Magic/Bird, Eric Simonson's drama about the rivalry and friendship of basketball heroes Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, begins previews at Broadway's Longacre Theatr…
The cast of Prince of Broadway, the Broadway musical retrospective of shows directed by Harold Prince, will star Tony Award winner Linda Lavin, Sebastian Arcelus, Sierra Boggess, Daniel Brea…
Playbill's weekly overview, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the creation of a new Broadway musical. Here's a lo…
Suzzanne Douglas has joined the cast of the world-premiere musical In This House by Two River Theatre Company in Red Bank, NJ. Douglas replaces Brenda Pressley as Luisa Arden for the run, no…
Re-Animator: The Musical, Standing On Ceremony, Small Engine Repair, Bring It On choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and solo performer Charlayne Woodard's The Night Watcher are among…
Dana Rowe and John Dempsey, the writers of the musicals The Fix and The Witches of Eastwick, have crafted a new pop-rock musical called Brother Russia, about the life and times of Rasputin, …
The Bruce Hornsby-scored musical formerly known as SCKBSTD has been retitled Stranger, and appears March 20 in the Developmental Reading Series of York Theatre Company in Manhattan. Lance Gu…
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for excellence for work produced or presented in 2011 in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County will be handed out March 19. Among the nomi…
Once, the new stage musical based on the Oscar-winning film about an Irish singer-songwriter named Guy, who meets a muse in the person of a Czech immigrant named Girl, opens at Broadway'…
It's not as though Steve Kazee never played a principal role on Broadway, so why does it feel like only now, with the Broadway musical Once, that he's making his Big Breakthrough?
The cast of the film musical "Les Misérables" will feature "Borat" star Sacha Baron Cohen as Thenardier, U.K. Oliver! actor Daniel Huttlestone as child-hero Gavroc…
Tony Award nominee Timothy Jerome, Anika Larsen, Becca Ayers, Charlie Brady and more will perform in a March 16 Manhattan reading of Baby Case, the Barrymore Award-winning musical fantasia a…
Team StarKid, the company behind the popular internet musical parody A Very Potter Musical, unveils its new spoof — the comic-book-inspired Holy Musical B@man! — March 16 wi…
The couch of Off-Broadway's Freud's Last Session gets two new occupants — George Morfogen as Freud and Jim Stanek as C.S. Lewis — beginning March 16 at New World Stages. …
The New York premiere of Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's solo-actor play An Iliad, based on Homer's "Iliad" translated by Robert Fagles, will get an extra week at New …
David Strathairn, the Academy Award nominee for "Good Night, and Good Luck," will play the imposing Dr. Sloper, father of the title character in Broadway's new production of Th…
Des McAnuff, the Tony Award-winning director whose embrace of rock musicals has been passionate over the years, is writing and directing a new musical called Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,…
Des McAnuff, the Tony Award-winning director whose embrace of rock musicals has been passionate over the years, is writing and directing a new musical called Yoshimi and the Pink Robots, whi…
Jessica Love plays Anna Christie, the estranged prostitute daughter of a crusty sailor in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, opening March 15 following previews from March…
Hunter Foster and Rick Crom's satiric musical treatment of the criminal lives of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow has a cast — and a new title — for a new Atlanta-area producti…
The Single Girls Guide, the new musical about a swinging-'60s advice columnist, will get a developmental workshop reading through ASCAP in Manhattan on March 26.
Postponed from the current season, Rebecca the Musical will open this fall at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway, producer Ben Sprecher announced on the musical's Facebook page March 14.
Academy Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award nominee James Cromwell ("Babe," "L.A. Confidential," "The Queen," "Six Feet Under") is Pozzo in Mark T…
Playbill's weekly overview, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC series "Smash," about the people behind the creation of a new Broadway musical. Here's …
Kathleen Turner will bring her performance as a salty nun in Matthew Lombardo's High to Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre May 8-13. Since its short life on Broadway in spring 2011, t…