The King and I is a musical, the fifth by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon, which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Sia...

n 1968, ABC paired two pundits from opposite ends of the political spectrum — William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal — for a cut-throat intellectual faceoff. The documentary Best of Enemies explores this media milestone. Late in a series of bruising televised debates on ABC tied to the momentous Repu

Performance of "The Circle of Life" that opened the 2008 Tony Awards, which celebrated the show' 10th year on Broadway. Now, the Lion King is Making a Difference with some changes to the broadway show for one night, Sunday October 2, 2011, for a very special audience: as part of the Autism The...

In the premiere of our ReForm series, we explore the frontier of the 3D face- and body scanning technology used to create digital doubles for films, video games, and holograms. We meet some of the scanned humans, their avatars, and get to understand the challenges the Institute For Creative Technolo...

Feud chronicles the tumultuous relationship between silver screen icons Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) and Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) during the filming of their 1962 thriller Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? The series features an all-star supporting cast including Stanley Tucci, Judy Davies, Cathe...

Playbill assembled a cast of dancers to recreate the original choreography of iconic numbers from A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Sweet Charity, 42nd Street, and more. reat choreographic moments can be as recognizable as chandeliers crashing, helicopters on stage, or witches flying, they inform the ...

World Ballet Day 2022 returns for its ninth year, bringing together a host of the world’s leading companies for a packed day of dance. Over the course of the day, rehearsals, discussions and classes will be streamed for free across six continents, offering unique behind-the-scenes glimpses of ball

The acoustics in the home of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center have always been problematic. Now, after a $550 million redesign, the refurbished David Geffen Hall has been praised in advance of its opening this weekend. Correspondent David Pogue goes inside the upgrade of a world-class ven...

Long before shows like Glee and Modern Family, sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s were slowly breaking ground and bringing gay visibility to American television programming.Writer Matt Baume has been combing through sitcoms to figure out when homosexuals stopped being a scary threat and started becomin

Hamilton's Javier Muñoz joins Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for a timely reminder of the importance of casting your vote. Stephen Colbert’s final pre-Election Day monologue on a special live episode of the Late Show was interrupted Monday night, first by a young girl crying about how she was too s