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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Getting Ready: Reigning Queen of TikTok, Kelsie Watts, Expands Her Realm at SIX on Broadway by Dylan Parent

The Voice contestant auditioned multiple times over four years before she landed the role of Jane Seymour.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PM

Audience Members Will Hotly Debate the Ethics of AI After Seeing Marjorie Prime by Dylan Parent

June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein, Christopher Lowell co-star in the Pulitzer-nominated family drama about love and loss.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM
Monday, November 24, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: In Everyone Gets Abducted by Aliens, Even the Shyest Students Find Their Voice by Dylan Parent

This Texas middle school theatre program highlights every student's strengths.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PM
Monday, November 17, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: Why These California Students Chose The Laramie Project As Their School Play by Dylan Parent

Dougherty Valley High School students are learning how theatre can powerfully impact a community.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM
Monday, November 10, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: Alex Brightman Hopes Students Putting on Beetlejuice, Jr. 'Keep at It' by Dylan Parent

At a New Jersey youth theatre, every student has a featured moment on stage.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM
Friday, November 7, 2025

Getting Ready: To Play Elphaba, Wicked's Lencia Kebede Wears a Braided Wig Inspired by Cynthia Erivo by Dylan Parent

Broadway’s first full-time Black Elphaba stopped by the Playbill Studio to get greenified with the help of her all-female Green Team.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Playbill Celebrates Broadway's November Birthdays! by Dylan Parent

From a Sondheim witch to the famous painter in the park, Playbill is raising a glass to November's Broadway birthdays.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM
Monday, November 3, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: After 11 Years, This Catholic School Revisits The Dastardly Doctor Devereux by Dylan Parent

This California junior high school is asking students to connect off-screen and on stage.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PM
Monday, October 27, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: Young Performers Love Their This Theatre Program so Much, They Don't Want to Go Home by Dylan Parent

This Illinois program, and its production of Seussical KIDS, is building a supportive, inclusive community.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Video: How Moulin Rouge's Ashley Loren Handles the Life of a Broadway Showgirl by Dylan Parent

She shares her tips for being Broadway's longest-running Satine, while living with Lyme disease.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PM
Monday, October 13, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: Moments of Joy Erupt in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying by Dylan Parent

Home-educated students receive musical theatre training at this North Carolina studio.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Playbill Celebrates Broadway's October Birthdays by Dylan Parent

From a Fair Lady to two Rent stars, Playbill is giving a standing ovation to artists born in the spookiest month.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM
Monday, September 29, 2025

PLAYBILLDER SPOTLIGHT: These High Schoolers Are Letting Loose in the Dark and Quirky Queens by Dylan Parent

Massachusetts high schoolers are learning about Tudor history and theatre-making.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AM
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Video: Jessica Vosk Is in Her 'MILF Era' and Feeling Stronger Than Ever by Dylan Parent

After taking a leave of absence from Hell's Kitchen due to a back injury, Vosk is back and not afraid of running up to strangers on the street.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PM
Monday, September 15, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: 200 Student Dancers Unravel the Mystery of The Secrets in the Suits by Dylan Parent

This Arkansas high school's annual dance show features boys and girls in grades 7 through 12 telling an original story.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PM
Friday, August 22, 2025

3 Musicals—and 2 Surprising Movies—Inspired by Twelfth Night by Dylan Parent

The Shakespearean comedy, which has played out on a soccer field and a motocross race track, again takes the Delacorte stage.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM

5 Musicals and 2 Surprising Movies Inspired by Twelfth Night by Dylan Parent

The Shakespearean comedy, which has played out on a soccer field and a motocross race track, again takes the Delacorte stage.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AM
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

PLAYBILLDER: In Curtain Up for Murder, Kids Are Living to Play Dead by Dylan Parent

At this theatre company, kids of all ages are learning the discipline and creativity that prepares them for life offstage.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PM
Monday, August 4, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: In This Harry Potter Parody, Young People Have Fun and Find Their People by Dylan Parent

The Biz Academy of Musical Theatre provides Avon, Indiana, youths with their first theatre experience.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AM
Monday, July 21, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: At This Wedding, the Bride Walked Down the Aisle to Dear Evan Hansen by Dylan Parent

This couple's dream wedding was on the stage of an actual theatre and featured Playbills.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AM
Monday, July 7, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: Eduard Zahariev and Laura Schmidt's Musical Theatre-Themed Wedding by Dylan Parent

The couple's fur babby Willow served as the "best dog."

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

In Trophy Boys, Gender Is a Performance by Dylan Parent

Following sold-out runs in Australia, Emmanuelle Mattana’s debut play makes its American premiere, directed by Tony winner Danya Taymor.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Video: Eva Noblezada Talks Wedding Planning With Reeve Carney and How Her Sally Bowles Is 'a Hot Mess Wrapped Up in Charm' by Dylan Parent

The Tony nominee applied her makeup for Cabaret while chatting with Playbill.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PM
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Bernadette Peters Responds to Cole Escola's Tony Awards Look With Her Full Chest by Dylan Parent

The Tony-winning Broadway legend, icon, and star took note of the Oh, Mary! writer and star's homage to her at the 78th Annual Tony Awards.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PM
Monday, June 9, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: 40 Teenaged Students Find a Common Language Through Dance by Dylan Parent

This New York Country Day School showcased their dance skills with the help of a professional dance company.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AM
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Playbill Celebrates Broadway's June Birthdays by Dylan Parent

Playbill gives a standing ovation to all the 2025 Tony nominees born in June, as well as other Broadway luminaries.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AM
Monday, June 2, 2025

Wicked Alum Hannah Corneau Is Currently Directing The Wizard of Oz by Dylan Parent

One of Broadway's former Elphabas is taking big swings in her return to Oz.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:48PM
Friday, May 30, 2025

Where Did the 78th Annual Tony Award Nominees Go to College? by Dylan Parent

Find out which colleges and universities have the most alumni among this year's Tony nominees.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PM
Monday, May 26, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: Students Are Enjoying the Challenge in Urinetown by Dylan Parent

This high-ranked magnet school has one of the best theatre programs in the state of Florida.

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM
Monday, May 19, 2025

PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: This High School's Performance of Big Fish Is Prompting Big Tears by Dylan Parent

Theatre is changing the lives of students at this New Hampshire STEM school.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:03PM

Video: Michael Iván Carrier Used to Cover 12 Roles in & Juliet. Now They're Just Focusing on One by Dylan Parent

Broadway's current May gets ready with Playbill, and reveals which Taylor Swift song was cut from the show.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PM

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