Jerry Herman's Tony Award-winning musical La Cage aux Folles, featuring a book by Harvey Fierstein, premiered on Broadway Aug. 21, 1983, at the Palace Theatre. The show took home the Ton…
The upcoming Broadway musical If/Then boasts a cast including Tony Award winners Idina Menzel and LaChanze, as well as Tony Award nominee Anthony Rapp, James Snyder, Jenn Colella and more.
Producers of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, starring Tony Award nominee Jessie Mueller as the Grammy-winning musician, have shared a sneak-peek rehearsal video.
Sierra Boggess, who appeared on Broadway last winter as Christine Daae in the long-running, Tony-winning The Phantom of the Opera, makes her New York City cabaret debut Aug. 19 at 54 Below.
The new stage adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, will premiere on Broadway in early 2014. With a majority o…
The underwear-clad musical duo The Skivvies were joined by special guests Will Swenson, Michael Urie, Julia Murney and Asmeret Ghebremichael for their late-night show Aug. 16 at 54 Below.
Twenty-Somethings, an evening spotlighting the work of up-and-coming songwriters Blake Pfeil, Zoe Sarnak and Drew Overcash, was held Aug. 12 at the Highline Ballroom. Tony winner Alice Riple…
A trailer has been released for the upcoming Los Angeles return of the Damon Intrabartolo-Jon Hartmere pop opera bare, which stars Payson Lewis (NBC's "The Sing Off", "Vic…
Tony and Academy Award-winning entertainer Liza Minnelli performs Sophie Tucker's "You've Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama At All)" for the new se…
YouTube sensation Nick Pitera will make his concert debut Sept. 15 at 8 PM in Los Angeles at the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach.
A new video of Forbidden Broadway and Newsical cast member Christina Bianco performing "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" as a dizzying number of divas has gone viral.
The scantily-clad duo The Skivvies, otherwise known as musical theatre performers Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina, are taking Playbill.com along on their summer adventures in a new, stripped-…
Eydie Gorme, a popular singer of the '50s and '60s, who became known the world over as half of the duo Steve and Eydie when she married Steve Lawrence, died Aug. 10 at the age of 84.
With casting almost complete for the starry film adaptation of Disney's "Into the Woods," featuring Oscar winner Meryl Streep, we wondered: Which cast member from the 1987 orig…
On Aug. 6 a YouTube channel dedicated to the work of the late composer and lyricist Benjamin Rush "Rusty" Magee premiered, introducing dozens of never-before-seen performances.
Grammy Award-winning singer Whitney Houston would have celebrated her 50th birthday Aug. 9. Playbill.com takes a look back at the musical icon.
Theatre couple Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel, who founded the A BroaderWay Foundation to provide arts-education to young women in underserved communities, created a special Wicked video to tha…
First Date, the new Broadway musical comedy that has a book by Austin Winsberg ("Gossip Girl"), with music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (Secondhand Lions, Twi…
August 6, 2013, marks what would have been Lucille Ball's 102nd birthday. Playbill.com is loving Lucy today with a handful of video performances from her career.
The world-premiere musical version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, featuring a score by Tony Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, officially opened …
The Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, which features a blues, rock and gospel score by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro, ended its hit Broadway run Aug. 5, 2012, after 1,166 regular performanc…
With the recent success of the Encores! Off-Center one-night-only concert presentation of Violet, starring Tony winner Sutton Foster, we wondered: What should Foster's next Broadway proj…
The Broadway cast of the hit musical Wicked currently boasts Katie Rose Clarke, Derek Klena and Lindsay Mendez in the central roles of Glinda, Fiyero and Elphaba, respectively.
With a score by Tom Kitt, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Amanda Green, Bring It On: The Musical opened Aug. 1, 2012 at Broadway's St. James Theatre.
With a score by Tom Kitt, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Amanda Green, Bring It On: The Musical opened Aug. 1, 2012 at Broadway's St. James Theatre.