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YOUR GUIDE TO PLAYBILL GOES TO NEW YORK COMIC CON 2023

Thursday October 12 – Sunday October 15, 2023

For the third year in a row, Playbill and New York Comic Con are thrilled to partner on exhilarating panels, surprise Broadway/TV-guest pop-ins, and an exciting comic-centric Pop-Up Playbill Store.

With top-stage and screen celebrities, surprise appearances, and custom merchandise only available through the Playbill Store, this year promises to be a dynamic and exciting celebration merging theatre, television/film, and comics.

Playbill Goes To Comic Con is sponsored by Death Note: The Musical with additional support from Other World.

Playbill presents The Big Broadway Nerd Panel
(Thursday, October 12, 2023 – 1:30PM)
Theatre is filled with passionate artists creating stunning new works, and many of those artists are giant nerds! Playbill returns to New York Comic Con in 2022 even MORE of Broadway’s Biggest Nerds to share how fantasy, comic-books, and science fiction have had in inspiring and engaging their performances, personas, and personal lives.

Panelists to be announced shortly.
Playbill presents “Defying Gravity: WICKED’s Enduring Legacy” Panel
(Friday, October 13, 2023 – 4:30PM)
WICKED celebrates 20 years on Broadway at Comic Con 2023. Featuring special appearances and thrillifying surprises, this panel gives audiences an inside look at the magic behind Broadway’s most popular musical.

Panelists to be announced shortly.
Playbill presents DEATH NOTE: The Musical Panel
(Saturday, October 14, 2023 – 10:30AM)
Following acclaimed productions in Japan and Korea and after two star-studded sold-out concert engagements in London, DEATH NOTE: The Musical is coming to New York Comic Con! Playbill will present a panel about the show featuring stars from the recent London concert and offer a sneak peek into the developing production. Based on the best-selling Japanese manga series (60 million copies worldwide) of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata/Shueisha, this groundbreaking musical (Winner Best Musical, Korea Musical Awards) has a score by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Bonnie & Clyde) with lyrics by Jack Murphy, book by Ivan Menchell, and orchestrations and arrangements by Jason Howland.

Confirmed panelist: Adam Pascal

Additional panelists to be announced shortly.
Playbill presents The Broadway Bard Party
(Sunday, October 15, 2023 – 10:00AM)
Returning to New York Comic Con with an all-new quest in 2023, audiences will join Broadway stars as they inhabit characters, overcome conflicts, achieve exciting objectives… then go and perform their eight shows a week. As the cast plays a D&D-style one-shot, audiences will watch, journey, and laugh as the panel solves problems, entertains, and maybe even gets the “roll of their lives!”

Panelists to be announced shortly.
Check back for a very special panel and event announcement coming soon!
BROADWAY AND ARTIST PHOTOS & SIGNINGS
Are you a Broadway fan? Do we have news for you! Throughout the weekend, Playbill will be bringing some of Broadway, television, film and comic’s biggest stars to the Playbill Store Booth for your chance to meet, photos and signatures! Check back for a schedule of guest signings and photo ops throughout the weekend coming soon!

*Pricing for artist photographs and signings subject to pricing per the artist. Please note, all payments will be taken digitally only. A limited number of available signings and photographs are available on a first-come, first serve-basis, pending the artists time availabilities and the Playbill Store staff allowances. Queuing for your opportunity does not confirm availability. Artists, schedules, and rates subject to change.
PLAYBILL COMIC CON POP-UP STORE
Located on the Show Floor, the Playbill Store returns to New York Comic Con in 2023! An exciting one-stop-shop, the store will have Broadway-inspired merchandise from Playbill cover cards to game cards, magnets to mystery bags, enamel pins, Parodybill’s and more.

Don’t miss out on attending the East Coast's largest pop culture convention – purchase tickets to New York Comic Con 2023 today!
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