Interview
Read interviews with luminaries of the stage.
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Playbill Pride
By Mark Peikert | 06/17/2019Co-produced by Michael Urie and Doug Nevin, the June 20–24 festival resurrects deserving queer-themed works alongside brand-new voices. -
Playbill Pride
By Ryan McPhee | 06/17/2019Why the playwright says he’d “never want to research a play” and his take on the gay rights movement.
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Playbill Pride
By Felicia Fitzpatrick | 06/16/2019The Broadway performer on starring in the Disney blockbuster as an out and proud gay black actor.
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Special Features
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/15/2019Composer-lyricist David Yazbek lets Playbill in on his early process.
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Interview
By Olivia Clement | 06/14/2019Co-founding artistic director Susan Bernfield looks back on the last 27 years—as well as forward, at the explosion of new artists on the horizon.
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Playbill Pride
By Olivia Clement | 06/14/2019The Broadway play by avant garde artist and Tony nominee Mac takes Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to a new level.
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Interview
By Keith Loria | 06/13/2019Why the TV star couldn’t wait to get back to his theatre roots and what he’s up to next.
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Playbill Pride
By Olivia Clement | 06/13/2019The now Pulitzer Prize–winning play makes its return to Off-Broadway through July 28, ready for a different ending every night.
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Film & TV Features
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/12/2019How do you recognize the Broadway alum?
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/12/2019The stars of the hit TVLand show weigh in before the Season 6 premiere June 12.
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Playbill Pride
By Olivia Clement | 06/12/2019The Jonathan Larson Grant recipient and Dramatist Guild fellow debuts the musical he thought “would never be produced” at Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons.
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Playbill Pride
By Mark Peikert | 06/11/2019The My Fair Lady star talks taking on classic theatre roles from a different perspective.
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Playbill Pride
By Ryan McPhee | 06/11/2019FX’s Pose is back June 11 with grander balls, higher stakes, and Patti LuPone.
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Playbill Pride
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/10/20192019 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Honoree talks about serving as an ally to the community that inspires her.
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Tony Awards
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/10/2019How the show curtain from Kinky Boots became a political and fashion statement.
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Special Features
By Mark Peikert | 06/09/2019The 83-year-old just became the oldest Tony-winning playwright in history.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/07/2019What it was like to film “9 to 5” for the season premiere, plus what’s in store for more singing and dancing on the TVLand series.
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From the Archives
By Judy Samelson | 06/07/2019The Grammy-winning artist joined the Willy Russell musical June 7, 1994.
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Interview
By Playbill Staff | 06/04/2019Inside the Tony-nominated revival of the drama from the author of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible.
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Video
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/04/2019Playbill hosts its annual Tony Awards roundtable with the bookwriters of Ain’t Too Proud, Hadestown, The Prom, Beetlejuice, and Tootsie.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/03/2019Selina Fillinger's new play, now playing as part of the Roundabout Underground, wrestles with a mother’s reaction to her son's unthinkable act.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/03/2019The Tony Award nominee talks about finding the voice, physicality, and emotional arc to bring a new version of Hades to life.
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Video
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/02/2019Watch how the Broadway set radically transforms thanks to some ghoulishly imaginative lighting and projection effects.
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Interview
By Mervyn Rothstein | 05/31/2019The Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune director gets real about her directing struggles, successes, and how Shakespeare has helped her with the most contemporary of plays.
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Video
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/30/2019Watch the Tony nominee narrate how he choreographed the showstopper, starring Ephraim Sykes, Jeremy Pope, and more.
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Classic Arts Features
By Ryan McPhee | 05/30/2019Kimberly Reed, Laura Kaminsky, and Mark Campbell's As One, at New York City Opera, uses two singers to bring a fictional trans woman to life.
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Video
By Roberto Araujo | 05/29/2019The 2019 Tony Award nominee answers as many questions as she can in her (long) elevator ride from green room to stage at Feinstein's/54 Below—plus an exclusive performance.
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Video
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/29/2019Tony Award-nominated choreographer David Neumann reveals the inspiration behind the movement.
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Sponsored Content
By Playbill Staff | 05/29/2019Tony winner Audra McDonald and Oscar nominee Michael Shannon discuss bringing the Terrence McNally classic back to Broadway.
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From the Archives
By Andrew Gans | 05/24/2019In honor of Gypsy's 60th anniversary, we look back to when LuPone took the stage as Rose in the Arthur Laurents-directed production—and earned her second Tony Award.
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From the Archives
By William Wolf | 05/23/2019In honor of Collins' birthday May 23, Playbill looks back at her interview from the February 1992 issue.
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From the Archives
By Andrew Gans | 05/23/2019As Gypsy celebrates 60 years since its Broadway premiere, we look back at Peters' Tony-nominated performance in the Sam Mendes-helmed production.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/22/2019Watch two exclusive clips from Hilty’s Stars in Concert special, airing May 24 on PBS.
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From the Archives
By Judy Samelson | 05/22/2019In honor of Gypsy's 60th anniversary this week, Playbill revisits its interviews with the Roses of Broadway.
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From the Archives
By Fran Weil | 05/21/2019Fifteen years after the original production opened on Broadway May 21, 1959, the then-two-time Tony Award winner made Rose all her own.
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Interview
By Mark Peikert | 05/21/2019The star earned her third of five Tony Awards for the 1974 revival, directed by Arthur Laurents.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/20/2019The costume designer considered infinite options to create Hadestown’s underworld.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/17/2019The 2019 Tony Award nominee on the challenge of taking on the Aaron Sorkin play and creating a new character for the stage.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/16/2019The star of Broadway’s All My Sons talks about the first time she acted opposite Annette Bening and Tracy Letts, and more theatre firsts.
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Interview
By Mervyn Rothstein | 05/16/2019The Fairview director uncovers how Act 2 of the Pulitzer Prize–winning play was made, her directing philosophy, and more.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/15/2019Broadway’s Zach Adkins, Melissa Errico, John Lloyd Young, and more join Feinstein in his upcoming May and June concerts.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/15/2019Watch two exclusive clips from Ashford’s Stars in Concert special on PBS.
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Interview
By Mark Peikert | 05/15/2019Howard talks about bringing the opera superstar's story to cinemas this June.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/14/2019The creator and star chats about her sold-out New York City concert and hosting the upcoming Obie Awards.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/13/2019With four original musicals currently on the boards—including The Prom—Nicholaw has become the go-to director-choreographer for the staple style of Broadway.
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Interview
By Olivia Clement | 05/13/2019The Stick Fly playwright returns to Off-Broadway in a kinetic and sensitive production to resurrect an historic figure.
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Interview
By Barry Singer | 05/12/2019The 82-year-old maestro reveals his process creating a Shakespearean score—plus a preview before the recording is released this fall.
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Interview
By Olivia Clement | 05/12/2019Playwright Cori Thomas’ chance encounter at a prison led to her newest play at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and a whole new outlook on the incarcerated.
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Interview
By Ruthie Fierberg | 05/10/2019Siff is currently starring in a revival of Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class Off-Broadway.
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Interview
By Mark Peikert | 05/10/2019Tony Award winner Beowulf Boritt, who has built a Broadway swimming pool and supercomputer, says the his work always lies in simplicity.
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