662 stories by "Kathy Henderson"
Though it's still officially summer, the fall theater season is already in full swing, with four Broadway shows starting previews this week, plus a killer"literally"new off-Broadway musical.…
A president, a magician, a theater legend and a fan favorite kick off the fall season on NYC stages this week. Here are our top five events for the week of September 2 through 8.
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Summer may be ending, but the fun is just beginning on a trio of outdoor stages around the Big Apple, plus an evening with Broadway dads and a date with Elton John. Check out our five must-d…
When the Tony Awards telecast begins on Sunday, June 9, 40 nervous and excited actors will take their seats at Radio City Music Hall, hoping to win Broadway's biggest prize. Throughout the s…
When the Tony Awards telecast begins on Sunday, June 9, 40 nervous and excited actors will take their seats at Radio City Music Hall, hoping to win Broadway's biggest prize. Throughout the s…
Just after her Wednesday matinee performance as Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady, Rosemary Harris is seated at her dressing table in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, a picture of calm on a two-show …
When the Tony Awards telecast begins on Sunday, June 9, 40 nervous and excited actors will take their seats at Radio City Music Hall, hoping to win Broadway's biggest prize. Throughout the s…
When the Tony Awards telecast begins on Sunday, June 9, 40 nervous and excited actors will take their seats at Radio City Music Hall, hoping to win Broadway's biggest prize. Throughout the s…
When the Tony Awards telecast begins on Sunday, June 9, 40 nervous and excited actors will take their seats at Radio City Music Hall, hoping to win Broadway's biggest prize. Throughout the s…
The acclaimed Broadway revival of Burn This serves as a welcome reminder of playwright Lanford Wilson's exploration of immense talent and humanity. Nominated for three 2019 Tony Awards, incl…
When the Tony Awards telecast begins on Sunday, June 9, 40 nervous and excited actors will take their seats at Radio City Music Hall, hoping to win Broadway's biggest prize. Throughout the s…
For theater artists, a Tony Award nomination is the ultimate recognition, an honor that's especially exciting the first time it happens. This season, seven composers and writers " six making…
For theater artists, a Tony Award nomination is the ultimate recognition, an honor that's especially exciting the first time it happens. This season, seven composers and writers " six making…
The Who's Tommy opened at the St. James Theatre April 22, 1993.
When an actor with two decades of Broadway credits calls his current production "the best play I have ever seen or been in," savvy theatergoers should take note " and head to the Bernard B. …
A miraculous world awaits inside the ultimate pleasure palace at Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Swathed in crimson velvet and twinkling lights, with a twirling windmill on one wall and a giant e…
There's a man and a woman. Not young, not old. No great beauties, either one. They meet where they work: a restaurant and it's not the Ritz. In four simple phrases, Terrence McNally describe…
Kiss Me, Kate offers a rare mix of passionate romance, theatrical hijinks, and knockabout comedy, set to a Cole Porter score that's as captivating today as in 1948, when the show won the fir…
Tootsie came to life on screen in 1982 as a smash hit comedy about the ultimate transformation. A self-centered stage actor named Michael Dorsey finds the success he craves by posing as a fe…
How far would you go to make your professional dreams come true? For Michael Dorsey, a New York actor whose egotism wrecked his career, a fresh start as "Dorothy Michaels" " an actress " lan…
The world of J.K. Rowling's stupendously popular Harry Potter books expanded in thrilling fashion last spring when the two-part theatrical event Harry Potter and the Cursed Child arrived on …
Playbill looks back to when Jones, currently on Broadway in The Lifespan of a Fact, first broke out in her Tony-winning turn in The Heiress.
In a film and television career that spans 20 of his 30 years, Michael Cera has shared the screen with charismatic leading ladies Emma Stone (Superbad), Jessica Walter (Arrested Development)…
Long before she was tapped to play pregnant pie chef Jenna Hunterson in Waitress, Nicolette Robinson had memorized every song from the hit musical's cast recording. Within months of seeing t…
One of the most romantic love stories ever filmed is now on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre, with a real-life couple in the cast. But there's a twist: That real-life couple isn't the …