The new Broadway musical adaptation of A Christmas Story, which captures the spirit of the nostalgic 1983 film about a rag-tag American family's frenzied holiday, has broken box-office r…
The track listing has been announced for "Memory and Mayhem," the new live album from two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, which will be released Jan. 15, 2013, by Broadway…
Broadway Records has revealed the songs that will appear on the new live album "Patti LuPone Far Away Places," which was recorded during the two-time Tony winner's extended eng…
Tony Award-winning Light in the Piazza composer-lyricist Adam Guettel will perform a seven-show engagement of favorite and new material at 54 Below in February.
Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Janeane Garofalo and Kristen Johnston will take part in a Jan. 14, 2013, performance of Celebrity Autobiography at Stage 72.
An Ohio high school that fired the woman hired to direct its musicals is reassessing the goals of its drama program after school administrators expressed concerns over a production of the To…
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle has announced the nominees for the 2012 Craig Noel Awards. New musicals including The Scottsboro Boys, Allegiance, Hands on a Harbody and Nobody Loves Yo…
Chasing the Song, the new musical from Tony Award-winning Memphis writers Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, will receive a January staged reading as part of La Jolla Playhouse's DNA New Work…
The single-disc highlights album of Tom Hooper's film adaptation of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Les Misèrables is released digitally Dec. 21.
Michael Laurence, who performed his solo show Krapp 39 at the SoHo Playhouse in 2009, will return to the Off-Broadway venue with Hamlet in Bed, which will begin performances Jan. 16, 2013.
Playbill staffers and contributors share favorite theatregoing memories from the year 2012. Broadway, Off-Broadway, London, cabaret, plays, musicals and more find a place on our subjective l…
Carson Elrod, Jenn Harris and Matthew Saldivar will be part of the Primary Stages 20th anniversary revival of David Ives' All in the Timing, which will begin previews Jan. 23, 2013, at 5…
Robert Petkoff, Margaret Loesser Robinson and Sean MacLaughlin complete the royal love triangle of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, which will begin performances Jan. 22, 2013, at Houston'…
Tony Award winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal) and Wesley Taylor ("Smash") will join Lauren Molina (Marry Me a Little) and Nick Cearley (All Shook Up) of The Skivvies for a Jan. 2…
Far Away Places, the new live album from Tony Award winner Patti LuPone, which was recorded during her acclaimed 54 Below concerts, will now be released Jan. 15, 2013, the Broadway Records l…
Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita, Gabriel Ebert, Lauren Ward and Karen Aldridge will be part of the Broadway premiere of the hit London production Matilda The Musical, which will begin …
Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff will join Tony Award winner Idina Menzel and Kristin Bell for the new Disney animated musical "Frozen," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Stick Fly, Lydia R. Diamond's comedic drama about an affluent African American family who share a shattering weekend on Martha's Vineyard, is being developed for HBO, according to th…
Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba, Claybourne Elder, Katie Rose Clarke and Rob Bartlett will be part of an industry lab presentation of the new musical Beyond the Music, which will take place i…
The Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon, penned by "South Park" writers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and Avenue Q songwriter Robert Lopez, officially opens in Chi…
Veteran Chicago stage actress Kate Buddeke, who appeared on Broadway in the 2003 revival of Gypsy and the 2009 premiere of Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, will take on the role of Mar…
Bowman Wright and Joaquina Kalukango will co-star in Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning play The Mountaintop, which will begin performances Jan. 11, 2013, at the Alley Theatre in Housto…
New Yorkers are having a hard time saying goodbye to Fuerza Bruta, the visually-arresting spectacle that first was announced to end its five-year run on Nov. 10 at the Daryl Roth Theatre. It…
A family of working theatre actors — Timothy Shew, Jane Brockman and Jonathan Shew — speaks with Playbill.com about what daily life is like inside their own showbiz troupe.&…
Grammy and Emmy Award-winning musical director, conductor and arranger John McDaniel has been named the new artistic director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Cabaret and Perfo…