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New York City, NY

After a few sleepy summer weeks on Broadway with vacations ending and schools starting back up again, fortunes rose last week on the Main Stem. Over Labor Day weekend, not one of the 25 currently running shows brought in box office lower than the week prior, and, in fact, cumulatively saw an 11% increase.

Broadway Grosses Analysis: It's Standing Room Only in

As many a theatre kid can attest, the high school stage is a popular place for Broadway dreams to begin. Playbill is currently celebrating Back to School season, so we've compiled a gallery of your favorite actors' photos from their teenage archives. Patti LuPone, Michael James Scott, Kara Lindsay, More...

Photos: See JJ Niemann, Patti LuPone, Ariana DeBose, More in Their High School Musicals

Los Angeles, CA

Additional details have been announced for the annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction—produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares—which will be held in the heart of New York City’s theatre district September 22 from 10 AM–7 PM. Theatrical memorabilia from Broadway and Off-Broadway shows as well...

Exit Music, More Up for Bids at Broadway Flea Market

Chicago, IL

Chicago's Sarah Siddons Society, which funds college scholarships for young theatre artists, will present its annual Sarah Siddons Society Award to Broadway favorite Kelli O'Hara. The honor, given in honor of O'Hara's outstanding artistic achievement in theatre, will be bestowed at the Society's 2024 benefit, planned for November 6 in Chicago.

Kelli O'Hara Will Receive Sarah Siddons Society Award

Los Angeles County, CA

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Actor Van Johnson, who died in 2007, was one of Hollywood's ideal films idols. In the 1940s, the charming screen icon was box office gold, and remained a popular presence on TV in shows like Murder, She Wrote (which starred his good friend Angela Lansbury).

The Secret Gay Life & Horrific Car Accident of Actor Van Johnson: 16 Years After His Tragic Death

Brooklyn, NY

Casting has been revealed for the site-specific world premiere of Sarah Gancher's The Wind and the Rain: A Story About Sunny's Bar, presented by En Garde Arts in association with Vineyard Theatre. Performances run September 28-October 27 at The Waterfront Museum in Brooklyn, with an official opening set for October 7.

The Wind and the Rain: A Story About Sunny's Bar

Rejoicify as goodies continue to rain down in the lead up to the screen version of Wicked!. A special collector's edition of the original novel Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of the West (the source material for the Broadway musical) will be released September 24 as a part of the film's flood of tie-in merchandise.

Get a 1st Look at the New Collector's Edition of the

As part of Playbill's Back to School week, take a look at our annual report on the colleges and universities with the most acting alums performing on Broadway in the 2023–24 Broadway season. Below you'll find this year's top 10 most represented schools on Broadway for actors. Take a look and see if your school—or a school you're considering attending—made the list!

Where Did the Actors of the 2023–24 Broadway Season Go to School?

Kyle Selig, who created the role of Aaron Samuels in Broadway's Mean Girls and also played Elder Price in The Book of Mormon, stepped into the role of Jacob Jankowski in the Tony-nominated musical beginning September 3 at the Imperial Theatre. Check out Selig's first bow leading the company below.

Video: Kyle Selig Takes His 1st Bow in Broadway's

The Phantom of the Opera's Sarah Brightman, currently heading the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at the Sydney Opera House following a spring engagement at Melbourne's Princess Theatre, will bring her Norma Desmond to Asia next year. Base Entertainment Asia and GWB Entertainment in association with Opera...

Sarah Brightman-Led

Jeffrey Horowitz, founder of the non-profit Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA), has announced his plans to retire at the end of the organization's 2024-2025 season. Horowitz has served as artistic director, CEO, and president of TFANA for 45 years. After training as an actor at the London Academy of...

Theatre for a New Audience Founder Jeffrey Horowitz Announces Retirement

The York Theatre Company will celebrate 125 years of Noël Coward as well as the late composer-lyricist's lifelong association with America with a one-night-only concert October 6 at 7:30 PM at the Theatre at St. Jean’s. Presented in association with the Noël Coward Foundation, I Like America will...

Cast Set for York Theatre Company's Noël Coward Celebration,

Broadway was seeing trees of green and red roses, too, as the Studio 54 box office officially opened for upcoming Louis Armstrong jukebox biomusical A Wonderful World September 5. Performances begin October 16. To celebrate the event, leading man and co-director James Monroe Iglehart led a New Orleans-style parade from...

Watch: James Monroe Iglehart Leads a New Orleans-Style Parade to

Tony nominee Michael McDonald passed away September 4 due to complications from a brief illness. News of his passing was confirmed by his lifelong friend and co-curator of the Costumes and Props exhibit at The Museum of Broadway, Lisa Zinni. Mr. McDonald was a treasured member of the theatre design...

Costume Designer Michael McDonald Dead at 61

Newly released promo art for Broadway's upcoming Death Becomes Her is harkening back to the film's iconic poster, backwards heads and missing midriffs and all. See stage stars Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in the ghoulish new poster (by Franz Szony) below. Performances are slated to begin October 23 ahead...

Broadway Art Evokes the Iconic Film Poster

A schedule has been revealed for the 2024 New Yorker Festival, set to be held October 25-27—and Broadway will be fully represented. The three-day event, originally started in 2000 to celebrate the magazine's 75th year, will feature New Yorker writers and editors taking the stage with a host of pop culture powerhouses for a full slate of panels, live performances, film screenings, master classes, and more.

2024 New Yorker Festival Includes Talks With Audra McDonald and Sara Bareilles, Preview Screening of

New York State

The Tony Award-winning non-profit Broadway Advocacy Coalition (BAC) has announced that its annual gala, The Artivism Ball, will honor Emmy winner Colman Domingo and Co-Executive Director of the New York State Alliance for Quality Education Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari this year. The event will be held October 14 at 583 Park Avenue.

Broadway Advocacy Coalition Will Honor Colman Domingo and Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari at 2024 Artivism Ball

The West End transfer of the Donmar Warehouse's 2023 Olivier-nominated staging of Next to Normal—which officially opened June 26 following previews that began June 18 at the Wyndham's Theatre—looks like it will be filmed before the end of its 14-week engagement. The musical teased on social media a...

London's Caissie Levy-Led

James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, and Peter Stone's 1965 musical Skyscraper will get a rare revival at Off-Broadway's UrbanStages via Regeneration Theatre and Combustion Collective, in association with Nelda Yaw Buckman. The work will play UrbanStages November 7-17. The work features a book by Stone, adapted from Elmer Rice's play...

Seldom-Seen Sammy Cahn Musical

Stage Door Theatre's U.K. premiere of the 2009 Broadway musical The Story of My Life, originally scheduled to start previews September 4, will now begin performances September 10 at the Drury Lane venue. The delay follows the departure of cast member George Renshaw, previously announced to play the role of...

Musical Delays Previews as Tim Edwards Joins Cast

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Photos: Get a 1st Look at Kyle Selig in Broadway's

Kyle Selig, who created the role of Aaron Samuels in Broadway's Mean Girls and also played Elder Price in The Book of Mormon, stepped into the...

Photos: Get a 1st Look at Kyle Selig in Broadway's

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