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“Perks” a new musical webseries where “‘Glee’ meets Wii,” stars up-and-coming Broadway and Off-Broadway performers Allison Strong, from Mamma Mia! and By…
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth (You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown; Wicked; Promises, Promises) filled in for Kelly Ripa to co-host “Live! With Regis & Kelly” with R…
Signature Theatre Company’s production of Tony Kushner’s The Illusion, based on the play by 17th-century tragic playwright Pierre Corneille, is currently playing Off-BroadwayR…
Idina Menzel, who took home the Tony Award for her performance as Elphaba in the Broadway musical Wicked, will be making her way to London to perform at the Royal Albert Hall Oct. 6.
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Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of June 5"11, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
THE 2010-11 BROADWAY TIMELINE: From a Memphis Win to People in the Pic…
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark stars Patrick Page (A Man for All Seasons, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast) as the show’s villain, the Green Goblin. Page and the rest of the Spider-Ma…
Daniel Radcliffe, who made the transfer from screen to stage and is currently starring in his second Broadway show, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, will be back as “…
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of June 6-12, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,752,076
The Lion King (Minskoff The…
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, Broadway’s newest musical that officially opened June 14 at the Foxwoods Theatre, has untangled all of its webs and is now running smoothly, following the…
Andre Solomon-Glover, who starred in the Broadway revival of Show Boat, will return to the stage after suffering a massive stroke eight years ago at the age of 42, when he sings at the West-…
Tony Award winner Tyne Daly makes her return to Broadway as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s biographical drama, Master Class, at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Th…
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark officially opened on Broadway June 14 at the Foxwoods Theatre following the longest preview period in Broadway history. After the show took a three-week hiatus i…
Catch Me If You Can, the new Broadway musical based on the life of charming conman Frank Abagnale Jr., played on stage by Aaron Tveit (Next to Normal), officially opened April 10 at the Neil…
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of The Book of Mormon and winners of multiple 2011 Tony Awards, visited “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” June 15 to talk about the hit s…
Norbert Leo Butz, who received the 2011 Tony Award for his performance in Catch Me If You Can, was only given 90 seconds for his acceptance speech at the Beacon Theatre June 12. However, the…
Darren Criss and his company of Warblers from Dalton Academy join The New Directions of McKinley High for the “Glee” summer concert tour that kicked off last month and will conti…
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark officially opened on Broadway June 14 at the Foxwoods Theatre following the longest preview period in Broadway history. The musical had taken a three-week hiatus…
Sutton Foster, who recently took home the 2011 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, led the company of the Broadway musical Anything Goes in “Blow, Gabriel, Blow” wh…
John Benjamin Hickey and Ellen Barkin, who both took home 2011 Tony Awards for their performances in The Normal Heart, sat down with CBS news anchor Seth Doane from “The Early ShowR…
Cirque du Soleil’s new acrobatic spectacle, Zarkana, is currently playing Radio City Music Hall.
In celebration of Zarkana’s  official June 29 opening, Magnolia Bakery created…
Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Wicked; Promises, Promises) is scheduling a very busy year for herself, but since the actress had some down time …
Lin-Manuel Miranda, star and creator of the 2008 Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, came back to the Tony Awards for this year’s ceremony, but spent most of his time backstage …
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark will officially open on Broadway June 14 at the Foxwoods Theatre following the longest preview period in Broadway history"performances began Nov. 28, 2010. After…
Among the 2011 Tony Award winners were many first-time winners, including Ellen Barkin and John Benjamin Hickey, from The Normal Heart; Nikki M. James, Trey Parker and Matt Stone; from The B…
Sutton Foster, who took home a 2011 Tony Award for her performance in Anything Goes, recently sat down with Elmo from “Sesame Street” to chat about the use of utensils and perfor…
