Friday, January 15, 2016
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, the Tony Award and Pulitzer-winning songwriters behind Next to Normal and If/Then, have penned a new song for the Fox musical event Grease: Live, which will hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMTom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, the Tony Award and Pulitzer-winning songwriters behind Next to Normal and If/Then, have penned a new song for the Fox musical event Grease: Live, which will hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMThursday, January 14, 2016
Promising "the most progressive technology ever seen on Broadway," Nerds, the new musical about tech giants Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, has booked Broadway's Longacre Theatre fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMWednesday, January 13, 2016
Nick Rashad Burroughs (Kinky Boots) and Marisha Wallace (Something Rotten!) will join forces for an encore performance of Baptized By Broadway Jan. 14 at Feinstein's/54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMWednesday, January 6, 2016
A foursome of funny girls turn all Noises Off backstage at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre to ensure that no one drops a line. Moments before a matinee, they take a trip down memory…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
Seven years ago, Laura Bell Bundy was conquering New York's theatre scene (playing the best of Broadway's blonde-haired divas), but she hasn't been back since. To her, being …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 3, 2016
Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Thérèse Raquin, featuring a new adaptation by Helen Edmundson, based upon the novel by Émile Zola, ends …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAfter winning the Oscar for her performance as Effie White in the film adaptation of Dreamgirls, it was only a matter of time before Jennifer Hudson would grace the Great White Way. Well, sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 1, 2016
Grammy Award winner Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole who was to make her Broadway performing debut in the summer of 2014 with the Jazz Age musical revue After Midnight…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PMMonday, December 28, 2015
The Tony Award-nominated musical revue Smokey Joe's Café, featuring the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, will return to New York City, according to an Equity castin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19PMSunday, December 27, 2015
Disaster! will strike in the New Year (and, by disaster, we mean the new Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick musical). We asked the cast to share their New York City war stories. Find out why Ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMSaturday, December 26, 2015
Senator Charles E. Schumer commemorated the long sought-after federal change in the tax law that directly benefits Broadway earlier this week, and he said that the tax package (signed in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, December 25, 2015
Cynthia Erivo is here… to stay. She received raves for her performance as Celie in the London-born Broadway revival of The Color Purple and already has her eye on the future. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, December 24, 2015
Get out your sharpies and selfie sticks as the first-ever Broadway-themed convention takes the town next month! We catch up with BroadwayCon creators Anthony Rapp and Meliss…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNow that you've seen the film, we look back to last year — when the magical forest of "Into the Woods" materialized on screen Christmas Day. Read (or re-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, December 21, 2015
In the below video, the word "deaf" was autocorrected to "dead" when describing the new Broadway revival of Spring Awakening, so the cast imagined what it would be like t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMIn honor of Jewish tradition, we took to the red carpet on opening night of Fiddler on the Roof to ask the show's stars (and star-studded attendees) to decode a few Yiddish …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PMAfter a sold-out developmental production at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Stillwater (the new musical co-written by Tuck Everlasting lyricist Nathan Tysen) will hit Joe's P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMSunday, December 20, 2015
Jon Rua, who understudies Alexander Hamilton in Broadway's Hamilton, makes his debut as the titular Founding Father at the Dec. 20 matinee performance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Bot…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PMJon Rua, who understudies Alexander Hamilton in Broadway's Hamilton, makes his debut as the titular Founding Father at the Dec. 20 matinee performance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Bot…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Shanice Williams was plucked from small-town New Jersey to fly over the rainbow less than two weeks ago in NBC's production of The Wiz Live! After receiving rave reviews for her perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PMEmmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas In Concert, a holiday concert featuring Dames at Sea star Lesli Margherita, is held Dec. 15 at Feinstein's/54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, December 11, 2015
Broadway was decked out in shades of purple last night in celebration of the opening-night performance of The Color Purple, starring Cynthia Erivo and Jennifer Hudson. So, we took to the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMIs there more than just one kind of "Broadway Body?" In an industry that pressures performers to fit a certain "look" comes the new musical Gigantic, where stars of size …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, December 10, 2015
The upcoming national tour of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret has announced that it will co-star Randy Harrison ("Queer As Folk," Wicked) and Andrea Gross, a cast member of the re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
For over three years, theatre lovers on Twitter have been stumped. Who is Annoying Actor Friend (@Actor_Friend), the person behind the account that has not only made actors laugh, but also s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, December 8, 2015
This week's look into the life of Seth Rudetsky takes readers behind the scenes of Disaster!'s photo and commercial shoot and recounts the wish he told Audra McDonald this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:07PMMonday, December 7, 2015
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas In Concert, a holiday concert featuring Dames at Sea star Lesli Margherita, will be held Dec. 15 at Feinstein's/54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMThe Skivvies, the twosome (Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina) known for performing in their underwear, got into their pajamas for Lin-Manuel Miranda. They joined him for an Outkast medley a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:43PMEveryone was invited to join the band last night! We took to the School of Rock – The Musical red carpet to ask its stars (and star-studded audience) to show …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMLin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton and the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home are among the nominees for the Best Musical Theater Album Grammy Award. Nominations were announced Dec. …
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