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Highlights: Profiles
The Secret to Tony Winner and Emmy Nominee Steven Levenson's Success? Agility
People are beginning to learn the name Steven Levenson. In the past two-and-a-half years alone, Levenson marked the Broadway bow of his first musical Dear Evan Hansen and won a Tony Award, premiered his play If I Forget, debuted his play Days of Rage, wrote Fosse/Verdon .... (Read More)
How Casey Nicholaw Became the King of Musical Comedy
When you think of musical comedy today, one director comes to mind: Casey Nicholaw.
Jordan Donica is Broadway's Modern Gentleman
The 24-year-old actor is redefining the role of the romantic lead onstage and off.
Why Jordan Roth's #MakingMondays Is the Coolest Party in Town
When I step off the elevator to the lower level of Jordan Roth’s West Village apartment building, I don’t know what to expect. I’m here for #MakingMondays. I’ve been told it’s a night of creativity, but I don’t know who the other guests are, what exactly we’ll all be creating, ...(Read More)
How Broadway's Most In-Demand Vocal Coach Keeps Ben Platt, Hugh Jackman, and More Healthy
Industry folk know: When it comes to the most demanding roles on Broadway, you don’t go to anyone but Liz. That’s why she counts Stephen Colbert, John Mulaney, Ana Gasteyer, Judith Light, Nikki M James, Ben Platt, Hugh Jackman, and Neil Patrick Harris among her clients. (Read More)
Highlights: Show-Specific
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Why Gideon Glick Is the Secret Weapon of Broadway's To Kill a Mockingbird
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Why Rachel Chavkin and Anaïs Mitchell Were Fated to Create Broadway's Hadestown Together
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Aaron Sorkin On Adapting To Kill a Mockingbird, Falling In Love With Theatre, and The West Wing References Built Into His New Broadway Play
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How ‘Laddish’ Scotsman James McArdle Disappears Into the Neurotic Jewish-American Gay Man of Angels in America
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Tony Nominee Lauren Ambrose Finds Her Own Eliza Doolittle for My Fair Lady
Highlights: On Design
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Behind the Epic, Tony-Nominated Beetlejuice Lighting Design
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How Scenic Designer Rob Howell Captures the Emotions of The Ferryman in a Simple Irish Farmhouse Set
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Turning Trash Into Fashion for a Re-Envisioned Once on This Island
Highlights: On Music and Choreography
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Choreographer’s Cut: Ain’t Too Proud’s Sergio Trujillo Breaks Down The Temptations Number ‘Cloud Nine’
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Watch Tony Nominees Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez Break Down Writing Frozen’s ‘Monster’
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How Alan Menken and Howard Ashman Wrote Aladdin’s Epic ‘Friend Like Me’
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Camille A. Brown Is an Unstoppable New Voice in Broadway Dance—Here’s Why
Editor Highlights:
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What Is the Difference Between Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway?
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Inside Tech Rehearsal for SpongeBob SquarePants The Broadway Musical
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How Musical Theatre Exposes the Truth About Mental Illness
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How Much Does It Cost to Put on a Broadway Show?
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Why Theatre Needs More Stories About Black Women Told By Black Women
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What Makes Musical Theatre Feminist?
Hosting Highlights:
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2019 Tonys
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The 2018 Tony Awards
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The 2017 Tony Awards
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Once On This Island
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The Band's Visit
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Bandstand
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Amélie
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Oslo
Full Playbill Archives
2019
16 Secrets of Jason Sherwood’s Intricate, Upcycled Scenic Design of Rent on Fox
July 13, 2019
Secrets From Broadway’s The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
October 17, 2019
Watch Leslie Kritzer’s Crazy Backstage Quick-Change From Beetlejuice’s Delia to Miss Argentina
October 15, 2019
The Real-Life Friendship Behind the Dynamic Duo in Aladdin on Broadway
October 14, 2019
Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy Letts On the Question You Should Ask Yourself After Linda Vista
October 11, 2019
What Would These Disney Princesses Wear If They Lived in New York Today?
October 8, 2019
Betrayal’s Zawe Ashton Is the Broadway Star You Need to Know Right Now
October 8, 2019
4 Beetlejuice Actors Reveal Their Crazy Backstage Make-Up Transformations
October 7, 2019
What It Takes to Revive Ntozake Shange’s Epic Choreopoem For Colored Girls...
October 4, 209
Lin-Manuel Miranda Says Freestyle Love Supreme Made In The Heights and Hamilton Happen
October 3, 2019
The Secret Ingredient of Broadway’s LBJ Drama The Great Society
October 1, 2019
How Succession’s Brian Cox Found His Voice for LBJ in Broadway’s The Great Society
September 30, 2019
6 Things to Know Before You Go to Broadway’s Freestyle Love Supreme
September 28, 2019
Critics Misgendered This Off-Broadway Actor, Now They’re Speaking Out
September 28, 2019
WATCH: What to Expect From Broadway’s The Great Society
September 25, 2019
Why Will Van Dyke and Chris Dwan Are the Gay Pop Duo You’ve Always Needed
September 24, 2019
Original Dear Evan Hansen Star Laura Dreyfuss Talks Being Authentic on The Politician
September 23, 2019
Theatre Jobs: What Does a Broadway Music Director Do?
September 21, 2019
Why Elizabeth McGovern Couldn't Have Done Downton Abbey Without Her Theatre Training
September 20, 2019
September 18, 2019
September 17, 2019
Meet the Cast of Broadway’s Freestyle Love Supreme?
September 6, 2019
What Is It Like to Own a Broadway Theatre?
August 30, 2019
Learn the Choreography From Hercules’ ‘Zero to Hero’ Off-Broadway
August 29, 2019
Meet The Muses Leading Disney’s Hercules at the Public Theater
August 28, 2019
How to Design Your School Production on a Budget
August 26, 2019
Sutton Foster On What to Expect From The Music Man, Younger, and More
August 26, 2019
6 Ways to Get Tickets to Broadway’s Moulin Rouge!
August 25, 2019
August 22, 2019
August 21, 2019
August 17, 2019
How Dena Hammerstein (Yes, That Hammerstein) Passes on a Theatrical Legacy
August 15, 2019
Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox, and Zawe Ashton Reveal What to Expect From Broadway's Betrayal
August 14, 2019
Immortal or Man: Which Hadestown Character Are You Most Alike?
August 12, 2019
How London’s National Theatre Live Changed the Global Theatrical Landscape
August 12, 2019
How Director Alex Timbers Created a Moulin Rouge! That’s Both Spectacular and Substantive
August 12, 2019
32 Theatre Terms Everyone Should Know
August 10, 2019
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Reveal Secrets About Their Broadway Play on Opening Night
August 9, 2019
16 Revelations About Fiddler on the Roof
August 9, 2019
How Michael Crawford Was Nearly Dubbed Out of the Hello, Dolly! Film
August 8, 2019
Oklahoma! Seating Guide: Where to Sit for the 3-Sided Broadway Musical
August 7, 2019
Why Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Say Their Broadway Play Was a Huge Risk
August 2, 2019
5 Ways Harold Prince Changed Theatre As We Knew It
July 31, 2019
What You Need to Know About the Real Queens of the Six Musical
July 30, 2019
What Makes Serenbe Playhouse a Game-Changing Theatre
July 28, 2019
How the True Story of One Man’s Double Life Led to Jessica Huang’s The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin
July 27, 2019
Behind-the-Scenes Secrets From Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! The Musical
July 26, 2019
July 25, 2019
One Man Walked Across the United States—Now His Story Is a Musical
July 23, 2019
The Secret to Tony Winner and Emmy Nominee Steven Levenson's Success? Agility.
July 19, 2019
July 16, 2019
How This Married Couple Coped With Loss By Writing The Elementary Spacetime Show
July 11, 2019
How Do Ensemble Actors Fare in the Current Broadway Landscape?
July 11, 2019
9 Theatre Roles You Probably Didn’t Know Tom Hiddleston Played
July 9, 2019
Why William Ivey Long Crafted Multiple Beetlejuice Costumes By Hand
July 3, 2019
How Meghan Markle’s Rehearsal Dinner Dress Inspired Tootsie’s Signature Look
July 3, 2019
July 1, 2019
Creating a Life-Size Pirate Ship for Blackbeard the Musical at Signature Theatre
June 28, 2019
How Straight Plays Became Broadway’s Biggest Buzz
June 27, 2019
June 25, 2019
18 Broadway Stars Name 23 Plays Everyone Should Read
June 22, 2019
June 18, 2019
What to Expect From The Princess Bride Musical
June 15, 2019
Strange Angel’s Peter Mark Kendall Proves His Theatre Credentials
June 12, 2019
WATCH: The Making of Fosse/Verdon’s Ever-Changing Title Card Sequences
June 12, 2019
Making Billy Porter’s 2019 Tony Awards Red Carpet Look
June 10, 2019
How Judith Light Sets An Example Through Her Advocacy and Alliance
June 10, 2019
6 Things You Missed From the Tony Awards Press Room
June 10, 2019
Where Are the 2018 Tony Award Winners Now?
June 8, 2019
Could Sutton Foster Perform More Musical Numbers in Season 6 of Younger?
June 7, 2019
9 Viewing Parties for the 2019 Tony Awards in NYC and More
June 6, 2019
Writing an ‘I Want’ Song With The Prom’s ‘It’s Not About Me’
June 6, 2019
June 4, 2019
How the Brock Turner Trials Inspired Off-Broadway’s Something Clean
June 3, 2019
How Broadway’s Patrick Page Used 4 Ingredients to Create Hadestown’s Namesake God
June 3, 2019
Behind the Epic, Tony-Nominated Beetlejuice Lighting Design
June 2, 2019
Choreographer’s Cut: Kiss Me, Kate’s Warren Carlyle Breaks Down His Showstopping ‘Too Darn Hot’
May 31, 2019
May 30, 2019
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Tony Award Winner Elaine May
May 29, 2019
Learn 6 Quintessential Moves From Broadway’s Hadestown
May 29, 2019
Watch Playbill's Ruthie Fierberg Take the Stage in Broadway's The Prom
May 23, 2019
Megan Hilty Shares the Memories From Wicked and Smash That Fueled Her Lincoln Center Concert
May 22, 2019
How Michael Krass Used Fashion to Make Hadestown’s Players Into Singular Characters
May 20, 2019
Why Gideon Glick’s Dill Is the Secret Weapon of Broadway’s To Kill a Mockingbird
May 17, 2019
What Other Broadway Star Was at Francesca Carpanini’s First-Ever Childhood Audition?
May 16, 2019
May 15, 2019
Michael Feinstein Brings Crooners and the Songs of Lerner & Loewe to Jazz at Lincoln Center
May 15, 2019
What to Expect From Rachel Bloom and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend at Radio City
May 14, 2019
How Casey Nicholaw Became the King of Musical Comedy
May 13, 2019
Billions and Mad Men Star Maggie Siff Proves Her Theatre Credentials
May 10, 2019
Broadway’s Cynthia Erivo Reveals the Personal Stories Behind Her Live From Lincoln Center Set List
May 8, 2019
How Scenic Designer Rob Howell Captures the Emotions of The Ferryman in a Simple Irish Farmhouse Set
May 6, 2019
Re-Mounting Jerome Robbins’ Historic Choreography for City Center’s High Button Shoes
May 6, 2019
The Secrets Behind Billy Porter’s 2019 Met Gala Look
May 6, 2019
WATCH: Behind the Scenes of the 2019 Tony Nominees Meet the Press Day
May 3, 2019
Girl From the North Country Star Luba Mason on Starring in the Bob Dylan Musical
May 1, 2019
Overlooked by Tony: Who Was Left Out of the 2019 Nominations?
April 30, 2019
2019 Tony Awards Trends and Tallies: Playbill Breaks Down the Nominations
April 30, 2019
The 12 Stars of Broadway’s Come From Away Reveal Show Secrets Over Beer and Board Games
April 29, 2019
Lorin Latarro Breaks Down Her Choreography in Waitress—and 4 Other Shows
April 29, 2019
Watch: How the Actor-Musician You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown Comes Alive Onstage
April 25, 2019
How Broadway’s New Rupert Murdoch Play Ink Became an Onstage Tabloid
April 25, 2019
Inside Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown Script for Broadway
April 24, 2019
How Many Seconds Is Santino Fontana’s Fastest Quick Change in Tootsie?
April 24, 2019
Hugh Jackman Divulges Key Details About His World Arena Tour Hugh Jackman The Show
April 23, 2019
How Be More Chill’s Will Roland Refuses to Play Just Another Misfit Teen
April 23, 2019
All My Sons’ Annette Bening Says There Are Clues to Her Character Hidden in the Broadway Set
April 23, 2019
April 23, 2019
Catching Up With Witness Uganda’s Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews
April 21, 2019
How Did Hadestown’s Anaïs Mitchell Write Orpheus’ Famous Broadway Melody?
April 18, 2019
What Is Keri Russell’s Favorite Thing About Her Broadway Debut in Burn This?
April 16, 2019
What to Know About the Greek Mythology Characters in Broadway’s Hadestown
April 14, 2019
Experience Journalism As Theatr With Pop-Up Magazine
April 13, 2019
April 10, 2019
16 Fosse/Verdon Secrets From Lin-Manuel Miranda, Michelle Williams, Sam Rockwell, and More
April 9, 2019
The Broadway Cast of Oklahoma! Explain the Method Behind the Re-imagining
April 8, 2019
How Does the Cast of Broadway’s Oklahoma! Describe This Latest Revival?
April 6, 2019
Tootsie Transforms for Broadway—In More Ways Than One
April 5, 2019
Why Ayad Akhtar Changed His Tony-Nominated Play Junk After Broadway
April 3, 2019
Inside the High-Flying, Tap-Filled Choreography of Broadway’s Kiss Me, Kate
April 2, 2019
Why Nathan Lane Follows Up Angels in America With Taylor Mac’s Gary
April 2, 2019
10 Unforgettable Aladdin Memories From Broadway Original Broadway Cast Members
March 31, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Check Out the Hilarious Credits on Dorothy Michaels' Fake Résumé From Tootsie
March 30, 2019
This Former Stage Manager Turns Broadway Scenery Into Wearable Art
March 27, 2019
WATCH: A Sneak Peek Inside the Broadway Mounting of Hadestown
March 25, 2019
The Good Fight’s Sarah Steele Proves Her Theatre Credentials
March 24, 2019
How Ogunquit Playhouse Shed Its Summerstock Past to Become a Regional Powerhouse
March 23, 2019
4 Things You Didn’t Know Behind Broadway’s Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
March 22, 2019
March 18, 2019
March 15, 2019
How Director Sammi Cannold Put Her Actors in a 4,100-Gallon Aquarium Onstage for Endlings
March 14, 2019
What to Expect From Broadway’s Re-Envisioned Kiss Me, Kate
March 14, 2019
March 11, 2019
March 4, 2019
March 4, 2019
How Preston Max Allen Came Into His Identity as a Musical Theatre Writer and a Proud Trans Man
March 3, 2019
Pulitzer Prize Winner Suzan-Lori Parks Questions ‘Woke-ness’ With Her Latest Off-Broadway Play
March 1, 2019
To Kill A Mockingbird’s Jeff Daniels Reveals What Makes the Broadway Play Work
February 25, 2019
What to Expect From Off-Broadway’s World-Premiere Musical Superhero
February 24, 2019
Understanding the Music Behind Broadway’s Choir Boy
February 18, 2019
The Irish Troubles and The IRA: An Historical Guide to Broadway’s The Ferryman
February 17, 2019
20 Famous Broadway Love Triangles
February 14, 2019
Where Do Your Favorite Broadway Couples Land On This Theatrical Love Scale?
February 12, 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird: Should You Reread the Book Before You See the Broadway Play?
February 11, 2019
February 9, 2019
WATCH: Donna Murphy Talks About Her Transformation Into Tangled’s Mother Gothel
February 8, 2019
WATCH: Behind the Music of Disney’s Hercules With Broadway’s Lillias White and Alan Menken
February 7, 2019
February 6, 2019
WATCH: Disney’s Paige O'Hara On Finding Her Belle Voice for the Original Beauty and the Beast
February 5, 2019
WATCH: Jodi Benson Reveals the Creation Behind Disney's The Little Mermaid and ‘Part Of Your World’
February 4, 2019
Where Are They Now?: The Cast of Broadway’s 1999 You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
February 4, 2019
Camille A. Brown Is an Unstoppable New Voice in Broadway Dance—Here’s Why
February 3, 2019
WATCH: What Happened When Donna Murphy Needed Stitches During Little Shop of Horrors?
January 31, 2019
New Dear Evan Hansen Star Andrew Barth Feldman Brings Something Brand-New to Evan
January 30, 2019
Theatre Firsts: Who Was Dan Amboyer’s Theatre Crush?
January 29, 2019
8 Things Rent on Fox Got Absolutely Right
January 28, 2019
Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Andre Braugher Proves His Theatre Credentials
January 28, 2019
January 28, 2019
The Texas Tenors Bring Broadway to America’s Got Talent: Champions
January 26, 2019
January 26, 2019
How to Watch or Stream Rent on Fox
January 25, 2019
How Frozen Actor Andrew Pirozzi Stays Fit Enough to Play a Reindeer
January 25, 2019
What Sam Shepard Show Does Actor Ethan Hawke Want to Do Next?
January 25, 2019
What It Was Like to March With Gloria Steinem While Starring in Gloria: A Life
January 23, 2019
Heléne Yorke Proves Her Theatre Credentials
January 22, 2019
Who Are the Characters in Broadway’s Choir Boy?
January 21, 2019
Actor Ethan Hawke Makes the Case for Sam Shepard’s Genius
January 19, 2019
Crashing’s Madeline Wise Proves Her Theatre Credentials
January 18. 2019
9 ‘Kids’ of Broadway’s The Ferryman Reveal How They Create the Feeling of Family Onstage
January 17, 2019
5 Untold Stories From Kelli O’Hara’s Broadway Career
January 16, 2019
7 Revelations About Romeo + Juliet Thanks to Off-Broadway’s Fiery New Adaptation, Juliet + Romeo
January 14, 2019
Inside Brittney Johnson’s Whirlwind Experience Going On as Wicked’s First Glinda of Color
January 11, 2019
January 9, 2019
January 8, 2019
2018
Why Torch Song’s Michael Urie Won’t Let Arnold Go
December 31, 2018
How to Rent Authentic Props for Your School Production—At an Affordable Price
December 29, 2018
Broadway’s Most Unforgettable Quotes of 2018
December 26, 2018
6 Actors From Shondaland’s Scandal to See Onstage
December 26, 2018
Why the tick, tick…BOOM! Movie Will Be Very Different From the Stage Musical
December 22, 2018
Anna Louizos Shares the Concepts Behind Her Designs of Broadway’s Avenue Q, In The Heights, and More
December 22, 2018
What to Expect From BroadwayCon Industry Day 2019
December 21, 2018
Emily Mortimer and Ben Whishaw on Playing the Adult Banks Children in Mary Poppins Returns
December 17, 2018
3 Reasons the World Was Ready for Mary Poppins Returns Right Now
December 16, 2018
How Tony- and Oscar-Nominated Rob Marshall Conceived the Story Behind Mary Poppins Returns
December 15, 2018
WATCH: What Secret Melody From the Frozen Film Is Woven Into Broadway’s New Song ‘True Love’?
December 15, 2018
Mary Poppins Returns Star Emily Blunt Shares the Secret Behind Making This Movie Musical Work
December 14, 2018
Who Was Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Biggest Inspiration for His Mary Poppins Returns Character?
December 13, 2018
Behind the Scenes of Broadway’s To Kill a Mockingbird With Aaron Sorkin, Jeff Daniels, and More
December 13, 2018
Mary Poppins Returns’ Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda Talk the Magic of Making the Movie Musical
December 12, 2018
Why Norm Lewis Put Some Unconventional Tunes on His Norm Lewis Christmas Album
December 11, 2018
Why Taylor Trensch’s Evan Makes Dear Evan Hansen a Brand New Show
December 6, 2018
16 Stage Favorites to See in Season 2 of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
December 5, 2018
Performer You Should Know: Say Something Bunny!’s Alison S. M. Kobayashi
December 4, 2018
What to Expect From Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy on Broadway
November 28, 2018
Debbie Allen On Her Emotional Connection to the Celebrating Icons of Dance Event
November 26, 2018
What to Expect From American Idol Stars Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken on Broadway
November 24, 2018
9 Theatre Milestones We’re Grateful For
November 22, 2018
Watch: Learn This Irish Dance Meets Tap Routine From the Five-Time Irish Dance World Champion
November 21, 2018
5 Broadway Stars Reveal: What’s It Like to Perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
November 21, 2018
November 19, 2018
Why Sara Bareilles, Diane Paulus, and Jessie Nelson Changed Waitress’ Old Joe to Josie
November 18, 2018
Stage Directions: Hello, Dolly! Director Jerry Zaks On the Key to Helming a Hit Revival and More
November 17, 2018
Escape at Dannemora’s Eric Lange Proves His Theatre Credentials
November 15, 2018
The Cast of City Center’s A Chorus LineAnswers: Which Character Are You?
November 14, 2018
George Salazar, Kate Baldwin, Sheldon Harnick, and More Celebrate the Dramatists Guild Foundation
November 13, 2018
What You Missed at Seth Rudetsky’s Inaugural Broadway at Town Hall Concert Starring Audra McDonald
November 13, 2018
How Tony Nominee Dick Scanlan and Carmel Dean Created a New Musical Out of Old Poetry
November 11, 2018
What to Expect From Broadway’s Network Starring Bryan Cranston
November 10, 2018
November 10, 2018
Performer You Should Know: Renascence’s Hannah Corneau
November 8, 2018
Behind the Unparalleled Puppetry of Broadway’s King Kong
November 7, 2018
Why Off-Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof Is the Most Authentic Production You’ll See
November 4, 2018
Writing the Music for Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
November 1, 2018
October 30, 2018
5 Things You Didn’t See From the Taping of A Very Wicked Halloween
October 29, 2018
What Do Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel Miss Most From Their Wicked Days?
October 29, 2018
Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch Talk Bringing Red to the Big Screen
October 29, 2018
Wicked on Broadway By the Numbers
October 29, 2018
What Choices From Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel Are Still Performed in Wicked?
October 27, 2018
What Makes Incidental Music Different From a Musical Score?
October 25, 2018
Watch This Broadway Makeup Designer Recreate the Faces of 6 Iconic Characters
Countdown to Wicked 15: Pentatonix, Adam Lambert, and More On How Wicked Changed Their Careers
October 24, 2018
Playbill Kicks Off ‘Countdown to Wicked 15’
October 23, 2018
Theatre Jobs: What Does It Take to Record a Broadway Cast Album?
October 22, 2018
How to Land a Job as a Broadway Musician
October 20, 2018
October 18, 2018
What’s In Your Book? Frozen’s John Riddle Sings Through His Audition Repertoire
October 16, 2018
Go Inside the Upcoming Little Shop of Horrors Starring Megan Hilty and Josh Radnor
October 15, 2018
How to Buy Broadway Tickets and Get Rewarded For It
October 13, 2018
7 Highlights of the Jerome Robbins Exhibit at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center
October 11, 2018
Broadway’s Heather Headley on New Chicago Med Role, Memories From The Lion King, and More
October 10, 2018
Seth Rudetsky On Being This Year’s Best in Shows Honoree
October 9, 2018
Broadway’s Idina Menzel Shares Rent Memories and This Exclusive Live Recording of 'No Day But Today'
October 9, 2018
7 Unbeatable Highlights From Elsie Fest 2018
October 8, 2018
Why Christian Borle Knew Popcorn Falls Was the Perfect Play to Mark His Directorial Debut
October 7, 2018
October 1, 2018
Why Waitress Stars Katie Lowes and Adam Shapiro Aren’t Just ‘Visiting TV Actors’
September 29, 2018
16 Musicals That Got Their Start at NAMT
September 25, 2018
September 20, 2018
Theatre Jobs: What Does It Take to Be a Broadway Stage Manager
September 17, 2018
What to Expect From the Broadway-Bound Michael Jackson Musical
September 16, 2018
Meet the Cast of the Dear Evan Hansen National Tour
September 14, 2018
Watch This Broadway Makeup Designer Recreate the Faces of 6 Iconic Characters
September 14, 2018
13 Tips to Nail Your College Audition
September 12, 2018
Tony Winner Christopher Wheeldon on Capturing His American in Paris for the Silver Screen
September 10, 2018
Where Did the Melody of ‘A Whole New World’ Come From?
September 11, 2018
Anastasia Goes International With 2 Upcoming Productions
September 8, 2018
How Richard Bean Created Hilarity With Heart for Manhattan Theatre Club’s The Nap
September 6, 2018
How Alan Menken and Howard Ashman Wrote Aladdin’s Epic ‘Friend Like Me’
September 4, 2018
Joe Iconis Talks Finding the Sound for Be More Chill’s Rock ’n’ Roll Score
September 3, 2018
Who Are the Characters of Be More Chill?
August 31, 2018
The State of the Broadway Ensemblist
August 30, 2018
6 Must-See Displays at the New York Public Library’s Rodgers & Hammerstein Exhibit
August 30, 2018
Watch Alan Menken Break Down Writing Princess Jasmine’s New Solo From Aladdin’s Broadway Bow
August 28, 2018
25 Days of Tonys Series: 2018 Tony Awards
May 16-June 10, 2018
May 28, 2018
Live Like a Nominee: 24 Books Recommended by Broadway's Biggest Talent
May 27, 2018
The Full Story of Lauren Ridloff's Wild Ride From Stay-at-Home Mom to Tony Nominee
May 25, 2018
What the Cast of The Boys in the Band Learned From the Pivotal Play
May 24, 2018
Theatre Firsts: What Is Denise Gough's First Thought When She Begins Angels in America Each Night?
May 23, 2018
5 Stars Who Inspire Grey Henson's Damian in Mean Girls on Broadway
May 22, 2018
How Music Saved This Man's Life and He's Using it to Rescue Others—and Break Barriers
May 21, 2018
Why Broadway Is Working to Attract More International Visitors
May 19, 2018
The New Technology About to Revolutionize Broadway
May 18, 2018
Dear Evan Hansen's Alex Boniello Talks About Finding His Connor
May 15, 2018
Read Denzel Washington's Full Remarks as He Was Honored by the New Dramatists
May 15, 2018
Once on This Island Seating Guide: Where to Sit for the In-the-Round Experience on Broadway
May 10, 2018
How This Costume Designer Took Broadway Skills to One of the Nation's Flashiest Productions
May 10, 2018
Tony Nominee Lauren Ambrose Finds Her Own Eliza Doolittle
May 5, 2018
3 Theatremakers Poised for Major Career Breakthroughs
May 3, 2018
David Yazbek and Itamar Moses Broke the Rules to Create a Hit With The Band's Visit
May print edition
Overlooked by Tony: Who Was Left Out of the2018 Tony Nominations
Tony Awards Trends: Playbill Breaks Down the 2018 Nominations
One Playwright Takes On the Voices of William Inge and Tennessee Williams in New Memory Play
April 30, 2018
The 5 Stages of Tony Nominations Day
April 30, 2018
Where is the Cast of Legally Blonde The Musical Now?
April 29, 2018
Your Week As Told By Musical GIFs
April 29, 2018
How Harry Potter's Jamie Parker Became 'The Boy Who Lived'
April 27, 2018
How Harry Hadden-Paton Finds His Own Transformation As My Fair Lady' s Leading Man
April 25, 2018
Performer You Should Know: Ben Edelman
April 25, 2018
Ben Platt, Darren Criss, Ben Vereen, and More Share Their Favorite Stephen Schwartz Moments
April 24, 2018
Did You Spot These Jimmy Buffett Easter Eggs in Escape to Margaritaville
April 23, 2018
7 Things You Might Not Know About Donna Summer
April 22, 2018
Condola Rashad and the Cast of Saint Joan Name 9 Women in Theatre to Know
April 21, 2018
April 19, 2018
Meet the Man Who Trains Hollywood's A-Listers to Dance Like Ballerinas on the Big Screen
April 19, 2018
Theatre Firsts: What Was Frankie Grande's First Audition Like and Who Became His First Onstage Kiss?
April 15, 2018
Tony Winner Jason Robert Brown Breaks Down His Prince of Broadway Overture
April 10, 2018
Colin Donnell Proves His Theatre Credentials
April 9, 2018
How Much Sand Does Broadway's Once On This Island Need to Fill the Theatre?
April 5, 2018
What You Didn’t See on Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
April 2, 2018
The 7 Best Things About Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert
April 1, 2018
Colman Domingo Proves His Theatre Credentials
April 1, 2018
Turning Trash Into Fashion for a Re-envisioned Once On This Island
April print edition
What Sets Broadway Dreams Apart From Other Training Programs
March 29, 2018
Returning to the Rock 'n' Roll of Jesus Christ Superstar
Official Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert Playbill, March 2018
Could the NFL’s Rooney Rule Solve Broadway's Diversity Problem?
March 25, 2018
March 21, 2018
How This Award-Winning Playwright's Own Immigrant Story Inspired Her Lincoln Center Theater Play
March 21, 2018
Have Your Theatre and Eat It, Too
March 18, 2018
Why This Original Thoroughly Modern Millie Actor Says Mrs. Meers and Henchmen Were Revolutionary
John Legend, Sara Bareilles, and More On What to Expect From Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
March 15, 2018
5 Things We Learned From Tina Fey, Jeanine Tesori, and More at Women’s Day on Broadway
March 14, 2018
March 13, 2018
Rise’s Joe Tippett Proves His Theatre Credentials
March 12, 2018
Playbill Mixtape: Cry It Out Edition
March 8, 2018
5 Things You Might Not Have Known About Andrew Lloyd Webber
March 7, 2018
The Greatest Showman’s Austyn Johnson Shares Lessons From Her Co-Stars
March 2, 2018
Bartlett Sher Directs My Fair Lady for the #MeToo Era
March print edition of Playbill
How NBC's Rise Takes High School Drama Kids Seriously
March print edition of Playbill
How Saffron Burrows Transforms Into Jackie Kennedy for New Solo Play
February 27, 2018
How Christopher Fitzgerald Became Broadway’s Go-To Funnyman
February 26, 2018
Why Taye Diggs Chose Thoughts of a Colored Man For the Next Step in His Career
February 23, 2018
Bringing Israeli Authenticity to The Band's Visit—Minus a California Accent
February 22, 2018
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Marin Hinkle Proves Her Theatre Cred
February 20, 2018
How Kyle Jarrow Puzzle-Pieced Songs From 21 Artists for One Seamless SpongeBob SquarePants
February 19, 2018
How Montego Glover Makes Hamilton’s Angelica Schuyler Her Own
February 18, 2018
Playbill Mixtape: Anastasia’s Derek Klena and John Bolton Share Their Pre-Show Playlist
February 15, 2018
Why This Original Thoroughly Modern Millie Actor Says Mrs. Meers and Henchmen Were ’Revolutionary’
February 14, 2018
February 14, 2018
Have Your Theatre and Eat It, Too
February 13, 2018
The Rise of Sutton Foster: An Interactive Timeline
February 12, 2018
2016
Stepping Out In the Bronx With Sergio Trujillo
December 3, 2016
How Developing Violet Made Jeanine Tesori Into the Composer She Is Today
November 30, 2016
Video Clip: Gilmore Girls’ Regular and Stage Vet Sally Struthers Knew Sutton Foster Would Be a Star
November 25, 2016
November 25, 2016
7 Theatrical Moments of 2016 to Be Grateful For
November 24, 2016
Playbill Playlist: Holiday Edition
November 24, 2016
Video Clip: Sutton Foster and Christian Borle Get Silly Talking About Stage v. Screen
November 24, 2016
How the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Gave Birth to In the Heights
November 23, 2016
Video Clip: Why the Gilmore Girls Choreographer Loves Working with Sutton Foster
November 23, 2016
The Music That Makes Lorin Latarro Dance—and Direct
November 22, 2016
Video Clip: Who Do Sutton Foster and Christian Borle Play in the Gilmore Girls Reboot?
November 22, 2016
Hamilton’s Brandon Victor Dixon Speaks About His Remarks to Mike Pence on CBS This Morning
November 18, 2016
What Makes Alan Menken and Glenn Slater the Head and Heart Team
November 18, 2016
Playlist: Your Accompaniment to a Lazy, Rainy Day
November 16, 2016
Watch Josh Groban, Denée Benton, and the Stars of The Great Comet of 1812 Hit the Red Carpet
November 14, 2016
Hairspray Live! Directors Tell Us What’s Next After Live Musicals
November 14, 2016
5 On-Set Secrets We Learned From the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Concert
November 4, 2016
Matthew Morrison on One Must-Have Quality for Hairspray Live!’s Link
November 2, 2016
Quiz: Can You Name the Characters of These 11 Broadway Ensembles?
November 1, 2016
Tony-winning Talent Joins Playbill’s First-Ever River Cruise
October 30, 2016
13 No-Time Theatre-Themed Halloween Costumes
October 28, 2016
21 Things We Learned From Hamilton’s America
October 22, 2016
Matthew Morrison To Perform an 8-Minute Hairspray Megamix
October 21, 2016
Our 5 Favorite Things About Rocky Horror
October 20, 2016
How Rachel Bloom Made a Musical Comedy the Best TV Show of 2016
October 19, 2016
Exclusive: A Sneak Peek at the Costumes for Fox’s Rocky Horror
October 11, 2016
Why Sutton Foster Is the Magic Ingredient for TVLand’s Surprise Hit Show
September 29, 2016
Sutton Foster Talks Taking on Charity
September 24, 2016
Could TV’s Younger Ever Have a Musical Episode?
September 23, 2016
Stars Gather to Support Honest Accomplice Theatre to Benefit the Trans Literacy Project
September 20, 2016
Costumes and Chemo: How One Actress Used Her Diagnosis to Inspire a Community
September 16, 2016
What Happened at Last Night’s Last Five Years Concert?
September 13, 2016
Joshua Henry Talks Taking on Aaron Burr
September 12, 2016
Cynthia Erivo and Joshua Henry Reveal Their Thoughts on Doing The Last Five Years
September 8, 2016
Behind The Scenes of The Last Five Years Concert
September 8, 2016
8 Ways to Actually Get Tickets to Hamilton
August 26, 2016
Listen! The Broadway Soundtrack for Ultimate Relaxation
August 25, 2016
Test Your Showbiz Food Knowledge
August 24, 2016
Get to Know the Cast of Hairspray Live!
August 18, 2016
What to Expect From Broadway’s Holiday Inn
August 18, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda Shares Early Handwritten Drafts of “My Shot”
August 16, 2016
Story in Pictures: How Does a Demanding Role Take Its Toll?
August 15, 2016
Meryl Streep Praised Sondheim and Her Love for Theatre at TimesTalk
August 12, 2016
What Ever Happened to the Hit Stage Version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
August 11, 2016
Jeremy Jordan Working on a Solo Album
August 8, 2016
What Is Jeremy Jordan’s Favorite Show of All Time?
August 6, 2016
The Challenges in Adapting Frozen for the Broadway Stage
August 3, 2016
QUIZ: How Much Do You Really Know About Fiddler on the Roof?
August 3, 2016
Could Todrick Hall’s Straight Outta Oz Become a Broadway Musical?
August 2, 2016
A Look at the Most Recently Announced Hamilton Stars (in Video)
August 1, 2016
Aaron Sorkin on Writing for Theatre and Teaching His Craft
July 31, 2016
The Greatest Challenge With Aaron Sorkin's Broadway-Bound Mockingbird
July 31, 2016
What to Expect From the Broadway-Bound In Transit
July 30, 2016
July 28, 2016
This Year’s New York Musical Festival Has Something for Everyone
July 25, 2016
July 19, 2016
Why Everyone Should See This Revival of Cats
July 15, 2016
Will Nathan Lane Do Another Musical?
July 15, 2016
Why Hamilton’s Producer Knew Lin-Manuel Miranda Was Bound for Greatness
July 9, 2016
Breaking Through Theatre’s Glass Ceiling
July 7, 2016
5 Ways to Buy Affordable Theatre Tickets
July 7, 2016
4 Ways to Plan Your Broadway-Themed Barbeque
July 2, 2016
The She Loves Me Cast Reacts to Making History with the First-Ever Broadway Livestream
July 1, 2016
Pump Up the Volume on This Summer Fun Playlist
June 30, 2016
QUIZ: Can You Name These Animal-Inspired Shows, Lyrics and More?
June 29, 2016
And the Jimmy Awards Winners Are...
June 28, 2016
Broadway Performers Answer Questions from This Year’s Jimmy Awards Nominees
June 27, 2016
What’s In Store For the Summer Theatre That Brought Us Hamilton?
June 26, 2016
“Shut Up and Dance”—Making the Music Video
June 24, 2016
Lena Hall Wants To Tell You Who She Is
June 21, 2016
Why #MakingMondays is the Coolest Party in Town
June 20, 2016
What to Expect When Dear Evan Hansen Hits Broadway
June 17, 2016
Road Trip! Road Trip! The Playbill Mixtape for Your Joy Ride
June 16, 2016
Creating the Underworld of Downtown’s Hit Hadestown
June 16, 2016
June 12, 2016
Watch! The Opening Number of the 70th Annual Tony Awards
June 12, 2016
Updated: Hamilton Choreographer on Removing Muskets from Tonys Performance
June 12, 2016
What to Expect from Andy Blankenbuehler’s Re-Imagining of Cats
June 12, 2016
Hamilton Director Tommy Kail Talks The Show’s Earliest Days of Development
June 10, 2016
Leslie Odom, Jr. Can’t Get “Carried Away” In the Phenomenon He’s Part Of
June 10, 2016
Hamilton’s Road to the Tony Awards: An Interactive Timeline
June 10, 2016
Watch Hamilton’s Iconic Set Be Built Before Your Eyes
June 9, 2016
June 8, 2016
Stars Talk the Importance of the Drama Desk Awards
June 7, 2016
Drama Desk Awards Name Shuffle Along Best Musical
June 5, 2016
Broadway-Bound Frozen Needs a New Choreographer
June 4, 2016
Dance Like We’re Watching! The Tony-Nominated Choreographers Show (and Tell) Their Style
June 3, 2016
Andy Blankenbuehler on Making History with Hamilton
June 3, 2016
Hofesh Shechter, Fiddler on the Roof and the Choreographic Match Made in Heaven
June 3, 2016
Why Dames at Sea’s Randy Skinner Still Believes in a Big Ole-Fashioned Production Number
June 3, 2016
Want to Learn Tap from Savion Glover? It’s All About Sounds.
June 3, 2016
Sergio Trujillo and the Musical He Was Born to Choreograph
June 2, 2016
Get Ready for the Tonys With the Latest Playbill Mixtape
June 2, 2016
What Seemed to Be Broadway’s Number One Priority This Year?
May 27, 2016
What Was Your First Job in the Business?
May 26, 2016
4 Stage Vets You Didn’t Realize Were Never Tony-Nominated…Until Now
May 20, 2016
Spring Cleaning Got You Down? Playbill’s Mixtape Will Get You Through
May 19, 2016
Zachary Levi Says Biggest Challenge of She Loves Me Is His “Own Brain”
May 19, 2016
The Ensemblist Podcast Goes Live
May 18, 2016
In Concert, Mandy Patinkin Brings Just Enough Mandy
May 17, 2016
Do You Remember the First Time You Heard Audra McDonald Sing?
May 17, 2016
Audra McDonald Emphasizes the Importance of New Work
May 16, 2016
Hamilton Cast Members Recall the Ham Memories That Will Stay With Them Forever
May 15, 2016
When You're Nominated Against Your Co-Star
May 13, 2016
Listen to Broadway’s Greatest Hits of Motherhood
May 5, 2016
Hollywood Big Names Snubbed by the Tony Nominations
May 3, 2016
Who Was Overlooked by the 2016 Tony Nominations?
May 3, 2016
Listen to The Tony Nominations Celebratory Playbill Mixtape!
May 3, 2016
Fredi Walker-Brown and Daphne Rubin-Vega Commemorate Jonathan Larson and Rent at 20
May 2, 2016
What Was It Like for Daphne Rubin-Vega to Reunite With Adam Pascal Onstage?
April 22, 2016
Watch the Someting Rotten! Cast Guess Shakespeare or Shenanigans
April 22, 2016
How This Production of Fiddler Embraces Its Jewish Identity Through Community Outreach
April 22, 2016
The Ultimate Playlist of Theatre’s Swoon-Worthy Studs
April 21, 2016
How Waitress' Pie Consultant Turns the Brooks Atkinson Theatre Into a Real Bakery
April 21, 2016
Broadway's Parmour Is Not Your Typical Cirque Show
April 19, 2016
Fully Committed Gets a Partial Update
April 17, 2016
The Many Faces of Bright Star's Leading Lady
April 16, 2016
So It's Your First Time at the Theatre...
April 14, 2016
Actors Confess the Topics They Want to Tackle Through Theatre
April 10, 2016
Video Recap: Watch Performances of Miscast 2016
April 8, 2016
It's Prom Season! Our Latest Playbill Mixtape Is the Perfect Soundtrack to Prom Night
April 7, 2016
Why Sophie Okonedo's Acting Style is Made for the Stage
April 6, 2016
What You Missed at Miscast 2016
April 5, 2016
What Was Aaron Tveit's Favorite Moment of Grease: Live?
April 5, 2016
An American in Paris Director-Choreographer to Appear on 60 Minutes
April 1, 2016
What's Changed Since Tuck Everlasting's World Premiere?
March 31, 2016
What Keeps Chita Rivera at the Top of Her Game?
March 30, 2016
Broadway's Andrew Samonsky and Kate Reinders Are Engaged
March 28, 2016
Is Jesse Tyler Ferguson Nervous to Play 40 Characters on Broadway?
March 24, 2016
The Cast of Tuck Everlasting On How They'd Spend Their Time If They Lived Forever
March 21, 2016
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Enjoy a Once-Inspired Cockatil On Us
March 17, 2016
For Roundabout's 50th Anniverary, She Loves Me Was the "Perfect" (and Only) Choice
March 17, 2016
Disney Theatrical's President Talks Making Theatre Inclusive and Accessible with TDF
March 15, 2016
What's New With This Production of She Loves Me? "Everything," Says Director Scott Ellis
March 10, 2016
Think You Know Parade? Think Again.
March 9, 2016
14 Powerhouse Female Creatives Name the Up-and-coming Women in Theatre They Are Watching
March 8, 2016
If Daniel Breaker Weren't an Actor He'd Be A....
March 7, 2016
Jon Rua on Fusing Artistic Genres and Playing Alexander Hamilton
March 5, 2016
Why the Youngest Actor Cast as Jean Valjean Returns in the Role on Broadway 18 Years Later
March 1, 2016
The Hidden Lesson Behind Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon's Secret Garden
February 27, 2016
The Family Business: Nicholas Lloyd Webber and James D. Reid Tackle The Little Prince
February 20, 2016
The Men of She Loves Me on Their Love Lives and "The Most Real Thing of All"
February 19, 2016
Steven Pasquale and Alex Timbers on Robber Bridegroom's Edgy Minimalist Treatment
February 18, 2016
Exclusive: Watch the Epic A Cappella Mash-Up of Hamilton You Didn't Know You Needed
February 15, 2016
Rebecca Luker, Alysha Umphress and More Take Place in a Reading of Afterland
February 12, 2016
"Push Da Button" — The Color Purple Cast Gathers for Their Album Release
February 12, 2016
Color Purple Leads Speak Out on the Show as a "Healing Experience"
February 10, 2016
How Newsies' Tony-winning choreographer Made a Tap Dancer Out of Channing Tatum
February 5, 2016
15 Things Grease: Live Did Absolutely Right
February 1, 2016
Those Magic Changes: William Ivey Long Takes a "Today Take" On the Look and Costumes of Grease: Live
January 31, 2016
It's a Twin Thing: The Night Justin and Geoff Packard Went On as Matilada's Trunchbull
January 22, 2016
Donna Murphy and Norbert Leo Butz Reveal Theatrical Roots of PBS' New "Mercy Street"
January 14, 2016
How Do They Do It? Clive Barnes Predict Our Future Stars
January 12, 2016
Marin Mazzie Opens Up About Conquering Cancer
December 31, 2015
After Endless Hours Spencer Liff Formed a New Language — The Choreography of Spring Awakening
December 29, 2015
December 25, 2015
Who Is the Next Bob Fosse? Iconic Dancers Weigh In On the Future of Musical Theatre Dance
December 23, 2015
7 Things You Need to Know About London's Newly Announced Hermione Granger
December 21, 2015
10 Things You Didn't Know About Colm Wilksinson
December 10, 2015