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Broadway gets a new look at Catfish Row, with fresh dramatic perspective and a cast boasting Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald, in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, which officially opened on B…
Constantine Maroulis, Nancy Opel and Mara Davi will star in the Alley Theatre production of The Toxic Avenger, the 2008 rock musical by Tony Award-winning Memphis writers Joe DiPietro and Da…
Cynthia Nixon returned to stage Jan. 5 in the Broadway debut of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Playbill.com offers a look back at her theatrical career thus far.
Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Helen Mirren and many more stars of stage and screen attended the National Board Of Review Awards Gala Jan. 10 at Cipriani in Manhattan.
Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway production of Margaret Edson's Wit — the Pulitzer Prize-winning title's Broadway debut — begins performances Jan. 5 at the Samu…
David Cross, Michael Shannon, Carey Mulligan, Seth Rogen, Christine Baranski and more took part in the New York Times' TimesTalks series Jan. 5-8.
Jeremy Jordan, who recently finished his run as Clyde Barrow in Broadway's Bonnie & Clyde, will soon be seen in the gospel movie musical "Joyful Noise," which hits theatres…
Three-quarters of a century after its New York premiere, the iconic American opera The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess returns to Broadway in a refocused production starring Norm Lewis and Aud…
Kerry O'Malley, currently back on Broadway in the revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop-cu…
Rebecca, the musical based on the 1938 Daphne du Maurier literary romantic thriller, will begin Broadway previews March 27, 2012, at the Broadhurst Theatre with Olivier Award nominee Sierra …
Guest artistic director Robert Kimball inaugurates the 92nd Street Y's 2012 Lyrics & Lyricists season Jan. 7-9 with Makin' Whoopee: Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn and the Jazz Age.
Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning drama The Mountaintop, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, celebrated its 100th performance on Broadway Jan. 7.
The 2011 Actors’ Equity Foundation Acting Awards were distributed at a Jan. 6 ceremony held at the Equity Council Room in New York. Nick Westrate, Danai Gurira and Derek Smith were the…
The 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Billy Elliot the Musical, played its final performance on Broadway Jan. 8 at 3 PM at the Imperial Theatre.
The Right Now Freakouts — a new band consisting of American idiot alumni Michael Esper, John Gallagher Jr. and Gerard Canonico — played a free midnight gig at downtown's Rock…
Tony Award winner Lillias White, Tony nominee Veanne Cox and Emmy Award winner Nancy Dussault head the Off-Broadway cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore beginning Jan. 4 at the West Side Thea…
David Henry Hwang's new comedy Chinglish celebrated 100 performances on Broadway Jan. 5.
Ricky Martin, who will return to Broadway later this season in the revival of the Tony-winning Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Evita, will appear on an upcoming episode of the hit Fox s…
Constantine Maroulis, Nancy Opel and Mara Davi will star in the Alley Theatre production of The Toxic Avenger, the 2008 rock musical by Tony Award-winning Memphis writers Joe DiPietro and Da…
"Smash," the new hourlong drama-with-music about the making (and makers) of a Broadway musical, will launch on NBC Feb. 6 at 10 PM ET.
Erin Davie and Ron Bohmer star in Repertory Theatre of St. Louis' production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park With George. Performances begin Jan. 4.
Meet Rock of Ages MVP Tony LePage. Since taking the stage for the first time on April 9, 2011, he has gone on to perform all eight male roles in the show.
Meet Rock of Ages' Tony LePage. Since taking the stage for the first time on April 9, 2011, he has gone on to perform all eight male roles in the show.
"Glee" actor Darren Criss stars as J. Pierrepont Finch in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Jan. 3-22.
Anthony Warlow, Nancye Hayes, Todd McKenney and Chloe Dallimore are among the stars of a new Australian production of the hit musical Annie, which opens in Sydney Jan. 5.