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The opening production of New York City Center’s 2015 Encores! season, George and Ira Gershwin's Lady, Be Good, played the famed Manhattan venue Feb. 4-8.
The Lion, Benjamin Scheuer's autobiographical coming-of-age musical that played MTC Stage II at City Center this past summer, officially opened Feb. 8 at 5 PM at the Lynn Redgra…
The world-premiere production of Anton Dudley's City Of, a story of four Americans in Paris, opened Off-Broadway Feb. 5.
We asked our readers to Tweet us their favorite Stage Door pics for a chance to be featured in an upcoming issue of Playbill. Here are some of the great submissions we've received so f…
As Emma Stone prepares for her final week in Cabaret, and with Sienna Miller waiting in the wings, we take the chance to look back at some of talented actresses to portray the iconic British…
Nevermore – The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, a theatrical experience combining haunting music, poetic storytelling and stagecraft to tell the life story …
Three-time Tony Award nominee Sherie Rene Scott celebrates a birthday this weekend (Feb. 8). Playbill.com looks back at her onstage career so far. Happy birthday, Sherie!
Billy Magnussen and Mackenzie Mauzy, both seen in the "Into the Woods" film, will join "American Horror Story" star Finn Wittrock in a Feb. 9 industry reading of Diana Am…
TFNA's production of Soho Rep's An Octoroon, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins widely acclaimed play, will run Feb. 14-March 8 at TFNA's Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
TV Land's "Younger," starring two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar and Miriam Shor, will premiere March 31. The single-camera comedy is wri…
Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominee Melissa van der Schyff (Bonnie and Clyde) will perform an intimate concert of lush jazz standards, country classics and originals at Birdland Feb.…
"Glee" actor Darren Criss celebrates his 28th birthday Feb. 5. We look back to his Jan. 3, 2012, Broadway debut when he donned the bowtie and two-piece suit of J. Pierrepont Fi…
Following an acclaimed engagement at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, the new musical Honeymoon in Vegas, based on the 1992 Castle Rock Entertainment film of the same name, now plays B…
The opening production of New York City Center’s 2015 Encores! season, George and Ira Gershwin's Lady, Be Good, plays the famed Manhattan venue Feb. 4-8.
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Jennifer Nettles made her Main Stem debut Feb. 2 in the Tony Award-winning revival of Chicago, which recently became Broadway's second long…
Showbiz legend Tommy Tune will return to the New York stage in a special Encores! presentation of the George and Ira Gershwin musical Lady, Be Good Feb. 4-8. The theatre legend fills ou…
A starry group of actors, including co-stars of acclaimed actor James Earl Jones, honored his career in the 31st Musical Celebration of Broadway, the Drama League's annual gala Feb. …
Billy Magnussen, Jan Maxwell, Richard Kind, Tony Shalhoub, Morgan James and a host of other stars took part on Second Stage's 28th All-Star Bowling Classic the evening of Feb. 2.
The Phantom of the Opera celebrated an unprecedented 27 years on Broadway the evening of Jan. 31. The actual anniversary was Jan. 26 but the performance was canceled due to last week's…
Showbiz icon Elaine Stritch, the Tony-winning leading lady with a singular voice and demeanor who died July 17, would have celebrated her 90th birthday today. Playbill.com looks back at …
The return engagement of The Woodsman to 59E59 Theaters, Theater B officially opened Jan. 18. Cast member Amanda A. Lederer, who plays the Witch in the play (which tells the untold story of…
The return engagement of The Woodsman to 59E59 Theaters, Theater B officially opened Jan. 18. Cast member Amanda Lederer, who plays the Witch in the play (which tells the untold story of Oz…
Two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz celebrates his birthday Jan. 30. Playbill.com looks back at his stage career thus far, dating back to his Broadway debut in Rent.
John Cullum, Peter Scolari, Jason Tam and Alexandra Silber will take part in a Feb. 2 reading of a new adaptation of Antigone, penned by Silber (Master Class) in her playwriting debut.
Classic Stage Company's A Month in the Country, starring "Game of Thrones" actor Peter Dinklage and "Orange is the New Black" star Taylor Schilling, officially opened…