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Broadway actress and former Miss America Kate Shindle is tackling an unexpected character in her latest project " the Mad Hatter, in Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy’s Wonderland, the mu…
“American Idol” auditioner Ashley Sullivan may have wanted to go to Hollywood, but she had to get there by impressing judges Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson with a…
The New York Botanical Garden will get a taste of Broadway March 5-April 25, when The Orchid Show: On Broadway exhibit takes the garden’s stage.
Created by Tony Award-winning set desig…
The trailer for “The Green,” an upcoming independent film drama starring Jason Butler Harner and Cheyenne Jackson as a gay teacher and his partner forced to deal with an accusati…
Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor sat down with Oprah Winfrey in November for an interview about working on the new Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. The interview is av…
Tony Award-nominated actress and comedienne Joan Rivers and her daughter, Melissa, will share a house and plenty of fireworks in the new reality series, “Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows B…
The crazy life of a struggling actor in New York City continues to be depicted with humor and music in the third episode of the new web series “Submissions Only.”
Actress Penny (…
Veteran CNN anchor Anderson Cooper will be heard as the voice of the narrator in this spring’s revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Footage of Cooper recording…
Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Jan. 2-Jan. 8 from information compiled by Playbill.com.
Complete Cast Announced for Broadway Revival of How to Succeed… Wit…
Broadway’s Katie Rose Clarke (currently appearing as Glinda in Wicked) and Orfeh (Legally Blonde, Saturday Night Fever) got to sing two songs from Vote!, a new musical by Ryann Ferguso…
Here are the best-selling theatre CDS, as reported by billboard.biz, issue date January 15, 2011.
Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording
Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording
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Janet Dacal, Darren Ritchie, Kate Shindle, Jose Llana and Karen Mason talk about bringing Lewis Carroll’s classic characters to new life in Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy’s new m…
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Jan. 3-9, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark (Foxwoods Theatre), $1,588,514
Wicke…
Jeff Daniels, Hope David, Marcia Gay Harden and James Gandolfini, who were the original cast members of the Tony Award-winning run of Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage on Broadway, will re…
Producer Whoopi Goldberg, director Jerry Zaks and composer Alan Menken discuss Sister Act, the upcoming Broadway musical based on the 1992 film about a Las Vegas lounge singer who finds hers…
A new ad for The Book of Mormon, the upcoming Broadway musical featuring book, music and lyrics by “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q co-creator Robert…
To celebrate the show’s star, Eve Plumb, who is best known for playing Jan Brady on “The Brady Bunch,” Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage is offering…
Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis, director Michael Wilson and costume designer David Woolard discuss their work on the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Tennessee Williams'…
The recent Paper Mill Playhouse production of Les Miserables inspired a unique marriage proposal from one audience member whose fiancée had a longstanding connection to the show, having pla…
NBC and John De Mol and Mark Burnett, the executive producers of NBC’s “The Voice,” will hold auditions for the upcoming reality singing competition in New York Jan. 15.
T…
Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda wrapped the Broadway run of In the Heights, the hip-hop and Latin-flavored musical for which he wrote music and lyrics and to which he recently returned …
Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Dec. 26, 2010-Jan. 1, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
SPRING 2011 BROADWAY PREVIEW: Neil LaBute, Donna Murphy, Jo…
The Emmy Award-winning PBS educational series “The Electric Company” will welcome several theatre vets to both its regular cast and guest star roster when it premieres its new se…
Here are the best-selling theatre CDS, as reported by billboard.biz, issue date Jan. 8.
Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording
Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording
American Idiot,…
Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner John Lithgow is performing his acclaimed one-man show Stories By Heart at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles through Feb. 13. In this commercial fo…