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Ever wonder about the routine of a Broadway actor on one of those grueling two-performance days? Christian Delcroix, currently appearing as Young Buddy in the revival of Follies, offers Pla…
In honor of the 10th Anniversary of Mamma Mia! on Broadway, the Empire State Building was lit blue, pink and white during an Oct. 18 lighting ceremony.
Academy Award-nominated "Social Network" actor Jesse Eisenberg co-stars in the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production of his world-premiere comedy Asuncion, which plays Off-Bro…
The fourth annual Living For Today concert, entitled First Name Basis and hosted by Chris Blisset, was held Oct. 17 at Joe's Pub. Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Aaron Lazar, Janet Dacal and mo…
Vin Knight offers an exclusive backstage look at Elevator Repair Service's The Select (The Sun Also Rises), a dramatic adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's post-war work.
Francesca Faridany, currently playing Countess Antonescu in Roundabout's Broadway revival of Man and Boy, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia a…
The New York Pops kicked off its 29th season with an Oct. 14 Carnegie Hall performance celebrating the music of Irving Berlin.
Relatively Speaking — three one-act comedies by the writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen — plays the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
The first Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell, the rock musical that relates parables of Jesus, began previews Oct. 13 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, with an offic…
Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning drama The Mountaintop, directed by Tony Award nominee Kenny Leon (Fences, A Raisin in the Sun), officially opened at the Bernard B. Jacobs Oct. 13.
The company of Bruce Graham's Any Given Monday celebrated their opening night performance Oct. 12 at Bistro 60. The production plays 59E59 Theaters.
Brent Barrett, Caroline O'Connor, Susan Moniz and Robert Petkoff star in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies.
Manhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere production of Zoe Kazan's We Live Here, a play about a family's buried secrets, desires and grief, directed by Sam Gold, opened …
Sydney James Harcourt, who takes on the role of Rocky in The Rocky Horror Show at the Old Globe, takes Playbill.com on a backstage tour of the San Diego theatre.
Broadway got a new nanny beginning on Oct. 11 when Steffanie Leigh flew into the New Amsterdam Theatre to play Mary Poppins. Coming in from the North American tour, she is making her Broadwa…
Nicky Silver conjures a fractured family — The Lyons — in his new play that opened Oct. 11 following previews from Sept. 22 at Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre.
Andy Karl and Quinn VanAntwerp join the cast of Broadway's Jersey Boys Oct. 11 in the roles of Tommy Devito and Bob Gaudio, respectively.
F. Murray Abraham, Michael Urie and more took part in an Oct. 10 reading of Ben Jonson's Volpone to benefit the Red Bull Theater and kick of the 2011-2012 season.
Tony Award winner Randy Graff, currently appearing in the Off-Broadway production of Motherhood Out Loud at Primary Stages, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, back…
Brent Barrett, Caroline O'Connor, Susan Moniz and Robert Petkoff star in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies.
Three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella stars as internationally-known financier Gregor Antonescu, whose empire is toppling, in Terence Rattigan's 1963 character study, Man and Boy, …
Nicky Silver, chronicler of dark dysfunction in such plays as Raised in Captivity and Pterodactyls, conjures another fractured family — The Lyons — in his new play at Off-Broadw…
The students of NYU Steinhardt’s Program took on Sweet Smell of Success, the Tony Award-nominated musical by John Guare, Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia, this past weekend.
Rose Hemingway, Tituss Burgess, Adam Kantor, Carrie Manolakos and many more will take part in the inaugural Artists for World Peace benefit concert Nov. 6 at the Helen Mills Theatre in New Y…
The cast of the Transport Group's upcoming production of Queen of the Mist, the Michael John LaChiusa musical about a lady daredevil who survives a plunge over Niagara Falls, offered a s…