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Sierra Boggess, who originated the role of Christine in London's Love Never Dies, the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, joins the Broadway company of Pha…
In Performance at the Kennedy Center, an event honoring the presidential inauguration and Latino arts and culture, was held Jan. 20. Tony Award winners Rita Moreno and Chita Rivera were amon…
Michael Crawford, who won a 1988 Tony Award for his performance in the title role of the long-running musical The Phantom of the Opera, celebrates his birthday Jan. 19. Here, Playbill.com ta…
The Tony Award-nominated Best Musical Ragtime opened on Broadway Jan. 18, 1988. In celebration of the Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty-Terrence McNally musical, Playbill.com looks back at Ragtim…
January 17, 2013, marks what would have been Tony Award-nominated singer-actress Eartha Kitt's 86th birthday. In celebration of the late Broadway and film actress, Playbill.com looks bac…
The 2013 theatre season continues with a fresh crop of productions popping up in New York, London and across the country. As we head into the busy theatrical awards season, Playbill.com staf…
Ethel Merman – who possessed the voice that defined the Broadway belt – would have turned 105 Jan. 16. Rose, Reno Sweeney and Annie Oakley were all strong, no-nonsense women and …
Tony Award winner Andrea Martin, who was last seen on Broadway in Exit the King, celebrates her birthday Jan. 15. Here, Playbill.com looks back at Martin's career with clips from her Bro…
Julia Murney, who was recently seen in the Off-Broadway drama Falling, celebrates her birthday Jan. 14. Here, Playbill.com takes a look back at Murney's career with clips from her Broadw…
The 2008 revival of Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jule Styne's iconic musical Gypsy took its final bow on Broadway Jan. 11, 2009. Here, we take a look at various divas who took o…
Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced Jan. 10. Tony-winning songwriters Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil were nominated for the new song written for "Les Mis&e…
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 …
Billy Elliot: The Musical, featuring a score by Elton John and Lee Hall, closed on Broadway Jan. 8, 2012. In celebration of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Playbill.com looks back at Bi…
Matilda The Musical, which won seven Olivier Awards, more than any other production in London history, is heading to Broadway.
The original Broadway production of Jekyll & Hyde, the Frank Wildhorn musical that will be revived this spring, played its final performance Jan. 7, 2001. In celebration of the musical, …
Belter Leslie Kritzer is back on Broadway this holiday season in the return of Elf the musical, which ends another successful Christmas run Jan. 6 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
The Tony Award-winning Best Musical The Wiz opened on Broadway Jan. 5, 1975. In celebration of the musical, Playbill.com has put together our favorite performances of the show's iconic b…
The Tony Award-winning Best Musical Hairspray, which features a score from Tony winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman ("Smash"), played its final performance on Broadway Jan. 4, 2…
The editors of Playbill.com have combed through the past seven years of our popular Cue & A feature to select some of our favorite answers to the question, "What is the one performa…
The original production of the Tony Award-nominated Best Musical Mame, which features a classic score by Jerry Herman, closed Jan. 3, 1970. Playbill.com has put together a musical tribute, i…
Throughout the year, Playbill Video is on hand to capture the most exciting moments in theatre. We look back at a few of the standouts from 2012.
In 2012 Playbill introduced the Playbill Vault, the largest and most comprehensive Broadway database on the internet, which features Playbills, pictures and video from past Broadway producti…
Playbill.com is ringing out the old and ringing in the new with a collection of videos featuring "The Perfect Year" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard.
This year, NBC brought the magic — and backstage drama — of Broadway into households around the world with the new musical drama "Smash." Here, Playbill Video looks bac…
From The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, the first Broadway production to open in 2012, to A Christmas Story, the Musical, the holiday hit that wrapped up this year in musicals, Playbill.com …