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The final batch of tickets for BroadwayCon, the upcoming three-day event that will bring together theatre fans and the artists who make Broadway happen, go on sale Oct. 17 at 1 PM. Here&…
Producers of the new Broadway-bound musical Gotta Dance, which is based on the acclaimed 2008 documentary of the same name about professional basketball’s first-ever aged 6…
Urban Stages is presenting the American premiere of Oren Safdie's Unseamly, a controversial play inspired by a variety of sexual harassment charges brought against well-known clothin…
Angela Lansbury celebrates her 90th birthday Oct. 16. The acclaimed actress is a five-time Tony Award winner for Mame, Dear World, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd and Blithe Spirit.
Playbill is proud to announce that it has partnered with Mischief Management to present the inaugural BroadwayCon, a three-day theatrical event that will bring together theatre fans and …
The Gin Game, officially opened Oct. 14 at the Golden Theatre following previews that began Sept. 23. The Broadway revival stars Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson. Hear wh…
Casting is now complete for a touring revival of the award-winning musical Ragtime, helmed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, who received a Tony nomination for her work on the 2009 revival.
In a new interview with Women's Health, actress Lea Michele reveals why she and Ariana Grande told director Ryan Murphy that they won't be giving any blood-curdling screams on Fo…
"You Can't Win," which was cut from the original Broadway production of The Wiz, but performed on screen by late pop icon Michael Jackson, will be included in NBC's live br…
"Broadway Balances America," a collaboration between Broadway Across America and Lifetime's "The Balancing Act," will take viewers behind the curtains of Broadway Acr…
James Franco, Scott Haze and David Van Asselt have joined forces to create Rattlestick West, a Los Angeles counterpart to New York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
Two-time Tony winner Joe DiPietro's new comedy, Clever Little Lies, officially opened Oct. 12 following previews that began Sept. 18 at the Westside Theatre Upstairs.
Peter D. Barbey, whose family owns Pennsylvania newspaper The Reading Eagle, has purchased The Village Voice from Voice Media Group. Barbey will not take over full control until February 201…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs and Renee Elise Goldsberry will be part of the 2015 Hip-Hop Awards Cypher Oct. 13 at 8 PM on BET.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs and Renee Elise Goldsberry will be part of the 2015 Hip-Hop Awards Cypher Oct. 13 at 8 PM on BET.
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Michael Riedel's book "Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway" was officially released Oct. 6.
Toni Collette, Tracy Letts and Sam Trammell have joined the cast of "Imperium," a new film directed by Daniel Ragussis, according to Deadline Hollywood.
The world premiere of Barbecue, written by Obie Award winner Robert O'Hara (Bootycandy and In the Continuum), officially opened Oct. 8 at the Public Theater following previews that began…
La Jolla Playhouse's WithOutWalls Festival, a weekend series of immersive and site-specific productions at locations throughout the San Diego community, begins Oct. 9, running throug…
Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, officially opened Oct. 8 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway starring Tony Award winner Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell. Hear what the criti…
How many times have the students stormed the barricade? How many audience members have dreamed the dream?
Representatives for Roundabout Theatre Company announced late this afternoon that the Oct. 7 evening performance of Thérèse Raquin, starring Academy and Golden Globe no…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, helped the next generation of musical theatre writers wh…
On Oct. 7, 1938, Judy Garland stepped onto an MGM soundstage to record the Harold Arlen-Yip Harburg classic "Over the Rainbow" for the enduring film "The Wizard of Oz.&quo…