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With Disney in the early stages of developing its hit animated musical "Frozen" for the stage, we wondered: Who should star as Snow Queen Elsa in the future adaptation?
Machinal, the 1928 drama inspired by real-life murderer Ruth Snyder, opened Jan. 16 at the American Airlines Theatre.
Colm Wilkinson, the Tony Award-nominated original star of Les Misérables, who recently joined the Toronto company of that musical for a special charity performance on Jan. 11, offered…
Ethel Merman – who possessed the voice that defined the Broadway belt – would have turned 106 Jan. 16. Rose, Reno Sweeney and Annie Oakley were all strong, no-nonsense women and …
The Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriters You Should Know: LIVE!, a concert featuring rising musical theatre songwriters that is based on the Playbill.com feature of the same name, will b…
Two-time Tony Award winner Andrea Martin, who will return to Brodway this spring in Act One, celebrates her birthday Jan. 15. Here, Playbill.com looks back at Martin's career with clips …
Julia Murney celebrates her birthday Jan. 14. Here, Playbill.com takes a look back at Murney's career with clips from her Broadway outings, concert performances and more.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, the new stage production based on the life of the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, opened Jan. 12 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
In a recent appearance on "Watch What Happens Live," multiple Grammy award-nominee Josh Groban stated that Broadway was on the horizon. While the gifted vocalist has an original wo…
Award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch was recently honored in the PBS American Masters broadcast "Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love."
Les Misérables will make its anticipated Broadway return in March. As the date swiftly approaches, Playbill.com has surfed the web for some of our favorite performances of "…
Acclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
The 2009 revival of A Little Night Music, which features a Tony Award-winning score by Stephen Sondheim, closed on Broadway Jan. 9, 2011. In celebration of the musical, Playbill.com takes a …
Playbill Preview Club, a night out on the town hosted by Playbill — the most recognized brand in the theatre for almost 130 years — will launch Jan. 28 with a trip to Off-Broadwa…
In the second episode of Playbill Video's exclusive series "Life with Laura," Tony Award winner Laura Benanti dressed as her favorite leading lady, Fosca from the Stephen Sondh…
In the second episode of Playbill Video's exclusive series "Life with Laura," Tony Award winner Laura Benanti dressed as her favorite leading lady, Fosca from the Stephen Sondh…
The New York City return of Broadway Loves the Spice Girls, a celebration of the pop group whose hits included "Wannabe," "Spice Up Your Life," "Stop" and …
The Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriters You Should Know: LIVE!, a concert featuring rising musical theatre songwriters that is based on the Playbill.com feature of the same name, will b…
Playbill has announced the creation of Playbill Travel—an expansion of the brand’s popular series of cruises. The first adventure under the Playbill Travel auspice is Broadway By…
Playbill has announced the creation of Playbill Travel—an expansion of the brand’s popular series of cruises. The first adventure under the Playbill Travel auspice is Broadway By…
Singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen, who shot to fame with the #1 hit single "Call Me Maybe," will succeed Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes as the next star of Broadway's Cinderel…
Playbill.com's weekly recap of its coverage of Broadway performances, celebrity interviews, web series and opening nights – in case they were missed the first time around.
The new Broadway musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, starring three-time Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie as temperamental stage diva Helen Sinclair, will begin pre…
Tony Award winner Nikki M. James pays tribute to the leading ladies who have won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in this new original song.
Each week in our Their Favorite Things column, Playbill.com asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.