Tony Award winner Billy Porter has extended his run with the Tony-winning hit musical Kinky Boots, while Tony-nominated co-stars Stark Sands and Annaleigh Ashford will depart the musical in …
The Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare Unit production of Much Ado About Nothing officially opens Off-Broadway Dec. 3 after previews that began Nov. 25.
Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster will join Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale in the Broadway production of the new Jason Robert Brown musical The Bridges of Madison County, which begins…
Houdini, the upcoming musical starring Hugh Jackman (The Boy from Oz, "Wolverine") as the legendary illusionist, is aiming for a 2015-16 Broadway arrival.
The studio soundtrack companion to the NBC broadcast of The Sound of Music Live!, featuring Carrie Underwood, Audra McDonald and more, is released Dec. 3 from Sony Masterworks.
American Psycho, the new musical by Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik and playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, based on the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel, begins its Lon…
Phoebe Panaretos will co-star in the stage premiere of Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom, which will begin performances March 25, 2014, at the Lyric Theatre in Sydney, Australia.
Wicked's Dee Roscioli will join The Haus of Mimosa, featuring actors Travis Barr and Steven Incammicia, for a special Dec. 4 late night holiday show at 54 Below.
The Hartman Group, the theatrical press agency founded by Michael Hartman in 2009, will shut its doors in early 2014, the veteran press agent announced Dec. 2.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running, Tony Award-winning musical Cats may receive its cinematic debut. The composer revealed that Universal Pictures is considering a film adaptation, accor…
Tony Award-winning dancer Donna McKechnie will sit with Tony-winning choreographer Jerry Mitchell for In Good Company, a special conversation, Dec. 9 at Birdland.
Additional casting has been announced for playwright-actor Charles Busch's The Tribute Artist, which will premiere Off-Broadway at Primary Stages in January.
Music Theatre International has obtained worldwide licensing rights for the 1954 Broadway classic Peter Pan, featuring a score by Morris Charlap, Julie Styne, Carolyn Leigh, and Betty Comden…
Keith Kupferer and Erin Burniston will join Tony Award nominee Louise Pitre in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of Gypsy, which will begin performances in February 2014.
Megan Sikora will star as Sally Bowles in the Marriott Theatre production of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, which will begin performances Jan. 15, 2014, in Lincolnshire, IL.
The artists involved in the NBC broadcast of The Sound of Music Live!, including Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, Christian Borle and Laura Benanti, share some of their "Favorite Things…
The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Terence Rattigan's classic drama about family loyalty, The Winslow Boy, starring Tony Award winner Roger Rees and Academy Award n…
Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn, filmed live during the award-winning actress' concerts at the Barclays Center last fall, airs nationwide at 9 PM ET on PBS' "Great Performanc…
Tony Award nominees Phillip Boykin and Carolee Carmello join Cheyenne Jackson and Julia Bullock for an evening of classic songs from Broadway musicals Nov. 29 at Carnegie Hall.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Playbill.com reached out to members of the New York theatre community, including actors, musicians, writers, producers, ushers, front of house and backstage cr…
Alexandra Socha, who originated the role of Medium Alison in the Public Theater's acclaimed new musical Fun Home, has departed the production. Actress Emily Skeggs succeeds her in the ca…
NBC airs a behind-the-scenes special about the making of The Sound of Music Live! Nov. 27 at 8 PM.
The newly re-imagined U.S. tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, starring Mark Campbell and Julia Udine, launches Nov. 27 in Providence, RI.
All The Way, the new political drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, which stars Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson, will open on Broadway at…
PS Classics will record the critically acclaimed production of the Jeanine Tesori-Lisa Kron musical Fun Home, based on the graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, which is currently playing a…