Wednesday, March 25, 2026
In a new memoir, Minnelli discusses her life more candidly than she has before. But her truest self has always emerged on stage.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 3, 2018
A meeting of the minds between Broadway’s original Alexander Hamilton and John Adams.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2017
The A-gays loved it; McCarthyites loathed it. Find out why the 1954 musical The Golden Apple—opening at Encores! tonight—still entrances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2017
If Kander could see one of his collaborations brought back to life, this is what he chooses.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2017
Big River, now at Encores!, isn’t the author’s only connection to the theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2017
What draws Rachel Chavkin, Dave Malloy, Michael John LaChiusa, and Daryl Waters to tackle impossible stage adaptations?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2016
The Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is now at City Center in a series of benefit concerts starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford. We look back at how the show was written and how it r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2016
As Encores! prepares to revive the first collaboration between Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, we take a look behind the scenes at how the musical was born.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Annie Oakley used to sit in her tent and knit, rather than striding through the country with a rifle in hand. So how did Irving Berlin turn that woman into a sharp-tongued heroine in a m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Andrew Lippa's jazz-age musical The Wild Party, which is receiving a revised mounting as part of City Center's Encores! Off-Center series, began with a casual walk through Ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2015
Jonathan Groff, who recently headlined the Encores! Off-Center production of A New Brain, recalls waiting in the cold for an autograph Sutton Foster, who will star in the upcoming produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Playbil.com offers a look at the history of The Band Wagon, the Encores! special event featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tracey Ullman and Laura Osnes.
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