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Wonderland, Broadway's new musical that reinvents "Alice in Wonderland" for the 21st century, officially opened at the Marquis Theatre April 17. Janet Dacal, of In the Heights, plays a moder…
Out with the old, and in with the new. Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark recently played its final performance of director-co-creator Julie Taymor’s original vision April 17. A new creativ…
Fox’s hit television series “Glee” is filming the Nationals in New York City. Here are some places you can run into the students of McKinley High:
- 47th and 6th Avenue
- 6…
“Jet Set” is the second musical number from Catch Me If You Can to be released. “Live in Living Color,” the opening number to the new Broadway musical, was the first …
American Idiot played its final performance at Broadway’s St. James Theatre April 24 after 421 performances and 27 previews. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong was back again in th…
Wonderland, the new Broadway musical that reinvents "Alice in Wonderland" for the 21st century, officially opened April 17. Janet Dacal, of In the Heights, plays a modern-day Manhattan mom n…
The March 31 episode of “Grey's Anatomy: The Music Event” featured the talents of Tony winner Sara Ramirez. When Ramirez’s character, Callie Torres, was injured during a ca…
Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of April 10-16, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
National Tour of Hair Will Play Limited Summer Run on Broadway.
Phil…
Performers including Betty Buckley, Marc Kudisch, Aaron Lazar, Seth Rudetsky, John Tartaglia and Tony Yazbeck were among the stars at the “You Are Not Alone” concert Nov. 22, 201…
“The Office,” NBC’s comedy about American office life, follows the misadventures of Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell, who will soon be departing the series. On the Apr…
Two-time Tony Award winner Donna Murphy (Passion, The King and I) currently stars in the new musical The People in the Picture, which fuses Poland in the 1930s with New York in the 1970s. M…
Singer-songwriter Jack Clement joined the cast of Broadway’s Million Dollar Quartet April 21 to perform his original song, “It’ll Be Me,” made famous by Jerry Lee Lew…
Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette, currently starring in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, talked to Meredith Vieira on the “Today Show” about taking on the 5…
“Glee” star Heather Morris, who plays ditzy, blonde cheerleader Brittany, has been dancing for 23 years. The 24-year-old actress was recently interviewed by Esquire magazine and …
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of April 11-17, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,663,270
The Lion King (Minskoff T…
Josh Gad (”The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”) and Andrew Rannells (Jersey Boys) star as the unlikely pair of Mormon missionaries in the new Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, wh…
“Live in Living Color,” the opening number to Broadway’s Catch Me If You Can, has been posted to the musical’s Facebook fan page. Watch Aaron Tveit, as Frank Abagnale…
Robin Williams, currently starring in Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, talked to TIME magazine about making his Broadway acting debut with the show that officially opene…
Chris Colfer has been named one of Time magazine’s “Time 100,” the annual round-up of the world’s most influential people.
The openly gay actor stars as Kurt Hummel o…
Memphis cast member David McDonald, who plays in the ensemble of the hit musical, had a surprise for a front-row audience member after the April 17 matinee performance.
McDonald’s girl…
The House of Blue Leaves is set to open on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre April 25. Ben Stiller recently sat down with Matt Lauer on the “Today Show” to talk about his retur…
John Leguizamo, star of Broadway’s Ghetto Klown, appeared on Bloomberg's "The Charlie Rose Show" April 18 to talk about his fifth one-man show that officially opened March 22.…
The U.S. premiere of Wendy Weckwerth’s adaptation of the 1978 Ingmar Bergman film Autumn Sonata, about a mother and daughter attempting to reconnect, will officially open April 21 at …
Billy Crudup and Raul Esparza, currently starring in the Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, appeared on Bloomberg's “The Charlie Rose Show” April 19 to talk about the pl…
Catch Me If You Can’s Alex Ellis walks through the stage door of the Neil Simon Theatre for her Broadway debut of the new musical that officially opened April 10. Ellis gives a backsta…