Your Sunday Afternoon Zen: Buyi Zama and “The Circle of Life” by Cassie Tongue

The Lion King has been a smash hit production with Australian audiences. It did extremely well in its first run, and now it’s in its second, comfortably touring around Australia and s…

Discovered in Translation: Actor Avi Hoffman Plays a Yiddish-Speaking Willy Loman by Mark Dundas Wood

At age 10 Avi Hoffman (born Avrum Ber, in 1958) made his theatrical debut in a Yiddish Folksbiene Theater production called Bronx Express. In the decades that followed, the performer, a son …

New Society review - Miranda July's nation-building brings on tears by Alexis Soloski

Bam, New YorkThe artist and filmmaker’s immersive theatre piece isn’t as original as it could be – so why were audience members weeping at the end?Nation-building is not easy. It is me…

Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 10/10/2015

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 10102015.

We’re All in This Together: site-responsive theater and time travel in Detroit’s urban gardens by Eleni Zaharopoulos

“All plots are not stories, all stories are not plots...”

Escape the Room challenges players to get out before time is up by Sarah Bryan Miller

Visitors have to solve the puzzle in an hour or less.

Great music, great sentiments and great performances at SLSO by Sarah Bryan Miller

Redemption and hope triumph, along with Beethoven and Wagner.

Cloud Nine by Wendy Caster

Cloud Nine, Caryl Churchill's brilliant riff on sexual politics, colonialism, identity, and love, is receiving an excellent revival at the Atlantic, directed with a sure hand by James Macdon…

Kathleen Turner helms Would You Still Love Me If… about a transgender transition (Review) by Jonathan Mandell

When it was first announced that a cast including Kathleen Turner and Deborah Cox would be performing in an Off-Broadway play about a woman in a lesbian relationship who is secretly transgen…

Photo Flash: Saturday Intermission Pics, 10/10- ON YOUR FEET Snaps First Broadway #SIP, Plus AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and More by BroadwayWorld

It's Saturday, and that means it's time for what has become one of the theatre community's most beloved traditions- BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup

Carol Burnett, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and More Lead A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN CREATIVITY White House/PBS Special by BroadwayWorld

'A Celebration of American Creativity In Performance at the White House' is a PBS music special taped in the East Room of the White House. President and Mrs. Obama will host the all-star mus…

MACBETH (OF THE OPPRESSED) - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Howard Miller

Gender-bending productions of Shakespeare are neither new nor gasp-inducing.

Review: No Beast So Fierce/Oracle Productions by Zach Freeman

The last time that actress Katherine Keberlein and director Max Truax collaborated together, the result was Oracle’s Jeff-Award winning production of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Mother,” w…

Spotlight On...A.D. Penedo by Michael Block

Name: A.D. Penedo  Hometown: NashvilleEducation: Colgate University, BA, Washington College of Law, JD, BMI Lehman-Engle Musical Theater Workshop, ASCAP Musical Theater WorkshopFavorite…

Royal Opera House costume collection - in pictures by Guardian Staff

A Royal Opera House centre opening in Thurrock this week will ensure that opera and ballet stars look the part to perfection Continue reading...

Would You Still Love Me If, Directed by Kathleen Turner….Review, Pics by New York Theater

Now that Would You Still Love Me If… has opened at New World Stages, the decision by Kathleen Turner, a Tony- and Oscar- nominated actress, to invest her time and talents in this unskilled…

London Aisle View: Kidman and Rylance, Stage Door Neighbors by Steven Suskin

Nicole Kidman in Photograph 51. Photo: Johan Persson Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) was a British crystallographer...

Schooled by Sandi Durell

  An old-fashioned romantic triangle with a modern, film-school spin.       By Joel Benjamin   Lisa Lewis’s Schooled, part of the Fringe Encore Series at the Soho Playhouse,..…

STAGE TUBE: Fans and LES MISERABLES Cast Member Compete for HAMILTON CD at #Ham4Ham's First Sing-Along by Stage Tube

Tonight's Ham4Ham featured their first sing-along contest, with three competitors one, Andrew Kober, a ringer from LES MISERABLES, crowd participation and a training session from Lin-Manuel …

Princess Cruises Premieres Stephen Schwartz's New Musical Revue MAGIC TO DO by BroadwayWorld

Princess Cruises raised the curtain on a new musical revue titled Magic to Do, from the Oscar, Grammy and Tony award-winning composer of Wicked, Pippin and Godspell Stephen Schwartz. The sho…

Theatre Review: ‘Bad Dog’ at Olney Theatre Center by Shannon Stiffler

My question is, when is “Bad Dog 2” coming to a theater near me? “Bad Dog,” written by acclaimed writer, Jennifer Hoppe-House and directed by Jeremy B. Cohen is a contemporary show f…

London theatre tickets among the world's most expensive as shows increasingly charge £100 a seat by Paul Gallagher, Paul Gallagher

Survey finds that 80% of theatre-goers are put off attending productions more often over costly tickets

Sutton Foster, Aaron Tveit and a host of stars to come together for Defying Gravity concert in Sydney by Matt Edwards

Producer Enda Markey announced today that Defying Gravity, a concert celebrating the work of acclaimed composer Stephen Schwartz, will premiere at Sydney’s Theatre Royal for two perform…

VIDEO: THE COLOR PURPLE's Cynthia Erivo Sings Jason Robert Brown at Marie's Crisis by Stage Tube

Broadway-bound Cynthia Erivo recently delighted fans and colleagues as she sat at a piano to give a performance of 'I Can do Better Than That' at Marie's Crisis. BroadwayWorld has footage of…

The only way is Essex as Royal Opera House looks east for past and future of its costumes by Vanessa Thorpe

Opera House opens centre of excellence in Thurrock to train a new generation to make the outfits it is world-famous forRoyal Opera House costume collection – in picturesThey embroidered th…

Palm Beach Dramaworks’ Picnic Discovers New Insights in Inge’s Lumbering 1953 Classic by Bill Hirschman

With its novelistic heft, lumbering pace and large cast, the 1953 Picnic is a product of its time. But rather than reproduce a propulsive Picnic for impatient 21st century audiences, Palm Be…

Matilda the Musical will open in Melbourne March 2016 by Cassie Tongue

It’s a miracle! Today the Royal Shakespeare Company, Louise Withers, Michel Coppel and Michael Watt announced that Matilda the Musical will move down to Melbourne’s Princess The…

Review: Twelfth Night (opposite gender), Rose Playhouse by Joe Hodgson

One of Shakespeare’s greatest romantic comedy masterpieces forms the basis of this gender experiment. A company of extremely talented actors rotate four vibrant 90 minute versions of the p…

Review: Immaculate, Tea House Theatre by Franciska Éry

Mia (Laura Dean) is pregnant, and she has no idea how or why. Ever since she broke up with Michael (Colin James), she hasn’t had sex, yet here she is, heavily pregnant. When the angel …

The University of Maryland Wind Orchestra and Concert Choir Perform Anton Bruckner’s ‘Mass in E Minor’ at The Clarice by Emily Schweich

When you think of a 19th century Mass, you might imagine a grandiose piece of music, featuring a large orchestra, lengthy solos and dynamic percussion. Anton Bruckner’s Mass in E Minor, co…

From Stage to Screen and Back Again, Sarah Hyland's Musical Moments by Matt Tamanini

The majority of Americans know Sarah Hyland as Haley, the super-hot oldest daughter of Phil and Claire Dunphey on ABC's hit comedy MODERN FAMILY. But, we theatre fans remember her as young J…

Review: My Mañana Comes/Teatro Vista by Mary Kroeck

RECOMMENDED America is known as the Great Melting Pot. It’s a place where people come to have a better life, dream big dreams and do what they can to help them come true. However, it also …

Review: Blake Remixed, West Yorkshire Playhouse by Adam Bruce

The West Yorkshire Playhouse is renowned for developing new talent and giving artists across the region a wide variety of opportunities. One of the ways they do this is through their Furnace…

Review: Dancehall, Samuel Beckett Theatre by Lisa Carroll

Ireland has an incredibly interesting historical relationship to dance – most notably the 1935 Public Dancehalls Act, which censored Ireland’s social scene based on the fear that uns…

Review: H.M.S Pinafore/The Savoyaires by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom

RECOMMENDED The Savoyaires celebrated their fiftieth anniversary last year. They’ve been doing Gilbert & Sullivan operettas for a long time, and that half century of practice has ensur…

‘Carousel’ at Live Arts Maryland by Wendi Winters

The version of Carousel, with Music by Richard Rodgers and Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, presented in the recently renovated theater of Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in A…

Spencer Liff Talks Challenges and Surprising Advantages in SPRING AWAKENING Choreography by Sally Henry

Choreographer Spencer Liff faces an interesting challenge with his latest Broadway endeavor, choreographing Deaf West's SPRING AWAKENING revival.

I Interview Playwrights Part 797: Sofya Weitz by Adam Szymkowicz

Sofya Weitz Hometown: Los Angeles, CaliforniaCurrent Town: Brooklyn, New YorkQ:  Tell me about LADY. A:  LADY is a play loosely based on Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a powerful wom…

OLD TIMES – Pinter, pregnant pauses and puffs of smoke by Oscar E Moore

A spacecraft named OLD TIMES has landed at the American Airlines Theatre helmed by Douglas Hodge and carrying as its messengers Clive Owen, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly.  Penned by Harold Pint…

The Bird, the Bunny, and the American Avant-Garde

By Kate Dakota Kremer. In this installment of her After-the-Avant-Garde series, Kate Kremer looks at the parallel functions of the prompter in the chicken suit in Nature Theater of Oklahoma�…

The New York Pops – My Favorite Things: The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein ★★★★☆ by David Hurst

Julian Ovenden & Sierra Boggess with Steven Reineke and The New York Pops (Photo: Richard Termine) Carnegie Hall – Isaac Stern Auditorium October 9, 2015 Steven Reineke, Music Dir…

Old Times - It's over before you know what happens by Oscar E. Moore

Your guess as to what it means is as good as mine. Is it the real turtle soup or merely the mock?

Cafecito: Amparo Garcia-Crow

By Regina García, Amparo García-Crow. Regina García interviews playwright Amparo Garcia-Crow about her musical on Gus Garcia, a Mexican-American civil rights leader.

‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at The Arlington Players by Em Skow

I have a confession to make, by the end of The Arlington Players’ production of Little Shop of Horrors, I wanted to feed the plants. With book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan…

Broadway Songbook – The 70s Songbook at The Ordway by Erin Nagel

Over the last six years the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts has explored the songbooks of Sondheim, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein and contemporary composers. This weekend they…

An ENCHANTED Wishlist- What We Want/Need in the Sequel! by TV News Desk

There is still so much to know about the movie, and lots of time to stew about it, so we thought we'd get our official wishlist out to Disney early Read on to find out what we can't live wit…

Crocker Art Museum celebrates anniversary with free admission

Major museum expansion was finished five years ago Events begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, continue with evening event … Click to Continue »

REVIEW: Roaring Trade, Park Theatre ✭✭✭ by Tim Hochstrasser

By Tim Hochstrasser So for all the efforts of the actors to make their characters more rounded and sympathetic this play tells us more about the anger in the air after the events of 2008 tha…

Review: Act Accordingly/Brand New Toys by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom

When I attend a sketch comedy show, I want to walk away having enjoyed myself. I also want to be able to tell people about the sketches that I just saw. You know, in that same sort of way th…

Interview: Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbott on “Imagine Harry”, Part of NAMT’s Festival of New Musicals by Jose Solis

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will hold its 27th annual Festival of New Musicals on October 15 and 16 at New World Stages. We caught up with Jeff Talbott (book/lyrics) and Will V…

REVIEW: Thriller Live, Lyric Theatre ✭✭✭✭ by Danny Coleman-Cooke

By Danny Coleman-Cooke The choreography is by far the strongest aspect of Thriller; it is inventive, exhilarating and almost exhausting to watch. It incorporates the traditional Jackson move…

We Were There: Rasheeda Speaking on ‘Theater Close-Up’ by Jazmine Harper-Davis

On October 1st  at 9 pm, PBS THIRTEEN aired The New Group’s  production of Rasheeda Speaking, written by Joel Drake Johnson. This was a part of the collaboration between the net…

‘Moon Over Buffalo’ at St. Mark’s Players by Jessica Vaughan

St. Mark’s Players mount a hilarious production of the farce Moon Over Buffalo by local playwright Ken Ludwig. This play marked Carol Burnett’s return to Broadway in the ‘90s, and it i…

Adesola Osakalumi Dances Among All-Star Cast Of In Your Arms by Leah Marché

When combining the talents of artists that together have garnered 18 Tonys, four Pulitzer Prizes, six Pulitizer finalist distinctions, three Emmys and two Academy Awards for a musical, the r…

Fondly, Collette Richland by Doug Marino

Well this one was a doozy.  I could spend a few dozen hours down the rabbit hole trying to analyze this wacka-doodle "show" now running at the New York Theatre Workshop . But instead I …

Ripcord by Doug Marino

Old people are usually a funny topic.  And Marilyn Dunn (Marylouise Burke) and Abby Binder (Hollad Taylor) are no exception in David Lindsay Abaire's clever new romp over at Manhattan T…

TWITTER WATCH: HAMILTON's Renee Elise Goldsberry Photographed In Costume Using 1839 Lens by Michael Dale

Renee Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler, using Josh Lehrer's vintage camera lens.

VIDEO: CBS Pittsburgh Goes Backstage With SOMETHING ROTTEN!'s Christian Borle and Recalls High School Days by Michael Dale

The city of Pittsburgh is obviously very proud of its local boy turned Broadway star.

Frank Rich and More Support Petition to Save the Historic Colonial Theatre in Boston by Sally Henry

Emerson College recently turned off the lights at the Colonial Theatre and ceased operations until further notice. Now, the theatre community is doing what it can to save the venue.

STAGE TUBE: James Corden and Stephen Colbert Team up for a Rendition of 'Me and My Shadow' by Stage Tube

Late night hosts Stephen Colbert and James Corden teamed up this week to bring fans a Broadway-style musical number- complete with tight harmonies and dancing Below, watch the pair sing 'Me …

NEWS: Southampton theatre wants you to dress like a Princess for charity by James Lillywhite

A Southampton theatre are calling on budding Elsa’s and Anna’s from across the UK to try and break a world record. The Mayflower Theatre are trying to break the Guinness World R…

First Pics! Laura Osnes, Corey Cott and Beth Leavel Tear It Up in New Musical The Bandstand by Krissie Fullerton

Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes and Tony winner Beth Leavel star with Corey Cott in The Bandstand, a new musical directed and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler beginning previews Oct. 8 at…

Fuse Dance Review: Ids in Captivity by Arts Fuse Editor

Most of the piece was carefully engineered; it seemed more calculated than liberated

Interview with Actress: Cassie Beck by Ted Sod

Ted Sod, Education Dramaturg, spoke to Cassie Beck about her role in The Humans. TED SOD: Where were you born? Where were you educated? When did you decide you wanted to become an actor? CAS…

Review: The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue/Dead Writers Theatre Collective by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED The Dead Writers Theatre Collective focuses on presenting classic pieces in the style and ethos of the period in which they were first produced, and they do so with great verve a…

Photo Coverage: Sierra Boggess, Julian Ovenden & Steven Reineke Celebrate at The New York Pops After-Party by Stephen Sorokoff

The New York Pops celebrated the opening of its 33rd season at an opening night after-party at the Southgate Bar amp Restaurant at the JW Marriott Essex House last night, and Broadwayworld t…

STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 10/10/15- Ben Vereen by Stage Tube

Happy Birthday Ben Vereen On Broadway, Ben Vereen has appeared in Wicked, I'm not Rappaport, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin, Grind, Jelly's Last Jam, and A Christmas Carol. His role in…

Your Guide to Theatre Education: Towson University

By David Dudley. David Dudley interviews Naoko Maeshiba about the opportunities in Towson University’s MFA in Theatre Arts program.

Overheard… Things one never hears @theDesk by Vinnie

Brown: “Thank you. Your guidance and advice have invaluable.” Brown: “You’ve made my trip! Not only getting me the hottest ticket in town, but going above and beyon…

Fuse Book Review: Gore Vidal’s “Empire of Self”—Bitchy, Elegant, Fascinating, and Sad by Helen Epstein

Jay Parini has provided an important slice of literary and cultural history as well as a portrait of a man.

Brian Blessed: ‘Life's greatest danger is not taking the adventure’ by Katie Forster

The actor, 78, on shouting: ‘Gordon’s alive!’, bench-pressing 300lb, and prizing silenceEveryone always wants me to shout “Gordon’s alive!” Inuit have asked me to say it at the N…

The Horror of Edward D. Wood, Jr. by Trav S.D.

Today is the birthday of legendary cinematic auteur Edward D. Wood, Jr. (Read our full article on this amazing individual here).  We therefore devote today’s installment in our Hallwe…

Sara Bareilles Releases Special Lyrics Video of Waitress Tune

As the run of Waitress came to a close at American Repertory Theater, Sara Bareilles (she wrote the show's music and lyrics) put together a special lyrics video of "She Used To Be …

‘The Children’s Hour’ at EgoPo Classic Theater in Philadelphia by Rachel Beecher

As EgoPo Classic Theater’s  Artistic Director Lane Savadove said in his curtain speech, “Women play a bit part of the American canon.” And the 2015-15 season’s theme, “America…

She's Coming Back! Watch the Greatest Hits of WAITRESS Star Jessie Mueller by BroadwayWorld

We can't wait for the Tony winner's big return to the Broadway stage, and to celebrate the news, we've collected some of our favorite Jessie Mueller performances. Check them out below

In The Heights – First Look Gallery by Editorial Staff

By Editorial Staff Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In The Heights opens this week in London on Tuesday 13th October. The show which is now in previews has just announced that it will be …

"Barbecue" is Tasty But Not Truly Nourishing by Broadway & Me

Barbecue, the sly satire that opened this week at the Public Theater, is filled with so many surprises that the ushers won't even hand out programs until the intermission. Which makes it a b…

Andrew Pugsley: ‘Showstopper is unique and terrifying’ by Georgia Snow

Having performed in improvisational comedy groups and later training in musical theatre, Andrew Pugsley kept the two disciplines separate until joining the

Things Your College Theatre Program Didn’t Tell You, Part 1 by Emma Barishman

This spring, I graduated college with a BFA in Musical Theatre. I can sing, I can act, I can sort of dance. I grew so much as a person and an actor while I was at college and I wouldn’t tr…

Boston's Colonial Theater to Become...a Student...

Emerson College has contoversial plans for this historic venue

Bringing Huxley’s nightmare vision bang up to date by Natasha Tripney

“Brave New World is full of incendiary, slippery debates which readily adapt to the stage. But the really powerful confrontation is the one between the

Review: The Tales of Hoffmann (English Touring Opera - tour)

Offenbach's episodic grand opera is a major undertaking for ETO

Les Miserables 30th Birthday Celebrations by Doug Mayo

By Doug Mayo On Thursday evening, Les Misérables celebrated its 30th anniversary with a very special gala performance at the Queen’s Theatre in aid of the Save The Children Syria Children…

Sheffield Showboat Extends By Popular Demand by Doug Mayo

By Doug Mayo The production of Showboat opening at Sheffield Theatre on 10 December 2016 has been extended by a week by popular demand and will now run until 23 January 2016. Sheffield Theat…

Review: Scarborough, Courtyard Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

A teacher-pupil love affair. The premise is not in itself original, however playwright Fiona Evans lays something new on the table that spices things up and shifts the focus to gender: do ou…

BWW's On This Day - October 10, 2015

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 10 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

TWELFTH NIGHT – Rose Playhouse by Caroline Hanks-Farmer

Shakespeare liked to play around with ideas of male and female. From cross-dressing to multiple identities, appearances are never quite what they seem on his stage. So it’s fitting then, t…

SLSO musicians get the (other) score at intermission by Sarah Bryan Miller

There was an important game in St. Louis on Friday evening. There was also an important concert, and the two events overlapped.  

Christine Brewer returns to her beginnings by Sarah Bryan Miller

St. Louis-based soprano and organist Paul Jacobs create new recording, "Divine Redeemer."

Vietnam War sets the stage for touching 'Dogfight'

Musical opens the season at Stray Dog Theatre

Cathedral Concerts opens its season with St. Louis favorites by Sarah Bryan Miller

Soprano Christine Brewer and organist Paul Jacobs have a fine new recording

Simon Lipkin To Play The Lorax At Old Vic by Doug Mayo

By Doug Mayo It has been announced that Simon Lipkin (Avenue Q, Assassins, I Can’t Sing, Rock Of Ages) will play the title role in David Greig’s adaptation of Dr Seuss’s Th…

Theater Review: 'Barbecue'

An uneven, but inventive and entertaining comedy about a drug and alcohol intervention.

STAGE TUBE: PERFECT ARRANGEMENT Cast Talks About Issues Surrounding 'The Lavender Scare' by Michael Dale

Topher Payne's newcomedy is set during a time when the U.S. government sought to identify 'sexual deviants.'

Roark Littlefield and Charles Baran Discuss Their New Play “Elena” by Karin Fazio Littlefield

Elena, a new play by Roark Littlefield, tells one of the strangest true love stories of all time. It will be given two staged readings, both open to the public, at The Medicine Show Theatre …

STAGE TUBE: ALADDIN's Courtney Reed Talks About The Importance of Having Confidence #CourtneyChat, Episode 3 by Michael Dale

Our host reads fans' responses to the question, 'Where do you find confidence'

STAGE TUBE: AMAZING GRACE's Elizabeth Ward Land Shares A Moment of Grace by Michael Dale

'The six year journey of this show has been an honor and aprivilege to be a part of.'

SOMETHING ROTTEN!'s Satirical Series Recalls One More Classic Elizabethan Musical by Michael Dale

In honor of WorldEggDay

'Sense and Sensibility' cast recording released by Morgan Greene

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has announced the release of the cast recording of “Sense and Sensibility,” the world premiere adaptation that opened in the Courtyard Theater in April 2015. …

Ken Dodd is not so tickled as Christmas show is cancelled by Jamie Doward, Home Affairs Editor

Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall refuses Dodd's performance because it was deemed unfunnyComedian Ken Dodd has been forced to abandon plans to hold his annual Christmas show at Nottingham's R…

Navigating to Safe Harbor by Peter Yagecic

On Weds morning, October 7, news broke that the Court o […]

Review: THE CHILDREN'S HOUR by Toby Zinman

Silent Communication Exercise for the Drama Classroom by Lindsay Price

Communication is not just what we say – nonverbal actions play a huge part as well. How we stand, gesture, make eye contact, all of these physical choices communicate. Use this nonverb…

Interviews: Jersey Shore's Vinny Guadagnino Bridges the Gap Between Club and Stage in That Bachelorette Show!

The reality TV star forges an acting career while partying with his grandma.

Theater News: A Number Set to Play at New Repertory Theatre

The show begins performances tonight at the Charles Mosesian Theater.

Megan Hilty at The Barns at Wolf Trap by Tiffany Draut

It was a “Smash”-ing evening at the Barns at Wolf Trap last night as Broadway and TV star Megan Hilty lit up the stage with some of her signature songs.   Hilty’s vivacious and energe…

P!nk Musical TRUE LOVE Presents Second Workshop Today by BroadwayWorld

Producer Paul Adams and Emerging Artists Theatre present second developmental workshop of the new musical, TRUE LOVE. The musical, formerly called MEAN THE MUSICAL, received its first worksh…

Gavin Lee, Sean MacLaughlin and Sarah Pfisterer Star in Dick Van Dyke Tribute in Danville Tonight by BroadwayWorld

Broadway Pops International BPI proudly announces the casting of DICK VAN DYKE, Put On A Happy Face This special staged concert will take place in Mr. Van Dyke's hometown of Danville, Ill., …

HEDWIG's Rebecca Naomi Jones and More Join Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band at 54 Below Tonight by BroadwayWorld

Following multiple sold out engagements, Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band returns to the intimate Manhattan venue 54 Below tonight, October 10th, to continue an official residence for 2015.

Bronson Pinchot and Rachel York Star in 3-D Theatricals' THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Beginning Tonight by BroadwayWorld

Perfect for the fall and Halloween season, 3-D Theatricals' 3-DT of Orange County willpresent the two-time Tony Award winning musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY,based on the bizarre and beloved famil…

Andrea Martin and Seth Rudetsky Appear at 2015 Fire Island Pines Literary and Theater Weekend by BroadwayWorld

The 8th Annual Fire Island Pines Literary and Theater Weekendwill feature two-time Tony and Emmy Award-winner Andrea Martin slated forBroadway's upcoming produection of NOISES OFFand Emmy no…

King Charles III, Starring Tim Pigott-Smith, Begins Reign Over Broadway by Imogen Lloyd Webber

God save the King! Tim Pigott-Smith and the cast of King Charles III will begin previews on October 10. Directed by Rupert Goold, the Olivier-winning play is scheduled to officially open on …

Real-Life Couple Lily Rabe & Hamish Linklater Reunite in Shakespeare Today by Olivia Clement

Following their on-stage romance in the recent Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline this summer, real-life couple Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater appear together again&…

“There’s A Lot That’s Being Re-Examined,” Says Sara Bareilles on Preparing Waitress for Broadway by Olivia Clement

Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles made her musical theatre debut this year with Waitress, a show bound for an anticipated Broadway opening next spring. As she embarks on a tour for her …

Photo Special: Happy Birthday to Song and Dance Legend Ben Vereen by Joseph Marzullo

Tony award winner Ben Vereen, currently featured in the film Time Out of Mind, celebrates his birthday Oct. 10. Playbill.com takes a look at his career. Happy birthday, Ben!

Playbill Video Week in Review: A Preview of Prince of Broadway, Special Performances From Daddy Long by Mark Ezovski

Prince of Broadway opened rehearsal room doors to offer a peek at the show before it heads to Japan, Megan McGinnis and Paul Alexander Nolan took the stage to perform from Daddy Long Legs, t…

Real-Life Couple Lily Rabe & Hamish Linklater Play Shakespearean Lovers Again Today by Olivia Clement

Following their on-stage romance in the recent Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline this summer, real-life couple Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater appear together again&…

Olivier Award-Winning King Charles III Begins Broadway Reign Today by Robert Viagas

King Charles III, the Olivier Award-winning Best Play that imagines a future in which Britain's current Queen Elizabeth II has passed away and her son, the current Prince Charles, ha…

4 Out of 40: A History Behind the Women Whose Names Are On Broadway Marquees by Sydney Arndt

Out of the 40 Broadway theatres in Times Square, only four marquees are lit with the names of women. Playbill.com offers readers a guide to the history behind these women and the contributio…

Bronson Pinchot and Rachel York Star in Addams Family Mini-Tour by Andrew Gans

3-D Theatricals (3-DT) of Orange County presents the award-winning musical The Addams Family, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by cartoonist Charles …