkly comic tale of a get-rich-quick scheme in Staten Island that goes awry. Theater for the New City TNC will present the play's debut run March 26 to April 12, featuring…

The song was cut from the 'Into the Woods' movie, but you can watch it now!        

Watch Streep perform a new Stephen Sondheim song called 'She'll Be Back.' It's good!        

Reinventing its business model for long-term growth, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center NJPAC has announced the creation of a cutting-edge broadcast solutions package, and a significant expansion of in-house…

To Helen Mirren’s many roles, add Broadway fairy godmother, as Cherry Jones discovered when she was starring in in The Heiress, back in 1995. “I was in the shower at the Court Theater, for The Heiress.…

Academy Award nominee Diane Lane and Tony nominee Tony Shalhoub return to the New York Stage in Bathsheba Doran's The Mystery of Love & Sex, which officially opened Off-Broadway March 2 at Linco…

Deadline writes that BRIGHT STAR book writer and legendary comedic actor Steve Martin has signed on for Ang Lee's upcoming film BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK.

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We're goin' courting Take a look backstage with Carver Duncan Caleb and Corinne Munsch Sarah of the National Tour of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' In Episode 5, 'Twitter Questions Alice's Adventure,' Carve…

A Nellie McKay Barnes amp Noble event is happening

Slow Burn Theatre Company gives the perennial favorite The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as excellent a production as we’ve seen of it, hitting the perfect balance between the hilarious and poignant,…

The Atlantic Theater Company turns 30 this year! Click for photos from the spring gala at the Pierre Hotel on March 2, 2015.

Yesterday Thomas Cott tweeted two articles taking a Pro and Con view of the value of arts degrees. The first talked about how you don’t have to appear on Broadway to have derived value from your theater d…

Harlem Stage is pleased to present the world premiere of Notes of a Native Song, a new work by Tony and Obie award-winning playwright, singer-songwriter Stew Passing Strange, co-composed with his long-time coll…

CYMBELINE, a film by Michael Almereyda, opens in theaters and on demand on March 13, 2015.

Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson's new musical INVISIBLE LIFE is coming to the Apollo Theater this summer. Presented by Proteus E2 Productions, the show will begin Thursday, June 25 for a limited run through Ju…

Signature in the Schools, Signature Theatre's flagship education program, presents the world premiere production of Veni, Vidi, Vici, written by writerdirector and Signature Theatre's Resident Director of New W…

John Cameron Mitchell returns to his most famous role

Look What Happened to Mabel Jerry Herman's beloved score explodes onto the stage of 54 Below in this one night only musical extravaganza. Tap Your Troubles Away when some of Broadway and cabaret's finest regale…

Actresses including Juliet Stevenson, Ann Mitchell and Meera Syal have spoken out about the prospects for older women in the performing arts

Click for photos from the official opening night of The Mystery of Love & Sex on March 2, 2015 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre.

According to the New York Post, Cirque du Soleil is looking for a permanent home in New York City and could be the Lyric Theatre's next resident company, after Broadway's ON THE TOWN closes.

                by: Brian Scott Lipton   The Atlantic Theater Company held its landmark 30th Anniversary Gala on Monday, March 2 at the Pierre... The post Atlantic T…

Fitting the Canadian Opera Company's Semele into the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Gilman opera house required technical ingenuity.

Threading my way through a snowy Times Square Tuesday, I came across a pitiable sight: A lone young man, dressed as sailor, trying to pass out discount fliers for the...

  Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, March 3, 2015    Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter –  http://twitter.com/BBBway @MTC_NYC announces world premiere of Simon Stephens…

The Sarah Siddons Society's Artistic Director, Dominic Missimi, announced plans to bestow on Jessie Mueller the organization's prestigious Actress of the Year Award. Ms. Mueller won a Tony award in 2014 for her…

Beautiful Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller will be honored in her hometown of Chicago with the Sarah Siddons Society's Actress of the Year Award. The April 27 evening promises several stand-out musical …

Two-time Tony nominee Laura Osnes Ella in CINDERELLA, Bonnie in BONNIE AND CLYDE spent 3.5 hours working with 16 lucky students at Manhattan's award-winning acting studio for kids and teens, A Class Act NY on S…

Yesterday was the first rehearsal of THE 39 STEPS, which will be returning to New York City starting April Fools' Day at the Union Square Theater. The production will officially open on April 13. Scroll down fo…

A first peek at the unveiling of WAITRESS THE MUSICAL showstoppers

The co-creator of "Seinfeld" and the creator and star of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Larry David is known to TV audiences for creating hilarious and often outrageous comedy built upon the mu…

The stage play features four actors playing dozens of roles.

All signs are pointing to...

Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today. NBC Taps Nicole Scherzinger We're all hoping that Nicole Scherzinger will reprise her acclaimed star turn in London’s Cats revival …

Broadway.com ventured to Brooklyn restaurant Lobo, where playwright Robert Askins moonlights as a bartender, to hang out (and get drunk) with the cast of the possessed puppet comedy Hand to God.

Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E Newhouse, New YorkAn actor with a face built for discontent animates a drama about a young interracial couple whose family keep butting into their low-watt romance Continue…

The Old Red Lion’s black box space has been transported to an uncertain and confining 1984 Leeds pub. I feel claustrophobic as the tiny space is made tinier by oppressive walls of corrugated iron and out of t…

Taking inference from Ben Okri’s novel The Famished Road, Benji Ried brings his 2007 show Mr Sole Abode to Shoreditch Town Hall. Constituting a brief insight into the solipsistic and fabricated world of Sole,…

Adapted from her own book of the same title, Soho Theatre welcomes Sarah Cameron’s The Red Chair into the throng, in all its linguistic richness. A delectable, albeit overlong, flowing monologue, Cameron comb…

It is a grim reality, rarely acknowledged in our everyday lives, that most of us have little idea of where our food comes from. Each time a video surfaces that demonstrates the horrific slaughter of a squad of …

Glitterland is a country where the politicians perform daily. It is an act in which they deny their corruption, and an act in which they must present themselves as perfect citizens of a “wonderful world”. O…

A star is born: With the run at the Public Theater sold out and arrival on Broadway this summer assured, the producers of Hamilton unveiled their striking new logo for the show. Striking because Miranda, the u…

On the heels of Broadway actress Krysta Rodriguez's announcement that she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, a Playbill reader shares his story about living with lung cancer and the healing power o…

Behind the songs of FINDING NEVERLAND

The 2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize was awarded to Tena Stivicic for her play 3 Winters yesterday, March 2, in a celebration hosted by New York's Playwrights Horizons. Scroll down for photos from the ceremony

The completely original new musical comedy Something Rotten, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, will begin previews Monday, March 23 and officially open …

“The Nomad,” from Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney, follows the journey of a Western woman who finds freedom posing as a man in North Africa.

Virginia's Signature Theatre presents the world premiere production of Kid Victory, a new musical from legendary composer John Kander Chicago, Cabaret and acclaimed playwright Greg Pierce Slowgirl. The producti…

In advance of the inaugural Eudora Welty Biennial, which opens in Jackson, Mississippi, 92Y's Unterberg Poetry Center presents a dramatic reading of Asphodel, a story of three women visiting a country estate in…

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Tony Award winning playwright Terrence McNally Love Valor Compassion, Master Class, Kiss of the Spider Woman is the latest featured artist in The Creative Faces Project an evolving portrait and interview collec…

Bring home the hilarity of Larry David's Broadway smash

Peter Pan will not fly at Lincoln Center after all

With a decades-spanning career and an unmatched list of accolades including Kennedy Center Honors and Tony, Grammy, and Drama Desk awards, Broadway icon Barbara Cook is beloved for her legendary performances in…

Six photos from this month's theatrical goings-on in the West End.

Theatre 167 shows us a week in the life of a beloved Upper West Side church.

The famed Broadway composer collaborated with Greg Pierce on the Signature Theatre world premiere.

The Croatian playwright has won the biggest and oldest prize for female playwrights.

Theatre for a New Audience has announced that due to popular demand, performances of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' widely acclaimed play An Octoroon will be extended. Originally scheduled to close Ma…

Firstly, I was so glad to see so many children and young people at the performance, albeit brought by their wealthy parents. The Magic Flute still reigns as the first pick for an introduction to the art form, a…

Anticipation is high for the official Broadway opening of Larry David's Fish in the Dark. Here's a video teaser.

We’ve got a new friend playing singer-songwriter Carole King in the hit musical Beautiful: Broadway alum Chilina Kennedy! The new star will step in to play the Grammy-winning legend beginning March 7 at t…

Boundary-busting troupes like the Civilians, Pig Iron and Native Voices have staged plays in partnership with---and in counterpoint to---the art on the walls.

The beloved film adaptation of The Sound of Music celebrated its 50th anniversary March 2! Here are some of our favorite Marias.

In the dark about Fish in the Dark, Larry David’s new Broadway comedy about two brothers struggling to deal with the death of their father, which opens on March 5th at the Cort Theater. Here is a 28-secon…

Tony Yazbeck, star of the acclaimed Broadway revival of On the Town will return to 54 Below for a solo show called The Floor Above Me, an evening of tenor melodies and tap dancing.

Advances in technology have expanded the possibilities for special needs students who stage an annual theater production at Blaine High School.

Ms. Henley’s play, in a revival by the Actors Company Theater, is a rare western in which women are the stars.

New World Stages experienced a bit of a British invasion this winter when CHURCHILL came to town, following its run at Chicago’s Greenhouse Theater Center.

Sam Underwood, currently starring in FOX's "The Following," will make his solo show debut March 14 at 54 Below with A Second Impression.

SWEET Adapted from an anthology of poetry by Edgar Lee Masters, writer and director Maureen Lucy O’Connell blends the poet’s words with traditional songs to create a show that will tug at your heart…

Dame Maggie Smith in a fabulous new role

A three-act, three-hour play set in Antarctica? At this point in this particular Chicago winter, it is hard to imagine an onstage prospect with less commercial potential. Even this critic — who had had a day …

The fascinating journey of Benjamin Scheuer’s The Lion — There’s an old theatre adage that a show doesn’t really become itself until it’s had several productions. For proof, just l…

  Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce Manhattan Theatre Club will produce the world premiere of Heisenberg, the new play by two-time Olivier Award …

Juliette Binoche as Antigone, a Brazilian 'Oliver Twist' by Karen Zacarias and a women's voices festival anchor the Kennedy Center's theatrical season

Broadway In Chicago's 2015-2016 season will feature three Tony Award winners: "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," the revival of "Cabaret," and "Matilda The Musical." Also on the schedule are "If/Then," "…

TV's Larry David (he created "Seinfeld" along with Jerry Seinfeld and created and starred in "Curb Your Enthusiasm") makes his Broadway debut in Fish in the Dark, a play he also wrote. T…

A sneak peek of Broadway-bound AN AMERICAN IN PARIS