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Voca People, the intergalactic new musical that combines vocal sounds, a capella singing, comedy and the art of beat box, officially opened Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre July 12.
Here…
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival recently announced that William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, directed by Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff (The Who’s Tommy), will receiv…
Broadway in Bryant Park, the annual free concert series now in its 11th year, features performances from the stars of Broadway and Off-Broadway Thursdays throughout the summer from 12:30 PM-…
Mark and Roger, along with their fellow bohemian friends, have made their way back to New York City for the Off-Broadway revival of Jonathan Larson’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning mu…
Silence! The Musical, Off-Broadway’s new musical described as the "unauthorized parody of ‘The Silence of the Lambs’,” officially opened July 9 at Theater 80 for …
Matthew Morrison, Tony Award nominee and star of the Fox hit series “Glee,” made his way back to New York City, a place that he likes to call home, performing his solo concert Au…
The Old Globe’s 2011 Shakespeare Festival includes Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus and Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing, which are currently running in repertor…
The cast of Rock of Ages, along with other members of the Broadway community, spent an afternoon with photographer Adam Bouska, spreading the love and the message of equality at the NOH8 pho…
Tony Award nominee Andrew Lippa has released his new song, “It Gets Better,” featuring musical theatre students from Texas State University, to aide the efforts of the It Gets Be…
Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of July 17-23, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
“Glee” Star Darren Criss in Talks to Succeed Daniel Radcl…
Marissa Jaret Winokur, the Tony Award-winning actress who created the role of Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray on Broadway, will be back in Hairspray when she reprises her role in the Hollywood B…
Tony Award nominee John Tartaglia (Avenue Q) and Judy Gold (Off-Broadway’s The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom) are the newest Givenik Ambassadors, joining Anything Goes‘ Joel Gre…
Broadway in Bryant Park, the annual free concert series featuring the stars of Broadway and Off-Broadway, showcased the stars of Broadway’s Anything Goes and Phantom of the Opera, amon…
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of July 18-24, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,882,731
The Lion King (Minskoff Th…
Nancy Opel, currently in the cast of the Broadway musical Memphis, sat down with Seth Rudetsky on the latest episode of Playbill Video’s “Obsessed!”
Here, Opel talks about …
Academy Award nominees Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett will be coming to Broadway this fall when The Mountaintop begins previews Sept. 22 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, with an offic…
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the Broadway musical that celebrates everything from fabulous drag queens to individuality and equality, is congratulating New York State on the recent advance…
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, the new Broadway musical at the Foxwoods Theatre, features a rock score by Bono and The Edge and Reeve Carney in the title role. Here, Carney and the composers …
The Mad Show, a musical based on MAD Magazine, is one of the productions in the York Theatre Company’s Summer 2011 Musicals in Mufti Concert Series, which presents musical theatre gems…
Larry Kramer, playwright of the Tony Award-winning play The Normal Heart, feels that his words regarding same-sex marriage have been misinterpreted by The New York Times and publications aro…
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, starring Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Death of a Salesman) as Toby Belch and Stephen Ouimette (Broadway…
Tony Award winner Tyne Daly recently returned to Broadway as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s biographical drama, Master Class, at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman T…
“New Year’s Eve,” the upcoming New Line film centering around a group of New Yorkers and their bittersweet encounters on New Year’s Eve, features a star-studded ensem…
Bonnie & Clyde, the upcoming Broadway production with music by Tony Award nominee Frank Wildhorn (The Scarlet Pimpernel, Jekyll & Hyde) and lyrics by Tony winner Don Black (Sunset Bo…
Broadway in Bryant Park, the annual free concert series now in its 11th year, features performances from the stars of Broadway and Off-Broadway Thursdays throughout the summer from 12:30 PM-…