Musical collaborators Elton John and Bernie Taupin have been named the 2013 recipients of the Johnny Mercer Award, which will be presented in New York City June 13 during the Songwriters Hal…
Filipino political leaders Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos take center stage in the new David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love, an immersive 360-degree theatrical experience, which begin…
Tony Award-winning actress Elaine Stritch, a celebrated icon of the stage and New York City itself, performs her final engagement at the Café Carlyle beginning April 2. The octogenari…
Tony Award-nominated composer Andrew Lippa will star as late gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk in his new oratorio I Am Harvey Milk, which will receive its world premiere with the San Francisco…
San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater has announced two additional productions for its 2013-14 season, including Academy Award nominee David Strathairn in Underneath the Lintel a…
Tony Award nominee Austin Pendleton, who is directing the New York premiere of Robert Brustein's The Last Will, has stepped into the leading role of Elizabethan playwright William Shakes…
Orlando Bloom ("The Lord of the Rings") and Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad (Stick Fly, The Trip to Bountiful) will be the star-crossed lovers of a new Broadway revival of Romeo …
Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim has been named the 54th recipient of the MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement, according to the New York Times.
Academy Award winner Tom Hanks portrays late Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mike McAlary in the Broadway premiere of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, a fast-paced drama that takes audiences int…
Two-time Tony Award-winning actress Patti LuPone works with aspiring performers from across the U.S. in the April 1 episode of the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary series "Masterclass.&qu…
In the new series Playbill Video Week in Review, Playbill.com recaps its weekly coverage of Broadway performances, celebrity interviews, web series and opening nights – in case they we…
The Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' 1955 family drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker as a couple grappling with ghosts o…
MCC Theater's New York premiere of Paul Downs Colaizzo's college-set drama Really Really, starring Matt Lauria, Zosia Mamet and Evan Jonigkeit, ends its Off-Broadway run March 3…
The Vandal, a new dark comedy by actor-playwright Hamish Linklater, ends its return week-long engagement at the Flea Theater March 30.
Rafe Spall is in final negotiations to star alongside Daniel Craig and Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz in a Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's three-person drama Betrayal, according t…
Whitney Bashor, Damon Duanno and Michael McCormick will be part of the Dallas Theater Center staging of Fly By Night, a new musical about the New York City blackout of 1965, which will begin…
Asmara Songsang (Abnormal Desire), a new anti-gay propaganda stage production about the perceived dangers associated with the LGBT lifestyle, is currently touring schools and universities in…
Tony Award winners Alan Cumming, Frances McDormand and Cynthia Nixon are among the actors who read the work of "Tales of the City" novelist Armistead Maupin in a new audio book ser…
Catch Me If You Can and "Les Misérables" film star Aaron Tveit will play a four-performance solo engagement at 54 Below in May.
Rebecca Naomi Jones, Adam Chanler-Berat and Janet Dacal will be part of Broadway Unplugged, a concert of acoustic contemporary Broadway music, beginning March 29 at the South Miami Dade Cult…
Jenny Sterlin and Brendan Titley will portray the hospital staff who keep watch on Tony and Olivier Award winner Alan Cumming in his one-man production of Macbeth, which begins Broadway prev…
Tony, Academy and Olivier Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has penned a new radio play based on the landmark Pink Floyd album "The Dark Side of the Moon," according to the BBC.
The Thomas Meehan-Martin Charnin-Peter Sipos musical Robin Hood, which premiered in an earlier incarnation at the Village Theatre in Washington State, will receive a New York staged reading,…
A Great Wilderness, a new play by Samuel D. Hunter about a Christian camp that seeks to treat young gay men, will receive a staged reading as part of the 32nd Annual William Inge Theatre Fes…
Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Tuck Everlasting songwriters Nathan Tysen and Chris Miller will be part of broadwayUNLOCKED, a benefit for the Crime Victims Treatment Center, April 22 at The Greene…