Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThis mix of acrobatics, feverish monologues, high-altitude accidents and apocalyptic physical comedy doesn’t need to have a rationale – does it? It is probably best not to ask t…

By Paulanne Simmons August 14, 2025: When theater star and Nashville recording artist Rachel Potter turned forty, she was living in Nashville doing corporate real estate. After many years away from show biz,…

The upcoming Broadway production of Yasmina Reza's play Art, starring James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale, was spearheaded by Corden himself. "I was asked to meet with James," the director …

Summerhall, Edinburgh Beth Paterson leads us through her discovery that the grandmother who berated her as a child was a Holocaust survivor This story, told by Beth Paterson, is about her “nanna Niusia … an…

Today is #NationalBookLoversDay 📚 Growing up I loved reading my favorite artists' autobiography. That is one reason why I wanted to be an author because I wanted to take you on journey. In case you didn’…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: According to Atlanta-based blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Tinsley Ellis, his new, first-ever solo acoustic albu…

Performer Morgan James, who has appeared on Broadway in shows like The Addams Family and Godspell, has released a new collection of songs, reimagining hard rock and metal tracks by artists including Ozzy Osbour…

I’ve wanted to crow my enthusiasm for Verna Bloom (1938-2019) here for some time. Hers wasn’t a household name, but she gave so many incredible performances in enough important American movies that she ough…

During last night's appearance on The Tonight Show, Lin-Manuel Miranda announced that the proshot of Hamilton, which debuted on Disney+ in 2020, will be making its way to theaters this year in celebration of th…

  Christian Mendonça is a Portuguese-American playwright whose mission is to fill the stage with unexpected tenderness, both uplifting and raw. His work has been developed and read at the Dennis and Victor…

  Streaming August 4th-10th - tickets available https://www.roguetheaterfestival.com/digitalstreaming William Meurer is a queer and neurodivergent playwright/performer based in Manhattan, NY. Since receiv…

For years, Bill Condon has been wanting to make a movie adapation of Kiss of the Spider Woman. "I finally decided to do something about it around 10 years ago," said the director in a new interview with The Hol…

Dominic Lopenzo, Technical Director of Grace City Music and Grace City Church, recently lit Grace City Church’s Summer Youth Camp. Lopenzo wanted to create some big looks for the event, unfortunately, budgeta…

  Francesca Bolam is a British-born, Brooklyn-based actor, writer, and theatre-maker telling raw, unfiltered stories with grit and heart. She is the founder of Nice Enough Productions and the playwright behind…

Kristin Chenoweth is standing by her "genius" idea for Andy Cohen to produce The Real Housewives of Broadway! On a recent visit to the Bravo exec's Sirius XM Radios how, the pair revisited Chenoweth's pitch for…

Look out world, it's monsoon season (again!)! Jinkx Monsoon is the new Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary on Broadway! The RuPaul's Drag Race icon takes over the role today, August 4, just weeks after her final perf…

In addition to his return to Broadway in Hell's Kitchen, Christopher Jackson is currently starring as Herbert Wexley in the third and final season of And Just Like That... With only two more episodes to go, the…

As we celebrate National Friendship Day today, I wanted to take a moment to share a clip from my 2025 interview with Actor Andrew Keegan where we talk about how the gay romantic comedy The Broken Hearts Club sy…

The songs are performed by Liisi LaFontaine and Solea Pfeiffer.

A five-track EP from the new musical by Ross Baum and Angelica Chéri has been released.

2025 marks 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the 1975 film adaptation of the stage musical, which has gone on to become a cult classic. Extremely popular among the midnight circuit crowds, the movie st…

Ahead of his opening night performance as ‘Judas’ in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl tonight, GRAMMY Award-nominated Adam Lambert teamed up with Andrew Lloy…

Natalia Shane is an actress-writer entering her fourth year of study in ETW at Tisch Drama. You may have seen her as Hedda Gabler at ETW’s Mainstage production this past spring. She recently appeared in Awfu…

Carolyn Best is an actor and theatre maker from Vienna, Virginia. She is an Ithaca College BFA Acting graduate, and her past favorite credits include playing Tracey in Sweat at Ithaca College, reading for Shel…

For Sandra Oh, starring in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park is a dream come true. "I kind of feel like I'm finally having the theater career that I feel like I've always dreamt of having," the performer…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Bia Ferreira is a Brazilian singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist. When she was still a teen, Ferreira left her home …

It’s been almost 25 years since Mamma Mia! made its Broadway debut at the Winter Garden Theatre, and nearly 10 years since the show had its last curtain call. But this summer, Mamma Mia! is coming home. Here�…

The news hasn’t been great for female playwrights as of late, but lost in the dire media rotation is that some of the most buzzed-about commercial productions in recent memory are by women under 40. Kimberly …

The Hollywood Bowl is bringing back its tradition of staging large-scale summer musicals, a programming staple that had largely gone dark in the wake of the pandemic. This weekend's production of Jesus Christ S…

Sydney Chandler has wanted to attend San Diego Comic-Con as a fan for years. So it's "surreal" that the actor's first experience with the annual pop culture expo is to promote her upcoming FX series "Alien: Ear…

Actor Andrew Keegan is currently starring in the NEW psychological thriller Healing Towers, which is available on digital & demand platforms. In this excerpt, Andrew shares why he wanted to be part of this mov…

Lyttelton theatre, London With anarchic energy, Pike plays a judge whose world is upended in a companion drama to Suzie Miller’s hit, again directed by Justin Martin Three years ago, playwright Suzie Miller g…

Playwright once dubbed ‘the American Noël Coward’, who skilfully poked beneath the surface of his middle-class characters’ lives The American playwright Richard Greenberg, who has died aged 67 of cancer,…

James Ijames was told Shakespeare wasn’t for the likes of him. Yet his Hamlet revamp electrified Broadway and scooped up Tony nominations. As Fat Ham hits the UK, he talks violence, vengeance, strongmen and j…

The comic was all set to make her debut at the Edinburgh fringe. Then, with hours to go, she had a medical emergency. The former dancer explains how it all fed into her new standup show ‘My first thought,�…

When Siyan MD Mark Baruch and his colleagues first saw GLP’s new JDC Burst 1 at last Autumn’s LDI expo in Las Vegas, they knew this evolutionary strobe hybrid would make a significant impact on the lighting…

Alice Fishbein is a New York writer and comedian who was raised in the aisles of Zabar’s. She was trained at Upright Citizens Brigade and can be seen performing comedy all over the city, including on veteran …

Just In Time, the Bobby Darin biomusical starring Jonathan Groff as the chameleonic ’50s and ’60s musical artist, will release a cast album. The album is to be released on August 15 on all digital platforms…

If stage lighting can be said to have a sense of humor, then Lighting Designer Cha See exploits it to the full in the current production of the hit 'Oh, Mary!'. See’s lighting sets the tone during the overtur…

Age: 20 Hometown: Hamilton, NJ Current Role: On June 10, Gianna Harris stepped into the role of Juliet in & Juliet, a reimagined version of Shakespeare's famous tragedy set to the pop hits of Max Marti…

The Great Gatsby's Samantha Pollino is taking over our Instagram today! Follow along here as Pollino takes our Instagram followers backstage at the hit Broadway musical. Tune in to see the day in the life of a …

How Did I Get Here Elizabeth Gillies Was a Little Shop 'Super Fan,' Now She's Starring in the Hit Revival She has reunited with her 13 co-star, Graham Phillips, in the long-running produ…

She just needed to convince her two sons to spend the summer in New York City.

When Zombies 4 arrives this week, longtime fans will be introduced to two new species living in the world of the Disney franchise: vampires and daywalkers. Three of these new characters are played by actors Jul…

I wasn’t sure I wanted to see this play, which imagines a grownup Prince George of England (currently 11 years old) as an out gay man. I was put off by the offensive title, and by what it seems to promise —…

Zach Lennon-Simon - is a storyteller, filmmaker, and union organizer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Zach has performed at the Magnet Theater, Improv Boston, The Pit, The Kraine Theater and various bars and li…

Ian Goldstein is a comedian, writer, and Webby award winner living in Brooklyn, NY. Ian was recently featured in the NYTimes for throwing a party that celebrated meeting his healthcare deductible. He also perfo…

By David Sheward July 7, 2025: When Prince Harry of England married Meghan Markle, an African-American actress, in 2018, I was teaching high school. On the Monday morning after their royal wedding, I was sitt…

 Inside the Playbill: Romance/Romance August 1988 Almost 37 years ago, I took a summer trip to the Big Apple, fresh out of college and before putting my new Bachelor's degree to work! Of course, tickets to th…

As we celebrate National Kissing Day today, July 6, I wanted to share this clip from my 2025 interview with Actor Andrew Keegan where I ask him about kissing Superman's Dean Cain in the gay romantic comedy, The…

Mexican rapper and songwriter Junior H took to Coachella’s main stage this year, playing material from his wildly popular $ad Boyz 4 Life II album. A pioneer of the burgeoning corridos tumbados genre, for thi…

The 1969 marquee for “1776” in its original production at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers).July 4, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. This is a re-working of a column origi…

More than 30 years after the animated Disney film premiered, and nearly 25 years since the last national tour, Beauty and the Beast is back on the road in a bold new production. Book writer Linda Woolverton and…

Frontmezzjunkies reports: TAPA announces 2025 Dora Mavor Moore Award Recipients Productions with Multiple Award Wins Include: Mahabharata, Last Landscape, Mukashi, Mukashi (Once Upon a Time), People, Places …

Deborah Harry (Angela Trimble, b. 1945) turns 80 years old today — yet another sign post on the road ahead en route to The Twilight Zone. I’m one of the millions who worship her. I have especially wanted to…

Former ‘Phantom’ stars to return for immersive spin-off, Solea Pfeiffer to return to ‘Wanted,’ ‘Back to the Future’ on a cruise ship Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only d…

Frank Loesser (1910–1969).June 29, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler One hundred fifteen years ago today, composer-lyricist Frank Loesser was born on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New Y…

You surely have your own ways of observing the Fourth of July but we wanted to make you aware of some other activities happening in the NYC area beyond the usual parades, cook-outs, fireworks, and Coney Island …

The musical formally known as “Gun and Powder” has also released its first single.

The bruising exploration of politics, might and civic identity plays out in front of an audience split into two sides for Bell Shakespeare’s take Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email When Bell Shakespe…

The first single from the Broadway-aimed production, formerly titled Gun & Powder, has also been released.

Workshop presentations of new musical WANTED will take place at New 42 Studios ahead of the production’s Broadway run in 2026. The workshop stars Solea Pfeiffer as Mary Clarke, Liisi LaFontaine as Martha Clar…

A Disney musical based on the 1997 animated movie feels as though its creators wanted to get to the finish line and move on.

  Pamela L Paek (Playwright and Performer) relishes self-expression and creativity in as many forms as she can juggle, including solo shows, stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, physical comedy, and clown. P…

Lauren Groff Inspires with Superb ‘Word for Word’ Treasure by Mary F. Burns Who hasn’t wanted to run away and not even tell anyone where you’re going? In Lauren Groff’s “Annunciation,” a young wom…

This June, we celebrated the students of the Wendy Wasserstein Project Class of 2025 with a ceremony featuring words of encouragement from teachers, mentors and alumni. In 1998, Wendy Wasserstein and TDF want…

The author on her love for Spike Milligan, the furore over Puberty Blues, and why being middle-aged is great Born in 1958 in Sydney, Kathy Lette burst on to Australia’s literary scene in 1979 with Puberty Blu…

Duke of York’s theatre, LondonThis stunningly rendered tale of a band on the brink of creative genius or total meltdown is a triumph, with a standout cast and score If you’ve ever wanted to step into a 1970…

If you’ve ever wanted Hugh Jackman to talk to you, you may get your chance at the Minetta Lane Theatre....Continue Reading The post MISCONDUCT IN THE MIDDLE CLASSES: AFFAIR PLAY appeared first on BroadwaySele…

He may be a country musician, but he's wanted to play the Emcee since he was a teenager.

Marla Mindelle and Constantine Rousouli never set out to make musical theatre history. They just wanted to make each other laugh. The post La Vie En “Rose”: How Titanique Became an Unsinkable Global Pheno…

Kendal Hartse has appeared on Broadway in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. She toured the country as Iris in the first national…

Scherzinger won a Tony for her performance in Sunset Blvd.

Photo taken from my seat in the Front Mezzanine at Radio City Music Hall last night.June 9, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. The Tony Awards have been broadcast on national television since …

“Purpose” won’t best play at the 78th annual Tony Awards, “Eureka Day” best play revival, Sunset Blvd best revival of a musical. Below the list of winners: (Here’s a guide to the entire Broadway 20…

Ahead of the 78th Tony Awards, Gypsy star and current nominee Audra McDonald took to Instagram to share a message with the Broadway community. Sharing her thoughts on the "crazy day," the performer noted that, …

He is currently nominated for his eighth Tony Award, for playing Herbie.

What's Danny Burstein's astrological sign? As he shared with Playbill's Jeffrey Vizcaíno: "I'm a Gemini, I like long walks on the beach." And he also shared with Playbill how he became a part of the current re…