Artistic Director Andrew Upton Sets Departure from Sydney Theatre Company by Adam Hetrick

Andrew Upton, who served as co-artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company along with his wife, Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett – and later assumed sole leadership…

SOURCE: Playbill at 8:45am on February 25, 2015☆⚑

Inside Lady Gaga's "Sound of Music" Performance! Musical Director Stephen Oremus Shares Exclusive De by Adam Hetrick

The day after Lady Gaga set the Internet ablaze with her classical performance of a medley from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music" at the 87th Annual Academy Awards…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55pm on February 24, 2015☆⚑

Illness Continues to Sideline On the Twentieth Century Leading Man by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award-nominated On the Twentieth Century star Peter Gallagher, who fell ill just prior to the Feb. 21 Saturday evening performance – prompting a last-minute cancellati…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26am on February 24, 2015☆⚑

Dark Online Fantasies Have Real-Life Consequences in The Nether, Opening Off-Broadway Tonight by Adam Hetrick

"Nurse Jackie" Emmy winner Merritt Wever leads MCC Theater's New York premiere of playwright Jennifer Haley's award-winning drama The Nether, a futuristic work that exp…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 24, 2015☆⚑

Stephen Schwartz Rarity The Baker's Wife Will Get Brooklyn Staging by Adam Hetrick

Brooklyn's Gallery Players has announced casting for The Baker's Wife, the Stephen Schwartz-Joseph Stein musical best known for producing the driving ballad "Meadowlark,&quo…

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:39pm on February 23, 2015☆⚑

Rob McClure Returns to His High School to Celebrate the Magic at Tonight's Disney Benefit Concert by Adam Hetrick

Rob McClure, who stars in Broadway's Honeymoon in Vegas, returns to New Milford High School for a benefit concert Feb. 23 in New Jersey.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 23, 2015☆⚑

See a Photo of Teenage Lady Gaga in Her High School Production of Guys and Dolls by Adam Hetrick

Before she was an international pop star, Lady Gaga was a New York City high school student with a leading role in a classic Broadway musical.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34pm on February 22, 2015☆⚑

Keith Carradine Will Head West in Lerner and Loewe's Paint Your Wagon for Encores! by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award nominee Keith Carradine and Alexandra Socha will co-star in the New York City Center Encores! staging of the 1951 Lerner and Loewe musical Paint Your Wagon, which will be pres…

SOURCE: Playbill at 6:08pm on February 22, 2015☆⚑

Star Illness Derails Last Night's On the Twentieth Century; Audiences Treated to Impromptu Kristin C by Adam Hetrick

The Feb. 21 evening performance of the Broadway revival of On the Twentieth Century was canceled at 8:05 PM after the show's leading man, Tony Award nominee Peter Gallagher, fell ill.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19pm on February 22, 2015☆⚑

Tuck Everlasting, Starring Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Ends Atlanta Run Is Broadway Next? by Adam Hetrick

The world-premiere engagement of the new, Broadway-aimed musical Tuck Everlasting, written by award-winning songwriters Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, ends its run Feb. 22 at the…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 22, 2015☆⚑

Arthur Miller Drama The Price, Starring Kate Burton and Alan Mandell, Opens in L.A. by Adam Hetrick

The Center Theatre Group revival of Arthur Miller's The Price, starring Tony nominee Kate Burton (Hedda Gabler) and Alan Mandell ("A Serious Man"), officially opens Fe…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 21, 2015☆⚑

Lily Tomlin Is Latest to Join Broadway Backwards LGBT Musical Night by Adam Hetrick

Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning actress, comedian and writer Lily Tomlin will make a special guest appearance as part of the tenth anniversary edition of Broadway Backwards, a one…

SOURCE: Playbill at 2:14pm on February 20, 2015☆⚑

Laura Benanti Lands TV Role as Mom to DC Comics' "Supergirl" by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award winner Laura Benanti, who will be seen in the upcoming Rockettes show New York Spring Spectacular, is heading back to the screen, Deadline.com reports. She's been cast in a re…

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:27pm on February 20, 2015☆⚑

James Corden and Nicole Scherzinger Give Hollywood a Glimpse of Around The World In Eighty Days Musi by Adam Hetrick

Finding Neverland collaborators Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy are at work on their next musical venture for Harvey Weinstein, a stage musical adaptation of "Around the World in Eighty D…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38am on February 20, 2015☆⚑

Skivvies Strip Down Stars from Wicked, Pippin and Matilda Tonight in NYC by Adam Hetrick

Erik Altemus (Pippin), Randy Harrison (Wicked) and Lesli Margherita (Matilda) join the stripped-down musical duo The Skivvies for their Feb. 20 late-night gig at 54 Below.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 20, 2015☆⚑

Streets Hit the Stage in Home Street Home, New Musical by Avenue Q Tony Winner Jeff Marx, Premiering by Adam Hetrick

Home Street Home, a new musical written by Tony Award-winning Avenue Q co-writer Jeff Marx, punk rock musician Fat Mike (NOFX) and writer Goddess Soma, premieres Feb. 20 at Z Space i…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 20, 2015☆⚑

The Golden Apple Like You've Never Heard It Before! Sung-Through Broadway Rarity to Get Live, Full-L by Adam Hetrick

The Golden Apple, the rarely-seen 1954 musical by John Latouche and Jerome Moross that produced the single "Lazy Afternoon," will receive its first-ever, full-length ca…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 20, 2015☆⚑

David Cromer's Angels in America, Starring Claybourne Elder, Takes Flight by Adam Hetrick

Claybourne Elder, seen Off-Broadway in Road Show, Allegro and Broadway's Bonnie & Clyde, stars in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre production of Tony Kushner's Angels in…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 20, 2015☆⚑

"Mr. Lin-Manuel Makes This Really Cool!": Watch Six-Year-Old Critic Iain Armitage's Video Review of by Adam Hetrick

Pint-sized theatre critic Iain Armitage set the Internet ablaze when he began posting YouTube reviews of his favorite DC and Broadway shows. He's back this week with his new review o…

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:26pm on February 19, 2015☆⚑

The Met's 2015-16 Season Includes Bartlett Sher-Directed Otello by Adam Hetrick

The Metropolitan Opera announced details of its 2015-16 season, which will include Verdi's Otello, helmed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, as well as Puccini's Manon Lescaut, …

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46am on February 19, 2015☆⚑

Oklahoma! Will Get Intimate In-the-Round Staging at Bard by Adam Hetrick

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! will be presented in an in-the-round chamber presentation as part of Bard SummerScape's 2015 season. Offerings also include the return of …

SOURCE: Playbill at 4:22pm on February 17, 2015☆⚑

Broadway Elphaba Will Rock Murder Ballad in D.C. by Adam Hetrick

Christine Dwyer, recently seen as Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked, will star in Washington, D.C.'s Studio Theatre production of the rock musical Murder Ballad, which will be…

SOURCE: Playbill at 2:25pm on February 17, 2015☆⚑

"Glee" Star Darren Criss Is Broadway's Next Hedwig by Adam Hetrick

Darren Criss, the young actor who rose to stardom on the Fox musical series "Glee," will be the next actor to step into the role of East German transgender rocker Hedwig in the Bro…

SOURCE: Playbill at 2:00pm on February 17, 2015☆⚑

Hear An All-New Side Show! Download the Revival Cast Album Today by Adam Hetrick

The Broadway revival cast album of Side Show, the emotionally charged musical about the life of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, is released Feb. 17 from Broadway Records. 

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:56pm on February 17, 2015☆⚑

The Secret Garden Will Get Lavish Avery Fisher Hall Concert Staging by Adam Hetrick

The Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden, featuring book and lyrics by Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon, will be the next large-scale Broadway musical to be staged in co…

SOURCE: Playbill at 1:13pm on February 17, 2015☆⚑