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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. (Read More)
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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Why Theatre Needs More Stories About Black Women Told By Black Women
Hosting Highlights:
2019 Tonys
Also written by Ruthie Fierberg for Playbill:
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 Theatre
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
Jan uary 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 ReturnsCharacter?
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