Saturday, July 18, 2015
When they're not thrilling audiences onstage, actors retreat to their private sanctuaries hidden within the theatres. Playbill.com caught up with some stars of the season to ask what the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 16, 2015
Before they were stars, they were dog walkers, cocktail waitress and even telemarketers. Playbill.com asks the stars of the New York stage about the jobs they took to get by before they made…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Fans of Kelli O'Hara rejoiced when, after 15 years and five nominations, the leading lady of Broadway won her first Tony Award. One month after the June 7 awards, O'Hara reflects on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 10, 2015
Gabriella Pizzolo, who understudies three different roles in the award-winning musical Fun Home, invites Playbill.com backstage to learn about the life of a child actress who has to be r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 9, 2015
Fun Home, the winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical, has released a video emphasizing the production's history-making win at the Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMWednesday, July 8, 2015
Sara Bareilles, who makes her musical theatre writing debut with the new show Waitress, discusses her theatre roots with Playbill.com and the fear behind taking the plunge into composing for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, July 6, 2015
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the new musical based on the Victor Hugo novel and the animated Disney film, which had a run at the Paper Mill Playhouse this past spring, has been recorded by S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMThe Hunchback of Notre Dame, the new musical based on the Victor Hugo novel and the animated Disney film, which had a run at the Paper Mill Playhouse this past spring, has been recorded by S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, July 4, 2015
Holiday weekends often find New Yorkers fleeing the city for (literally) greener pastures, the concrete jungle offers endless opportunities for exploration and excitement. Playbill.com asked…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, July 3, 2015
Stars of the stage share which celebrities they have talent crushes on.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, June 30, 2015
The Supreme Court's historic ruling on gay marriage June 26 left many members of the Broadway community singing its praises, including actors who attend religious worship services. Prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, June 28, 2015
Peter Morgan's The Audience, which features Oscar, Olivier and Tony Award winner Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in imagined meetings with each of her Prime Ministers, plays its final…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, June 25, 2015
Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical Oklahoma! receives a new staging from Bard SummerScape in the round, beginning June 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, June 22, 2015
The Kilroys, an activist group of female playwrights and producers, have released their second annual List of works by women that are recommended for production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:19PMBroadway Bares: Top Bottoms of Burlesque, the 25th annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, was presented June 21 at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PMFriday, June 19, 2015
Award-winning director and designer Julie Taymor shares thoughts on adapting her work from the stage to the screen and the history-making works by women at the Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, June 17, 2015
The proposed plans to renovate Oscar Hammerstein II's property into a museum and theatre were denied by the Doylestown Township zoning board, Philly.com reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PMCasting has been announced for New York Stage and Film and Vassar College's Powerhouse Season. The 31st season, which will feature various readings, workshops and main stage productions,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PMBitter Lemons, a theatre website based in Los Angeles, has announced a new business model in which productions pay writers to review their productions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMA new film adaptation of "Murder on the Orient Express," Agatha Christie's popular detective novel, may be directed by Kenneth Branagh, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMMonday, June 15, 2015
A group of award-winning actors have been cast in the Barbican Theatre's production of Hamlet, starring stage and screen star Benedict Cumberbatch, in London.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PMSunday, June 14, 2015
Playbill.com asked both newcomers and veterans of the New York theatre scene what advice they would have given themselves when they were starting out in their careers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 12, 2015
As part of Playbill.com's 30 Days of Pride, the team behind the Tony-winning musical Fun Home reflect on the personal and political impact of the show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, June 11, 2015
John Cameron Mitchell, who returned to the New York stage for the first time since 1998 to perform in the Tony-winning Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, said playing Hedw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMSara Bareilles, who is making her theatrical songwriting debut with the musical adaptation of the film "Waitress," shared her thoughts on the musical in a Google Plus hangout June …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMTuesday, June 9, 2015
Disenchanted!, the Off-Broadway musical that pokes fun at the world of fairy-tale princesses, will close Sunday, June 14 after 30 previews and 139 regular performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:15PMBetsy Wolfe (Broadway’s Bullets over Broadway, The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and Matt Bittner (Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing) will topline Up Here, the new musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PMA concert performance of Bombshell, the fictional Broadway musical from the short-lived NBC musical series "Smash," was given June 8 in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMMonday, June 8, 2015
Tony winner Ruthie Ann Miles, starring in The King and I as head wife Lady Thiang, opened up about the need for more diversity onstage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMIn a spin on the red-carpet tradition of asking stars, "What are you wearing?," Playbill.com has asked winners of the Tony Awards why they chose the outfits they wore to Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMSunday, June 7, 2015
With their wins for Best Book of a Musical (Lisa Kron) and Best Original Score (Jeanine Tesori and Kron) for the groundbreaking musical Fun Home, these writers not only take home some of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:30PM 
