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Fresh-faced "Glee" actor Darren Criss dons the bowtie and two-piece suit of J. Pierrepont Finch in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He is j…
In a segment shown live in Times Square and on CNN, Spider-Man came to the rescue when The Green Goblin took host Anderson Cooper captive and threatened to drop the ball prior to midnight.
The North American tour of Green Day's American Idiot, currently in Toronto, dropped by CityTV's "New Year's Bash" to perform a mashup of songs from the musical.
The Broadway at Birdland concert series presented the return of Godspell's Lindsay Mendez and musical director Marco Paguia Jan. 2, 2012, at the famed jazz venue.
Matt Shingledecker, currently starring as Roger in the Off-Broadway production of Rent, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
The new North American tour of American Idiot, the Broadway rock musical based on the Green Day album, officially debuted Dec. 28 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts in Ontario, Canada.
Striking 12, the holiday-set concept-concert musical by members of the pop trio GrooveLily and Tony Award-winning librettist Rachel Sheinkin, returned to New York City for a Dec. 26-31 engag…
Scott Siegel's Broadway Hootenanny concert series continued Dec. 29 at Feinstein's at Loews Regency in Manhattan.
To close out 2011, we offer a look back at the Playbill Covers for the 42 new productions to bow on Broadway this year.
Mel Sagrado Maghuyop, fresh from his acclaimed performance in Miss Saigon, is back at Philly's historic Walnut Street Theatre starring in The King and I.
John Lithgow, who originated the role of Rene Gallimard in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, visited the cast of Hwang's Chinglish at Broadway's Longacre Theatre on Dec. 27.
"Glee" star Darren Criss will take a field trip from the Dalton Academy in early 2012 to star in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed With Business Without Really Trying for…
The new Disney stage musical Newsies, which recently had a critically acclaimed world premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, will get a limited Broadway engagement March 15-June 10,…
Erin Davie and Ron Bohmer star in Repertory Theatre of St. Louis upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park With George, set to begin performances Jan.…
Playbill.com offers a backstage look at Drury Lane Theatre's new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, starring Larry Adams, Patti Cohenour and Jennifer Blood.
Tony Award-nominated Rent star Adam Pascal, who created the role of Roger in that Pulitzer Prize-winning production, joined the Tony-winning musical Memphis Oct. 25 at the Shubert Theatre.
Jennifer Lim, currently starring in David Henry Hwang's Chinglish on Broadway, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
It was another busy year on The Great White Way. A total of 42 different shows, a mix of plays, musicals, concert evenings and one-person productions, celebrated their opening nights on Broa…
We sorted through countless images from the past year in theatre and came up with an album that stirs the memory.
The acclaimed production of Sleep No More, which has been luring New Yorkers into its haunted world since April, continues into the New Year at the McKittrick Hotel.
The Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, starring four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, began previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatre Dec. 17.
The Broadway premiere of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, his three-actor play about an expressive, inspirational South African artist — and the forces that wish to quiet her and …
Bay Area native Alex Brightman (Broadway's Glory Days and Wicked) is currently home for the holidays, starring as Dickon in TheatreWorks' production of The Secret Garden.
Composer-lyricist Bobby Cronin, whose musical Daybreak was just named the winner of the eighth annual New Jersey Playwrights Contest, celebrated the holidays with Bobby Cronin and Friends De…
Julia Mattison was joined by several of her Godspell co-stars for A Violent Holiday Extravaganza! Dec. 19 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.