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Pop star Nick Jonas will return to the New York stage as J. Pierrepont Finch in the Tony Award-nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in January. The announcem…
Danny Gardner, who plays song and dance man Frank Schultz in Goodspeed's intimate new production of Show Boat, offers an exclusive look at the production and the historic Connecticut ven…
Jessica Hendy and Mark Hardy are parents living on the edge in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, which opens the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati's 2011-2012 season.
Lauren Molina, who reprises her performance as Cunegonde in the Mary Zimmerman-directed production of Candide at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company, fills out Playbill.com's questionnai…
"I Hate My Teenage Daughter," the new family comedy starring Jaime Pressly and two-time Tony winner Katie Finneran as single moms, will make its premiere Nov. 30 at 9:30 PM ET on F…
The Boy Detective Fails, a new musical by Joe Meno and Adam Gwon and featuring Stephen Gregory Smith and Anika Larsen, is receiving its world premiere at Arlington's Signature Theatre Au…
City Center, the Manhattan venue originally built in 1923 and later dedicated by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in 1943 as Manhattan's first performing arts center, is currently undergoing a $…
Emily Bergl opens the fall season of the Oak Room at the historic Algonquin Hotel with her cabaret, entitled "Kidding on the Square."
Ever wonder about the routine of a Broadway actor on one of those grueling two-performance days? Caesar Samayoa, who is featured as thug Pablo in the Broadway production of Sister Act, offe…
Stage and screen star Tony Danza visited Broadway's Priscilla Queen of the Desert on Aug. 30.
Broadway Rhythm and Booze, the cabaret series created as a platform to highlight the soulful talents of the Broadway community, continued Aug. 29 at Tillman's Bar & Lounge.
Matt McGrath will star as the "transvestite from Transylvania," Frank 'N' Furter, in The Old Globe's upcoming production of The Rocky Horror Show.
Christina Sajous, currently starring as Shirley in the Broadway production of Baby It's You!, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop-cultu…
Karl Miller and Aubrey Dollar are the lovers at the center of Itamar Moses' Completeness, the story of a computer scientist and a molecular biologist, which began Off-Broadway Aug. 19 at…
Sam Ludwig, Whitney Bashor and Sherri L. Edelen star in the world-premiere musical The Hollow at Arlington's Signature Theatre. It runs in repertory with The Boy Detective Fails through…
Broadway favorite Kate Shindle agreed to document a recent day backstage at the Bay Street Theatre production of Enter Laughing, The Musical for Playbill.com... only to get more than she exp…
The Kennedy Center's critically acclaimed production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical Follies plays Broadway's Marquis Theatre.
Cast members from Broadway's Hair performed songs from the show in Times Square Aug. 26 to help kick-off the “Great Hair Days Countdown" to the final performance.
Ever wonder about the routine of a Broadway actor on one of those grueling two-performance days? Nikka Graff Lanzarone, who stars as Velma Kelly in the Broadway production of Chicago, offer…
Parade, the acclaimed Broadway musical by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Alfred Uhry and award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, returned to London for a six-week engagement at Southwa…
The world-premiere of Nicky Silver's The Lyons, a new dark comedy, will begin performances Off-Broadway Sept. 21 at the Vineyard Theatre.
Tony Award nominee Jennifer Damiano, currently starring as Mary Jane in Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage t…
Musical theatre favorite Lauren Kennedy, currently starring in the "Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy" production of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's Violet, shares exclusive back…
Tony Award nominees Raúl Esparza and Olga Merediz are featured in "GWB," a new film written and directed by Jonathan Ullman. It will be screened at the New York Internationa…
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, a new look at the George and Ira Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera, starring Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald, plays the American Repertory Theater in Cambri…