The nine-time Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon, which opened to raves on Broadway March 24, 2011, celebrates its 1,000th performance Aug. 17 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMThe nine-time Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon, which opened to raves on Broadway March 24, 2011, celebrates its 1,000th performance Aug. 17 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMPulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage takes a cue from Hollywood screwball comedies for her new play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, about an African-American maid and her white movie-star employ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMThe long-running Off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks celebrated its 51st year of performance May 3 at the Snapple Theater Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMThe Théâtre du Châtelet production of Sweeney Todd, starring Rod Gilfry, Franco Pomponi and Caroline O'Connor, began performances April 22 in Paris.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMThe nominees of the 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards, honoring productions that opened on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off Off-Broadway during the 2010-2011 New York theatre season, received thei…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AMA party was held April 28 to celebrate the addition of Minka Kelly, most recently seen on NBC's “Parenthood,” and "Two and a Half Men" star Conchata Ferrell, to the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AMThe New York premiere of Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures, starring Michael Cristofer, Linda Emond, Michael …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMUtilizing elements from a starry reading that was seen in October 2010, Larry Kramer's groundbreaking, emotionally powerful The Normal Heart officially made its Broadway debut April 27 f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMRehearsals have begun for the Signature Theatre Company production of Tony Kushner's The Illusion. The Off-Broadway staging, based on the play by Pierre Corneille, begins May 17 and feat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:06PMThe high-definition film of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Memphis premiered April 25 at the Regal Union Square Theatre in New York. The film will rock cinemas across the country fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMA gala was held to celebrate Time Magazine's "Time 100: The World's Most Influential People" list, which includes 100 "people who most affect our world," April 26…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMMamie Gummer, Hamish Linklater and two-time Tony Award nominee Alison Fraser star in David Ives' new comedy The School for Lies, inspired by Molière's The Misanthrope, which b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMThe starry Broadway revival of John Guare's House of Blue Leaves, helmed by much-in-demand director David Cromer (Adding Machine and Our Town), officially opened April 25 following previ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AMBorn Yesterday, Garson Kanin's 1940s hit comedy about a rough-edged chorus girl named Billie Dawn, who refines herself in the context of a world of politics, greed and corruption, opened…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMJerusalem, British playwright Jez Butterworth's tragicomic play about the indelible inhabitants of a slice of rural England, featuring Tony Award winner Mark Rylance in a performance acc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMFollowing a 2009 London premiere, the disco musical Sister Act was born again in New York City. The retooled Broadway production, featuring a score by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, new direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMHigh, Matthew Lombardo's new play about an addict, an enabler and a sponsor — starring Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner as a flinty Catholic nun who takes a young crystal-meth ab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMThe April 17 performance of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark marked the final chance for audiences to see director-co-creator's Julie Taymor original vision for the musical, which began prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMAndréa Burns, Jessica Grové, Thomas M. Hammond and Josh Davis are the leading foursome of the classic musical Guys and Dolls at the Engeman Theater, which opened April 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMThe touring production of Rain - A Tribute to The Beatles opened April 12 at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. Lief Garrett, Loretta Devine, Megan Hilty and John Lloyd Young were among those i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMThe 22nd annual GLAAD Media Awards were presented April 10 in Los Angeles at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMActor-writer David Greenspan's Go Back to Where You Are, the tale of a chorus boy from the theatre of ancient Greece who travels to modern-day Long Island, opened April 12 at Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMMusic-Theatre Jam, a one-night-only event featuring material from past Music-Theatre Group performances in honor of the organization's 40th anniversary, was presented April 9 at One Arm …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMThe New York Philharmonic presented the final performance of a starry concert production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company — boasting Emmy winner Neil Patrick Harris a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMSupermodel Christie Brinkley made her Broadway debut April 8 as merry murderess Roxie Hart in the long-running revival of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMMaggie Siff of "Mad Men" and Polly Draper of "thirtysomething" star in the Geffen Playhouse world premiere of Jane Anderson's The Escort, a play that "combines t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMAnything Goes, the Cole Porter musical about the lovers, liars and clowns on a transatlantic cruise, opened April 7 in a Broadway revival starring Sutton Foster, Joel Grey, Laura Osnes and C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMA party was held April 4 to celebrate the first major New York revival of Wallace Shawn's Marie and Bruce, presented in a limited Off-Broadway engagement that opens April 5 at The New Gr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMA Moment with You, Second Stage's benefit featuring selections from the theatre company's most memorable musical productions, was held April 4 at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMJohn Kander and Fred Ebb's darkly entertaining look at pre-WWII Berlin, Cabaret, starring Claybourne Elder, Kara Lindsay and Brian Sills, officially opened March 25 at the Kansas City Re…
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